A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Victim of serial downvoting banned after serial downvoting reversed [duplicate]
I was serial downvoted yesterday, today I've earned my reputation back, but I discovery that I've got banned.
Was it because of the serial downvoting?
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1answer
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Why can't I answer my own question?
My question: websharper for VS Express 2012
I wanted to answer it, but don't see the answer textbox.
Maybe rules were changed?
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2answers
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How can I find answers I've downvoted?
I'm aware I can view all of my downvotes by going here:
But there are reams of downvotes matched.
I also tried looking at the advanced search operators, but there's nothing useful there.
How ...
14
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2answers
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What are the possible alternatives to maintain separate accounts for the 'Workplace' and 'Personal Productivity' sites?
I would like to unlink my Workplace and Personal Productivity accounts from other Stack Exchange accounts. These accounts have some information to the incidents in my workplace and personal life ...
13
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2answers
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Answer edited and approved to contain a totally different answer
I answered a question 2 hours ago. When I took a look at it now, some guy edited my answer, which totally changed the answer and made it wrong. To my surprise, the edit was approved in review. To add ...
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3answers
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Posting articles and/or code
Is there any place or site in the world of Stack Exchange where people can post articles and/or code to share with the rest of the world, etc.? Possible articles and code which can be voted up and ...
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Can these accounts on Data.SE please be merged?
Normally getting accounts merged is a straightforward process that can easily be done by a moderator. However, that is definitely not the case over on Data.SE.
I have accidentally created two user ...
2
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3answers
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Why is this accepted answer not listed at the top? [duplicate]
Answer in question: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12827086/825789
I have the answers sorted by votes, but strangely the answer marked as accepted is listed last. The top answer is the one with most ...
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0answers
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Request to merge two Users Account [duplicate]
Please is possible to merge two users
Asdakamessoy
Asd
to
Asdakamessoy
because from both accouts are asked the same questions
EDIT
question(s) by Asd were deleted
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1answer
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Why is this question locked [duplicate]
The following question which was migrated from stats.stack-exchange.com, has been locked.
Book bar-code Scanner
I tried to edit the question, because It could be written as
How Can I scan and ...
1
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0answers
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Low Quality post shows as “Review completed” with all “Delete” votes, but it's not deleted?
This answer currently shows "Review completed 21 mins ago" with one "Delete" vote and five "Recommend Deletion" votes.
However, the answer is still visible on the page; how can the review be ...
1
vote
1answer
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Why doesn't my post meet quality standards?
I am trying to post this question, but it gets rejected as not meeting quality standards. What can I do to fix it?
I have a django application runnin using django cms. I am trying to
make one ...
0
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2answers
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Question incorrectly closed as duplicate
Again, I believe my question about string concat was incorrectly closed as Duplicate.
Why?
As stated in the comments:
In fairness, that is definitely not a duplicate question - it focuses on ...
1
vote
1answer
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Cannot ask a question
I have been trying for 20 minutes or so to ask a question in stackoverflow with no luck. Furthermore I have read other questions similar to this that don't apply to me as I don't have a bad reputation ...
1
vote
1answer
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How do I add a feed for a tag in a chat room?
If I want, say, all [lord-of-the-rings] posts from scifi.SE to go to my chat room, what do I do in the add feed bit? What URL do I paste there?
1
vote
1answer
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How do I find my“ vote-up” history? [duplicate]
Before, I found an answer to a problem that I had in stack overflow and I voted up for it. Now I am encountering the same problem, I recall the solution but not the syntax and I can't find it ...
1
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1answer
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Request to migrate a popular deleted question
Here's a popular graphic design related question that was closed then deleted from Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58807/can-a-programmer-become-a-decent-graphic-designer
Archived ...
2
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2answers
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Is there any way how to publish my snippets on SO?
I've written some nice and well commented code snippets I would like to publish on Stackoverflow for the others. Nevertheless I wasn't able to find out if there is even this possibility. Does anybody ...
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4answers
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Why doesn't accepting an answer count as an upvote?
When you accept an answer, it seems you should also (by etiquette?) upvote the answer. Why doesn't the checkmark count as an automatic upvote?
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2answers
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How do I add a tag to a question that someone else asked? [duplicate]
How do I add a tag to a question that someone else asked? He would get support form first party by tagging it correct. Now I am trying to earn some badges my score by adding the tags for him. Is it ...
