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How can I get the synonymizer badge if I can't suggest synonyms - but my merge/synonym is accepted?
I suggested a merge + synonym on SF:
TAG Merge : snapshot and snapshots
It was completed - but I think I should get the badge for it - even though I can't create a synonym directly because of rep.
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Can't see the votes on the question where people voted [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does “Reputation” work?
I can't see the reputation votes on the question where people voted me up. I can see it only in my profile. Is this intended?
Here is ...
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Bug in review suggested edits in Chrome
Usually when I open the Suggested Edit tab, but sometime also after coming back from improving a post, I can't see the suggested edit, only the original post.
Refreshing the page doesn't help; I just ...
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Why is the retag disabled for me even though I have reputation to do this? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why did the “retag” link disappear underneath questions?
The retag feature is disabled for me:
Now as in the question retag without privilege, in the ...
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When you vote to close a question, are you subscribed to the question?
When you vote to close a question, are you subscribed to the question? I was going to suggest a feature that automatically posts a "voting to close" comment on a question when the vote is cast so ...
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If I post a reply and the question gets migrated, what account gets the reputation change? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?
I posted a reply to a question that got migrated to a site I don't have an account with. My answer was accepted as right ...
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Tag creation request: deezer-api [closed]
I've been requested to create the deezer-api tag on Stack Overflow.
Sample question title: "Deezer API : Get the current logged user information"
Sample question body: "How can I get the current ...
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Suggested edits broken?
In this question the OP (25 rep) made an edit to my answer.
It showed up instantly. This can't be right, can it?
However, there was a notification in my inbox that told me an edit was suggested. The ...
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Simpler way to add code blocks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I format my code blocks?
There has got to be a better way of adding code blocks than adding 4 spaces to EACH line. I have seen <pre><code> tags before, but ...
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What are all those user12345678 users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what is the source of the random user ID's (userxxxx)?
There are many users with name like user1234567 on SO, with 1 point and no history.
It appears like some automated Q&...
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"Related" not showing up when using the website searchbox
When I get to your website from a Blekko search, I'm getting the 'Related' questions listed on the right. These are very helpful and often land me to what I am looking for.
But when I do a search ...
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Replying to several users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Allow more than one @name notification per comment
I'm a bit confused and would like to know the reason why you are only able to reply to one person? I had several situations ...
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Help with the "@person" feature? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comment @replies work?
When I respond to a question or answer, sometimes the sites ignore my @poster call out.
I'll type:
@Bob - I'd use a left-handed #8 semi-...
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Is there any SE Site where Questions related to Hacking are on-topic?
Is there any SE Site where we can post questions related to Hacking (Networking)?
user182466
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Not able to understand some badges [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List of all badges with full descriptions
I am not able to understand about some badges and how they are awarded on stackoverflow. Like
Beta
Cleanup
Generalist
Precognitive
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How do I get my code to display correctly when asking a question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I format my code blocks?
For some reason I can't get my code to disply correctly when asking a question. Instead of displying as a block, it's one long line. Here is a ...
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The Electorate badge's description is unclear
I was recently awarded the Electorate badge, so I took a look at its description:
Electorate: Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions.
It sounds, at first glance, ...
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How can I access the number of questions asked on stackoverflow?
Is there a Stackoverflow web service available to grab the amount of question asked?
I dont want to srape the page as this probably is forbidden.
I want to write a program to simple monitor the ...
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Meta on Meta. Missing line in the Meta Faq [closed]
The Meta FAQ starts with:
If your question is about:
Stack Overflow
Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow Careers
Promotions & Advertising
Support, feature requests, or bug reports for the
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Series of automatic logouts
Using Chrome 18; I've been getting logged out automatically and for no apparent reason. Is this deliberate? Can you fix?
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Stack Overflow Careers Profile using our Amazon reading list
It would really be great if you could pull my kindle reading list off of my amazon profile. this would save me so much time from having to re-enter my information all the time. Linkedin has the same ...
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Can't delete comment from google chrome under linux
I have found that I can't delete comments with google chrome under linux.
My Chrome version is: 16.0912:41 beta.
Basically, when clicking the x next to the comment it doesn't seem to remove the ...
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Should the comments message have trim end applied? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Comment character counter does not trim, while the server does
I've noticed while entering comments in the past where they haven't been long enough to submit, that if I ...
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Tags on the question edit form should be clickable
When I'm asking a question and adding tags, the names of individual tags I enter change into icons. It would be nice to be able to click on those icons to open their information page in a new browser ...
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Tag synonym request for symlink and softlink [closed]
Could you add softlink to symlink?
Even if symlink is more often used I think softlink is the official term.
Now vice vesa. In Mention of Kevin Vermeer posting I exchanged the two tags. I didn't ...
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How do I add a comment to an answer on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comments work?
