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Disallow emojis in comments and posts? [duplicate]

It is possible to type emojis in SE questions, answers and comments. Although I have never actually seen another user do it, I managed to do it accidentally and the emojis look ugly and do not fit in ...
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Fold a big chunk of text in a question

Is it possible to fold a big chunk of text in a question? In my case I need to paste this html into this question. I need this, because, the big chunk of text is relevant for the question, but is ...
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Cutting text from comments does not put text on the clipboard

Twice now, while typing up a comment on a question, my comment was too long, so I selected a portion of the text, tapped cut, posted the comment, then went into my notes app to save the cut text to ...
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Let's talk about phrasing of the “Protected Questions” message

Currently, the Protected message text reads: Given that we now strive to become more welcoming to new users, shouldn't we change the phrasing to something that doesn't seem as hostile as the existing ...
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Text for Electorate gold badge is confusing & ambiguous [duplicate]

For observers, this particular badge creates confusion. Currently Electorate badge text shows like this: Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions. Does it mean: ...
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Cannot add single line breaks in Questions

I can't seem to add a simple line break in the text of my question (this is on Blender S.E. but happens on other communities as well): What I am trying to do is make a list where each sentence is on ...
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Text substitutions not working [closed]

It's common that I post an answer that includes keyboard shortcuts. So if I type <kbd>K</kbd><kbd>E</kbd><kbd>Y</kbd><kbd>S</kbd> it shows up in the ...
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Comment Everywhere privilege text somewhat misleading

To new users I think the "Comment Everywhere" text used for that privilege might be a bit misleading. To me it seems like the text leans towards having the ability to comment everywhere on all Stack ...
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Voting to *undelete* an answer tells me I can't *delete* it

Over on travel.SE I just tried to vote to undelete an ex-answer. But up popped an error dialog telling me: You cannot delete this post: Obviously the text in the error dialog should match the ...
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Android App Text Encoding Bug (Unicode Symbols don't Display Properly) [duplicate]

Stack Exchange Android App Version 1.0.63 Samsung Galaxy S4 SPH-L7200T Android 5.0.1 Lollipop There is a pretty odd bug I noticed today with the Stack Exchange App: certain Unicode strings do not ...
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Soft-hyphen hides subsequent text when using Opera 12.16

I saw this answer over at german.stackexchange.com and thought 'Hey, a typing error! Let's fix it.' I went into edit mode and saw that the word is already written correctly: 'streichen'. I am ...
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Scrolling bug in Android app

In the Android app the text of the answers become garbled if I scroll the screen when viewing a question. It is as if new text is being overwritten over the still existing old text. Other text, such ...
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“not the room you are looking for?” text looks out of place

I just noticed this text in the Tavern: not the room you are looking for? After a few minutes, I realized that this text seems to be pointing to the "there are other rooms, with..." text. ...
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Broken links in the Close review queue [duplicate]

The text when reviewing Close Votes in /review is broken on ebooks.stackexchange.com as below: This text is only visible when you click on the "more" link. Also replicated on MSO.
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“This user has no earned bounties” might be correct but sounds… weird

In the user profile page, there are the following sentences when the user has no questions or answers: This user has not answered any questions This user has not asked any questions So far so ...
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How to format text containing underscore to italic style?

How to format a text containing underscore (like for instance "A_B") to italic style ? Here's an example which fails in parsing somehow (from a quick test just on underscore): A_B
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Wrong migration text for questions from meta.tex.sx

At Make clear which profile data is visible to whom it says: The lower sentence is wrong, since we're talking about a meta site. The same problem appears for questions migrated from meta.tex.sx to ...
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Automatic capitalization of “i” [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can 'u' and 'i' part ways? I've observed that a significant number of people use i instead of "I" Sample : i create a iframe to get acess token in facebook ...
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Remember height of textarea for edit/posting?

It would be nice if SO backend would save users preferenced height of THIS textearea (I'm writing there right now) for later use. I'bored about resizing it everytime I access editor
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Improvements to the prefilled content of the Tweet this button

I am changing the prefilled text for Twitter every time, for example this prefilled text Stack Exchange User Experience Q: Hide or disable form options? http://t.co/zKpRWkG I mainly make more use ...
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Does stack overflow use LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) to generate the list of related questions

I am building a website for tagging/titling fragments of text content from our archive of transcribed discourses. There are many features that I would like to mimic from Stack Overflow. Particularly ...
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Electorate legend

The current text is: "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions" I think it should read "Voted on 600 posts and 25% or more of total votes are on questions", which is ...