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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Where's the "living record on MSE" of the Prompt Design stakeholder group's activities?
Are you interested in Prompt Design? Join the Community Stakeholders group states:
We'll keep the process as transparent as possible. Meetings will be annotated, notes published, and chat transcripts ...
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Which questions are eligible for tagging [status-review] if latest available list is outdated?
The question What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them? has a list of posts which should be taken into account before escalating bug or feature-request ...
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Which SE site would be appropriate to ask about finding a solution to download podcasts episodes?
I am in a situation where I want to download a podcast, but the usual apps, Web or otherwise, don't work, most likely due to an expired certificate. For details see my question on the main site, Can I ...
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More fun with "Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code."
I have tried to post the following to Stack Overflow:
I have a very simple HTML form embedded in an email I send to people who have subscribed to my blog so they can confirm their email addresses. ...
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Funny colouring of Hexdump
I recently posted this question on apple.stackexchange which contains a hex dump, like this:
00000210: 616e 7369 6f6e 0a20 2020 2020 2020 5f08 ansion. _.
Different to here (on Meta ...
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A low rep user identified me as voting to close before the question was closed. How is this possible? [closed]
As I understand it, if you have only +10K rep, you can see who has voted to close before the question is closed.
Based on:
What can Moderators and Trusted Users see that others can't?
Can others ...
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Are Stack Exchange blog articles also under Creative Common license?
Recently I stumbled on the site of an IT company that replicated the entire article "Do large language models know what they are talking about?" with attribution.
For basic content on the ...
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Why are the profileimageurl in the data dump of almost all Stack Exchange websites blank?
I wonder why the profileimageurl in the data dump of almost all Stack Exchange websites are blank.
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Is there any publicly available record since 2022 of Prashanth chatting with Meta Stack Exchange core community members?
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This is a follow-up of some of my posts related to Meta Stack Exchange posts related to Prashanth's words.
During 2023 staff have brought the words of Prashanth, the Stack Overflow, Inc. CEO, to ...
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Where can I find the 'Mathematics' Stack Exchange site guidelines? [closed]
I glanced at a Mathematics Stack Exchange Q&A and saw a reference to the site guidelines, in particular including a reference to a lower age limit. However, going to help, I could not find any '...
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Chat Ping Notifications seem to be missing from inbox [duplicate]
I was trying to get an unread notification on my spare account for some screenshots. I am logged into the network, and was on recently enough to @ autocomplete
I've tried pinging, superpinging, and ...
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How can I find unread messages in the Stack Exchange inbox?
Usually I just scroll down and find the unread messages and click on the items. This way I am done in a minute.
Today I did that and it still says that I have 3 unread messages. I clicked the "...
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Where do I go to figure out in which Stack Exchange site I can post my question? [duplicate]
Where do I go to figure out in which Stack Exchange site I can post my question?
(It took me quite a while to find this and I had to go out to DuckDuckGo. Hopefully, this being here will help people ...
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When should I ask why a question I asked was downvoted? [closed]
Once on Meta, I asked a quite badly received question and then asked why it was downvoted. My question: Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? about why my other ...
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Block animations in answers! [closed]
When I search for a problem in Stack Exchange, I often see an answer in which the answering person uses a looping animated overlay to show how to go through a procedure. Unfortunately this may cover ...
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Does linked content count as "Subscriber Content" under the TOS?
The SE TOS defines "Subscriber Content" as:
any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or ...
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Posting content under licenses besides CC BY-SA 4.0
If I post content (authored by me) on an SE site, and I have released it under some license X, how does this work with the SE TOS (even though it links to SO I assume it's applicable to all sites ...
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Can a single downvote cause a question to contribute towards a Q-ban?
A question ban is much worse than a temporary ban. One question per six months forever, versus just waiting a fixed time and coming back like nothing ever happened.
Only moderators can dish out ...
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How can I search for NON-saved questions?
By using in:saves, it is possible to search among only questions saved by the user, However, using -in:saves does not appear to restrict the search to questions which the user has not saved.
Is there ...
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Why don’t we see a preview of the bounty message?
I'm wondering why we don't see a preview of the bounty message.
In one of my questions, if the bounty message was in the main post; the second link; i.e., the following would show only the following,...
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Is it a good idea to delete and recreate my account if my first contributions are badly received? [duplicate]
If I ask a question, and it gets downvoted and closed, would it be a good idea to delete and recreate my account, to erase the question from my question record? Doing so effectively disassociates the ...
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Do basically all ~1500 people on strike need to separately enter into "mandatory arbitration" after 90 days?
Currently there is an ongoing strike (Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers) which has led to (as at the time of writing)
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Does network-wide deletion exist to be performed by Community Managers for spammers/trolls?
Staff can issue a network-wide suspension for a user for an arbitrary number of days. Even for hundreds of years.
I'm interested to know if there is also a network-wide deletion path which Community ...
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What email domains are known to be used by Stack Exchange?
Stack Overflow (the company) and Stack Exchange (the network) may send emails to their users for various reasons, ranging from support to marketing. However, it seems that there are multiple email ...
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Does the unlinked 'show users by participation' page still work?
Per this answer,
On per-site-metas, there is a tab for showing users by participation. According to the tooltip, it shows: Users most active in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, ...
