Questions tagged [bug]
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Page Not Found when clicking on non-existant tag in chat room
In the Ask a Super User Moderator chat room, when someone clicks on tag:moderator*, a page not found error is reached.
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Text colour issue when searching
When searching for questions, the colour of the text which shows the number of votes for accepted answers appears to be wrong:
Presumably the text should be the same colour as the "votes" text. This ...
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Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)
The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:
test
I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but that'...
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10K Tools "flag" tab issue in revision: 2010.9.5.3
In the 10k tools "flagged" posts tab: Once it is selected, no other tools tabs appear. This requires the user to use the browser back button or click tools again. No other 10k tools tabs exhibit this ...
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Unable to have inline code in a comment when a backslash is before the tilda
When I write a comment, I believe my only option to format as code is to use tildas. But if there is a backslash before the tilda, it seems to escape, and ruin my code formatting.
Example: F:\
I can ...
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Users on the favorites tab are incorrect
On the favorite tab, the users displayed are completely incorrect. The users have no affiliation to the question displayed, and this can be verified when visiting one of the questions.
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Question in tangled state with broken link
The question Transfer a folder from local system … to … virtual system was, according to its revision history, migrated from StackOverflow to SuperUser
over a year ago (May 31 ’13 at 9:14), and then ...
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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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Info panel block tab header when view less info in StackOverflow profile
I was viewing StackOverflow profile page, then click less info next to the name.
When the info panel finish resizing, it block over half of the tab header below.
Here is a screenshot:
I also ...
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Front page isn't always chronological
I just edited this post and reloaded the front page. It had already updated the topic (the one with 10 up votes) to include my modification (55s ago Daniel Beck), but its position was out of the usual,...
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Cannot view revisions of this particular question
Trying to view revisions of this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/274671/can-i-use-nas-without-internet-connection
results in "Oops! Something bad has happened"
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When I try to vote to close this question as a duplicate, the site tells me it doesn't have an upvoted answer, but it does. Is this a bug?
See these two questions:
whenever I start my windows laptop, after laptop is opened terminal is automatically opened and inside terminal its written -, and
On windows startup terminal opens ...
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Answer box cursor broke
I just went to answer a question and my cursor is moved one space over to the left for some reason. Here's an image of it (I just pressed space before taking the screenshot, I didn't move the cursor):
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Bug report: similar questions scroll problem
When I create a new question, enter a title, then scroll the "similar questions" window, the text scrolls while a copy of the text stays fixed. See the screen recording. This is on Firefox, Macos 10....
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outdated tag (windows-defender)
It appears that the tag windows-defender is a bit out of date. It states:
In Windows 8, Windows Defender is a built in antivirus software product that replaces Microsoft Security Essentials. Before ...
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Tests in Suggested Edits queue take to much to load
Lately, when reviewing the Suggested Edits queue, sometimes it takes about 30-40 seconds to load the next question, staying a while at the loading item ... text.
This only happens when the next ...
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Captcha freezes and does nothing
I try to post
The captcha bot (are you a human ?) appears
I guess the right letters
A text field appears on the screen, asking me to cut and paste into another text field.
I do that.
Nothing else ...
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Invalid review question? Can it be removed from the audit queue?
The answer in this review looks good enough to me - unless there is a context where this suggestion has been 'answered' so often that it is spam, but that cannot be seen from the audit.
It's not the ...
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What happens with Server tag
Currently I'm trying to add Server tag to this question.
But when I add it, something strange happens. Here are the screenshots:
Adding tags:
Clicking "Save Edits" tells that "Server" tag does ...
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When editing two comments, after having saved the first edit, it is impossible to save the second edit
I have encountered a bug in the site Super User.
I make two comments :
Here is the Tadpole.
There is the Caterpillar.
To edit the comment 1, I click edit. In editing my comment, I add my new text :
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Bug or change for close votes?
We are limited to 20 close votes a day (I guess depending on points).
Normally, when we reach that threshold, a message appears on screen alerting we've done all the voting we're allowed. At this ...
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duplicate link to flag a question as a duplicate
When flagging a question to close, these are the reasons provided:
When selecting "it should be closed for another reason", these are the reasons we then get:
So again a duplicate close reason, a ...
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Suggested edits on meta - something weird
Normally, on a per-site meta, the suggested edit button is grayed out with a message that says that suggested edits are not permitted on meta sites:
However, when manually typing the URL to suggest ...
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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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Special tags on fav/ignore lists are not displayed properly without page reload
When adding a moderator-only (black) or required (black bordered) tag to the list of favorite or ignored tags, they're not displayed in their usual style. Only a page reload will give them the ...
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Unwanted line breaks in <kbd> style [closed]
Using Google Chrome 21.0.1155.2 dev (I know this is not a supported version, but as in Element position bug in "Privilege" FAQ in Google Chrome it might be of interest anyway, and at least ...
