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Why did I have to place a 100 reputation bounty instead of 50?
I have recently wanted to post a bounty for 50 points however 50 points was not an option that appeared when I clicked "start a bounty". This forced me to post the bounty of 100 points.
I have read ...
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GitHub Questions?
Something crazy weird just happened to me on GitHub yesterday. I'm not sure if I can understand what exactly happened; the audit trail looks ... self-incriminating.
Is this the right place to ask ...
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Migrate question from SO?
I think this question should be migrated from SO. They've closed it and it has a TON of exp that could benefit this community.
I flagged it and RichB responded,
This should not be closed, it ...
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Why Can't I post here?
I am getting this message and am new and don't know why-
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting answers from this account. See http://goo.gl/C1Kwu ...
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How wide can an image be before it's resized?
When adding images to questions and answers, what is the maximum width it can be before it gets resized?
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Why was my question closed as exact duplicate?
I am talking about this question.
I am not trying to argue to have it reopened or anything, I would just like to know how it's an exact duplicate of this question when the other question is about ...
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Error: "body must be at least 30 characters" when editing an answer
I tried to edit an answer of someone else and got this message:
Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 19
It's this answer: ...
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Question FAQ doesn't cover a way how to handle a reopen request the best way
I started this topic:
https://superuser.com/questions/477470/which-personal-finance-manager-has-network-based-multiuser-support
The question was closed, because the first version was a bit ...
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How can I post screenshots with less than 10 reputation?
I have just spent quite some time putting a decent question together including screenshots and diagrams only to realize I need 10 points to post images in my questions.
How can post the images though?...
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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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Is it possible to receive rep awarded from bounty after hitting mortarboard on the same day?
I came pretty close to this situation not long ago, except I received my mortarboard as result of getting a bounty. Also, I have received a mortarboard from a good question without receiving bounty ...
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Super User is not displaying my correct reputation?
My stats as seen on stackoverflow
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 90 rep 10
Programmers 1 rep 2
stats as seen on SuperUser
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 80 rep 10
...
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Close as Duplicate still counts as linking?
When voting to close because of Exact Duplicate, SE does a nice notion of linking the question in a comment. More of a theory then practice question, but would these links count towards the Announcer, ...
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Low quality answers
What is a good definition of a low quality answer?
While some things are clearly low quality (answers in another language for example), and others have bad grammar (I thought these were OK), where ...
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Why do some answers don't have edit link?
Currently in this answer of question 226923 I am seeing that there is no link to edit the answer, whereas just below that answer I can see that there is link to edit that answer.
Both answers are ...
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"Answer your own question"? Surely you jest! What next, "fix my own plumbing"?
I went to post a question on installing Windows 8 on my ARM-based tablet, only to find myself confronted by this presumptuous checkbox:
If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be asking! What reason is ...
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Lack of anti-aliasing leads to question being closed without chance to improve it
My question Turn off anti-aliasing in Photoshop was closed because people do not know what anti-aliasing is. I had no time to improve it. The same user who demonstrated lack of knowledge closed the ...
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How to know correct or suitable tags to my question?
It will be good always to see quick response in the form of answers and comments from the community. But how to know correct or suitable tags to my question for quick and suitable people attraction to ...
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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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why some question are highlighted? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows-7 -tagged questions are highlighted light blue
As in the picture shown, why some question are highlighted ?
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I deleted my own question, can I get it back?
I deleted my question, because I saw a big flaw in it and didn't want a ton of downvotes.. I fixed it (it still had the option), and when I clicked 'OK' it said the question had been deleted (...
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Does retagging count as an edit?
When you retag a question, it displays on the question as an edit. However, does it actually count as an edit (such as toward the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges)?
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Why are my answers appearing on lifehacker?
I had a guy email me about an answer from lifehacker... I thought... Hmmm maybe I did posted there once... Then I looked and I had realized I had posted this on SE.. I looked at the registered user ...
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Gmail Blocked, Now How to login Gmail using credentials in stackoverflow?
My gmail is blocked in my firm and I have my SO login with my gmail account, so can someone suggest how can use my same gmail account to login to SO?
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Under what circumstances is an edit summary required?
