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I don't see all the questions in the "Tagged Questions" page
Often, this is caused by a preference: Open your profile by clicking your user name on the main site and go to prefs (or click here) and remove the checkbox next to "Hide ignored tags".
In your case …
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Do downvotes for new users have to be worked off?
No. The first up vote will always bring them to 6 or 11 reputation, no matter how many down votes came before.
Related: Users hitting the daily reputation limit can no longer gain reputation, but can …
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Best ways to get questions re-looked at?
Generally speaking, editing older questions and posting bounties will get them looked at again. Edited questions appear on the front page again, they appear on /questions?sort=active, or, in the case …
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Discrepancy in reputation viewed in Summary and Reputation tabs
The summary tab does not show all of today's reputation changes. It's the most recent changes, which sometimes are less, sometimes more than one day's. Both views (summary and reputation) do collapse …
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Why are my answers appearing on lifehacker?
Even if there was no specific agreement, Lifehacker abides by the terms of the license you place your content under when posting it to Stack Exchange sites. From here, which is linked to from every SE …
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Is "Y" really a valid answer to "I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work"?
A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following:
declined - fl …
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Why can't I post anything in Super User?
Suspensions are a manual action by a moderator, restrict all actions on the site, and typically last from a day to a year. Read more about what suspensions are intended for here. Your suspension has b …
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Using the unanswered button
Since anybody can reply to a question, the system only considers a question to have answers if the reply
Is accepted
Has been upvoted (Score > 1)
No reply to any question shown in that tab has a p …
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Merge tags "tab" and "tabs"
There are three different uses I can think of:
Tab key
Tab character
Tab UI element
While the Tab key usually generates the tab character, they should still be treated separately. If you're asking …
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What is a grace period for a bounty?
The feature was proposed on Meta.SO to allow users to manually award the bounty after the bounty has expired.
I propose a period of 24 hours after the bounty has expired during which the question …
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I can't mark two answers correct, so how should I curate this nugget of knowledge?
Accept the answer you like better. Comment on it with clarification, or suggest an edit that doesn't change the answer too much, but maybe improves the explanation. Upvote all answers you like or that …
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Flagging statistics omissions
Your other flags were simply ignored or acted on in the wrong way.
I had the same issue with some flags, they weren't acted on in a flag-resolving way. Some of them were too old for manual correction …
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Information in Community Promotion Ads statistics
This page contains statistics for the current community promotion ads. Unfortunately, it does not contain enough data for users to judge the numbers that are shown.
Are all ads shown equally often? R …
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Stepping on someone elses work
You significantly improved upon David's answer without even knowing it existed. So there's no reason at all for you to apologize or delete your answer.
Whether you're wary of user regarding the pos …
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Recent diamond activity on MSU
For the past 3 weeks or so, diamond activity on Meta has been on a long time high. Even team members partipate. And it's not just recent topics, but also older ones being replied to and statuses assig …