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status-bydesign Tag [duplicate]
What exactly does the moderator-assigned "status-bydesign" tag mean? What other moderator only tags are there, and what are their meanings?
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Delete migrated questions
The migrated questions are shown as locked by Community and it is closed. Why these questions not deleted?
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Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?
When a question is migrated, is the reputation earned by its author on the original site subtracted from the author's total? What about votes? Badges? Do the same rules apply to the question's answers?...
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Is there a way to know the number of upvotes I got on a specific tag?
Is there a way to know the number of upvotes I got on a specific tag?
I'm asking this because I'd like to know how far I'm from a tag badge :)
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Reopen Question incorrectly closed as Duplicate? [duplicate]
So I asked a question here about finding out the reputation that has been granted based upon the tags of questions one has asked or answered. The question was closed as an Exact Duplicate of this ...
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Don't understand the criterion for the Enlightened badge
As you can see in my SO user page I have two Enlightened badges. But I have three answers accepted with at least 10 up votes.
Why is that? Is Enlightened meant as "with more than 10" instead of at ...
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What's up with the tags that look different?
They look indented or something like that. Are those the "moderator only" tags?
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Numbers in the reputation tab
In the reputation tab of your profile, you'll see a green number and a red number for each question you've asked and answered. On one particular question, I have two upvotes, but the numbers in ...
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Is there a way to block "windows" tags?
Right now on serverfault I'm ignoring windows stuff, because I'm not a windows guy. The problem is that "all" windows tags have duplicates.
Examples:
windowsserver2003, windows-server-2003, ...
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How can I delete my account?
How can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s)? Also,
What happens to my content? Can I request it be deleted as well?
What if I'm suspended, rate-limited, or banned from posting questions or answers?
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On a new SE site, how do the first users get reputation?
How do the first users of new Stack Exchange sites get reputation? You need 15 rep before you can upvote, but if nobody has rep, nobody can upvote. And if nobody can upvote, nobody can gain rep.
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Comments with the @ (at) symbol before the user name triggers something? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comment replies work?
In Twitter the at (@) symbol makes the tweet appear in the user page.
Does it do anything on Stack Overflow?
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How do I Google the whole trilogy of StackOverflow sites?
Is it possible to Google the whole trilogy of StackOverflow sites at once?
Google only gives me two hits from a domain before asking me to search in that domain only. So if I want to search both ...
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Allow marking text as fixed width font
There are times when using a fixed-width font adds significantly to the readability of the text. It would be nice if we could mark a block of text as using a fixed-width font. I know this can be ...
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How do reputation bonuses for associations between accounts work? [duplicate]
I've just joined super user, and I've associated my super user account with other accounts (at least one of which has >200 reputation), but my SU account still has a reputation of 1. Is it working ...
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How do you indent code in the post editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I format my code blocks?
When writing code in SO, I always press Tab to indent my code. It doesn't work. Instead, I lose focus on the question text area.
To actually ...
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Anyone else having trouble logging in with yahoo openid?
This doesn't appear to be a duplicate of any of the other openid questions here. When I try to log in using my yahoo openid on any of the new sites (which worked before on stackoverflow), it seems to ...
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Keyboard Glyphs
How are people showing keyboard "glyphs" on Super User? I looked at the Markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this.
Here is an example. (question has been deleted since ...
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Tags where all questions have been deleted still appear in tags listing
On superuser.com, I saw a link to the tag cybersex in the tags listing page (leading to the page title "Hottest 'cybersex' Questions). No questions are associated - presumably because it had been ...
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Is it possible to be granted "edit other people's posts" permissions for just a specific tag?
I'm nearing the 2,000 mark in reputation on Stack Overflow, which I believe will earn me the privilege to edit other people's posts. Is the "edit other people's posts" role applied at a site-wide ...
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Embrace the non-Googlers
There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to "easy" questions that involve quickly answering by copy/pasting embarrassing links to lmgtfy.com (or similar responses in comments, which aren't downvotable) ...
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Why am I no longer allowed to delete comments on stackoverflow.com? [closed]
I added a comment to a post, but now the post was updated and my comment no longer applies, so I would like to delete it. I was able to delete comments some days ago, today I noticed this is no longer ...
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Is it possible to flag an edit for abuse?
There's an overly enthusiastic editor going crazy and editing lots of titles, sometimes changing the meaning of posts. What's the best way to flag an edit?
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Apparent bug in SO's javascript for the question box
I need to wait a lot in writing messages to SO because my keyboard's Key Repeat Rate gets very slow in Firefox.
I have the following settings in OS X
I have noticed that some process is continuously ...
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What questions should be closed with reason "too localized"? [duplicate]
What is the definition of "too localized" for closing a question? I see several suggestions, but nothing definitive or specific.
