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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Has Stack Overflow requested a retraction of The Register article?
Obviously, the details of the settlement with Monica are not public, but has SO made the public action of requesting that The Register's article about the mod situation be removed or modified to not ...
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What is an SE "day"? When does each day start?
When does a day start on the Stack Exchange network?
Some badges (Enthusiast, Fanatic, Mortarboard) and voting limits are bound by and relate heavily to the concept of a day.
Do days correspond to ...
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What are the criteria for questions to be selected for Hot Network Questions?
I really like the new Stack Exchange home page, where certain questions from the Stack Exchange Network are presented, along with a hotness rating that is described as "arbitrary" in its ...
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The new CEO discusses his vision for the growth of SO, in an article behind a paywall
Yesterday I stumbled on a Facebook post by SO, which quotes the new CEO:
If we did not not have our community, we would not exist. It's very much part of our DNA.
Further on the Facebook posts ...
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Today's inappropriate ad: "obesity antidote discovered" on SFF
Two days ago, I wrote:
Yeah I'm aware that "a tool to manage ad experience" is currently being developed, but as long as it's not available, I'll keep on reporting these. I'll also keep on ...
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Today's inappropriate ad: health scam on Travel [duplicate]
Inappropriate ad spotted on Travel.SE. Looks like the usual health scam. Unfortunately this one seems not to open the link preview when I long-click it, so it's only the image, but it seems to have ...
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The reCAPTCHA has become too difficult for humans to solve
The reCAPTCHAs have suddenly become almost illegible. I regularly have to change it four or five times before I find one I can read. I am tempted to just enter the known word (an easy guess), and ...
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How can I see all my rejected edits?
I looked at one of my approved edits and found I had a whopping four rejected edits (that is much more than what I expected). I was able to see a snippet of a half a dozen recent edits and see the one ...
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What can cause a question to be bumped?
What can cause a question to be "bumped" to the first page in the Active tab of a Stack Exchange site? (Changing the "Last Active" date.)
Return to FAQ Index.
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Deleted Meta Questions Archive
Some keep deleting questions with a lot of discussion, both relevant and/or historical, and we can't search on deleted questions. Some of them are locked so that they cannot be undeleted, so I'm ...
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What kind of edits contribute to the editor badges?
The descriptions for the editing badges are:
Editor: First edit
Strunk & White: Edited 80 posts
Copy Editor: Edited 500 posts
Does "posts" include your own questions/answers, or are these ...
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How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?
Where does the image come from?
How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?
How do I change my profile picture on all SE sites at once?
How can I use different avatars on different SE sites?
How do ...
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Someone flagged my question as already answered, but it's not
I asked a question regarding a very specific feature of a program and whether or not it works with a larger program. Within hours someone had marked it with "This question may already have an answer ...
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What is this "answer your own question" jazz?
I showed up here to write a perfectly normal rant about misaligned pixels, and there's a big fat checkbox cluttering up the "Ask" page, labeled:
Answer your own question – share your ...
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Where are my starred Questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do favorite questions work?
Stack Overflow has a feature that you can star whatever questions you like, but how can I find my starred questions and their answers? Where is ...
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What's up with the new CSS? [closed]
I've just noticed the new rep/vote counts look different, and not in a good way (IMO, obviously people will disagree).
What else has been changed, and is it permanent?
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Why can't I use Stack Exchange if I'm under 13 years old, or if I'm under 16 years old and from the EU?
I was just reading the Terms of Service, and noticed something:
You must be at least 13 years old to access or use the Network or Services, including without limitation to complete a Stack Overflow ...
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How do I change my Stack Exchange password?
How do I change my password?
I have a Stack Exchange account but can't seem to find the option to change my password.
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Why isn't it required to provide comments/feedback for downvotes, and why are proposals suggesting this so negatively received?
Sometimes my post receives downvotes with no explanation on what I've done wrong. Even worse, sometimes I just get snarky comments!
It seems like this is especially bad for new users, who are made to ...
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How long does it take for badges to be awarded? How are they generated?
Do badges get calculated in real time, or do they get calculated by an external service? How long does it take for a badge to be awarded, once its requirements are met?
Does Stack Overflow use any ...
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"STOP! Look and Listen" audit tricked me
I have noticed this "STOP! Look and Listen" message when the system audits you by having you review something to check how you respond.
However, this audit came up and I was tricked. I wanted to up ...
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What is a "locked" post?
On Stack Exchange, a post can sometimes be "locked":
What does it mean to lock a post?
Who can lock a post?
When should a post be locked?
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Eeeek! Where did the reputation graph go? [closed]
The reputation graph no longer shows up on my profile when I click on the reputation tab. Is it gone now (like the mail icon)? Or has it been moved somewhere else?
I do like the more detailed ...
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NSFW video and annoying animated advertising on Music SE
I'm seeing this annoying animated advertisement on Music SE. Somehow saving the gif was impossible, so I recreated it as well as I could from screenshots (first image). The actual thing is even more ...
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How can I cancel an edit I made on another user's question or answer?
