Questions tagged [bug]
Something amiss or broken with how you're working with the site? Report it.
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Bug permits me to flag an answer as "not an answer" multiple times
I was previously using this bug to my advantage, but now I'm being honest and reporting it. Anyway, normally, when you flag an answer as "not an answer" using the standard option and you have already ...
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HTTPS links aren't accepted when proposing a duplicate
I'm using HTTPS Everywhere plugin which redirects me to HTTPS versions of websites if they are available. It works on SuperUser too, so all SU pages are loaded through HTTPS.
I have just tried to ...
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Why can't I login to superuser
I have a stack exchange account and there's a nondescript error when I try to log into Superuser.com using my Stack Exchange Open ID. At least I think that's what's happening.
This is the error that ...
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How does the Community user have 3 reputation here on Meta? [closed]
On most sites (including on main), the Community user's reputation is stuck at 1. However, if you look at the very instant that this question was posted, the Community user's reputation here is 3. I ...
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change captcha without a mouse
Just noticed that while typing my last question... I got the Are You a Human page, with the captcha.
I couldn't read one of the words for nothing. And there was no way to focus the reload button (or ...
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"You have already flagged this post" tooltip shows up too late
I have just flagged an answer. I shouldn't be able to flag it again, but the Flag button is still visible. I can click it, choose any flag reason and click Flag answer. This is when I will be shown ...
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What happened to the “too old” message?
I just voted to close this two-year-old question
because I believed that it was off-topic for Super User,
and that it belonged on another site in the Stack Exchange network.
However, I was not given ...
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Several design issues between SU main & meta [closed]
I stumbled upon some minor layout issues while switching superuser's main and meta. I felt only one of them wasn't enough for a meta post, so I collected them.
Fixed over time
The superuser website ...
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Trying to merge & create a synonym for tags results in "Oops! Something bad has happened!" Error
I'm tryign to create a synonym & merge word-2011 & microsoft-word-2011 with microsoft-word-2011 set as the master tag.
Trying to do this results in
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
error. ...
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In review, the questions that are removed aren't automatically skipped
Today I was reviewing questions. I saw a user's first answer to the question in which OP was asking On how to setup a VAR - value Added Reseller.
The question was clearly spam and was removed. I ...
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Bottom border of tags is cut off when editing or creating posts
I first noticed this in the review queue on the main site, but it also occurs on both the main site and the meta site when asking a question.
Main site, review queue
Meta site, asking a new question
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Weird behavior with tag syntax on Meta
There's some squirrely behavior going on when using the [tag:tag] syntax for linking tags on Meta.
In Chrome (29.0.1547.76 m, Windows 7), when written in one continuous line in Markdown, tags ...
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Why do the excerpts for these tags appear different?
I was doing some tag wiki editing using the Tags page, and I noticed this discrepancy between the excerpts on the visual-studio-2012 tag.
This is what I see when I don't hover over the tag:
And when ...
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Incorrect parsing of html in the community bulletin
It appears that the community bulletin isn't correctly parsing html:
Using IE 10 on a Win 7 Enterprise
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Inconsistent information regarding amount of answers for a question to become Community Wiki [closed]
The amount of answers to turn a question into a community wiki is listed differently in two places:
https://superuser.com/help/privileges/community-wiki mentions "30 answers".
What are "...
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Circular duplicates aren't handled in an intuitive way
I've been reviewing close votes and found this question (let's call it Question 1):
But its proposed duplicate (Question 2) is already marked as a duplicate of Question 1.
Still, I've been able to ...
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I can't change my vote to close, bug?
I voted to close a question, then realized it was not the best fit. So I went to change my vote, and saw there was no option to do this:
Not a big deal, I thought. I can retract (seeing as that's my ...
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Add / Show comment with less than 50 reputation
If a user has less than 50 reputation, it is known that they cannot comment on posts other than their own.
I've been in a situtaion, (this applies to the wider stack exchange interface) where I have ...
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For questions put On Hold, why is "on-hold" included in the URL of the question's title?
When a question is put on hold (i.e., closed for a reason other than duplicate), the title links to a URL that ends with “-on-hold”. For example, this question (Am trying to connect my laptop LAN ...
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Bug on /review already closed
On the cast close vote page, this came up:
No potential close reason listed, and its already shown as closed. Any ideas what happened, or is this to be expected?
question link: https://superuser.com/...
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Is it just me or is the site looking funny right now?
Right now the website's layout looks funny:
Is this an error I made or did someone rollout an update to do this?
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Pinged username disappears in comments
Strange little bug. I write in a comment:
@mpy: Blah blah blah...
And on submitting the comment, the ping ‘@mpy: ’ disappears leaving just:
Blah blah blah...
It would also disappear every time ...
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superuser.com layout bug: divs overlapping & comments not working [closed]
There are several problems with the layout. Right sidebar is overlapping slightly; share/edit/delete/flag links are pushed to the side; and when I click on "add comment", the add comment link ...
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Review Test error
When going through the Review queue, I activated a "test review" (and passed, BTW). I thought it could have been improved with a comment, so I type out an explanation, hoping to help the user, click ...
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1
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Differnt PNG encoding? [closed]
Using superuser.com's interface tonight, was given the below error when putting together Windows 7 in Compatibility Mode options on Windows 7 Enterprise:
Problem being, it was a PNG I was trying to ...
