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Is it acceptable to write in memoriam posts on per-site metas for people with strong ties to the site's subject matter?
I was browsing the Science Fiction & Fantasy Meta site, when I saw this 'question.' It is a short in memoriam for the creator of an incredibly popular anime (Dragon Ball Z).
Should such types of ...
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GDPR deletion form is ... unintuitive
One would assume that a user who's going to be deleting their account completely and irrevocably network-wide would be unimpressed with dark patterns.
I was looking up the GDPR deletion page to point ...
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What is the sorting order of the names of custom filters?
I can see that alpha characters are sorted case-insensitively in ascending alphabetical order. What about other characters - how would they be sorted compared to alpha characters?
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Why are comments silently deleted? [duplicate]
I posted what I think was a very legit question on Stack Overflow. Within 5 minutes it had 2 down votes. So I posted a comment asking why the down votes? I never got a reply (and one of the down votes ...
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Enhancement Request: Indicate on the Tag listings when a tag is a synonym of another
I wanted to define some tags today (so many are left undefined when created) and chose to set the filter to "popular" and jump the the last page.
As it turns out, every single tag on the ...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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What should we do for the tag [meta-reputation]?
Today, I found a tag called meta-reputation. This tag doesn’t contain tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt and is only used by 2 questions only.
These 2 questions are all about the reputation for meta stack ...
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Bold text conversion doesn't work across paragraph break
When there is a paragraph break between two bold codes (double asterisk), the asterisks are displayed and nothing is bolded. Is it a bug, or intentional?
Possibly related; not duplicate: Markdown ...
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How can I write and run a SEDE query without the query itself being visible to other regular SEDE users?
How can I write and run a query in SEDE without the query itself being visible to other regular SEDE users, such as in the "everything" tab of the "queries" page?
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What exactly is the "sql" parameter in SEDE and what purpose does it serve?
SEDE supports query parameters. I found that if I try to define a query parameter of string type named "sql", whatever I pass as the argument for that parameter will be prepended by a string ...
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Add a way to link to the /tags page with a tag search prefilled
I'd like to link to https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags with tag search = "gpt" prefilled:
Can that be realized?
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Is it discouraged to use headings in questions?
I am referring to this edit of a question of mine. Basically, all heading markup was removed and some were replaced by boldening them (**).
Despite being just a cosmetic change, I was wondering what ...
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The vote button disappeared if I voted a question/answers without signing up [duplicate]
Today, I see this question on the TeX - LaTeX site. Command for Multiplying Integers
I want to upvote the answers.
I click the upvote.
Oops, I forgot I didn’t even sign up an account for that site.
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Site load delay
Today at 19.50 GMT:
Some sites are taking more than two minutes to load content, including the questions page and individual questions, including:
science fiction and fantasy,
medical sciences.
and ...
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Clicking the edit button on my Area 51 profile gives a server error page
I click the edit button, and a request is made for https://area51.stackexchange.com/users/edit/<my-user-id>, and the server returns with an HTTP 302 redirect to https://area51.stackexchange.com/...
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What should we write for the tag wiki excerpt for the tag [convert-to-answer]?
Yesterday, I suggested edits for both the tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt for the tag convert-to-answer, and my tag wiki edit was approved, but my tag wiki excerpt was rejected.
You can see here: https:/...
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The Help Center page titled "Our model" doesn't describe … our model
The Help page whose title is "Our Model" (but whose URL slug is /help/stackexchange) is currently a random grab bag of policies, formatting help, and random questions.
I was hoping that a ...
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How do I update my global username to match my community username?
I’ve looked through the answers to this question dating from 2009-2018 and don’t find any relevant answers as I already know how to change my username on a specific community.
I am at my global ...
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Warn after the first tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags
Warn after entering the first new tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags. Don't wait until the user is through filling in the tags and presses Post, before informing him or her that all ...
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Is there a way to import a Stack Exchange post into Goodnotes or notability on iOS without the cookies notice blocking out the post?
I’d like to import a Stack Exchange post into Goodnotes or notability on my iPad via Safari.
However, when I try to do this, the imported note includes a cookies notice which blocks out a large ...
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What’s the difference between the tags [convert-to-comment] and [answers-as-comments]? [duplicate]
I found it weird, there are two tags convert-to-comment and answers-as-comments.
I have looked the tag wiki given, I found that these two tags mean the same things, that is “For questions related to ...
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Chat flag counter on "Main" Chat.SE appears to be stuck
There appears to be a stuck chat flag counter
To replicate: As a moderator go to chat.se, and you see a chat flag counter. Click on it and there aren't any flags, and it vanishes. Refresh or go to ...
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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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Add "Copy as suggestion" button to proposed suggestions in Traducir.win
Translation helper-proxy Traducir for Stack Exchange family sites has an ability to copy original (English) sentence as suggestion to edit area before reviewers can approve it. Can we add similar ...
