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Indicates that the request has been satisfied through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.

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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted

Full disclosure... I lost 410 Rep on SO the other day due to a deleted user. I fully agree with the arguments made above. If the deleted votes are the result of an account merge, then it makes total s …
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77 votes

Tag-badges exploit

I'd just like to point out that I alone prophesied that this sort of thing could happen months ago in a post on uservoice. Alas, no one listened, and now you have only yourselves to blame! Oh, the ho …
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54 votes
8 answers
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Please add a way to 'bump' questions back to the front page

I've noticed quite a few questions cropping up on MetaSO (here, here, and here, for example) concerning the desire to increase visibility for old questions that may not have any answers, or just not e …
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27 votes
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Bounty badges need pretty names

EDIT: Updated now that I understand #2 and #4 better. ;) Promoter - First bounty you offered on your own question Benefactor - First bounty you manually awarded on your own question Investor - First …
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13 votes
1 answer
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The top users page and profile tag list: one or both seems wrong

As has been well-documented already (here and here, for example), the top users page for a tag will usually show fewer total answers than you've actually given for that tag since it doesn't count answ …
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20 votes

Jon Skeet's broken the C# tag stats page formatting on SO!

Even with the recent switch to k notation, it's still on the verge of breaking again! This is why we can't have nice things!
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7 votes
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Me = (probably) Idiot... Find my Enlightened Answer!

Could this be due to the voting anomaly script? Maybe you got a bunch of votes on your +8 answer that were counted as anomalies (i.e. coming from suspected sock puppet accounts, etc.) and were removed …
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7 votes
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Wrong Badge Count

When the badge script ran to award people Revival badges, it gave out a bunch for currently-deleted posts. These extra badges were subsequently removed, but the badge counts weren't changed. According …
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22 votes

Should we permanently remove the [subjective] tag?

If the [subjective] tag were removed, I imagine another equally vague tag would simply rise to take its place as a way to categorize all of the somewhat-out-of-place-on-SO questions that currently wea …
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22 votes
5 answers
551 views

Should users be allowed to remove the "Possible Duplicate" links on closed questions?

I've noticed the following happen a few times: A user posts a question. The question is closed as a duplicate and the usual "Possible Duplicate" links are added at the top. The user promptly removes …
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6 votes
Accepted

Wrong text for beta badge on meta?

Actually, that badge should probably just be removed, since there was never really a Beta for MetaSO.
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5 votes

Revival: Post is no longer available

I'm guessing the badge-awarding script runs back through all the posts and votes chronologically, awarding badges as they would have been gained had that badge always existed. Since badges are rarely …
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5 votes
1 answer
198 views

How did I manage to vote twice to close, on two separate cycles of closing?

If you look at the revision list for this question (pointed out to me by The Cat), you can see I voted to close once, then there's a bunch of deleting and undeleting, and then I somehow voted to close …
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12 votes

Age limit is too strict

It should be at least 180 to accommodate Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Huzzah!
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3 votes
2 answers
79 views

Please update the FAQ links

Now that it appears that the official parent FAQ has been migrated from SO to MetaSO, shouldn't the link to the FAQ at the end of the main FAQ page link to it instead of the stub remaining on SO? Eve …
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