Questions tagged [support]
Use this tag for requests for assistance with tools and other features on the Stack Exchange Network. This includes understanding how features work and why they work that way, or how to better use them.
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How can I get a list of all of my profiles?
Changing my profile's location and clicking "Save and copy changes to all public communities" does not copy my location to all public communities. It only updates the current community. ...
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What's the longest temporary suspension possible? [duplicate]
https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/ states:
Your account will be placed in timed suspension for anywhere from 1 to 365 days
Yet, I see that https://linguistics....
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I seem to be in the cloudflare penalty box, is there anything I can do to get out?
For about the last week or so, when I visit a page on SO, and have not visited a page in the last minute or so, I get a note that cloudflare is verifying that I am a human. Sometimes there is a ...
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Should the “Get more details” links for the “I lost my password” option on the contact form link to help center rather than password recovery page?
In the contact form, we have an ‘I lost my password’ option in the “Account Issue” option.
If we click the lost password option, a pop-up will be shown:
If we click the “Get more details” option, it ...
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Why are we allowed to create a custom filter including a non-existent tag?
After reading this question, I noticed that it is not possible to create a tag while editing the Watched Tags box or the Ignored Tags box, for example:
which clearly shows that the not-a-tag tag does ...
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Site maintenance - Mon, Sept 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tue, Sept 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (Mon, Sept 16 2024, 5pm-10pm ET)
We have planned network maintenance that will impact Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange users. The window is scheduled for Monday, September 16 2024, 21:00 UTC to Tuesday, September 17 2024, 2:00 UTC (...
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Bug with Clicking: Typing, Clicking, and Selecting Glitching and Jumping
Is anyone else having a difficult time clicking on buttons (for example, to view questions that I posted, my profile, other people's questions) and typing? I've restarted everything and it seems like ...
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What site to ask about the world's mountains?
Is there a site to ask about mountains? More specifically about mountains of certain world locations
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Why are the top bar widgets links?
I noticed that the top bar widgets next to your profile, including your inbox, achievements, review, help, and communities, are actually links to the respective pages I have linked, in addition to ...
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Why is there an "Access level changed: Access now read-write" in my chat reply log?
I see on https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/44764/franck-dernoncourt?userId=44764&tab=replies&StartDate=2024-08-01&EndDate=2024-09-01:
Access level changed: Access now read-write
Why ...
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Where to find space to share ideas and get feeddback [duplicate]
I study mathematics as an enthusiast, mainly of discrete math and computational geometry.
First of all I would like to thank SE, especially Mathematica and Mathematics sites
for helping me with ...
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What will happen if a user who initially have the bounty privilege but lost it during the duration of the bounty? [duplicate]
There's nothing in particular about this, just that I'm curious. Let's suppose a scenario: A user gains reputation, and got the "offer a bounty" privilege (awarded upon reaching 75 rep ...
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Does SO use pstmrk.it & rallyuxr.com for study related emails?
I got an email inviting me to a study as it appears I set the settings for it. However I am skeptical to its realness as:
All links do not point to a SO/SE site, but instead to a cryptic link for a ...
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How to link my stackexchange account to askubuntu? [closed]
My general stack exchange account is directly linked to SE, I'm not logging in via google or facebook or any of those. The associated email account is hosted on my personal domain.
I wanted to ask a ...
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What is the proper Q&A community for this particular topic: allergies and robot vacuum cleaners
I want to find the proper community to ask about a technical specification detail regarding robot vacuum cleaners, important for allergic people: are their filters as good as the HEPA filters of ...
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I can't seem to log onto other sites without signing-in [duplicate]
A while back, I went from Game Development to Arqade, and I didn't need to sign-in to log into Arqade, but now that I'm starting to go to Server Fault, I need to sign-in. Why didn't it ask me to sign-...
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I comply with backoff orders, but still get "Violation of backoff parameter"
I sometimes get throttle violation errors from the API
{'error_id': 502, 'error_message': 'Violation of backoff parameter', 'error_name': 'throttle_violation'}
despite complying with back off orders ...
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Can editing a closed and deleted question send it to the reopen review queue?
On an SE site where I'm a regular, I’ve noticed several closed and deleted questions that might be worth reopening due to recent changes in site policy / community consensus. Because there’s no ...
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How can I bypass the editing grace period? (make two revisions within 5 minutes) [duplicate]
I want to make an uncontroversial formatting change, then make a possibly controversial change to a post's content. The thing is, I want them to be separate revisions so that if someone rolls back the ...
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Login issue for Mathematics SE [duplicate]
I've a strange issue with my Mathematics SE profile.
Access to all sites (Mathematics, Philosophy, HSM) works well on the mobile.
Access to Philosophy and HSM is fine on my desktop with Google browser ...
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Where would a telecom system design question fit on the network?
I have questions about PSTN (telecommunication) architecture as I'm working on a knowledge base for telecommunication, and I want to challenge my work and understanding of it.
I looked for Stack ...
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"This answer was migrated to another site 19 mins ago along with its parent question" but the answer timeline doesn't show that. What's going on?
I read on this deleted answer (screenshot):
This answer is hidden. This answer was migrated to another site 19 mins ago along with its parent question.
However, the answer timeline (screenshot) ...
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Is there a delayed effect from reopening a question on subsequent close votes coming soon after?
This happened recently:
A question was closed as a duplicate. I wasn't involved in this closing.
It was reopened by two users with close-vote privileges but no special privileges, and one with a ...
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What is a pre vote?
As seen in
New Vote Types in latest data dump?,
some new vote types appeared (likely) exclusively in the Stack Overflow data dump. A couple users helped find out what each one meant. However, what ...
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Weekly question limit: is there other than 1?