I was editing a post (now deleted, and I am sure that that has something to do with it) and it asked me for an edit summary of ten characters.
Under what circumstances would I need to provide such a ...
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Why is a suggested edit not available?
Opening https://superuser.com/suggested-edits/8465 results in a 404 message.
8464 and 8466 can be viewed.
What are possible causes for the unavailability of suggested edits (for 10k+ users)?
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Flagging statistics omissions
The picture below shows my question.
426 = 417 + 8 + 1
3 != 2
7 != 3 + 1
As far as I know, there are a few things that can happen to flags.
They are marked helpful
They are marked disputed
They are ...
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OMGWTFBBQ?!! Where's my flag weight?
I worked sooo hard on the flag weight & it's no longer there!!1 Where is it!? Is this a temp glitch?
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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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What is a grace period for a bounty?
And why is it not described here?
Also, just out of curiosity, when did this come into effect?
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Why can't I award the bounty to my own answer
I answered my own question, why can’t I award the bounty to my answer or do something to prevent it from being half-awarded to the top-voted answer?
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Is there a way to subscribe to a question?
And thus be notified in my SE global inbox (not email) of any edits, comments, new answers, etc?
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What can I do with old questions that I think should be closed?
Since I have started to use the review page, I have looked at many old questions. Some of them I believe should be closed (like What is the fastest BitTorrent client? for example). While I can cast ...
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When can I '@' tag a user?
I have noticed that there are times when I am unable to '@' tag a user or trigger the auto-complete popup. Sometimes, even when I type @username in a comment, SE automatically removes the tag when ...
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What does accept rate mean?
I sometimes see thigs like "68% accept rate". What does this mean?
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Merging Stack Exchange Accounts
How do I merge my Stack Exchange accounts, or more accurately – how can I use the same profile on http://gaming.stackexchange.com and here (Super User), as well as probably other sites in the 'family' ...
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Did the default font of question titles change recently?
I may be wrong but I think the font face of Super User question titles has changed or become bold recently. Am I right or is Firefox playing games on me?
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How can a question be protected by Community? Why is the date format different there?
I don't understand the following screenshot I took a moment ago:
How can Community, and not a named moderator, protect something?
Why is the date and time format in the protected message ...
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Conflicting edits are allowed. Warning needed?
When a user starts editing a post while another user is also editing, the edits of first committer is lost, since the last commit overwrites the previous ones.
Happened in this answer. See the ...
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Long list of probably worthless questions
Long list of posts was generated by running a program over the data dump for superuser. Unfortunately, the data is a bit old, and some of the questions have been removed since then. When I tried to ...
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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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Flag weight doesn't grow up any more after crossing 3000 reputation [closed]
I've now got 3k reputation, acquiring the "cast close and reopen questions" privilege.
Since then, I don't know if any of my flags to close questions have been marked valid or not as my flag weight ...
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Vox Populi badge is missing from the Vote Up page
Vox Populi badge is missing from the Vote up questions and answers information page.
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Super User twitter account tweeting meta questions
Finally, we have a Super User twitter account albeit with a el-crappy name ( thanks, twitter!), Still hurrah!
But.... one of the questions that was tweeted, turned out to be a meta question:
I'm ...
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How do you ignore a certain user on Super User?
So, I want to ignore questions for certain users from my Questions/Unanswered feed. How do I do that?
The main reason for this kind of feature is that not everything that annoys me is against the ...
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Test 5: Communication with stackauth.com – failed
i use Chrome and notscripts, recently get a failure to authorize with stackexchange and cannot chat with a moderator anymore.
http://chat.stackexchange.com/help
Is this a problem with the recent ...
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Can the same user get two or more Enthusiast or Fanatic badges?
As far users can get two or more of Nice Question or Nice answear badges, does Enthusiast or Fanatic badges works the same way? Which badges are avaiable to get more than one time?
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Calculating accept rate
Do open questions with no answers affect my accept rate? I can't calculate it on my own because my rate isn't displayed anywhere I can see, but that's probably another question.
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Some images from i.stack.imgur.com images only show an error message
Some answers in How do you get a shell on a Mac? have images that only show an error from imgur saying: "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available. imgur.com"
Is that ...
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