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Formatting Sandbox
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Answers will occasionally be moved to the Sandbox archive when there are too many of them. When using them to report bugs, keep an eye on the post.
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How do I write a good title?
A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves. What goes into a good title?
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Possible incentive problem since edits bump questions
I posted Is armageddon more fair in a Vickrey auction? in Chess Stack Exchange on February 9th 2023. It was bumped a year later when someone edited my post on 18th March 2024.
Why doesn't this create ...
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Moderator Flag Dashboard soft launch [duplicate]
Previous post
Moderator flag dashboard design refresh (alpha)
As hopefully most moderators are aware, we've been working over the last few months to revamp the moderator flag dashboard. After ...
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Enable blackboard bold TeX macros \N, \Z, \Q, \R, \C for ℕ, ℤ, ℚ, ℝ, ℂ () in MathJax configuration
In math, i.e. at math.stackexchange and mathoverflow, the blackboard bold symbols for:
ℕ — Natural Numbers
ℤ — Integers
ℚ — Rational Numbers
ℝ — Real Numbers
ℂ — Complex Numbers
are used very ...
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Is using 'heading' Markdown okay in answers?
Edit: I have changed the answer in question to use ### instead of ## now.
See this answer of mine: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20820086/538216
The asker of the question keeps editing my post to ...
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Which Markdown formatting should be used for a filename of code?
I often want to write filenames for code.
Normally I write like this:
Filename
string = "This is example code"
Is this okay? Is there a standard Stack Overflow way of Markdown formatting ...
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We're switching to CommonMark
I’m Ham and I’m a developer on the Teams team here at Stack Overflow. Over the past few months, I’ve been heads down working on the way we turn Markdown into HTML when writing and editing posts across ...
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Congratulations to our 29 oldest beta sites - They're now no longer beta!
If you're a user on a long-toiling beta site that's been waiting 7-8 years to get out of beta, this may be the post you've been waiting for.
The 29 Beta sites that are 7+ years old no longer have the ...
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What criteria are used to select the links that appear in the community bulletin sidebar block?
On Drupal Answers, there are two posts from the meta site shown on the Community Bulletin is, at moment I am writing this question.
Previously, there was just a single meta post linked from that block,...
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Please allow low-occurrence tags to be declared persistent
Single-use tags are pruned after six months. Sometimes, this removes spurious tags. Sometimes, this removes legitimate tags.
After a quick look on Unix SE, I see plenty of legitimate tags that are at ...
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How do comment @replies work?
How do the comment replies (aka "pinging users") work?
Who can I send an @reply to?
How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment?
Will they be notified?
What do people mean ...
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Do closed migrated questions always redirect now?
I've noticed today that migrated questions now redirect immediately to the target site. Previously, I had enough rep that the original question was still visible on the original site without an ...
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Review queue workflows - Final release
All good things must come to an end and so must the review queues project. This project would not have been successful without the community. Thank you all for the hours of reviewing, testing, and ...
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