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Really old question draft appears in Safari after machine restart
After doing a lot of editing yesterday and today in the Math SE Ask a Question box on Safari, when I absentmindedly restarted my laptop (MacBook Pro) without thinking about the possible consequences, ...
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Stack Exchange IP Block Exemption Policy (Tor)
Does Stack Exchange have an IP Block Exemption Policy?
There are countless at-risk users around the world who must use Tor for all Internet activity to protect themselves and/or their families. ...
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Can't chat in MSE chat [duplicate]
I can't chat on chat.meta.stackexchange.com. Sometimes it shows this page:
When looking into console, it shows 500 status code error:
And sometimes I am simply not logged in chat (however on MSE I ...
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Add a scroll bar for the preview [duplicate]
While typing a post (Q/A) in the editor, below the editing area there is a continuous live update of how the text will look like after publication.
But the problem is, while I am editing some code in ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Vote Button :active state not reset after mouseDrag
The Vote button got some styling changes [1], which introduced a state where the ::active color does not reset, whereas the arrow stays white, becoming invisible on the white background.
Press (and ...
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Should I edit my (long existing, highly upvoted) closed question [migrated]
I asked a question 8 years ago, and over 6 years it received 91 upvotes. Then two years ago the question was closed for being opinion-based. I don't agree that it is, but that's not my issue. I do ...
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
Compare the way this list looks in the post versus the screenshot of the preview:
text:
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}`, kind: "B", } satisfies B,
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}` ...
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AI suggestions for question editing give 404 [migrated]
I have just finished writing a question, and I noticed at the bottom of the screen a new "AI suggested edits for your question" section, with a "Get suggestions" button. When I ...
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dark-mode Code of Conduct page footer is light on sites with dark-mode support
Sites with dark mode usually have a black footer with light text, but in the Code of Conduct pages, the footer is light background color with light text.
Sample screenshot from Stack Overflow Code of ...
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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Shifting the data dump schedule: A proposal
My colleague Rosie recently announced that, because of our difficulties predictably getting data dump files to the Internet Archive[1],[2], we are setting more realistic expectations for completing ...
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I can't manage to delete filters in the stackexchange.com/filters section [duplicate]
When I go into https://stackexchange.com/filters
and then click on one of them, for example, https://stackexchange.com/filters/453904/my-filter, I am shown:
The left-side allows me to edit the filter'...
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"How to ... ?" questions might be wrong grammar. Will it help dropping the question mark for all questions or warning the user or something the like?
I would like to find out by discussion whether and how this can become a good feature request.
"How to ... ?" questions might be wrong
I see "How to ... ?" questions every day. ...
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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No April Fools 2024 prank: rationale and next steps
Many long-time community members are familiar with the annual April Fools joke that Stack Overflow has done most years, last year being an exception. We are proactively letting you know that we will ...
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Could there be a self-edit threshold that precludes a question from getting on the HNQ list?
I had to check out this question this morning in my moderatorial duties, and I was a little grieved to see it hit the HNQ at some point after it was asked, but certainly after the OP had edited it ...
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Can not post question from iPad [duplicate]
I can’t post a question on SE from my iPad. When I press “Answer your own question” or “Review your question” nothing happens. Is this a bug or is something wrong with my device? It is not the first ...
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Formatting tips below the body textbox of a post are wrong
When posting a question or answer, there is a formatting help below the body textbox, which includes tips for how to format code, make text bold or italic, and quote text:
However, the tips for ...
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Inline code in blog contains raw markdown (backticks) instead of proper inline code
In the recent blog post on Rust & the White House, there's some unescaped Markdown:
(and Rust will let you explicitly mark code `unsafe`)
But suppose you can’t rewrite your entire C or C++ ...
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Display author name while editing a question or answer
I was editing an answer and wanted to say "we can also write this if [author name] agrees" but noticed that the author name was written nowhere on the post edit page interface. I had to open ...
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Add a Thank You section [duplicate]
I've been working for months on an app and it's now in beta testing. There are 5 or so people on this site that have been a gigantic help.
It would be nice if we could post a thank you in some section ...
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Cannot register to music.stackexchange.com
I couldn't register to music.stackexchange.com—I kept getting this:
From the upper-right corner, we can see that I’ve already logged in, and when clicking on "Join this community" button, ...
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Please let me edit the titles of chat bookmarks
In chat, you can bookmark a series of messages, going from your start message to your end message. Afterwards, it'll show up at /rooms/<roomID>/conversation/<title>. This is useful for ...
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Changing the sort order in the “Saves” tab does not update the view
Changing the sort order in the “Saves” tab in the user profile does not update the view anymore. Only after a browser refresh are the saves displayed according to the newly selected order.
This ...
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The behavior of popup vote totals losing their +/- sign if the absolute value requires 3 or more digits triggers awkward, sudden paragraph reflows
On the vote-total popup, the leading + or - is suppressed once the total hits three digits:
Demo:
Demo:
Demo:
Demo:
This happens in both the 🟢 upvotes on the top and on the 🔴 downvotes on ...