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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What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? [closed]
Earlier this week, Stack Exchange released guidance to moderators on how to moderate AI Generated content. What does this guidance include?
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How do I change vote arrow buttons back?
I have noticed that the vote arrow buttons have changed to this:
This change has been implemented on all Stack Exchange sites.
I didn't consent to the change, I don't like the new style. The styling ...
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What's the purpose of using the 'inquestion' search operator?
I was looking at some examples from the help page on searching, and came across inquestion. As far as I'm aware of what it does is that it takes the id of the question
inquestion:50691
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Why isn't xcolor supported for Latex?
In mathcha.io, I have an equation with colors.
\begin{equation*}
\frac{\partial L}{\partial X} =\ \textcolor[rgb]{0.82,0.01,0.11}{\frac{\partial L}{\partial Y}} W^{T}
\end{equation*}
If I want to ...
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Feature request for close reasoning?
I asked question (on meta) on why a post was closed, because it made no sense, and that post was closed as well?
...a member for 11 years on Server Fault, so been here a long time and this makes no ...
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Ranking users with most edits and close votes on a specific tag
A while back I asked this question about writing a query which would rank users based on their number of close votes on posts related to a specific tag: Table of users ranked based on their number of ...
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Why do I have to reset my password every single time I log in? (It says my password is wrong.)
Every time I try to log in it says the password is wrong, so my only choice is to reset it.
I'm using my e-mail address and password, not an OAuth provider.
Why do I have to reset my password every ...
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Code highlighting and image placement breaks despite correct syntax
Signal Processing answer, normal vs preview:
It's only toward the bottom of the post, yet it doesn't happen toward bottom of a much longer post. I confirmed it's also reproduced only with the ...
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I did not receive my bounty even when I reached the requirements [duplicate]
On this question: Dart to WASM compilation (timeline), I did everything according to the guidelines and still did not get my bounty.
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Why can't I log in with new/added e-mail address? (It's listed under "Other" on My Logins page)
I updated my e-mail address at stats.stackexchange.com. I verified it by clicking on the link in the e-mail I received. My new e-mail address was added under "Other" on the My Logins page.
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Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? [duplicate]
I asked this question which ended up with a -7 score.
However, I am puzzled. It seems to be a legitimate question. While I understand that feature requests are downvoted to indicate disagreement, I ...
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Why is Super User asking me to sign up? This does not happen for other Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
I can see my account and my Q&A history for Super User, but when I try to ask a new question, I am asked to sign up:
I don't see this issue with any other Stack Exchange site. What is going on?
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According to chat, Meta Stack Exchange was born today!
I noticed today this chat room here on Meta Stack Exchange chat domain.
The room has been automatically created yesterday. This is the standard protocol for new sites, e.g. see this transcript, it's ...
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Did I reach the reputation cap or not?
There was a couple of issues I faced recently with reputation on this site:
Very high reputation for post on reputation tab of profile
Different reputation on GUI and via the text reputation page. ...
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Table of users ranked based on their number of close votes in a specific tag
I am trying to get the list of users that have the most number of close votes (tallying each type of close votes; i.e. Duplicates, Too Broad, Need MRE, Not About Programming, etc.) in a specific tag. ...
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Do we need to reopen all bugs closed as site-specific and prevent further closing them on MSE?
Based on the comment and the post itself Users Can Report Bugs On Whatever Child Meta Site Suits Them it seems that closing bugs as site-specific on MSE is not legitimate. Am I right?
If so, should we ...
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"This looks like spam" error message when attempting to ask a non-spam question on tor [duplicate]
I'm trying to ask in the "Tor Stack Exchange Q&A Site" about Signaled readiness to systemd... but always count my question as spam while it is not...
my question body : https://pastebin....
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Is there a tag on MSE for the block of links under the post body and above the comments?
Is there a tag that can be used for questions related to the block of links under the post body? (share, edit, close, delete, flag)
If there's not, how can we name it?
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What does this guidance on the flag dashboard mean, and why is the text different when there are no active flags?
On the moderator flag dashboard page, when there are no flags, I see the following text on the right side (if I click the button labeled Details next to "Where should I start?" to expand ...
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New user: Cannot post question because it looks like spam [duplicate]
I can't seem to post it anywhere in order to link it, so I took a screenshot. The question (though wordy) is this:
"What does current research show regarding the use of sunscreen as a ...
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What are the factors that cause SE's Imgur instance to reduce the resolution of uploaded images?
I have been converting several images that are larger than 2 MiB to be less than or equal to 2 MiB to make them compatible with SE's Imgur instance, which has a 2 MiB file size limit. This is because ...
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Resizing a transparent image when a recommended method doesn't work
(Note: The wording of the question has changed to take into account information I did not know about when I asked it.)
I have an image that looks enormous in a posted answer. I have tried to follow ...
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How have I not won the #sql tag badge yet?
According to my profile on Stack Overflow:
It looks like this answer alone has earned me 220 points towards the SQL tag:
SQL standard to escape column names?
I'm unclear why I only have credit for 84 ...
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What tag is used for Stack Exchange rules and their respective enforcement instruments?
Each site has a Tour, a Help Center and meta sites having faq where the site's purpose, workings and features of the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange system are explained. Also, there is FAQ for ...
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What are the exact conditions for the /questions/ask/advice ("interstitial") page to show to a user?
Ex. the page on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice
What are the exact conditions for such pages to show to a user?
On what sites?
With what history/conditions of the user'...
