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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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How do I cast my 31st vote?

I just cast 30 votes, all on answers.  I then tried to vote on some questions, and was denied, with the message “Daily vote limit reached”.  I thought I was allowed an additional 10 votes on questions ...
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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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Deletion of first line in questions

I've noticed that when I make the first line of my post Hi Superuser, or Hello Superuser, It auto-deletes it. If it is anything else (maybe a few more variants of this exist), it will not ...
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Rep-mining / Using the site as a blog

I’ve noticed recently that numerous users (including high-rep users and even moderators) have been posting generic, hypothetical questions, followed immediately by an answer and accepting it. I don’t ...
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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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List of (un)deletion votes is incomplete

I went through my (un)deletion votes on my profile page today and discovered that at least 5 are missing. In the deletion tab, only 5 votes appear: That can't be true. I don't recall every deletion ...
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Listed close reason is wrong in /tools?

Not really sure what is going here, but here is a picture: The stated reason at the bottom is that it is too localized, but the only close vote is for off topic. What is going on?
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Malformatted confirmation link

I tried to subscribe to a tag on SU, I've got the confirmation mail but the link renders with )### appended to it in Plain-Text Mode, which will result in a 404 not found. ###[Confirm Subscription](...
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Why does SU allow me to change my display name without confirmation and limits further changes?

Recently, I was editing my profile, typing something, and an advertisement frame popped up, for lack of better name, since y'all are sparing on the ads. The 'frame' somehow caused my cursor focus to ...
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No "privileges" link on meta site user profile card

There's no privileges link on the user dropdown card on meta sites: Main site: Meta site: /privileges on meta redirects to the main site's /privileges, so one could assume the site change is the ...
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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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How do I have 199 reputation on Meta if I haven't asked questions on here before?

I haven't asked a question on here before, but yet my meta reputation is 199. How?
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"Research Assistant" tag with problem and can't be reached

I'm reviewing and suggesting tag wiki edits on the last weeks and was suspecting that my tag wiki editions to this badge wasn't change. Today I suggested two tag editions and tested what happend with ...
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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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Why are my questions judged as low quality?

When I write questions on Super User, I often find that I am rejected when I click submit after typing a paragraph; including my previous research on the subject, and so on. It says that my question ...
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Comment @replies cannot see the names after posting?

I do not understand this and am well aware of this post but it does not address my issues. On stackoverflow I can just write @iznogood love your post! and I will see the comment as: @iznogood love ...
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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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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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Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU

Quoting any child meta site's /reputation: Reputation on this per-site meta is derived entirely from the main site; nothing to show. Which is consistent with what's shown as part of the user info: ...
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Missing Upvotes

I went through several of KCotreau's answers yesterday upvoting, showing my appreciation using the upvotes I had left near the end of the day. This morning, I found none of my votes for him from ...
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LaTeX snippets from Math.SE look like gibberish in the Stack Exchange hot questions list

This is what it looks like on Math.SE: This is what it looks like in the SE hot topics list:
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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 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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can't post answer on community blocked question, have enough points

This is more of a bug report: No option to hibernate/shutdown in GNOME 3? text under the message says: protected by Community♦ Oct 22 at 14:12 This question is protected to prevent "thanks!",...
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Post editors are not suggested recipients for @-addressing

There is no username popup suggesting completion when typing an editor's user name prefix. Steps to reproduce: Find a post by AUser that was edited by UserB Write a comment addressing @UserB ...
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Changing the timescale on the review page

As a suggestion, while on many other parts of the site it makes sense that the month is defined by the calendar month, for reviewing, this is unhelpful. When looking at the late answers this month, ...
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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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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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How do I block a user from superuser?

Is there a way to block a user I do not want reading my questions?
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Chat flag indicator may be getting shown to unqualified users

I'm pretty sure I don't have enough SU rep to be seeing chat flags. However, I saw the "flagged post" indicator when I logged in to chat just now. Clicking on it produced this screen: I'm guessing ...
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Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts

I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check. ...
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If I have 580 REP, shouldn't I be 58% on my way to viewing vote counts?

Just look at this: . I did the math, 580 = .58 of 1000. I also refreshed the page, clicked on "view vote counts...." I haven't received any rep for a while... Is it an update issue?
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Why shouldn't acceptance of an answer count towards a tag's score?

When you vote a question or an answer, the votes contribute towards the tag score. It would seem to be that if an answer is marked as the answer, that says more about the the poster's strength in ...
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Mysterious +5 reputation

After perusing SuperUser I came over here to Meta and checked my profile. I noticed I had mysteriously gained +5 reputation putting me up to 106. This is strange because I haven't asked any questions ...
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Destroying users does not delete answers posted by other users, even though the question has been deleted

The title may seem a bit weird, let me explain. While going through some questions, I found a spammer network about 5 users with each of the users posting answers on others' questions. Besides ...
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Why do old questions without any apparent activity get marked as active?

Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change? For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last ...
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Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken

As the title says. Tabs are not 8 spaces from the beginning of the code block, but rather 8 spaces from the beginning of the line, making them 4 spaces short. Current display: $ lsb_release -a LSB ...
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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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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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Question view count shows zero despite having an answer

How is it possible that a question can have zero (0) views and yet also have an answer? Doesn't having an answer mean that there was at least one view?
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'closed as exact duplicate' should show the EXACT duplicate

First of all, I know this has been discussed already, and I know that the duplicates are listed at the top of the newer question. However, there are still two issues with how this is handled. First, ...
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How to link to URLs contaning strange unicode chars

In my question I wanted to link to http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/aligning-filesystems-ssd’s-erase-block-size and it didn't work. Note that the link as displayed here http://ldn....
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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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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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Bug with Badges?

The first bug I noticed was that I have a question Java (1.6.0_15) not working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2). Why? that has been viewed over 1000 times yet I never got the Popular Question badge? ...
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Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym ?

Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym on Super User? I have 10k+ rep, the privileges show 100% across all - what am I missing out on ?
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Bugs with tagging questions

While editing a post tonight I noticed this bug with the tags. There were two of the same tag (windows-7-x64), and several tags with 0 uses but still showing up. Seems broken, unless I'm missing ...
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Why is the question tagged twice with the same tag and yet the question count does not match ?

This question has been tagged twice with [windows-7-x64]. Oddly, the same tag shows up twice, with different counts. Clicking on each of those tags, brings the same questions, although one less than ...
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my username changed! how do I restore it?

hi, my username has changed. I can still log in with my openid and pswd. could be a technical glitch? how do I restore my username?
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