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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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Do we have a policy on smileys? :)

I hate smileys :D I know, that sounds strange from a 16-year old ^^ but I feel like smileys are lowering the professionalism of the network :( I would ♥ to edit all posts with smileys, but fortunate …
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New profile page Careers link

This question is about the new profile page as now visible only here on Meta Stack Exchange. In the 'Edit profile & settings' tab, you can set your Stack Overflow Careers link. I have three questions …
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I have a mysterious bytecode (executable?) file whose extension is nowhere on the internet. ...

If you would include an extract from the file (probably in a hex format), you could try to ask this on Reverse Engineering. You should then clearly explain what the file looks like (by giving an examp …
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What do the colours of android reputation widgets mean?

Just out of interest, what are the different background colours of the reputation widgets intended to signify? It's not a distinction between/of: graduated or not having an own domain or *.stac …
25 votes
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How important is Be Nice? Trade-off between being nice and contributing good posts?

Post too long? Concrete questions at the bottom! Recently I had a discussion with one of the moderators on EE.SE who had declined rude / offensive flags on comments that violate the Be Nice policy, su …
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I can't vote but can accept on low quality review [duplicate]

While I cannot vote when reviewing a low quality post, it is possible to accept it (when it is an answer to your own question). I don't think that's meant this way?
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What can be done with an unconstructive moderator? [duplicate]

Explicitly a support question. I do not intend to discuss the particular case here. … Now suppose the moderator in question makes it very clear that he is not going to be constructive on this matter (doesn't want to explain or support his decision and in no way tries to work towards an …
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Image in a quote in a bullet list

Not sure if this should be bug or support. As gnat suggested in the comments, I tried the kbd trick. …
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How is the clicks/day for community ads calculated?

To me, it looks like the clicks/day on a stats page like this is calculated as the clicks, divided by the days from the "Created" timestamp. However, is that correct? "Created" refers to the date the …
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What happens to positively received meta feature requests? [duplicate]

I recently added two positively received feature requests to this meta site: Don't lock votes on Meta sites Categorized views in past flags (helpful/declined/disputed) On a given moment, these que …
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Off-topic on hold box says "closed"

This is a screenshot of an on-hold box on Electrical Engineering, but my question applies to all the sites. The box says: "The users who voted to close". Is it by-design that this box says "close"? …
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Is there a MarkDown shortcut for the Help Center like there was [faq] for the FAQ?

In the limited markdown (for comments and chat, e.g.) we always had [faq] to link to the FAQ. Now that the FAQ has been changed to Help Center, do we have new syntax for this?
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Is there a MarkDown shortcut for the Help Center like there was [faq] for the FAQ?

Yes, there is! You can use [help]. This will be rendered as "help center". [faq] still works and links to the new help center, but I'd recommend you using the new syntax. You cannot use these, alt …
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What's not constructive about this?

I asked https://stackoverflow.com/q/16984187/1544337 yesterday or so and today I noticed it was closed as not constructive. Earlier, I already saw an NC vote, and also a too localized one. Now, there …
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Why can't I flag comments when reviewing close votes?

I understand that, since questions with close votes show up to many people, voting is disabled. Otherwise, would get way too much (negative) rep that they only get because of the close vote. However …

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