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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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Is the company selling our Personal Information or not?

While once again reviewing the Data Request page looking for an answer to my ignored concerns, I stumbled on the current revision of the Privacy Policy page. In its first paragraph the policy reads: …
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(Historical) Policy on the use of GPT detectors

The original publicly available description of the policy stated that: In order to help mitigate the issue, we've asked moderators to apply a very strict standard of evidence to determining whether a …
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Inappropriate ad: online gambling on Music SE

Now that you mention it, I just realized something. Our network accept users as young as 13 years old if I remember correctly. So, that would mean that we are serving online casinos ads, fake "snake- …
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Is Stack Exchange planning to force users to ask their questions to an LLM before allowing p...

Inspired by this question I was skipping through the recent blog post once again overhyping AI as The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything Else. Leaving aside the robo-review scenarios, I notic …
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Was the new AI search feature "test" officially announced?

In the last few hours many users have noticed the new AI powered search feature that has been added to the site. I'll leave bugs reports and general commentary on how ineffective this is to other pos …
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Do downvotes/flags still affect the original owner of a community wiki post other than for r...

Some time ago I was pointed to a ranting/rude answer that was immediately converted to wiki by the poster. Since at the time it seemed pretty clear that the poster originally posted the rant and then …
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One watch, two watches, three watches.. If I get three will someone get none?

"Two time's a charm"... but "two watches's an error". Apparently DHL has just started getting ready for shipment of the watches from the December swag contest. Some users already got a mail from them …
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Why was the Ubuntu Code of Conduct clause removed from the Ask Ubuntu terms of service?

Looking back at the old Terms of Service, I noticed they used to contain a special paragraph about Ask Ubuntu. When accessing the askubuntu.com, meta.askubuntu.com, or chat.askubuntu.com sites ("AskU …
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Can we get an official statement about how the arbitration clause will be managed for foreig...

DISCLAIMER: the arguments described in this topic have already been referenced in multiple posts, yet no official comment on the issue was made that I'm aware of. This post is being made to raise awar …
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Exactly what metadata is preserved when uploading an image on the network?

This old question "Is EXIF data removed from uploaded SE pictures?" claims that Imgur will strip the EXIF data once the image is uploaded to their server Recently, a question posted on the new GenAI …
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Will the composition of the two work groups mentioned in The Loop blog post be public?

The blog post "Introducing “The Loop”: A Foundation in Listening" recently published on the official Stack Overflow blog mentions the creation of two working groups. One for users: That’s why we’ …
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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE

We will continue to maintain them, and assure that community members have free access to them for legitimate usages that support the community, broadly construed (including for study in classrooms, for …
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Is the cost of ChatGPT integration into Stack Exchange sustainable?

Regarding your concerns about the API pricing, I would argue that we know nothing. Consider this: Stack Exchange management has been so enthusiastic about "AI" lately that I would not exclude the poss …
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2014 Secret hats: count?

Based on core.js, it seems that there are 30 standard hats and 8 secret ones. This is assuming hichris123's deductions were correct.
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Can you land on the "real" 404 page without a direct link?

As for question title, I am wondering if it is possible to actually land on the 404 page for a site (example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/404 ) without manually typing the actual link. As far as I …
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