Questions tagged [community-user]
For questions about the user named Community ♦ present on Stack Exchange sites.
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Why does the moderator interface claim this question was closed by Community while it wasn't?
When a post is flagged, ♦ moderators can see which previous actions on the post have been taken by moderators. I was rather surprised that the waffle bar for this question showed that Community (...
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Gem questions pop up
I like the way past questions pop up from time to time on the home page list of questions of the SE sites (modified by Community). But recently I've found myself wishing that supergood questions, or ...
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Why has Community's profile picture changed?
Why has the Community bot's profile pic changed from the beloved MSE logo to this:
A common Identicon? Accident, or conspiracy?
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Disregard automated edits from the Community user when calculating the authors percentage of a Community Wiki post
Community Wiki posts show a "main author" and the percentage of the current post that is "theirs". The algorithm used to determine this percentage is old, (really old in internet ...
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Attribute automatic duplicate comments to the Community user
I just read the update to Workflow changes for review queues. There the following is stated:
Reviewers are encouraged to leave comments for the post-author, but now they can also choose from a few ...
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When does the community user review first posts? [duplicate]
I was going through some posts in Ask Ubuntu and found a post which was reviewed by the community user.
https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/1121292
Does the community user review first posts once ...
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Allow to translate http to https migration revision text
Is it possible to make string like this one in revision list:
replaced http://ru.stackoverflow.com/ with https://ru.stackoverflow.com/
translatable via standard SE translation mechanism?
I suppose ...
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There is any option to unsubcribe/unfollow already subscribed community [closed]
There is any option to unsubscribe/unfollow already subscribed community in stack overflow (Is this logout is an option for unsubscribing/unfollowing)
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Why was “Commonmark migration” notice suppressed here — and not everywhere?
I noticed in an old answer an edit I made over a year ago. When I checked the revision history, I realized Community ◆ should have left its Commonmark migration note in a newer revision. But that did ...
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When does the Community user delete an answer? [duplicate]
This must've been answered before somewhere but I couldn't find a duplicate.
I just noticed that the Community♦ user had deleted and locked this answer (which has since been undeleted and unlocked by ...
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Explanation of [featured] tag auto removing by Community user [duplicate]
Recently I learned that the featured tag can be auto removed by the Community user.
When featured tag is auto removed by Community, there is no edit summary
I would like to know how this feature works....
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How did Community ♦ post a bounty on a question? [duplicate]
I am baffled by the following question bounty banner:
When is a bounty attributed to Community ♦?
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Can the http://meta.stackexchange.com/ in the Community user’s network profile page be changed to https://…?
The network profile of the Community user, mentions http://meta.stackexchange.com/.
Can this be changed to https://meta.stackexchange.com? On copying and browsing it is automatically redirected to ...
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How can the Community user earn the “Warm Welcome” hat?
The Community user downvotes on spam/ evil posts, but to earn the "Warm Welcome" hat, it needs to ... (not revealing the secret, those who earned will know).
The Community User has earned ...
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the evaluation of posts edited by the user Community in SO
From this question: Include posts edited by the Community user in searches with wiki:yes/true/1
What are the purposes of posts edited by the user Community, rules, value of those type of posts etc.?
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Include posts edited by the Community user in searches with wiki:yes/true/1
I found a way to search for all community wiki posts using wiki:1 (pic one) but this search does not include posts edited by the Community user (pic two).
Pic One
Pic Two
This could also be an ...
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Why does the Community user have 0 profile views?
I was exploring the SE English Language and Usage site, and clicked on what I thought was just a profile of a moderator, although it was oddly named 'Community♦' So I clicked on it and found something ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times “community” can bump a question?
How many bumps is too many?
Is there a limit to the number of times "Community user" can bump a question? There are questions with one or more unvoted answers that do not attract views, that ...
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Community bot's question labeled with incorrect user - or vice versa [duplicate]
As per this screenshot, from the Home page:
It says that the Community bot asked that question. But why does it say, when you visit the question, from this screenshot:
That it was asked by ...
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Why is the Community User the sole approver of this tag wiki suggested edit?
My suggested edit for the tag wiki of the [login] tag on Literature Meta seems to have been approved solely by the Community User:
What gives?
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, so I've tagged it ...
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Which sites impose limits on Community bumps, and what are those limits?
Most sites don't have limits on how many questions can be bumped by the Community user, based on past bumps: regardless of how many questions were bumped in the past and are currently on the home page,...
asked Jul 17 '20 at 11:02
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Automated CommonMark migration ruins long list items
I just noticed that the Community user edited some of my Meta Stack Overflow posts to CommonMark.
It would appear (I'm pretty sure, but there's no way to know now because the renderer has changed) ...
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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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Allow sites to disable or otherwise tweak Community auto-bumping
So the Community user bumps posts occasionally:
Posts eligible for bumping are those scoring >= 0 that have gone at least 30 days with no activity, have at least one non-deleted answer scoring 0 ...
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Why do some questions closed as duplicates lack a duplicate target? [duplicate]
The question https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345815/336163 (asked less than ten minutes ago) was closed as a duplicate less than five minutes ago, but it lacks any semblance of a duplicate target.
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Closed as a duplicate, but the duplicate list is empty?
Obligatory: This is not a duplicate of this question, which is concerning the much older duplicate closure process.
