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Sandbox archive

Starting to rebuild the castle for modern times. Looks decent on FF so far. full block: |        | <kbd>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</kbd> half block: | | <kbd>&nbsp;</kbd> …
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What shortened URLs are available through s.tk?

This is a community-maintained list of publicly-known s.tk URLs. Please note that several links have broken or been removed in the past. Long-term stability is not guaranteed. Note: The SE team annou …
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I am losing reputation automatically!

It appears people have been flagging your answers as spam. Here's a link to one such answer (now deleted): How does this JavaScript closure work? (10k) and another and another and another. Conside …
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How to stop "Trivial answer converted to comment"

Simple, don't post trivial answers. By trivial, I mean an answer that just points to another question in the site with little/no supporting text. If you want to point out that it is a duplicate, fla …
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excluding certain topics

Go to your profile page and under the info and prefs tabs, there should be a checkbox hide ignored tags. Make sure you check it.
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Not able to edit other posts

If you must know, you have crossed the threshold for having too many rejected edit suggestions. You will not be able to submit any more edits until next week (I think). Here's a few of the suggestio …
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Is it just me or are the sites having connection problems?

Since yesterday and today, I've noticed that at around this time (I'd say ~4:00 GMT and on) I would get intermittent connection problems on all the sites I am participating on. Is it just me or are t …
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3 votes

How to Submit a Comment?

You need to have at least 50 reputation to be able to comment everywhere. As of now, you seem to only have 26 reputation on Stack Overflow so you're not able to do so yet. One of the reasons for it …
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How do I search for questions with (or without) specific tags?

There seems to be an undocumented (so far) use of the search box. Searching for questions tagged with one tag or another. I'm writing it down here instead of putting it in the current answer since w …
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Delete song, lyrics, and poetry tags

They certainly don't promote on-topic questions for sure or are just extraneous tags. Used mostly in a very localized manner (e.g., "I want to get the lyrics of a song so I can do poetry, how do I ge …
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What's the difference between the Altruist and Investor badges?

I haven't actually put a bounty on another's question yet but it seems pretty straight forward. Investor: First bounty you offered on another person's question You put a bounty on someone else …
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Editing question does not add an extra +2

You have more than 2000 reputation on Stack Overflow. You have already earned the right to edit posts without having them be reviewed. You do not earn points for editing after that. You can only ea …
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My Question is gone?

Here's a link to the actual Stack Overflow question: Microsoft.Ink RealTimeStylus doesn't work on some computers (10k) It's just listed as deleted with no reason. deleted May 14 at 0:31 It was ask …
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Epic Badge: Earned at least 200 reputation on 50 days

You misunderstood what it means. To get the badge, you need to have received 200 reputation (the reputation cap) in a single day for 50 days total. It doesn't mean that you have at least 200 reputat …
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Is there a query to see how far are you from the proofreader badge?

Probably, there might be. But why would you want to use one when you don't really need it? You can get the numbers from the site without having to use the data explorer. You can find this by lookin …
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