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Reputation summary badge is not calculated correctly
The "badge" number appearing next to the "reputation" tab title on a user's profile is not calculated correctly. It ignores the removed category of reputation gains and losses.
From May 6, 25 ...
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Rollback says “resetting any offensive votes”, but rolls back *all* votes. [closed]
The rollback button of a question says that it will reset any offensive votes, which presumably means down-votes. Yet, rolling back to an earlier revision seems to reset up-votes (and accompanying ...
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Tag Info not showing
I added a note to Tag Info about 10 minutes ago that went to review because I have insufficient rep in SU. Since then, I earned the Tag Editor badge and got the edit points, however, the Tag Info is ...
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Unable to edit a question because of "that content"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What content am I being blocked from editing and why?
Was trying to edit the following question to fix the broken URL:
https://superuser.com/questions/184171/how-to-extend-...
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Emojis don't render in question titles, but do render within questions
Pretty sure that's not right...
Link to the question in case anyone else wants to see -
How can I display the emoji on Windows?
Weirdly, it doesn't display properly in the edit dialog either:
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Malformed image Markdown when using add image dialog
The “Add image” toolbar button is outputting malformed markdown. I am using Firefox 40.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite).
Here in my screenshot nothing is selected. Cursor was just at that spot. ...
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Bug in search results
I did a search for "windows 2000", and on page 2 of the results, I see the following:
Notice the last question in the screenshot just says 4 votes. I should actually say 1 vote and 2 answers.
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Yearling too quick?
I was just awarded yearling on 9-14-2016
I was awarded it last on 12-15-2015
Isn't that less than a year?
url to reproduce -> https://meta.superuser.com/users/20256/hogan?tab=activity
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SSL Certificate error for www.superuser.com (but not superuser.com)
Just a note that when I tried to go to "https://www.superuser.com" (as many of us are want to type in, including the www) I get a certificate warning. I don't get the same error when I go to "https://...
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Tag wiki edit awarded double rep
So I proposed an edit to a tag wiki (this one not that it really matters) and I got 2 +2s when the edit was accepted.
Pretty sure this is a bug.
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Cannot edit a question. URL results in "Page Not Found"
For some reason, there is no edit or retag link underneath this question: How to debug a local network from a PC that is infecting it
Similarly, when trying to access the edit function directly via ...
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Review pane in the meta page
It seems odd that after an item is reviewed in the pane, it does not go away, and it stays in the pane (after refresh).
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Re-tag option for Community Wiki questions is missing
Shouldn't there be a re-tag option, for community questions? Users can still re-tag questions by going through the edit menu.
Like this question.
EDIT: I have both buttons
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null tag bug on Super User?
This question, as of this moment, has a "null" tag. There are four tag "buttons": linux, tools, "null", and threads.
"Retag" simply shows two spaces between "tools" and "threads".
Didn't try to fix ...
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Why was my bounty amount sent to me?
I deleted my question and then the bounty amount got refunded, why? This can be exploited to create infinite bounties.
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Am told I cannot create tag - I am not trying to create a tag
Trying to change my question
https://superuser.com/questions/1161441/chrome-switches-tab-unexpectedly-with-a-noise
to
OS: Mac OSX 10.12.2 Browser: Chrome 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)
I am in one ...
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Closing Votes count bug
So here I am, minding my own business and checking out the Vote to Close statistics, when I notice a weird number... 25. I voted only 24 times in this UTC day. Weird bug? Or am I just that super ...
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Why my Flagging Summary page is empty? [closed]
In my profile, helpful flags shows as 2(2 is in a hyperlink). If I click it takes to a page of Flagging Summary. But the page is empty. And in the right side it says 'Your flagging history' without ...
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Typo in reputation recalc error message
Now that the reputation recalc feature has been removed, the "Trigger Reputation Recalc" button is gone from https://superuser.com/reputation, and attempts to use the original URL to get a recalc (...
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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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Delay in notifications
For the second time, i saw what i think to be a bug in superuser(i don't know if it doesn't happens in other SE sites).
I can see the title of the page where i am with a "(n)"(by n, i mean a number). ...
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Unable to talk in chat despite enough reputation
I am no longer able to participate on chat. Starting today (between 2AM and 1PM CET), something got broken.
It clearly recognizes me, as clicking the avatar produces:
But the chat user profile says ...
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Rollback of down vote added reputation points that the user didnot have
Today I voted down a question Project specific help [closed] as I wanted it to be closed .When it was closed I tried to roll back my down vote and it worked.Now this user started at a Reputation score ...
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Yet another Community Wiki oddity
https://superuser.com/questions/16972/what-single-piece-of-software-do-you-most-admire-and-why/16990#16990
If my math is correct, (and I hope it is), if there are 3 people, each with one revision, ...
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