Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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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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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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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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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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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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"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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Protection not considering Association Bonus
I'm not a very active member of SuperUser, but I have more than 100 reputation points because of the Association Bonus.
I'm experiencing something weird... I want to answer a question that's been ...
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To improve the Superuser search feature by allowing partially match ("like", "contains") logic
I asked this question:
Type to navigate and open anything on screen by using keyboard ? Similar to shortcatapp.com
In the content, there is the term "shortcatapp". But when I search using that term, ...
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Custom close reason is processed as a comment
When I click on “Close” (under a question),
I get a “Why should this question be closed?” dialog box.
If, in that box, I click on “off-topic because…”, I get a “Closing > Off-Topic” box.
If I then ...
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Suggested edit to mark a signpost is cancelled out when post is deleted
Why is it possible to delete an answer when an edit is pending?
I had a question that included a HORRIBLE answer.
It was someone trying to get me to install malware but I had just edited it to ...
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Why are old questions on top? [duplicate]
There are many old questions showing on the start page of superuser.com. If I open one of them, I see old dates both in answers, comments, and the editing time of the question.
How/why are these get ...
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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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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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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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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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Automatically embed image links
It seems that half of the questions from new users have linked example images (better than no example at all) that we then edit to make the image inline.
Could SE automagically alter posts to turn ....
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Autocompletion getting in the way: yas-snippet-dirs gets completed by adding a period [closed]
I tried to write this answer to a question. Every time I tried to type the variable name yas-snippet-dirs, a period was automatically added after that name, as soon as I typed a space char or a ...
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I'm human, even when I'm incognito!
Whenever I'm visiting Super User in incognito mode, I have to verify that I'm a human (almost every time). I realize that this could be avoided by not being incognito, but for various reasons, I'm ...
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Why does the Stack Exchange user profile say that this user has a different number of answers from what it says on this site's user profile?
I'm looking at the user profile page of this user (https://superuser.com/users/43131/) and it says that that user hasn't posted any answers. However, when I look at the same user's profile on Stack ...
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Badges are removed or missing from account profile
Of the seven badges I've earned with my time on the site I've noticed that the count is now dropped down to two.
Can anyone tell me the specific reason behind this?
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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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The "set a bounty" dialog kept disappearing
I posted Can VMware Workstation Player be connected to my "Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller" card? and, as it got one "sanity check" comment but no other response, ...
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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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