Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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Could we have a less obvious review audit user?
I've noticed a good chunk of my edit approval review audits are by the same user (who I will not name ;p), with a .. suspicious amount of rep (999/1024). I realize that review audits are meant to ...
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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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'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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Why is this 6 year old user account in the Late Answer queue?
I ran across this answer in the Late Answers queue (review link). The answer was posted 6 years, 8 months ago! The user that posted it is by no means new; this is his only answer and his account is ...
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Workaround to get rid of all close flags?
I just voted to close a question because it was basically a duplicate of the same person's previous question. Looking at it a short while later I noted that my close vote (and possibly that of others) ...
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Why did I lose 1 reputation?
Is the reputation on superuser working properly ? My reputation just decreased from 101 to 100, without any adverse activity.
Abhinav
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What could be the reason of a negative reputation?
This question on su got -100 reputation and I don't know why. In its revision history "Community" named user (I think it is a robot :) ) deleted and locked the question. Maybe this is the reason but ...
spinodal
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Is this "Chat with an expert" a new items on SE sites?
I have noticed just today that there is a banner that will pop up now and again when I am on SU.
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Is this something new?
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How does the reputation on parent and on meta site work?
The meta site shows the reputation of the parent site Super User at the top.
The activity of this meta site shows I have earned reputation, are these added to the parent site?
This would allow one ...
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Superuser: You won 'Necromancer'?
A few of us on Super User have won Necromancer. Judging by the number of days SU has been opened, and the days required to qualify a question for Necromancer, I wouldn't think this was possible.
Jonathan Sampson
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Review completed by one person in First Posts queue?
I've came across this review which I wanted to flag it as not answer, but after it was hanging awhile in my open tab, when I've back to it, it says:
Review completed 24 mins ago:
x reviewed ...
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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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Is there an error with Late Answers Review?
Well short and clear. watch this:
is this a bug?, maybe is an error of our network and will grant to reviewers to farm.
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Superuser bug - daily vote limit reached
I've noticed an asthetic bug on SuperUser - I'm not sure if it affects any other sites. Basically, I've reached the daily voting limit, and clicked on the vote up button. While an error was received, ...
Lucas Jones
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If a post is marked as a duplicate, what happens if the original is deleted
Example
Internet usage monitor software
This question is marked as a dupe, but the dupe cited has been deleted.
Should this be possible? Is it a bug or by design?
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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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What's happening when I try a search on the number of comments?
I wanted to see articles that had no comments and no answers. I did this search and some of the results that came up had some comments. The question that had comments was How to make a busy file not ...
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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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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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Ask Question and Last Seen Time Discrepancy
I noticed a question where someone asked it 8 minutes ago but their profile stated they were last seen 23 minutes ago so there's a discrepenacy I suppose or maybe this is as expected per however this ...
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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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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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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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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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Daniel BeckMod
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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 ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Question review test - duplicate question flagging
I was reviewing questions from new users.
So, I got well known, one time Stack Exchange network hot question about broken RJ-45 plug presented to me as question from new user. My instant though was - ...
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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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How did a user with no actions and only 101 rep get the Mortarboard badge?
According to this page, on Jul 19 '12 at 23:44 Tim Stone was awarded the Mortarboard badge which is defined as:
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day.
How did he earn ...
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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:
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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 is this accepted answer not at the top?
I found this question from a Google search. I noticed the accepted answer is second, even though it is accepted and has significantly more votes than the "top" answer.
This question on meta says that ...
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Minimal edit distance can be circumvented with comments
I've just seen this trick in the review queue and I have to admit it's pretty clever:
Users below 2000 rep have to change at least some number of characters for the edit to be allowed by system. ...
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Daily reputation cap on Superuser does not count the association points?
I am guessing that the daily reputation cap does not count points granted for associating user identity across the stackoverflow sites. Can someone correct/confirm this?
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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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I Get "Vote too old to be changed" message but I have not voted on it
Possible Duplicate:
“Vote too old to be changed”… but I haven’t voted!
I can't vote on this question I get the "Vote to old to be changed" message even though I never ...
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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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Superuser Bug: "teacher" badge assigned with downvote
I gave 5 answers on superuser. One has been downvoted, and apparently no other answer has been upvoted, so I currently have only one downvote. Despite this, I've been awarded the "teacher" badge, ...
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Migration source question keeps redirecting me to the migration destination
I was the last person to vote to migrate a post on SU, which was migrated to https://serverfault.com/questions/650576/getting-pcs-to-report-to-wsus
The browser automatically forwarded me to the new ...
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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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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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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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Is there anything we can do about ancient questions being bumped?
I keep coming across ancient questions that are now completely irrelevant - for example What do these error messages mean and how to fix it?.
My first thought was "Use a newer release of Ubuntu?!" ...
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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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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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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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Answer should have been changed to wiki
When the question for my answer here was changed to CW, I think my answer should have been made CW as well.
JP
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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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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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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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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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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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