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Is there a confirmation for submitting an application?

I clicked Apply on a posting on SO Careers, pasted in a cover letter, imported my resume from profile and was then presented with a preview of my resume. There were two buttons at the top of the page "...
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Granting write-access to room does not work as expected [duplicate]

I've created a public (not gallery, or private (mod-only)) room with the intent of talking to a user with low site reputation (less than 20). I know that a user needs 20 rep to chat but I noticed a ...
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MSO tag [20k] is the same as [trusted-user]

Meta Stack Overflow tag 20k (9 questions as of now) looks the same as trusted-user (14 questions as of now), consider making these synonyms. For the record, 20k has no tag wiki, trusted-user has tag ...
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"lighthttpd" should be a synonym of "lighttpd" [closed]

lighthttpd should be a synonym of lighttpd, on Stack Overflow, as the former is either a nickname or a mistaken name for the latter.
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We seem to have some issues here...​ [closed]

Specifically, we seem to have 365 questions tagged with issues. Please burninate.
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
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New Stack Exchange search engine ignores automatic "possible duplicate" blocks in exact-duplicate questions

I usually use the query "possible duplicate" closed:1 to search for questions closed as exact duplicates. It worked well in the past. Now, however, the query now returns considerably fewer results ...
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"advantages" and "disadvantages" should be blacklisted

disadvantages to having them: They can't stand alone in a question. advantages to blacklisting them: No one will think to use them.
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Why is my question closed as an exact duplicate?

I've asked a question, under this link: Finding fastest path at additional condition . It has been closed (even though I've been up-voted 5 times and the question has been verified by a 12k rep ...
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How to connect to data.stackexchange.com through OData

This post suggests data.stackexchange.com endpoint to connect using OData from Linqpad. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/atom gives Server Error in '/' Application.. This seems security ...
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Incorrect "interferes with login" message

As I recall, one could create accounts on Stack Exchange sites by clicking the login with Stack Exchange button. At present, I encounter the error "Adblock interferes with login, please disable it." ...
Jeff Burdges's user avatar
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Careers account frozen, possibly due to the change of logins in Stack Exchange

Is my account on Careers 2.0 frozen? I am not able to do any change to my account for at least two days, and I see the two puppets too ofen. I guess it is because I changed my logins in Stack Exchange ...
Dante May Code's user avatar
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Correct tag elasticsearch [closed]

Someone created the tag elastic-search, but it should be 'elasticsearch' as per the name of the product. Then when I tried to create it, the stupid heuristic refused to let me because of the other ...
Lance Roberts's user avatar
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Teacher's Lounge inaccessible for Stack Overflow Moderators

I tried to access the Teacher's Lounge (Stack Exchange Moderator Chat), but it says I must request access. Another moderator on Stack Overflow has also had the same thing happen to him (late yesterday)...
George Stocker's user avatar
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Question closed for possible duplicate [closed]

I asked a question here and users with enough reputation points have closed it for Possible Duplicate here. Given that the questions are different and so is the answer, the only thing they have in ...
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Can I batch-rename a tag? [closed]

I'm able to retag questions on SO. I've just noticed that there exist a push-notification tag with 1700+ questions and then a push-notifications (plural) with some 30 questions. My thought is that ...
superjos's user avatar
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Please synonymize the now-empty [php5] tag with [php] [closed]

After discussions here on meta over the past years and practical initiative in the year 2012, it has been researched and practically established that the tag php5 actually is not needed any longer and ...
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Can we please block malware (if possible) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: StackOverflow + [Certain] Images + Chrome = Malware Alert I just went here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/9151/revisions I got his up with this screen in Chrome: How ...
Naftali's user avatar
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StackOverflow + [Certain] Images + Chrome = Malware Alert

Users posting images with freeimagehosting.net are getting SO flagged. Not sure where else to post this, but I thought I'd let the meta-mongers know. I obviously know it's not an issue personally but ...
Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED's user avatar
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5 answers
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Should the " Constantipolitan" hat be named " Constantinopolitan"?

"Constantipolitan," the name of a hat on the Winter Bash page, looks like a typo to me (although I don't blame anybody for mis-typing such a long and rarely used word). Shouldn't it be ...
Sergey Kalinichenko's user avatar
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Burninate the [game-development] tag (again) [closed]

In response to Animuson's blacklist request, Jeff burninated game-development, web-development and web-design on the 20th July 2012 and back in September BoltClock asked for a blacklist of these three....
ben is uǝq backwards's user avatar
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Burninate the [no-javascript] tag [closed]

I just spotted a tag called no-javascript. The wiki description makes it pretty brief: This tag is a signal that the answer to this question should NOT contain any javascript as a part of its ...
BoltClock's a Unicorn's user avatar
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2 answers
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The title of the frequently asked questions list is redundant

The title for the FAQ tab of the questions list on SO is currently "FAQ questions". If you expand that, I believe it makes "frequently asked questions questions". Is it supposed to be that way or is ...
Adam Schmidt's user avatar
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Why wasn't this caught by the low quality filter?

The question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13338301/welcome-to-the-discussion-thread-for-nokia-location-apis has somehow survived for over a month. The user in question also created the tag wiki ...
ben is uǝq backwards's user avatar
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Unable to edit my own profile

I was unable to login to stackoverflow.com with my usual set of credentials, and the password recovery mechanism stated that my email didn't have an associated account. I found this odd, but decided ...
Carlos O'Donell's user avatar
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1 answer
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Cannot update my profile - email in use?