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<kbd> tag looks wrong
According to W3C,
When the kbd element is nested inside another kbd element, it represents an actual key or other single unit of input as appropriate for the input mechanism.
The SU way of ...
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Problems with SE sites
Over the past two days I have been experiencing various problems using SE sites - the first I noticed is that my chat wouldn't work even though I was logged in ("You need 20 reputation to talk here") ...
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Still logged in even after clearing browser data
Before closing my browser on a shared computer, I usually clear the browser data. On StackExchange, I am still logged after clearing my data.
open https://superuser.com/users/login
log in with google
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No background on downarrow-beside-username popup on main page, but it is there on question pages
If I go to superuser.com and mouse over the arrow near my name, it's hard to read because there is no background. I click through to a question, and on that page there is no problem.
This is on Web+ ...
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Why aren’t my flags handled?
The last handled flag on my profile is from 21 February. None of the newer flags have been handled yet. Where are all the moderators?
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Won't allow me to flag
I found an odd problem. I was in newest questions and I saw this:
Instantly I was going to flag one as duplicate. My problem came when attempting this. The second question wouldn't show up. Any ...
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Tags go totally nuts on hover
There's a certain area around tags where they will flip constantly between their normal and hover states. Please see the following video for an illustration of the issue:
This is in Chrome stable in ...
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"Question needs 0 votes to close", but I didn't cast a close vote
I just flagged this question as off-topic in /review, and got the popup
This question still needs 0 vote(s) from other users to close
I don't have 3000 rep; I didn't vote to close, just flagged it....
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Display Bug: Showing More Comments Causes Comments to Get Cut Off
The <div class="comments"> element surrounds a table element where comments are displayed. .comments declares width:660px;. The table is styled with .comments > table{width:100%;}.
When ...
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Why are different colours used for the homepage tab borders?
The main tabs on the Super User homepage use two different colours for the borders:
On Stack Overflow, a single border colour is used:
Similarly, on Meta Super User it looks like:
Is the different ...
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Why are there 0 questions?
According to https://superuser.com/questions, there are currently 0 questions on Super User. https://meta.superuser.com/questions says the same about Meta Super User. The other tabs (featured, ...
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When editing this post, the "preview" displays the image correctly. When viewing the question, the image is not displayed
Have a look at this answer.
I see the text
![Phone Types on Outlook.com][2]
rather than the image he is trying to display. But when I clicked "Edit" to fix his formatting, I found that the image ...
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Review Reopen Votes broken
The review queue Reopen Votes seems to be malfunctioning.
When I try review questions, it says loading item , but it never finishes.
After a while, the JavaScript Console shows
Unexpected ...
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Sorting is showing lower scored answer above higher one, neither accepted
It was my understanding that answers to questions on all SE sites are sorted by descending net votes, with the accepted answer (if there is one) pinned to the top.
However, the answers to this ...
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Not all questions tagged with my favorite tags are highlighted
As you can see in the screenshot below, although I have linux as a favorite tag, not all questions tagged with it are highlighted. This occurs both when looking through the questions tagged as linux ...
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Edit history messed up when improving a suggested edit
I've noticed recently that about half the time when I improve a suggested edit and then check the post's edit history, the two edits (mine and the suggested one) have been swapped around, with my edit ...
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Inconsistent reputation history for days without reputation changes
My recent SU reputation history:
There is an entry for Jan 3, on which There were no net reputation changes on this day. No posts are listed for this day.
There is no entry for Dec 29.
It is unclear ...
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Winter bash hats in user profile don't support window resizing
The hat in users' profiles does not move with the centered page contents (including the gravatar) when the browser window is resized.
Demo in Firefox (Safari has the same issue), before and after ...
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Reputation Leagues ignore daily reputation cap and reputation loss due to deletion
The reputation leagues seem to ignore reputation loss due to post deletion. The reputation earned for the same post is counted though, in fact, it seems to ignore reputation capping.
Oliver has an ...
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Reputation transaction history is incomplete (missing today’s paired transactions)
This answer, which I posted 2012–12–11 21:27:14Z, got accepted and unaccepted within the following 26 hours. The following screen shots were taken 2012–12–12, approximately 16:40Z and 22:40Z:
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Most tag searches appear to result in no questions if last tab was "Featured"
If the user was browsing Featured questions from the home page, and then searches for a tag, it appears to the user that there are no questions of any kind for that tag.
Repro:
Navigate to the main ...
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Where is the Windows 8 Challenge Achievements bar?
There used to be a sort of "Achievements Bar" for the Windows 8 Challenge on your User page. But as of a few hours ago, it is gone. What happened?
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Win8challenge.com showing a Yellow Screen of Death
Win8challenge.com seems to be showing ASP.net's YSOD.
Can a dev please take a look?
Seems like the site's down again.
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Are the tiles in our user profile supposed to change color when we unlock them? [closed]
As you can see here, I have completed the second tile by accepting an answer to one of my questions. However, there is no indication of this accomplishment unless I physically mouse-over the tile and ...
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'Unknown users' in Windows 8 challenge page
Apparently two of the folk involved in the Windows 8 challenge seem to be referred to as 'unknown user'. Clicking on them seems to indicate they're both users in good standing. Looks like a bug to me.