In moderator tools we have an option to see a number of questions that particular user able to ask on weekly basis. I could found only "1" and "0" (in case of no restrictions):
* ...
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I can’t post questions from mobile [duplicate]
Very related to this bug but the bug here only has one of those issues and they haven’t been fixed as of writing.
When I write a question on my mobile phone (Safari, iOS 15, iPhone 13) and press the ...
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No longer pinged after comments were moved to chat, despite an explicit @reply
I have been participating in a discussion of an answer on the Physics Stack Exchange. Until now, I have been receiving pings to my inbox whenever a new comment was addressed to me with an @reply. ...
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What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly or unkind" flag is accepted?
I read:
The flag ["unfriendly or unkind"] if accepted has quite a lot of impact on the account which has been flagged.
What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly ...
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How to find questions and answers that are likely to be deleted within the next 24 hours?
Looking at How did a user cast over 100 up/down votes in a day? makes me wonder: how to find questions and answers that are likely to be deleted within the next 24 hours?
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What site to post a question about uBlock?
I created a question µBlock: How to Add a CSS-class in a Filter? on Web Applications Stack Exchange, but it was flagged as off-topic. On which site should I ask this question?
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How can I report an answer? [duplicate]
I've asked my first question on Stack Overflow and someone answered my question within just a few minutes. However, the answer is most definitely AI generated. I know this is against the community ...
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How did a user cast over 100 up/down votes in a day? [duplicate]
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/164900/178179 seems to say the max number of daily up/down votes is 40. Yet I saw a user with 102 up/down votes within one day. How is it possible to cast over 40 up/...
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How can big tags be merged (i.e., when the moderators' tools fail)?
When a moderator tries to merge a tag which is too big, they might get an error. Is there some workaround for such situations? For example, can the SE staff do the merging in some other way—after a ...
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Fetching posts in a given month with the StackExchange Data Explorer produces Execution Timeout Expired error
Some years ago, I wrote a generic query to fetch posts in a given month.
WITH allData AS (
SELECT
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY P.Id) AS row
, P.Id
, ...
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Am I allowed to publicly reshare some JSON file containing SE data created after the introduction of the new data dump process?
I ran across some JSON (magnet link) containing SE data that was created after the introduction of the new data dump process. Am I allowed to publicly reshare it (e.g., on https://archive.org), or ...
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Why am I getting “Too Many Requests” when I haven’t gone to SE in 12 hours?
For some reason, when I tried to access Stack Exchange today, it said “Too many requests”. That was only thing displayed. However, I hadn’t visited the site at all in 12 hours, and I have never run ...
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Guidance for asking "Tune my machine learning model" questions
As machine learning (ML) progresses, more and more questions about it are asked on the network. I monitor mainly Stack Overflow and I find an increasing number of questions like these. These type of ...
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Dramatic increase in New User accounts - why?
I've noticed a big uptick in "new user" account creation on Bicycles:
Zooming in, we can see a cliff between 5 and 12 June 2024.
Before that, new users were steady at 6-15 a day. After ...
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Searching text in code blocks don't work
I've tried searching user:me a_function_I_used then it never returns the result. Any texts that are used in code format or ``` code blocks ``` are never searchable. Searching for other texts in my ...
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Cloudflare blocking requests to StackExchange API when User-Agent header is not specified
Since around 8/14/2024, our services requests to https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search are getting blocked by Cloudflare.
Despite not having any changes in the traffic pattern or the actual code.
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New Vote Types in latest data dump?
As I was looking through the latest StackExchange data dump, I noticed that in the StackOverflow dump there are a few new VoteTypeIds: 19,29,30,31,32,33
There is no mention of them in SEDE: https://...
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Potential flow / giveaway: Review-audits seems to take longer to appear [duplicate]
When doing some late answers reviews on Stack Overflow, it seemed to me that a question took longer to appear the the previous ones: it was a review-audit.
This "feeling" caught me several ...
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Why is the top bar link pointing to Stack Exchange instead of the site home on all sites but Stack Overflow?
This has probably been asked before but I can’t find the question.
On Stack Overflow, when you scroll you get a sticky top bar and when you click on the logo you get back to the home page. On every ...
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Will I have to accept (or reject) cookies every single time I visit StackExchange forever?
I'm not sure why if I am logged in, the stackexchange websites will not remember what my cookies preference is and never ask me again.
I am at this point of exhaustion with digital technology, that I ...
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How can Stack Exchange prove a violation to the Data Dump download agreement?
In the last few weeks there has been lot of talks about the new Data Dump process. From people asking if the dumps are watermarked to people pointing out that the user agreement for the download ...
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Are the new data dumps watermarked?
Are the new data dumps watermarked? I.e., can someone identify which user downloaded them?
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Creative Commons License (BY-SA) Violation: Data dump must not force users to agree to additional terms
The new mechanism for downloading the Data Dump appears to be be live. It still has a checkbox that requires acknowledgement of "additional terms" in addition to those included in the ...
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Workaround for bug causing \ before dollar signs to be rendered as \\\ on MathJax enabled sites?
As the title says, a single \ in a code block is being rendered as \\\ if preceding a $. This seems to be the same bug reported here, but since it hasn't been fixed, I am asking for a workaround. ...
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The per-site data dump downloads are missing metadata files
When the data dumps were hosted on the Internet Archive, it was a torrent that consisted of the torrent file, a number of 7z files for each site, some images for branding, and two text files - readme....
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Can you see images? Should I/we report an outage somewhere?
[Edit: I can again see the images today on 5th August '24]
[Edit2: Whoops, false start! Apparently I can now see the images under the link Realistically randomize Rubik's Cube that I reported here and ...