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How are questions in the 'hot' tab on a site selected?
I know questions on the "hot" tab of a site homepage are based on some sort of views/velocity criteria, but does anyone know the actual algorithm used?
Background: I was considering a feature-request ...
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edit my interesting tags
I am not as interested as I once was in some topics. How can I remove them from my interesting tag list? Adding them to ignored tags may work, but I want less clutter, don't want my tag lists to grow ...
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Why are questions with my ignored tags not hidden?
Questions that are tagged with one of my "ignored" tags on Stack Overflow are hidden completely. On Server Fault, however, those questions are "lightened" to lower their contrast. Why is that?
Is it ...
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Notify of any new answers daily by e-mail
At the bottom of my question is a text field for being notified "daily of any new answers." I assume this is an e-mail address field, but there is no hint in the UI to indicate this.
I have not ...
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What are the moderation tools available to 10,000+ reputation users?
The site FAQ refers to moderation tools, available to users who've earned more than 10,000 reputation:
10,000 Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools
What are these tools ...
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What are the limits and restrictions for new users?
In the FAQ, it is not clear that there is a rep limit before a new user can post URLs. This may lead some people to believe that a newcomer without rep is forgetting linking URLs, may result in ...
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Cross-site account association is all befuddled. How do I fix it? [closed]
Ok, so I looked at my SO.com accounts tab and it said I could associate my account with my meta account. Strangely, it said there was no serverfault account to associate with, even though I have one ...
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Stack Overflow browser toolbar
Is there a toolbar for Stack Overflow that can be added to a browser window?
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How is a moderator chosen in Stack Overflow
What is the criteria for selecting a moderator in Stack Overflow?
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Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask? [duplicate]
Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask per day? Per hour? Per other time unit?
Related Questions:
Limitation on submitting a question, is it an explicit request to create a new account?
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What happens when you hit 200 reputation from upvotes in one day?
I know there is a 200-reputation cap for upvotes in a single day. However, what happens when you get upvoted more on that day? Are the points simply lost? Or are they queued onto the next day? I'm ...
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Should deployment questions be asked on Stack Overflow or Server Fault? [duplicate]
I'm not sure where to ask a deployment question, Stack Overflow or Server Fault. It's kind of a crossover question.
I need to be able to sort out the server requirements for deploying a click once ...
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Why would a closed question be hot?
Just went to the hot tab on stackoverflow.com and saw a question that was closed there. Why? I would figure that something that's closed really isn't all that hot and should be ignored.
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Why are there more users in the data dump than on SO's users page?
According to Greg, there are 93,861 registered users in the data dump. However, on the SO users page, there are only 74,620 people (2132 pages * 35 users per page). How is this possible? Does the data ...
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Is there any way to mark a user as "favorite"?
I mean, a way to "follow" a especific user (an analogy could be mark a tag as "interesting"/"ignored").
Is this possible?
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How can I view recent answers and comments about my questions / answers?
On Stack Overflow, there are currently many ways I can view what I have done — my questions, my votes, my favourites etc. But where is the view that shows me new answers to my questions and ...
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How do I consolidate my stackoverflow accounts? [duplicate]
I actually like the OpenID (since SO is one of the first sites I use that has it consistently implemented), but now I have about 5 accounts in varying degrees of answered questions. Is it possible to ...
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Greater than and less than not supported in location field of profile
Back in the day, I was able to use the greater than and less than symbols in my "Location" profile field. It looks like they're being scrubbed now, but > and < don't yield the symbols ...
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Can I join Stack Overflow's testing team?
How can I participate in the Stack Overflow testing team?
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Greedy hyperlink texts
Consider the following answer of mine: Symbian Series 40/60
[Nokia Series 40](http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technology_Topics/Device_Platforms/Series_40/)
is based on Nokia's proprietary operating ...
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How to nest code within a list using Markdown [duplicate]
Oftentimes, I want to include code samples in a list, for example:
Item One
Item Two, for example:
private bool ItemTwo()
{
return this.IFeelLucky;
}
Item Three
The problem is that there isn't a ...
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What is the URL for the Stack Overflow error page?
Where can I find the URL to the error page with the kitten picture? I was trying to find it for a demonstration, and for the life of me, I can't seem to.
I guess that is a compliment, too?
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Can an unescaped underscore (_) be included in a link?
I was trying to follow the link to GitHub in this question:
What are some interesting features of the EveryBlock.com source code?
but it contained a percent-escaped underscore, though the source ...
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What actually happens when you click the "spam" link for a question or answer?
I have not yet had a need to click the "flag" link, and was wondering that does (I don't want to experiment with some poor, innocent post). Is it immediately flagged? Are you able to retract flags? Do ...
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