I'm having the same problem from this thread. Even though it is said the issue was addressed, whenever I try to update my profile, it says my email is already registered. I had an OpenID associated ...
Kenneth Worden's user avatar
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1 answer
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Weird behavior of community wiki answers after migration

I stumbled upon this user profile here on Meta, as you can see this is one of his answers. The answer is in old question that was migrated here to Meta from Stack Overflow. The answer appears to be ...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
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Closed question appeal

I am protesting the closing of this question. This should absolutely not be closed as "off topic". "A module is an ASP.Net component that plugs in to some point of the request pipeline;" if that ...
user avatar
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Prevent requesting access to gallery chat room

If I am not totally wrong the "read list" of a gallery chat was meant to prevent the user who is on that list to request access again. We have a user who could request access again and again even ...
WarrenFaith's user avatar
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Is it possible to get my question reopened from closed status?

I asked the following question: How to detect antivirus on Windows Server 2008 in C#? but it got flagged as an exact duplicate of How to detect antivirus installed on windows 2003 server and 2008 ...
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Accidental Duplicate App Submission on Apptivate.ms [closed]

I accidentally submitted my app twice on Apptivate.ms The first several times I submitted the app I received an error, so I tried again later and it went through. I didn't realize that one of the ...
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Why was a legitimate answer of mine deleted?

Robert Harvey decided to delete this answer of mine, and I have no freaking idea why. None of the FAQ reasons seem to apply. So some sort of an explanation would be nice, as right now I have no idea ...
Jacco's user avatar
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Please tag-synonym all of the [code-reuse] tags [closed]

Stack Overflow has 6 unsynonymed tags related to reusable code: code-reuse reuse reusable-code reusability reusable reusing-code Could a moderator please make them all be one synonym, probably under ...
durron597's user avatar
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How can the [bug] tag have both zero questions and over 280?

I recently edited bug out of a question. Infuriated by the tag existing, I went to see what kind of horrible, horrible questions it contained so I could whip up a burninate/ban request. It contains ....
Charles's user avatar
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Is this really not spam?

Today I flagged this answer as spam. I thought it was really obvious, user linking to a site with same name as the user, the link was also in the profile. Additionally the answer seemed rather content-...
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How to Search Faster way Inside Favorite Question Tab?

I am having difficulties while searching questions from the Favorite Questions Tab. Is there any way to get out of this. It pretty difficult to go through each and every question what we are looking ...
Bhavesh Patadiya's user avatar
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Empty braces "[]" in search field are sometimes replaced by one or more plus signs "+"

Searching with one of those terms works just fine: [] [html] [html] [css] [javascript] [html] [css] [] [] [css] [javascript] But in some other cases, when I remove a tag (like double click the tag, ...
insertusernamehere's user avatar
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Unable to change my email address (email already exists... somewhere?)

Today I created an account to post a question. I thought I had maybe created one a couple years back, but I wasn't sure, so here's what I did: I went to create an account, saw that I had four ...
ricklane's user avatar
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1 answer
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Search results on https://stackexchange.com are broken because of "insecure content"

The search results on https://stackexchange.com are blocked because of: [blocked] The page at https://stackexchange.com/search?q=https ran insecure content from http://www.google.com/jsapi. I am ...
David d C e Freitas's user avatar
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1 answer
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Is live refresh stopped?

I am using the following URL for meta: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active It gives me latest active post. But for last 1-2 hours, it does not shows me the post when it get ...
Himanshu's user avatar
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Synonymize [flow3] and [typo3-flow]? [closed]

The TYPO3-related php framework FLOW3 has been renamed a few weeks ago to TYPO3-FLOW. Can someone introduce a new tag typo3-flow and set it as a synonym to flow3? Sources: The TYPO3 Family - A ...
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How to merge reputation of my old account to new account

I have an old account which is blocked on stack overflow which have 92 reputations. and i have created a new account on stack and now i want to merge my previous account reputations into my new ...
user1685991's user avatar
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No response to account deletion requests?

I have requested for my account to be deleted about 5 times now (not an exaggeration) through the deletion request form https://stackoverflow.com/help/user-deletion with the corresponding "please ...
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How do I access an account associated with my email, but that I cannot log into?

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong tag area. I couldn't find the correct tag and if anyone can help with that, it be great. My problem is that a year ago I used a Stackoverflow account that was ...
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Remove c#-4.5 tag [closed]

The c#-4.5 tag should be removed and possibly added as a synonym for the c#-5.0 tag. People get confused a lot, but .NET 4.5 ships with C# 5.0.
Adi Lester's user avatar
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Mistakenly set a bounty [closed]

I know this is a very old question but I want to know another thing If I flag my question to moderator then is it possible that they cancel my bounty and return back my reputation? I really want my ...
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How can I flag a spam/duplicate application at apptivate.ms?

How can I flag a spam/duplicate application on http://www.apptivate.ms? I can't see any option regarding it. Now I notify through the Windows 8 developer chat rooms. Is there any way to flag an ...
BlueBerry - Vignesh4303's user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
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Unable to log to careers 2.0 - stuck at login?

I have received some days ago a notification of an invite to join the Careers 2.0 site. The invitation referred to a previous invite, which I never found (starting to believe it was swallowed in the ...
ꓢPArcheon's user avatar
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I can't see my Bitbucket projects on Careers

I can't see my Bitbucket projects through Careers after a successful authorization. I can see the StackOverflow Careers on my Integrated applications list on Bitbucket, but the list is empty on ...
Lipis's user avatar
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6 votes
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Add [ie7] as a synonym for [internet-explorer-7] on Meta

Meta includes both ie7 and internet-explorer-7 and the former should be synonimized to the latter. IE6 doesn't have the same problem, everyone just calls it "IE6". IE8 and IE9 have already been ...
blahdiblah's user avatar
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How do I link my Stack Exchange profile to an apptivate.ms profile?

I have a tresktir account with Stack Overflow and wanted to connect it to my apptivate account so I could give apps votes and comments. Edit: I logged in using Google when first signed up for ...
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