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When embedding image, making it small without making it blurry or keep the original? [duplicate]
If I paste a copied-screenshot in the clipboard, often the image is too big. I know I can append letters like l or m, to make it small, but then it becomes blurry, and clicking the small image does ...
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My account was automatically unregistered after I completed my registration with Stack Exchange [duplicate]
As I was upvoting a comment, the UI said to complete registration. After completing registration, a new account was created, and my existing account was unregistered...
Now I can't upvote the answer ...
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Moderator that was only elected and never appointed indicated as "appointed" on moderator tab
On Stack Overflow in Russian never appointed moderator indicated as "appointed":
He won the election amongst 10 candidates.
What's the background for this?
Suggested duplicates don't ...
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Network login failing [duplicate]
I am unable to log in, for example, to Super User. Using the latest Firefox on Windows 10, I already tried disabling addons like NoScript and uBlock Origin. After clicking on Login on Super User, it ...
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MathJax preview renders slowly and improperly
When writing expressions in the body with MathJax on the Mathematics Stack Exchange site, the preview is sometimes immediate, but oftentimes it takes maybe a good five seconds to render. In the latter ...
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Search within my own questions for the entire Stack Exchange network [duplicate]
I learned that adding 'user:me' can help me search within my own questions.
How can I search within my own questions?
But this seems to work only for a specific site.
Applying the search term 'user:me'...
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What privilege do you get at 1,000 reputation? [duplicate]
I just got 1K reputation on the Role-playing Games site, and before I did, I paid very close attention to the fact that this would unlock a new privilege. However, I now have the privilege, and the ...
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Unicode combining character not combining correctly across multiple browsers on macOS
The Russian language sometimes uses stress marks above its vowels. These stress marks should appear over the centre of a letter they are marking.
When I type a Russian character with a stress mark, ...
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Is there publicly available build history of the sites?
I got a comment on my recent question about the reason why there are no recent builds on SE sites:
Historically, the company has its annual meeting/get-together in April.
I understood that comment ...
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Almost a week without new build
Just noticed that today is the end of April 28th UTC, but site revision number is still 2023.4.21.43403 (see the right bottom corner of the any SE page). I.e no builds were published since a week.
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MathJax malfunctioning (shows preview) in Firefox
Preview is shown alongside the render in answers I edit - not always, but most of the time. It's also sometimes the case for comments, mine and others'. I can highlight and copy the pre-renders; in ...
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Where can I ask if a bug affects multiple sites?
The [bug] tag excerpt read(s):
Use this tag for a reproducible problem ON THIS SITE
I have a MathJax problem, reproduced at DSP.SE, Math.SE, Stats.SE, and MathOverflow.SE. Meta.SE doesn't use ...
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How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues if I don't have access to the Teachers' Lounge or the Stack Moderators team?
How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues, if for some reason I don't have access to (but had before) the Teachers' Lounge (TL) or the Stack Moderators team? And I don't have access ...
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A forum to discuss old computers: Where could I ask if anyone else would be interested? [closed]
My computer will reach the end of its official support in five days. It's a 32 bits architecture, so I can't upgrade it. I have others, including an Apple II which belonged to my dad: 5 1/4 inch ...
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What is the rep bubble next to my top tag?
In the "Summary" box on my profile on Server Fault, I see a rep bubble with +20 next to my top tag:
What does this number signify?
I tried to search across MSE and MSO but I could not find ...
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Moderator Agreement signing deadline
In the Moderator Agreement I see the deadline timings for only accepting the new agreement (emphasis is mine):
Announce changes to the moderator agreement no less than sixty days before the deadline ...
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Is MSE an appropriate place to post questions about translations/localization issues for mod related features?
Is MSE an appropriate place to post questions about translations/localization issues for mod related features?
If not, where should I do that?
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Would SE Inc. even be able to detect it when people use Subscriber Content to train LLMs without paying?
(context: A Wired article: Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data and Is SE [going to be] selling our content for AI model training? And what exactly does "reinvest back into our ...
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As a user, can I request that a question I asked in SE philosophy before to be moved to SE physics? [duplicate]
In the help section it says that the site moderators have the option to migrate a post to any site. As a user, can I request that a question I asked before to be moved to a new SE site?
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Who will be able to see the result of moderator agreement accept/reject decision?
In traducir I found the string like this:
Moderator accepted a previous version of the moderator agreement but has not accepted the current version.
I'm curious who will responsible to see this type ...
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Why hasn't there been an official community announcement or blogpost about charging for usage of subscriber content in the training of LLMs?
Note for any confused: "Subscriber Content" is used here in the sense of the phrase defined in the Terms of Service.
I just saw two posts (1, 2) about this Wired article: Stack Overflow Will ...
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What does "company's moderators" mean?
In the recent Wired article, "Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data", there is the following statement:
Chandrasekar says a spike in inaccurate answers following the ...
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What does this mean? "If you attempt to circumvent these restrictions, you...put the use of the site by your co-workers in serious jeopardy. "
In the Help Center, under 'Why have I been limited to one question per week?', there's a section: 'Can I request that this block be lifted, or to allow more questions per week?'. The second half of it ...
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Are the buttons below the moderator agreement able to be made translatable or not?
I know that there is some complexity with translating the SE moderator agreement to other languages (languages of some non-English sites), but what about the buttons?
Should the Accept and Decline ...
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Is the email address under "Edit email settings" different than the email address under "Your logins"?
Stack Exchange's login system is confusing me terribly.
I just want to change my account's email address; the one I use to log in to sites like Stack Overflow.
When I go to My Profile -> Settings, ...
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