Questions tagged [post-notices]
For questions (and discussions, etc.) on Meta Stack Exchange about post notices. A post notice is a relatively brief banner message that appears above a post. Post notices typically either explain why the post is locked, or (for questions) what type of answers are needed.
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No space between "bounty" and the username in bounty notices [duplicate]
This might be the smallest bug, however, it is irritating to see the username is connected to "bounty" with a period. There have been times when I think that could be a particular syntax on ...
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'Thanks for submitting an edit' banner is missing a space
After you submit an edit, the following banner is shown:
Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members.
It seems that there is a space ...
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Closed post message "List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" is misleading
It says
List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege
Apparently, that's not the case as mentioned in
How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?...
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"edit your question" link on author-only guidance on duplicate questions has wrong URL on sites other than Meta Stack Exchange
When a question is closed as duplicate, the post owner has their own guidance to edit their question. The guidance also include "edit your question" link.
The link is supposed to redirect ...
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Empty text field next to light bulb on questions closed with multiple community-specific (off-topic) reasons
It seems that recently, a bug was introduced in the post notice on questions that were closed with multiple community-specific (off-topic) close reasons. There's a spot for a text field next to a ...
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Questions self-closed as duplicates by their authors (auto-closed by Community) show an incorrectly worded notice; rephrase it to refer to author
When a question is closed as a duplicate, other users viewing the question will see a notice like below:
Some community members have associated this post with a similar question.
or, if it was ...
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Update the post notice for post content hidden in the edit history (displayed for posts flagged as spam/rude/abusive) to mention plagiarism
Could the wording in the post notice which is displayed when the post content is hidden from non-moderators who can see deleted posts (done when there is a helpful spam or rude/abusive flag) be ...
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Post notices are not instantly displayed
I think within the last day or two a new bug has arisen: when a mod applies a post notice, it is not instantly displayed to them. Instead the mod must refresh the page to see it. This is quite ...
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If a question was closed with multiple revamped community-specific (off-topic) reasons, the close notice may not properly describe the reasons
Here's a close notice from a question that was closed with multiple off-topic (community-specific) close reasons, relating to only one specific network site and no longer reproducible:
(For context, ...
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Inconsistent styling and formatting in the notices for closed questions
While using my Android v.11 Galaxy XCover Pro, with Google Chrome app version 12.41.19.23.arm64 in "full site" view at Law SE (the only site where I have the necessary privileges)...
Both ...
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Add an explanation of how to resolve the "needs citation" post notice
Moderators can add "post notices" as a banner at the top of the post; there are some custom notices for certain sites, three moderator-added notices that exist network-wide, and additional ...
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Post notice should indicate a self-deletion even if the author's account has been deleted
When a user deletes their own post, the banner at the top of the post will clearly tell it was done by the post author:
However, when the account has been deleted, it will revert back to showing the ...
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Community effort questions banner repeated
On this question: What technical details should a programmer of a web application consider before making the site public?
Community effort questions banner is repeated.
Chrome: stable
Android: 5/6/7
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Highly active inactive question?
I've just stumbled upon a highly active question:
Well, 2 years and 3 months ago is almost yesterday?
I suppose it's the lock manually applied to the controversial questions, but aren't they expect ...
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Answers on migration stub questions include a false notice that they were converted to comments
This question was recently migrated from Sustainability.SE to Politics.SE. There was already an answer when it was migrated, and as expected, that answer was included with the migration.
However, back ...
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The mod page for editing close reason notices doesn't show the delete question button
Today, I was in the interesting situation of closing my own meta question as off-topic (don't ask) and discovered that instead of the Edit question button I expected, there was only a Delete question ...
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Double post notices are possible if submitted at nearly the same time
It appears possible that post notices can show up twice if moderators add them to the post at roughly the same time (in this case, it was only about 3 seconds apart from the edit history):
If I ...
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How to access 'Private feedback for you'?
I got this on a question I asked (no big deal - I don't care if somebody closes it). Is this a feature? How would I access "private feedback"?
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Please allow users without the close/reopen votes privilege to see the full details of close reasons
Let me first establish what I'm not asking about:
I know that there are posts that don't show a specific close reason to anyone when three different reasons were chosen.
I know that users who don't ...
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Closed post message, "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege" is misleading
The closed post message, "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege" to see who voted to close a question is misleading, as the list and message are only ...
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"Comments only" lock notice on closed questions mistakenly says that question is still accepting answers
When a question has a "comments-only" lock, the following notice is displayed on top of the question:
Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still ...
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When are multiple closure reasons provided in the post notice?
I noticed in this recently closed question that there are multiple close reasons presented.
Here's a screenshot of the post notice:
From my understanding, only one close reason is selected when ...
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Remove the Delete Question button in the post notice for post authors when their question is closed as a duplicate
As a foreword:
I am not asking for the small "delete" button in the post's menu options to be invisible to the post author during duplicate closure, only the large, red "Delete question&...
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In which order are delete voters shown?
When a post is deleted, a banner is shown indicating which users voted to delete the post:
What determines the order in which these users are shown? Often, it seems to be a chronological order (like ...
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Remove the suggestion to post a new question from the closed questions post notices
Some user posted a question on IPS twice the past 2 days, and then was rude about the closure of both and the request to edit instead of reposting a slightly recomposed version with the same ...
