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Voting for competing answers (Sportsmanship badge)

Currently, the badge logic is: your answer has a positive score your answer isn't deleted your vote on a competing answer occurs after your answer Also, for the purposes of all vote-based badges, …
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Vox Populi badge, but no Suffrage badge?

Because some badges are more expensive to award than others, our scheduled task will only run them a certain percentage of the time. In this case, "Vox Populi" ran before "Suffrage." Check your prof …
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Someone contacted me by email but my email is not public

The user that contacted you performed a search, found your question, then visited your user page. He had no other contact with any of your other content. That's all the information our logs show. …
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consecutive days count is wrong for sure

Our web logs show that you did access Stack Overflow on March 22 three times, but all three hits were to the home page. Unfortunately, the home page doesn't count, as we require some minimum activi …
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How to get TagWikis along with their corresponding Tags?

Sam Saffron has revealed the mysteries of the data explorer to me - getting the excerpt and wiki posts associated with a tag is now possible. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/73037/g …
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Has community user gone postal?

On Server Fault, there was a spam account that had answered 5 out of the 6 questions in your screenshot, which triggered the bumping. The account's deletion caused Community to show up as the last …
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StackOverflow database collation?

Collation is currently set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS - the "why" is lost in antiquity. We'll probably change it over to a case-insensitive collation at some point, but it's not a concern right …
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Trouble voting up - broken site - where's the web admin email?

There was an issue with your account on Gardening which was preventing voting. This has been fixed. I apologize for the trouble.
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Why did the format of full-form URLs to answers change?

Looks like an unintentional regression when adding some new Teams features - a fix has been deployed.
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How should I develop a minimal example of an SO bug for an MSO bug report?

I've unprotected the Sandbox, so you can post answers now. As you've seen from your Stack Overflow question, it's never proper to create debugging questions/answers there - just confine your research …
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Inconsistency between points

Votes on negatively scored questions/answers are not migrated, so there can be a score discrepancy. As for the original question, we have a weekly task that deletes any over 30 days old, so you don't …
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My combined tag search is suddenly broken

Just to be clear, your bookmark was looking for questions: tagged [sql] and [server] or tagged [ms] and [sql] or tagged [store] and [procedure] Is this correct?
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How are questions with equal votes sorted?

Here's the code from Marc's amazing tag engine when sorting by votes, where x and y are questions: // question score desc int delta = y.Score.CompareTo(x.Score); // tie? then by aggregate answer sco …
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Massive spike in first posts?

Our daily task has been a bit constipated backed up and tonight's run removed about 13,000 old, abandoned, closed questions. Of those 13K, about 400 were the previous "first posts" by their owners - …
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Voted to close, moments later all close votes are gone, can't re-vote

You voted to close right before Gumbo did, and he immediately reopened the question, as shown in the Revisions. Your "close votes remaining" quota didn't change because when a close/reopen state chan …
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