Edits made by users who do not have edit privileges are placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
E.g., I edited someone else's answer. but changed my mind. If I'd edited my own question/answer, ...
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What should I do if a user posts sensitive information as part of a question or answer?
I've observed several incidents where users inadvertently posted detailed, sensitive information. For example, a Server Fault user who posted a question with working login credentials to his actual ...
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What happened to flag weight? [duplicate]
I just noticed that my profile on Programmers no longer shows my flag weight. Instead I see the number of helpful flags. At the same time, the definition for the Marshal badge has been changed to "500 ...
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Why does the Community user approve and reject edits?
Why does the Community user sometimes approve or reject edits?
How does a machine know if my edit is valid?
What does it mean if my edit was rejected by Community?
See also:
Who is the ...
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Question banning should work differently on Meta
I just wanted to report a problem with Data Explorer and realized I was banned from asking questions on meta. Probably because I asked 3 questions with a score <= -10.
Reading through the reasons ...
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How do I change the email address associated with my Stack Exchange OpenID? [duplicate]
I registered my Stack Overflow account using the Stack Exchange OpenID provider. I later changed my e-mail, but I cannot change the e-mail address associated with my OpenID for some reason. Why is ...
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What are the moderation tools available to 10,000+ reputation users?
The site FAQ refers to moderation tools, available to users who've earned more than 10,000 reputation:
10,000 Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools
What are these tools ...
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What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?
What are tag synonyms?
How can tag synonyms be distinguished from "real" tags?
How are new tag synonyms created?
Who can create tag synonyms?
How can I delete/reverse/undo bad tag synonyms?
What are ...
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Can we please get more information on the "network policy regarding AI Generated content" post?
Meta notes: This was originally posted as an answer in response to What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?. Some of the requests for more information have been addressed in GPT on ...
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What is the daily reputation cap and how can I hit it?
I've found some questions and those two badges "Epic" and "Legendary" regarding the "daily reputation cap". What is it and how can I hit it?
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How can I get the "cleanup" badge [duplicate]
In other words, what counts as "First Rollback"?
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How does SO's new auto-login feature work?
SO and SU just told me I've been logged in. I'm guessing because I'm already logged into my Google account... but how does SO know that?
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How much bandwidth does SE eat up?
I recently saw this image posted in an answer on Meta by @Nick Craver ♦:
I'm interested to know how much bandwidth (in total GB/TB) gets used on average each month for such a large site, and on which ...
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When exactly does the Unsung Hero badge get awarded? [duplicate]
A while ago, I spotted the gold badge, Unsung Hero, which carries the description, Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total.
The way I interpret that is that you need more than 10 ...
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How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or "zombie") tags?
During the re-tagging of questions, tags sometimes become orphaned from existing questions.
Are these zombie tags ever removed from the tags list?
What if a tag is misspelled and needs to be removed?...
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Having a bad start. Is that normal?
I'm sorry to bother you with my thoughts but since I'm quite new here, I am not familiar with this.
Stack Overflow was my first choice for help for a long time. I decided, now that I'm a bit better in ...
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How do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?
What is the "Not an Answer" flag and what is its purpose?
When should I use this flag?
When should I not use this flag?
But I'm still not sure if I'm using the flag correctly...
An answer is ...
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Is there any way to favorite/bookmark an answer?
Lots of questions are very generic, "share an experience" kinds of questions.
In these cases, I am quite often interested in specific answers that may not have gotten that many upvotes.
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Key stroke combination markdown? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Keyboard Glyphs
I got an answer with some cool keystroke formatting, but I don't see how to do it on the markdown reference, or the more detailed markdown reference -- maybe I ...
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Users are calling me a plagiarist. What do I do?
Other users have been leaving me angry and hostile comments accusing me of plagiarism and saying that I'm a liar and I should stop stealing answers. But I have only been copying content from other ...
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Someone contacted me by email but my email is not public
Last week I got an email to my email address saying "I saw on Stack Overflow that you were interested in.." and the content of the question I asked.
The email suggested I'll star a bug \ feature ...
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Why does flag marking as helpful/declined not always correlate with moderator action?
I flagged a post and (choose one)
my flag was marked as helpful, yet nothing was done
my flag was marked as declined, yet the post was deleted/edited/closed
Why?
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The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta
The blog post Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta gets linked to prominently from every beta's meta. However, this blog post is somewhat inaccurate and misdirects new users. In almost every ...
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What other hidden or inobvious RSS feeds are available on Stack Exchange and its sites?
I know about finding the RSS feed icon at the bottom of any "Top Questions" page, giving access to recent, featured, hot, week & month questions feeds. I also know that you can get RSS ...
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(Historical) Policy on the use of GPT detectors
The policy below was posted on the Mod Team on May 29, 2023 to update moderators as to changes in how the GPT policy should be enforced. A day later, a shortened version of this policy was published ...
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How can I search my comments using some keyword(s)?
Here's my problem: I know I've posted something on Stack Overflow about a particular topic. I know how to search all my answers with a given keyword, and that feature works well. But, if I don't ...