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Character Overflow™ on "Edit question" button in review on mobile devices
When browsing to a review queue item for a question that has been closed on a mobile device, the new "Edit question" button in the notice overflows the word "question" as:
Edit
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Protected question notice is confusing and incorrect, especially to users with the association bonus
The new notice for protected questions looks like this:
Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from spam and non-answer activity.
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Show inline editor when clicking "Edit question" button in close notice if user has permission to use the inline editor
Yesterday, a new "Edit question"/"Improve this question" button was added to post closure notices, to more easily provide access to the question editing form.
However, this new ...
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When is the "Edit question" button shown on close notices?
I noticed now that on closed questions, a new button called "Edit question" shows up:
The button also shows for logged-out users, except it's titled "Improve this question":
No ...
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Historically-locked questions aren't merely "currently" not accepting new answers or interactions
Most manual locks applied to posts, such as content dispute or comment-only locks, are meant to just be temporary, and lifted at an appropriate time. As such, the part of the post notice that says "it ...
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Some banners still have the yellow colour scheme. Can it be changed to blue like the rest of the post notices?
When I suggested an edit to a question here on MSE, I noticed that the banner saying "Thanks for submitting an edit" is yellow in colour, which was the colour scheme before the new post ...
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Close voters can be seen by those without the privilege to do so [duplicate]
This is what I see from my account (which has the close vote privilege):
It says "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege," yet this is not true.
Here is ...
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Post notice for posts migrated to per-site Meta gives wrongly worded reasoning again [duplicate]
On the New Post Notices announcement, this bug has previously been reported as an answer:
feature-request migration per-site-meta status-completed
The wording on the migration banner is kind of ...
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Display year in comment lock post notice tooltip if lock expires in a later calendar year
I recently came across a post that had its comments disabled for a very long period of time. According to the notice, the lock won't expire until 3,623 days from now.
However, when I mouse over the ...
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Target question not shown in duplicate notice on Android Chrome [duplicate]
My recently closed question isn't showing the duplicate target:
Other duplicate questions seem to be fine (both mine and others).
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Post was closed before it even existed
I would like to report a bug. This post was apparently closed 2 years ago, but it has only existed for 1 year and 3 months. See a screenshot of the problem below.
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Please replace "above" with "below" in the Controversial Post Notice
Currently, the text of Controversial Post Notice says,
Controversial Post — You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements. You may use answers ONLY to provide a solution to the specific ...
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Close reason banner not displayed to low-reputation post author [closed]
Over at Physics we have a new user whose first interaction with the site was to post an interesting but off-topic question. They were savvy enough to ask about it on Meta, but not to follow the ...
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How do I stop having the same "community members have suggested a similar question" pop-up? [duplicate]
I have posted a question here: Is it possible to run a script on power button press with systemd? and every time I come back to this page I have a
Some community members have suggested a similar ...
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"(0 answers)" shows up as "( answers)" in new duplicate post notice
This question of mine was voted to be closed as a duplicate, and I received a banner at the top asking
Does this answer your question?
Auto-delete orphaned tag synonyms ( answers)
I presume ...
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Why don't off-topic close notices indicate which specific users voted for specific off-topic canned reasons anymore?
In the old notices, on questions closed as off-topic, the notice would not only indicate all of the close voters who closed the question, but also the specific users who voted for specific canned ...
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Unable to dismiss the suggested duplicate [duplicate]
Today someone suggested that my post was a duplicate of another post. I disagreed and dismissed the message by selecting the [No] button below, and clicking the [Submit] button.
This however doesn't ...
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Text of Bounty Grace Period notice is confusing
This bounty has ended. Answers to this question are eligible for a +50 reputation bounty. You have 19 hours to award this bounty.
The question to which I awarded a bounty has exactly one answer, by ...
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Notification does not appear in the migrated question
In SOja, notification to the questions that have migrated from the main site to the meta is not displayed.
This post is not passed only one day after the migration.
(It does not appear in both "Source"...
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"Submit" is not an answer to the question "Does this answer your question?"
"Submit" is not an answer to the question "Some community members have suggested a similar question that may solve your problem. Does this answer your question?"
Screenshot from Google Chrome on ...
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Can we have a permanent bye to "on-hold"?
Whenever I click on "Close" button to cast a close vote on an already loaded page of a closed question when it wasn't closed, this dialog appears:
But since the redesign of post notices, "on-hold" ...
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What is the dispute surrounding my 2018 chat suspension question?
My old question How could I have handled this better in chat (flag apparently led to suspension)? from September 2018 has, within the last hour, been locked, unlocked, locked, unlocked, and then ...
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Hyperlink without underline in deleted answer's post notice
Recently I deleted one of my post (10k+ users only). After it deleted, there is a inconsistency with the hyperlink in the post notices.
The deleted question link contains a hyperlink, whereas the ...
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Do the new top-level close reasons have the same scope as the old ones?
As part of the rollout of the new post notices, changes were made to three of the top-level close reasons:
Unclear what you're asking has become Needs details or clarity.
Too broad has become Needs ...
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Add tooltip with timestamp to post notice about lock
Most dates/ages/etc. on Stack Exchange have a nice feature; if you hover over them, you see the exact UTC timestamp they represent. Can this feature be added to the lock duration in the post notice?
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