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A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features

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How to know number of users?

The data explorer lets you run queries against a sanitised version of the database. The database is up to a week out of date, so it should be good enough for your purposes. A basic count for superuser …
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Who is this mysterious user?

Who? Someone by the name of Lauri Ranta. Why? Based on @Sathya's comment that it was Unicode... it's three of COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER (U+034F). From Wikipedia: The combining grapheme joiner (CG …
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What does OP stand for?

It's a common internet term meaning "Original Poster" or "Original Post" depending on context. In SE sites, it can refer to either the question or asker or, less likely, an answer or answerer dependi …
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Offering first bounty does not seem to award Promoter badge

Some badge calculations are performed daily; wait a day before worrying. Meta-rep sometimes has a slight delay in synchronising - again, wait a bit longer before worrying.
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Can questions be duplicate if the duplicate is on non Stack Exchange site?

Not just on the same network. We only mark questions as duplicates if they are on the same site, e.g. a question can exist on both SU and SO wihtout being marked as duplicates. See: What to do with cr …
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Why was this question immediately protected without any previous activity?

We've had quite a few "PST repair" questions created by spammers as bait for their future spam answers. This protect was manually done by @slhck, likely as a preventative measure.
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How to select upvote arrow for a comment in Stack Exchange using Windows 8 tablet?

Switch to the mobile view with the link at the bottom of the page. On a phone (touchscreen): The only thing it's really missing is the share link...
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Will all my Stack Exchange accounts be inaccessible when MyOpenID shuts down>

You can go to your user profile and click on "my logins" to link another auth provider to your account:
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What’s with all the colorful avatars?

You see, SE is planning to restrict avatars to white text over a coloured background in the Microsoft® Windows® 8 Metro® style. While they are trying to get permission from Microsoft® (don't want to …
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Why sometimes the selected answer is not the top answer?

When sorting by votes, the accepted answer is promoted to the top, regardless of votes - unless it's a self-answer, in which case normal vote sort is used without promotion. See also: http://blog.st …
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