Questions tagged [bug]
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Duplicate results in SuperUser Search
I was doing a search over at SuperUser and had 6 / 50 duplicate results of What are the best Excel tips? appear on the first page of the following search:
https://superuser.com/search?q=excel+drop+...
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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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Tag display wraps across lines
The list of tags at the bottom of a question is wrapping after the left border of a tag (view this question in Opera(perhaps other browsers also) and look at bottom tag list.
Screenshot:
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Superuser color for followed links
I can't seem to determine which questions I've browsed to on superuser based upon the coloring of the link. As far as I can tell (maybe I'm color blind), there is no difference between the coloring ...
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My question couldn't be submitted because of an 'error above'. Which error above?
Am I missing something here? I can't submit my question and I don't know why.
Which error above??!!
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Reviews page slow to load
The superuser reviews page is considerably slower to load than the other SE reviews pages I frequent. In addition, I have seen this a few times in the last few days.
So, the question is: Why is the ...
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The "You must have 50 reputation to comment" notification is not very readable
I just realized that this sites color scheme makes it nearly impossible to see how much rep you need to add a comment. Change it, maybe, possibly? Here's a screenshot.
EDIT: I'm using Chrome version ...
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Bug in Suggested Edit Review stats
When viewing a specific suggested edit review (accessed on the History tab in the review queue), you can see the reviewers' approve/reject statistics. I noticed that my stats reported here are clearly ...
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Bug in the search implementation
I just noticed that searching for terminator (a well known terminal emulator) also returns hits for terminal:
As you can see in the image above, terminal is highlighted as though it were a hit. It ...
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why is it telling me always "You can only post once every 5 minutes."
I think it's a bug, but it doesn't allow me to post a question.
You can only post once every 5 minutes.
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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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Long question titles not consistently shortened in user profile popup
Long question titles are usually shortened in the user profile popup. This is not applied consistently, as shown in the screenshot below.
The first question title is not shortened, but truncated by ...
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new /review reviewed count bug
The sum of all of the posts that were reviewed by everyone today do not add to the total that was posted.
Does this mean that something was deleted? I find that rather hard to believe as think many ...
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"Unable to load popup" every other time
In Safari Version 5.1.7 (7534.57.2) and Firefox 12.0 on OS X, I can reproducibly trigger the following error message:
Click a link that opens a styled popup (not a dialog box), like close or flag.
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Tooltip when pointing to question links ends with '…' [closed]
The tooltip that appears when I point to a question link on the front page always ends in … instead of a proper ellipsis:
I can reproduce this problem on both Firefox 6 and Internet ...
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Vote to close - off-topic descriptions are wrong
Clicking to close a question as 'off topic' gives a list of off-topic reasons but the 'belongs on...' descriptions all say "Q&A for professional and independent game developers" ...
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Where'd my 'Similar Questions' title go?
When I logged into SuperUser today, I noticed that I had a new badge. Rather than Xing it out, I just let it be. And so it stayed there when I went to ask a question.
But before I asked my question, ...
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Where is the 'logout' link? [duplicate]
I was on the SuperUser homepage, and noticed that there was no logout link. Came to meta and there's still no logout link. It's now missing on the StackOverflow page too. What's going on?
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Formatted text rendered wrongly in question but is correct in edit preview
I stumbled upon a question that has some incorrectly rendered block of formatted text:
I wanted to edit and correct this but was surprised to see that in the editor it looks like this (no change made ...
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Why is Windows XP tag showing zero questions ?
I noticed this while retagging a question, a search for questions tagged [windows-xp] returns 12 questions, so why is the tagging area indicating that there are no questions tagged [windows-xp] ?
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Last activity two days ago? Where?
I just logged onto SuperUser for the first time in several weeks, and I noticed that I have "activity" 2 days ago on a long-un-answered question:
Multi Monitor setup goes crazy after locking/...
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Lost reputation from posts I haven't touched
Today I just lost reputation from questions that I haven't even answered, edited or voted. I haven't even opened these questions at all.
9 removed and 1 migrated posts all -2 reputation. Timestamp ...
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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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Superuser homepage answer bug
I was just looking at this post that had 2 answers, but on the home page it said there were 3 answers.
Edit: I just went back and the third one is there now, does SU have some kind of timing problem?
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Incorrect user association to a question?
I find that this Superuser question,
Concatenate pdfs without losing bookmarks
shows last-modified by "John T" when the question is listed
(for example recently active pdf tagged questions),
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Javascript on Superuser...