Have a gander at this closed question. Notice anything weird?
The Community♦ user ...
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Edit marked as rejected by Community, but actually rolled into someone else's [duplicate]
I suggested this edit, which was rejected by the Community user due to an edit conflict. However, when I looked at the post, I saw my edit there anyway. Looking at the revision history, it appears ...
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Why is this question NOT automatically deleted by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script?
This question on Music Fans SE seems to qualify for auto-deletion by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script since it seems to satisfy all the mentioned criteria for deletion. However, I have been tracking ...
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Why do I not receive reputation for answering question? [closed]
I check Stack Overflow every day and one thing that surprised me is that the users do not upvote my answers or select my answer as The Answer when my answer is the solution.
Am I missing something ...
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Localize the username of the Community user on rus.SE and ja.SO
https://rus.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community
This was already asked for in Rename the Community user on localized sites and marked completed, but it wasn't implemented on these sites for some ...
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Why do I own this tag, and not Community ♦?
A follow-up from: Do tag descriptions/wikis edit suggestions no longer require two reviews?
From the dupe and comments, the tag creator should be Community ♦, why isn't it the case here? Why do I own ...
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Split the community and Community User statistics in “Year in Moderation” posts
In the annual statistics posted on Meta Stack Exchange (e.g. here) as well as each per-site Meta, moderation actions are aggregated into "Moderators" and "Community" columns, with the second caveated ...
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What does it mean if Community “asks” a question? [duplicate]
Just scrolling through Stack Overflow, and saw this:
I looked in and the author who asked it wasn’t Community. What does this mean? The real asker’s profile picture was gray.
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What is the rationale behind RemoveAbandonedQuestions?
There are a number of reasons why the system will delete posts. One of these reasons is called RemoveAbandonedQuestions:
The system will automatically delete unlocked, unanswered questions
older ...
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Where's the bump notice?
Does anyone remember this?
Bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 2 hours ago
This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.
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Can we get Community a hat too?
Last year, Community ♦ had a wonderful Santa Claus's hat on.
However, this year I can't see Community wearing a hat. Could we please bring that back? Although it is not so important, it greatly ...
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Specify again which Community bot process deleted a question [duplicate]
In the days of yore (i.e. before last Monday or so), on questions deleted automatically deleted by Community, one could see which process caused it to be deleted, e.g. RemoveDeadAbandonedQuestions. ...
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Did the Community user stop automatically demoting [featured] posts after 30 days?
I recall that once upon a time the Community user removes the featured tag from posts 30 days after it's added (example, see revision 4). However, this question has been featured for more than 40 days ...
asked Dec 5 '19 at 9:46
iBug says Reinstate Monica
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What causes Community to destroy non RA or spam-flagged questions?
On Politics, a troll used to like to spam some weird question about urbanization and homicide in South America or some similar incoherent nonsense. Looking through some deleted questions in moderation ...
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Can we bring ancient duplicates up to date?
In the past, before we had the current closure notes the community user edited in the possible duplicates inside the text of the question, once the question got closed. See for example here.
Today ...
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Excavator badge awarded for editing question after Community♦ had bumped it to the home page
I just received an Excavator badge for Why can't I access my FTP server with Windows Explorer?.
However, I was just browsing the home page, not merely looking for old posts; this question appeared ...
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HTTP -> HTTPS script didn't change everything [duplicate]
In 2017 the network decided to implement the HTTPS protocol, as was announced in Network-wide HTTPS: It's time. Although that post isn't completely marked as status-completed I think most, if not ...
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What does it mean when an answer is submitted by Community?
What does it mean when an answer is submitted by Community? (The example I came across - the screenshot is from the Aviation home page.)
Surely a user didn't answer and delete the unregistered ...
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What are the evil posts that the community bot downvotes? [duplicate]
The description of the Community user mentions:
Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted
Should the correct wording be "inappropriate" instead of evil? What does an evil post ...
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What does the “help post localization backfill” automatic deletion reason mean?
I noticed this question (10k-only) that was apparently deleted by Community more than five years after it was originally deleted, but no events (neither undeletion nor anything else) have occurred ...
asked Jun 20 '19 at 15:08
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Community♦ raised flag for 20+ comments even though most of them are deleted
2 comments left.
But Community♦ raised flag to move comments ('cause there are 20+) to chat.
I guess, only not deleted comments should be counted.
asked Jun 19 '19 at 18:35
Suvitruf - Andrei Apanasik
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Why wasn't this question automatically protected after receiving a combination of spam answers and non-answers?
As per the FAQ on protection, questions are automatically protected as a result of deleted answers if the number of deleted answers from new users, plus the number of deleted answers with helpful spam ...
asked Apr 29 '19 at 9:43
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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Community should add HTTPS to Chat links
Community changed all links to stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com to HTTPS a while ago. However, it seems to have not done this to links to chat.stackexchange.com, as seen in this search, this ...
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Community user profile has a non-HTTPS link
I was recently reading about Community, when I noticed this ironic, very minor, problem in its profile: the link to an answer in its profile is not HTTPS. However, Stack Exchange moved to HTTPS almost ...
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Is the community bot ruining the community by bumping old posts?
I have been an active member of UX Stack Exchange for a little over 2 years and in that time, I have noticed the Community bot push years old posts to the top of the questions homepage.
Now, I ...
