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Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change

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Rep-mining / Using the site as a blog

This is 100% status-bydesign. In fact, it's a core part of how Stack Exchange works. The sort of questions you're seeing are what we call "canonical answers." It's an effort to build a knowledge base …
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Comment @replies cannot see the names after posting?

@pinging in comments is a bit complicated. There's a full description on Meta Stack Overflow. What's probably happening in this case is this: The first author of the question or answer will al …
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Is this "Chat with an expert" a new items on SE sites?

Yes.
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Deletion of first line in questions

Salutations are automatically removed, because posts do not need to have salutations. You can see the full regex used to select salutations to remove in the linked meta SO post.
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Custom close reason is processed as a comment

The idea behind this is that if you're giving a custom reason, then the user should be aware of why their question is being closed. This is intentional and by-design.
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Why do people have to gain reputation on each Stack Exchange site before being allowed to co...

When you reach 200 reputation on any Stack Exchange site, you will automatically get a 100 point reputation bonus on every Stack Exchange site. For more information see the Reputation page in the help …
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Organizer of what?

The organizer badge is awarded for your first retag, and you removed two tags from the post, so this was considered a retag.
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I can't change my vote to close, bug?

The thing you're quoting is about regular up/down votes on a question. You can only vote to close once, and you can only retract the vote once. After that, you cannot vote to close again unless the q …
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Page Not Found when clicking on non-existant tag in chat room

Problem solved: I removed the tag from the chat room. This is expected behavior. There is no moderator or moderator-* tag on Super User, so naturally there is no tag wiki for it. I'm not sure why th …
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Autocompletion getting in the way: yas-snippet-dirs gets completed by adding a period

This behavior is caused by IE11's auto-correct, not by any setting or feature of Stack Exchange. You can verify this yourself by visiting any page with a textarea and typing dirs. A cursory google …
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