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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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How is the review count in the 'header' calculated
My review count, which appears at the top (see image below) shows 805 items need attention, but, when I click on it and see the screen below, the maths doesn't add up! It has been like this for many ...
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Submit button not working
When I want to submit my question, system tells me "You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period.", But I'm pretty sure I didn't asked any question in past 24 hours, not even in past 6 month.
I ...
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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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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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Link seems fixed in edit preview, but still broken in actual answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
The second link in this answer ends with a closing parenthesis, which seems to be an issue. So I edited it and ...
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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top ...
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Question title doesn't wrap properly
Noticed this weird formatting issue
Why doesn't the text wrap the whole work 'conventional' properly?
The question title doesn't contain a '-' Can I increase [ELAN] Trackpoint sensitivity [on my ...
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Alignment issue in the Activity tab in Firefox browser
There is an alignment issue in the Activity tab. TThis bottom border is missing for the tabs, which has numbers in it. in the Firefox browser.
Screenshot for reference:
After inspect the element, ...
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Bug/ Error showing up in the "Add Image" modal dialog pop up?
Cant add picture so uploading the Screenshot Link as I am able to.
Opera 45.0
Version information
Version: 45.0.2552.888 (PGO) - Downloading update 100%
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8....
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Edits must be at least 6 characters when only editing tags?
I tried to retag this question to add the windows and windows-xp tags, but it wouldn't let me submit my edit because it said that it was less than 6 characters:
At first I thought that it was because ...
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How to include in a comment a call to a user with unicode characters?
I try to add in a comment @Pekka웃.
It pops up an error.
Comments cannot contain that content.
Unlucky.
I remove the last character 웃 and the comment was accepted without any problem...
He answers to ...
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reCAPTCHA with images not working as it should [duplicate]
Sometimes when I'm quick, I get a reCAPTCHA to verify that I am human. I'm totally fine with this. Today I got a reCAPTCHA with images. I had to select peanuts or street signs, and somehow I am not ...
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No check box for new captcha
Every so often I have to prove I'm a real human boy, despite having pretty much nothing in common with Pinocchio. I get a pop up asking me to :
Check the CAPTCHA box, and we'll be out of your way
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The slider to make the text area taller does not work on iPad
In questions and answers, the text area has a nice slider to make him taller.
Alas, on iPad, the slider does not work.
It would be nice to make the slider work.
Thank you.
I have Safari on iOS 7 ...
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Is there a problem with the close vote review?
Since the down time at the weekend I have noticed that, when reviewing close votes, the vote to close pop-up does not always refer to the question I am about to vote on.
For instance, just now I ...
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Selection issues with Low Quality Answer edition
I sometimes come across certain low quality answers that require editing (because they are right but poorly formatted, link-only, etcetera).
However, whenever I try to edit such answers, I can't ...
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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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Windows 8 contest - bounty tile awarded early
I've just started a bounty on a windows-8 question and despite not having awarded the bounty, I got notified that I qualified for the award a bounty tile in the contest.
Should the wording be changed ...
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Login using OpenID delegate fails
I just tried to login on another computer using my OpenID provider.
I use the delegate feature that lets me specify a URL, e.g. http://example.org/daniel-beck-id, and the document at that URL ...
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Reviewing the same item two (or more times) times
Here is a screenshot of me reviewing a post that I reviewed earlier:
I know that it has happened many more times, but this is the first that I had had a comment on the post that would tell me for ...
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+4 rep for an upvote, meta and main site rep don't match
I'm not usually one to quibble about reputation, but i'm curious about this
Answer gets upvoted
I get +4 rep rather than +10
I've obviously not been downvoted, and my daily rep is 190. Did i hit ...
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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Internet Explorer 8 switches to compatability view after posting a comment [closed]
This just started happening recently:
After posting a comment, Internet Explorer 8 refreshes and displays SU (or any other SE site) in compatibility view:
When viewing in compatibility view, the ...
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Small tag display bug in Safari? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SuperUser bug: badge border is cut off in Chrome, fine in Firefox
In Safari 5.1 and Chrome 12.x and 14.x the favorite and ignored tags look cut off. It doesn't affect ...
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How can someone have only 1 reputation?
I found a user with only one reputation even though he had answered previous questions and seemed to have quite an activity on superuser.
is it a hack, a bug or a possible superuser policy/ban?
(I ...
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Bronze badges are getting repeated
I don't know is it supposed to be like this or it is a bug but the badges that I've earned before are showing again for me to earn. Total number of badges that I've earned before was 6 now it is ...
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Flair reputation lower than profile rep
Why does my rep appear lower in the Super User flair than it does on my profile?
Here is my image to prove it:
I was wondering if anyone could help me as I don't know how to fix it.
I was also ...
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I messed up. What can I do? => This is an audit test
I just fell into the following "audit test".
It's just a question of somebody saying "I messed up, can anybody help me?", such a question should not be an audit test!
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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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Why was I forced to set the bounty to 50 reputation when I had 78?
I was forced on this question to set the bounty to 50 when I had 78, Why?
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User created Wiki answer without the necessary rep
In this question, this 1-rep user created an answer in a community wiki question. Normally, you need at least 10 site rep to post an answer to a Wiki, but this user doesn't appear to be in a ...
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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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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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Edited my profile and system is refusing my email
So, today I tried to edit some settings(name, website and description) of my superuser profile(and consequently all another stackexchange accounts)...
Everything goes OK but when I tried to save, it ...
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Organizer of what?
I gave this question an overhaul in grammar and got both the Editor and the Organizer badges. I'm totally cool with this myself, I think I deserved the two badges, but I didn't do anything with the ...
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Potential Bug: See who voted last?
I replied to a question on SuperUser here. The problem came in when I went back to the SuperUser home page and looked at the question, it showed an update by someone else, however apart from voting ...
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How did I exceed the reputation cap today from only upvotes?
Today, I received +201 reputation from only upvotes, exceeding the daily reputation limit of +200.
This shouldn't be possible according to Help Center » Reputation & Moderation » What is ...
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Why don't 4 indents turn characters to monospace typeface after numbered lines? [duplicate]
It works fine,
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not after a numbered line
It works fine,
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not after a numbered line
It doesn't render what suppose to be codes, but does disallow me to submit for being a code-only ...
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Where have all the links to the meta site gone?
Typically, from a user's home page (has tabs for Profile, Activity, Settings) near the top-right corner, underneath all the site buttons, there are two links:
Meta User
Network Profile
If you are ...
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Cannot edit post after posting as a guest
There is a self answer here How can I keep audio in Windows 8.1 from fading in when I start playing a sound file?
The OP states
I asked this as a guest but when I answered the email to set up the ...
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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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Pop-up (error message) window doesn’t come to front
I recently tried to add two comments in rapid succession on SU and I got this error message pop-up window:
As you can see, it’s unreadable, because the “Chatting” screen element is in front of it.
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You can select an answer prompt shown before you really can
Let the pictures do the talking
Not necessarily a bug, but could be fixed nevertheless.
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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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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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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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