Is anybody else experiencing no-javascript on Super user?
No ability to add comments. No ability to see live-preview of markdown. No ability to run any jQuery code from Greasemonkey...
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Upvoting an answer on superuser.com not incrementing vote count correctly
Criteria for rating LCD monitor quality
On the above question, I upvoted a couple of answers with 0 vote count and the count was not incremented, but the uparrow highlighted.
Being confused by ...
Jeff Leonard
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5 points on upvote?
I only got 5 points on superuser for an upvote. Any ideas? I haven't met my limit yet.
Daniel A. White
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User name not hyperlinked in a comment although the user exists
In this question, I can find this comment in which the username user105127 is not hyperlinked to the user profile.
I think that this is a bug.
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Element position bug in "Privilege" FAQ in Google Chrome
From chrome://version:
Google Chrome 19.0.1077.3 (Official Build 128359) dev
OS Linux
WebKit 536.4 (@111590)
The following happens on https://superuser.com/privileges/edit in ...
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Real reputation cap showing wrong on my Recent activity page
I encountered a strange reputation cap behaviour on Super User.
I got only 112 today, as reported on my recent activity page, but it has already given me the corresponding badge and stopped counting....
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Failed a few tests recently for reasons that fail
Just failed this test:
https://superuser.com/review/first-posts/644425
How did I fail? By commenting. I commented
OMG. That made my heart hurt.
Yes, the OMG wasn't necessary. The entire comment ...
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One of those "trick" questions [duplicate]
Just chillin'
I was in Review and the below question popped up but in a different view not showing the votes as one of those "test" reviewer questions that grade you based on whether or not it feels ...
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Was I awarded the Vox Populi badge due to a bug?
I was just notified that I received the Vox Populi badge on Super User, which is apparently awarded for voting 40 times in a single day. I don't vote nearly that often (I average about vote every 2 ...
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Inconsistency between reputation and badges earned "today" in user profile popup
I'm pretty sure neither of the badges is awarded for 0 reputation gained today. The badges were actually awarded Dec 31, so the earned today line is wrong.
Apparently earned today looks up badges ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Favourite/ignored topics bubbles broken
It appears as though the bubbles containing the favourite/ignored topics are missing a side:
Is this a new bug in rev 2011.5.9.4?
Edit: I'm using Chrome 12.0.742.30 dev. Works in Safari.
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Blog search box results are from serverfault instead of superuser
When you use the search box on the superuser blog, the Google results are from the serverfault blog.
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What content am I being blocked from editing and why?
Tonight I went to edit this post to fix the link, which the poster had entered in BBcode rather than Markdown. When I went to submit the edit, I got this error message, which I've never seen before:
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No OpenID end point found
I always use Yahoo account as open ID to login in my superuser account but it was working fine till yesterday after that it is saying No OpenID endpoint found.
I want to know why this problem is ...
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Content of low quality posts is shown as "1"
The content of several posts is shown as "1". These appear to all be candidate low quality posts with a negative score on the review page:
Opening the post and clicking edit reveals the proper ...
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Moderator election vote counts aren't showing up for me
When I click a candidate's score in the moderator election primary, I see this:
This happens for every candidate on SU, but does not affect SO, regardless of whether or how I've voted on a particular ...
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Wrong "taxonomist" badge received
I just received a notification on the SU site that I was awarded a "Taxonomist" badge for the "autocomplete" tag.
The problem is that I did not create the "autocomplete" tag. Actually none of the 8 ...
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TIL: Answering 10 minutes after a question is asked is "late."
I just had this question to review in the late answers queue. It turned out to be an audit, which is all well and good.
But according to the post time mouseover, it was posted at
2016-10-16 16:57:...
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For security reasons framing is not allowed
Whenever I access superuser.com it says for security reasons, framing is not allowed ; Click Ok to remove the frames.
How can i get rid off this problem ?
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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 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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'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.
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Review count goes down sometimes
Here is an example (Tom's count went down).
Beginning:
End:
It almost seems like I "stole" reviews from Tom, but that would be strange.
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Browers hangs for super user question
Just now , one user posted question : https://superuser.com/questions/68649/help-me-with-my-cisco-ios-config.
When ever i am clicking that question Browser hangs for some time and recovered and show ...
joe
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Can't get past beta password screen from Blackberry
While this only matters for a couple of weeks, it seems impossible to visit superuser.com as it won't go process the beta entrance code.
Soldier.moth