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What does the symbol ; }) mean?
; }) is removed.
As to what it means: Obviously it is a winking smiley face with a mustache
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The tour link has disappeared from the help menu in the top bar
Update: the fix is live across all sites. Thanks for the report and for your patience.
This was an unintentional regression. We're working on getting a fix pushed out right now. Will update when ...
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Please add some basic guidance on voting to the tour
In general our systems are very complex and we want to give information when it's timely. As such, we've added this information to the vote up page as requested in this feature request - Informing new ...
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Will the old "about me" message be affected by these recent pronoun usage rules?
The code of conduct says:
Be inclusive and respectful.
Prefer gender-neutral language when uncertain.
Since the system doesn't know the user's gender, it reverts to the gender-neutral 'them'.
GlorfindelMod
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Tour for SE: Question upvote score +5 is not updated to +10
A fix for this went out with the last build.
Surprisingly, pretty much all other code accounts for the dynamic nature of reputation rewards (even if this is the first exercise of that in years). ...
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Document pronoun policy debate exclusion from scope
You seem to have read that sentence out of context.
This post here is the place to talk through that. For ease of voting and responding, please limit each answer to one specific concern.
However, ...
reneMod
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Document pronoun policy debate exclusion from scope
This was only applicable for that question specifically, as it was meant for a request for clarification, not let's fight some more about the policy. This is how request for clarification threads seem ...
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Remove misleading statements from the blog and the tour pages
In light of how the company acts for example by taking down bounties without notice, I change direction in this answer slightly. My tolerance for suffering marketing speak consisting of half-truths (...
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How can I find the revisions history for the help center?
This is (for me) a working list of revisions for https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic. It'll show a 404 for non-moderators. The post ID, 183227, is nowhere to be found on that page, so there's ...
GlorfindelMod
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Do we want the "Voting is different on meta sites" content to match the reality?
Yes, the Meta Stack Exchange tour should be changed. At least it should include a link to What is Meta Stack Exchange, and how does it work?, more specifically to Voting, the answer about voting.
From ...
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What happened to the tour?
The tour is hidden from a certain amount of reputation I believe. If you start as a new user you will see it. Here a screenshot from Stack Overflow:
On MSE you can find the Tour link in the ...
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Clicking welcome notification on international Stack Overflow sites incorrectly opens English Stack Overflow tour page
Looks like it's a notification generated by English Stack Overflow, otherwise it'd say "Добро пожаловать на сайт Stack Overflow на русском".
Viewing the message on SOru is what drives the ...
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Is there a reason behind the number of badges owned by John Doe in the tour page?
It's (probably) a random, and rather poor example. It is practically impossible to get a hundred badges with such a low reputation, unless you give a lot of reputation away with bounties. Most users ...
GlorfindelMod
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Still HTTP links in /tour on various sites
♦ moderators can edit that blurb of text; if they haven't done that, a boilerplate one (based on the site name and topic) is shown, unless the site is old enough to not have this feature. The link in ...
GlorfindelMod
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A weird sample question on the tour page
TL;DR - can't see any bug or problem here.
stackexchange.com is the portal of the whole network. This is not a Q&A site on its own.
So, being "on topic" is not relevant there.
As can be seen ...
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How many Stack Exchange sites are there?
To get an updated count, you can run this query on Data Explorer
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1019093/how-many-stackexchange-non-meta-sites-are-there
SELECT count(name) FROM ...
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What determines the questions available for selection in the tour page?
To formalize the proper criteria, as per the query linked in the other answer: in order to appear as an eligible choice for the Tour page, a question must:
Be less than or equal to 400 characters in ...
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Remove stray text URL from tour answer
Found the errant piece of code and removed it.
With you in the next build.
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Add a button to the tour
Have you tried signing up or logging into an area? Stack Exchange is designed to learn about these features as you discover them through a "just-in-time learning" experience.
You nailed exactly why ...
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On which site was the default example question in the tour page asked?
I believe it's an intentionally made-up question that exists only in the /tour page.
First, unicorn is a fantasy creature that does not really exist in this world.
Second, given the tags on that ...
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Could or should the "search first, ask question later" principle be made more prominently visible?
First-time askers are presented with a “modal” message that says to check if the question has been asked already. Sites can modify this to a certain extent, but the sentence about checking before ...
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The tour wastes too much time on unspecific stuff
I think that this is something that you should take up with the moderators of that particular site via writing a Meta Q&A on that site's Meta.
The Tour of the GIS Stack Exchange has been ...
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Historically locked question reaching Hot Network Questions via vote manipulation
I think it's definitely a good idea to exclude closed posts and locked posts from the HNQ list. It's not really a bug to toss over the fence but I'll put the idea up for review and we can get that ...
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No badge for taking the Stack Exchange tour?
stackexchange.com is not a Q&A site. It has no reputation and no badges. It only serves as kind of "portal" to the rest of Stack Exchange network of sites.
The profile linked there is known as "...
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Reminding experienced but un-Informed users via comment that Tour contains important information?
IMHO, telling an experienced user to read the Tour is not necessary and is unlikely to be helpful. As this answer says, the Tour is designed for new users, not users who have been around for a while:
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Help Center header seems to have gone missing
Almost no one ever clicked that link if they already had an account; heck, barely anyone clicks it period, but at least anonymous viewers manage to break 2%, while less than half a percent of logged-...
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Moderators should be notified if the tour reverts to the unicorn question
While there would be benefits to having a feature specifically for this purpose, there is one feature that mods can use as a workaround: The "follow" button. Use it on the question and its ...
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Animations are missing in the Tour page
Yep, the animations are gone. I had to remove them because they were calculated with exact pixel values using ancient, rigid JavaScript. The approach to the animation wouldn’t work in a responsive ...
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Could or should the "search first, ask question later" principle be made more prominently visible?
I agree that you have identified a weakness in the question flow which is likely to befuddle newcomers and intermediate users who have not asked many questions.
The Stack Exchange network has almost ...
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