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Email from "[email protected]"—is it legitimate? [duplicate]
I've received an email from "[email protected]". Is it legitimate? How can I tell?
I won't quote the whole thing, but in short it's asking for feedback for a new feature:
.. We’...
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Does a user have the right to not engage in discussion that have been addressed and can lead to heated exchange? [closed]
When a user receives comments that ask for things that have already been clarified in the post or the previous ones, and often in an provocative attitude, does the user have the right to not engage?
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Is there anything wrong that a user prefers upvoting over accepting replies? [closed]
Does a user have their right for preferring upvoting over accepting replies?
Can moderators suspend a user for preferring upvoting over accepting replies?
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Can we take a position *against* the moderator strike?
I've been previously banned for stating,
"I stand against Israeli apartheid"
And for having the nickname "Israel is an apartheid state", I've reviewed the merits of this strike, ...
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The correct community to ask a question about antenna modules used with Arduino (nRF24L01)
What is the correct community to ask a question about antenna modules, more specifically, the nRF24L01 wireless module?
I asked a question about the module's transmitter antenna gain and field ...
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Why did posting once end up with two posts? [duplicate]
I posted a question on a stack exchange site. It ended up with two identical posts.
After typing the post in the edit box, I don't think I hit the post button twice.
Even if I hit the post button ...
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What is the best way to post anonymously? [duplicate]
I have a thing that is bothering me deeply that I want to ask about without my name on the post. It is rather personal and concerns people I care for.
What would be the best way to make a post like ...
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Maximum number of posts that can be featured in MSE [duplicate]
What is the maximum number of posts that can be featured in Meta Stack Exchange?
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Is the cost of ChatGPT integration into Stack Exchange sustainable?
Just today, the AI question draft editor / formatting assistant experiment went live. From fiddling with it, it seems clear that it's just ChatGPT / a related OpenAI LLM with a prompt designed for ...
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What can one do when captcha doesn't work?
What can one do when captcha doesn't work under internet censorship?
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When I select **Learn more about formatting…** the link does not include $\ce{H2O}$ as an example in Chemistry Stack Exchange [closed]
I noticed in one of my answers to a question about excitation of electrons that the term $\ce{CH4}$ was used. I remember seeing it before in the Markdown editing page for Chemistry Stack Exchange.
But ...
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What is the current (June 2023) status of the data dumps and the company’s commitment to them? [duplicate]
What is the current (June 2023) status of the data dumps, the API, and the Data Explorer? Will the company continue to provide them going forward?
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How to escape spoiler in blockquote that starts with exclamation point
How can I "escape" the spoiler syntax when putting some text in a blockquote that starts with an exclamation point?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/170880/267540
Here is the text that ...
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Question ban without any reason [duplicate]
I got a question ban on Physics SE. The reason stated was that most of my questions did not met the guidelines. However, most of my questions have positive votes. What is the reason for the ban?
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Sites keep popping up the cookie information dialog when I am logged in as two users simultaneously on macOS
Side Note: This should probably be moved over to AskDifferent, but I don't know how to do that.
The cookie information dialog popping up is very annoying. If it were not, I would not continue to spend ...
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Eliminate space characters before commas in case of multiple users flags on the same post
On mod dashboard when there are multiple flags on the same post I noticed the undesirable space characters before commas (after timestamps):
I was able to find only generic templates for such case:
$...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" originally deleted and can it be undeleted?
For those voting to close this as a dupe, it's not a dupe, I'm looking for non-speculative answers (an official one) and more importantly I'm looking for it to be undeleted or at the very least an ...
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Will SE shut down the free API for good? [duplicate]
SE has intentionally disabled the data dump. And the CEO has stated to the press that he plans to charge AI companies for access to the data.
Given these developments I think it is almost inevitable ...
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Why is accounts merging only possible by staff? [duplicate]
To merge several accounts into single one the actions from staff side is needed. Regular user need to request it by contact page, moderators have another special page for this. But in both cases this ...
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Get rid of the redundant/misleading "complete bounties list" link on Bounties tab
On the bottom of Bounties tab we have the link to complete list of bounties:
Looking for more questions with bounties? Browse the complete list.
Do we actually need it when ALL bounties are already ...
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June 2023 Data Dump is missing
The data dump usually gets refreshed the first weekend of the month, every 3 months.
The current data dump is still from March. Is there just a problem and it's delayed like in the past?
Relevant ...
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Why is SE staff violating SE policy by un-featuring posts about the strike on per-site Metas?
There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that.
Unless there is a ...
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Can't open a ticket for merging accounts; Error occurs even though all fields are included
I tried to follow the instruction in the link but I can't open a ticket for merging accounts. I get the following error:
We can't merge until we have links to both profiles; please add the missing ...
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Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press
The VP of Community for SE gave the following statement to the press:
Stack Overflow ran an analysis and the ChatGPT detection tools that moderators were previously using have an alarmingly high rate ...
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How do I set "site" to anything other than Stack Overflow, like the Blender or Ethereum Stack Exchange sites, for example?
I was able to run this request https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/users/MY USER ID/timeline?sort=creation&page=1&pagesize=100&site=stackoverflow just fine.
For some reason, when I change ...
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