Linked Questions
26 questions linked to/from A Yaakov Ellis-inspired Meta.SE poetry contest: Write poems, win rep!
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Formatting Sandbox
Notes:
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.
You may also want to take a look at the ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
This year, we made the difficult decision to sunset Winter/Summer Bash. Winter Bash has been an annual event on Stack Exchange each December for the past decade.
What are the origin and goals of ...
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Farewell Yaakov and thanks for the haiku!
You may soon notice one fewer diamond around the site. The amazing developer, tech lead, and community advocate Yaakov Ellis - user 51(!) - has taken an opportunity elsewhere and today, December 7th, ...
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What's the reasoning behind the vote button tooltips having changed?
I recently noticed that the vote button tooltips have changed. They now say:
Downvote this <post-type> if you find it unclear or not useful
Upvote this <post-type> if you find it clear ...
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2020 Community-a-thon: Increasing SE staff engagement with our sites and communities
This event has ended, for more info, please see our recap in The Loop, August: Community-a-thon and in our MSE feedback post.
As was announced in the Q2 roadmap and subsequently discussed on MSE, we ...
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Inappropriate ad: online gambling on Music SE
I have repeatedly been shown this ad for an online gambling site on Music SE:
While (heavily regulated) gambling is legal in my jurisdiction, I consider advertisements for online gambling to be ...
user621031
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The quest for the winter unicorn of the bash [closed]
There are many rumors running about the winter bash site. Many voices of an easter egg hidden somewhere. Beards growing overnight.
Yet, one of the legend lies unspoken. The legend of an unicorn. A ...
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Can you help a poor unicorn to find its way back home?
Our poor /unicorn Sparkles got lost, and is stuck in a never ending loop of dashing and jumping.
While it may be fun to watch him run and to make him jump, he does need some help to find his way back ...
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What did Yaakov do to this post?
Looking at the frontpage I saw this: (direct link to question)
I remembered seeing this as a really old question, so I decided to look what was changed in this question. First of all I though perhaps ...
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CommonMark migration is causing license changes when it should not
CommonMark migration has begun!
Sites across the network have been scheduled for formatting migration, and some of them (Meta Stack Exchange included) have already finished their migration.
It was ...
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Adding a bounty should not change the license of a post
I found a minor bug, and after a search here on Meta.SE, I discovered that it had been reported all the way back in 2013. To draw a bit of attention to it, I then added a bounty to the post.
The past ...
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Are diamond moderators exempted from the minimum duration of bounties (1 day)?
During the recent Winter Bash, Yaakov "solicited help on finding ways to prevent (or at least make it harder) for folks to cheat at Hat Dash" and awarded successful users with a bounty.
The ...
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Unicoin Powerups - Guaranteed Answer? [closed]
All the other power-ups seem to be genuine so far for me, but there is one in particular that is bugging me. There is a power-up that will guarantee an answer to any of your unanswered questions.
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user257126
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Should comments like "I love this post" be flagged?
Recently, I had flagged a comment which said:
This one is my favorite.
I had flagged it as "No longer needed" because I thought that it was a type of "compliment" (not that I am ...
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Too much space between links in post menu
In the 'menu' under the post, some extra space has been added (I presume accidentally) between the 'flag' link and the other options:
It looks like the separators are always shown, even though their ...
GlorfindelMod
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Has the Cthulhu chat egg (and the other ones) been removed?
As some of you may know, there was an Easter egg available in the chat called "the Cthulhu Egg".
In an homage to the old "How to parse Html with RegEx" answer, sending a chat message with a fitting ...
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Has activity on the site slowed down since COVID-19?
I’m curious insofar as Stack Overflow being a very rough proxy for how much people are working.
Has site activity gone down since COVID-19?
Are there any interesting patterns in the data (e.g. certain ...
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If I set a bounty, will my reputation be deducted from that Stack Exchange site only?
I had got 100 reputation bonus on all Stack Exchange sites as association bonus. I need to set a 50 bounty on a question on the Biology Stack Exchange site. I understand my reputation will be deducted ...
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SNS Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Is there a Stack Exchange site that deals with specific questions about SNSs e.g. Facebook or Instagram?
Questions like
How can I batch unfollow multiple people?
If I unfollow him/her, does he/she ...
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The [time] has come to get rid of this tag
I think it is high time we get rid of the time tag altogether.
It currently has 72 questions which cover a wide variety of topics, including:
The time it takes for something to end up in a queue
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Don't tell users to vote for their own post
Yesterday, there were new voting tool-tips added:
What's the reasoning behind the vote button tooltips having changed?
I came across this today:
I can't upvote my own answer, so can the tooltip ...
user707129
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The new contributor tooltip makes it too hard to add comments
A haiku
Tooltip is zealous
in promoting temperance.
It is frustrating.
The new contributor tooltip advises us to take care when commenting but in some cases it's too proactive in preventing comments....
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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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Long usernames skew "Others with this badge" list item alignment [duplicate]
On the "Others with this badge" page (this one is a good example), if one of the users who gained the related badge has a rather long username, their profile's alignment will be pushed over ...
SpevacusMod
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Could the < 15 rep voting information text be made clearer [duplicate]
On the post "Feature Test: Thank you reaction" an edit was made to include the text
"..." (unlike voting, which is only available for users with 15 reputation or more).
Which ...
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