I looked all over the help and FAQ and couldn't find how to do a basic thing like respond to a Stack Overflow answer. I don't want to answer the ...
thorie
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Do you participate in Stack Overflow during your work hours? [closed]
I realize that I have a tab to Stack Overflow permanently open at work, and I check several times a day if I could answer questions, to the detriment of my work.
And you?
Do you participate often ...
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Some data are not updated once a flagged post is deleted
When a flagged answer in a question is deleted, some of the related data remains still. Such as;
The points gained by the user that has answered the question.
The answering user's name and answer ...
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Why do you not allow comments until certain reputation is acquired on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
Lower commenting threshold to 1 rep
I would really like to ask somebody a question through the comment system, but my ...
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Commenting bug when commenting to a particular person [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Eeeeek - what happened to my @ salutation?
Whenever I try to start a comment (either new comment or editing existing) with:
@Robert: blah blah blah
and then save my ...
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Can we have a option to be notified about upcoming beta SE site?
I recently read this question. Can we get notifications for upcoming SE beta site deletions?
My question is - Can I set up notification for new SE beta site? I'm sometimes intersted in new sites to ...
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How to comment @Someone With Spaces [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
What is the syntax of @username in comments when username has spaces?
How do comment @replies work?
A user named "Someone With Spaces" comments on my post. I want to ...
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Resizable text blocks?
Ever since I've updated from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4, I love how many of the big text input blocks can be resized. Adding comments doesn't have to feel so cramped and editor windows could be widened ...
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chat.stackoverflow.com - chat message in inbox
I clicked to join the "endless rant" chat room a little while ago, and ever since I keep getting items in my inbox saying:
Chat message on Endless rant!
A scheduled chat meeting is starting ...
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So easy to close a question, so hard to reopen it? Is this an issue? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Close/Reopen Votes - Sliding Scale For Threshold
Notify on edit of a closed question
A question of mine got closed today. Too quickly I may say. (See another related meta ...
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Auto-select highest voted bounty answer has stopped?
has it stopped?
I have set a bounty on a question at on SO. only 3 days remain. and today i find some one up-voted an answer that was answered before the bounty was set. if some one is just trying to ...
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Proposals with a very large scope should require a larger number of committed users
The poster child for proposals with a very large scope would be the biology proposal.
Its audience is described as:
Proposed Q&A site for biologists, including biochemists, molecular ...
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Can someone please make a tag 'apache-http-client' on stackoverflow? [closed]
This tag would pertain to questions relating to http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
thanks,
David.
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Link for "start bounty" never disappears even when answers are given
I would like to know,
why does the "start bounty" link not disappear even when a question has an accepted answer?
My suggestion is it should be automatically removed or does its existence has any ...
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Proposal for accept rate assignment?
Hello,
first of all I know that there are a lot of similar questions about this topic but it's difficult to see if my concern was already processed.
At the moment I have an accept rate at Superuser ...
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Why can people edit my stuff, and why can't I delete comments on my question?
I asked a question on a Stack Exchange site. I edited it after a while, thinking that I might have given too much information away. This one guy checked out the edits to my question and posted the ...
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Why was the user Summon ousted from SF?
Why was the user Summon ousted from SF?
His correct reply to his own question
Windows Server 2008 - Connecting to 127.0.0.1
was deleted and the question distorted through editing
If community ...
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Is the [c#3.0] tag new, and should it exist? [closed]
What happened here?
(source: tejp.de)
Was it a retag? (I couldn't find any [retag-request] about this.)
If it's the result of a retag, shouldn't the tag rather be [c#-3.0]? This format seems to ...
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Can profiles be updated across parent/meta in the new beta sites?
I've changed my profile information on Gaming, but the changes aren't reflected on Meta.
Currently, only reputation is updated from parent to Meta. Profile information is set in stone as it is, ...
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Is there a way to go to next line in a comment on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How about newlines within comments ?
Is there a way to go to next line in a comment on Stack Overflow?
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I can not upvote to the answer [duplicate]
I have accepted one answer and I had given one up vote to the answer and again tried to give one more upvote then the vote count was decremented to the answer and now I can not upvote the answer like ...
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Stackoverflow AddIn for VisualStudio, Eclipse
What do you think about this idea.
This addin will give you the ability to browse for questions and what is more important to type answers directly inside your IDE.
This way you can write some code, ...
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Is this website affiliated to Stack Exchange? [closed]
Is WebCheatSheet a Stack Exchange site?
Or is it copyright infringment?
Sergio Tapia
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Front page annoyance: is this behavior optimal?
(Using Firefox 3.5 under XP) When I load the front page of any of the trilogy sites and scroll down past N questions, if I want to see more questions, the option is to load the complete list, which ...
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Users should be able to store common answers/quotes/explanations to their profile
I'd like to have a place to store a few common explanations that apply to many answers--like why DRY is good or why you shouldn't optimize.
These apply to a bunch of answers, but re-writing them is ...
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