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2answers
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Why mark perfectly constructive questions as unconstructive? [duplicate]
I've been using StackOverflow for about a year.
I've gotten used to the fact that a bunch of my completely good, legitimate and constructive questions, will first get answered, and then I will get ...
8
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1answer
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Search for not-accepted questions within my answers
I want to find all my answers to questions that don't have accepted answers. How do I do that?
Search inside my own answers gets part of the way to what I need - until the query tries to focus on ...
2
votes
1answer
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Cannot login to Stack Overflow on another computer
I am logged in to Stack Overflow on this computer. When I click my name at the top, I can see my profile and my email address. But if I try that email address on another computer to login to Stack ...
5
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1answer
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What could be wrong with this comment? [duplicate]
Yesterday, there was a comment in: Spiteful downvoting? Two fast DVs to my unrelated posts
Comment has been deleted and I would like to understand what could be wrong with it?
Per my recollection, ...
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votes
2answers
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Place to ask questions about product/service recommendations [duplicate]
Is there any place in the SE network where I can ask this question?
I'm looking for a PHP/MySQL form generator (free or paid) that meets the following specifications:
Must generate HTML, CSS, ...
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0answers
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Misspelled tag [roasal] [duplicate]
On SO, there is a misspelled tag roasal. At present, there are no questions with that tag, as all have been retagged with the correct spelling roassal. Please delete the misspelled tag or synonym it ...
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votes
2answers
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Why do stackExchange sites remove whitespace? [duplicate]
I often have to rewrite questions/answers that I or other people have written because they are reformatted between being typed and them being posted on the site. I shall use "I" to mean "I or someone" ...
8
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1answer
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Could we please update the link to the Wheel of Blame on the Tavern?
Following the link to the Wheel of Blame script welded on to the Tavern currently results in this:
Could the linked script be updated per the gentleman's request? The script is widely available on ...
10
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1answer
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Is there a way to see support tickets by using a support number?
A few days ago an user claimed in a comment that I was a confirmed jackass and bully and he "proofed" it by publishing an email he said he received from the Stack Exchange team.
This user has been ...
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0answers
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I signed up with Google account … is my Gmail private to others? [duplicate]
Just a bit worried that's all.
yup.
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0answers
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infavorites search operator is broken
I've looked for a dupe but couldn't find one, so here it goes.
There has been at least a couple of weeks since the infavorites: search operator is returning no results for me.
Test case: ...
0
votes
1answer
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Why did I receive rep points after answer accepted, even though already hit 200 rep cap? [duplicate]
I know I can only receive 200 reputation points per day.
So today I notived that I received upvotes but no reputation points.
Suddenly I DID receive points, because my answer was accepted.
How did ...
2
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0answers
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Too much spam validation?
If I start answering in the morning, everything is fine and I can just answer the questions without any delay. But at the end of my day I get more and more "spam checks" which want to validate that I ...
1
vote
1answer
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Is it possible to cancel a tag synonym suggestion?
I cannot find any information about this in Meta: Is it possible to cancel a tag synonym suggestion?
It seems that it is not, but just to confirm.
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3answers
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How can experienced people post their knowledge and new research?
As Stack Overflow serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, it provides a huge platform for questions and answers on a wide range of topics in programming.
Is there anyway through ...
3
votes
1answer
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The top tags in my profile do not reflect synonym changes [duplicate]
In my view there is a bug in tag synonyms in that if one is created, a user's profile and their statistics don't merge across.
As an example I have answered a few questions on the ssrs-reports and it ...
3
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1answer
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Working toward “copy-editor” badge [duplicate]
As I often edit posts on SO, I started wondering about the "copy-editor" badge. My profile shows "502 revisions", but didn't get the badge yet. I started looking elsewhere and according to the ...
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Who deals with a flag when you flag a moderator?
Is it possible that, when you flag a moderator's actions, they can action the flag themselves? Or does it get escalated even higher to staff? I suppose the question then is, who would deal with the ...
2
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1answer
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What is caching, and where is it used?
This is meant to be a canonical Q&A for all the caching questions we get on meta
What is caching?
Where is caching employed across the network?
Approximately how long ought it take for each ...
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2answers
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How to search for a question I viewed for? [duplicate]
I viewed for a question, but forgot to mark that question as a favorite.
I don't remember:
the user who asked the question
the question's title
The only thing I remember is that I viewed the ...
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2answers
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User quickly deletes own question once they have received an answer
I refer to:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16312257/quick-way-to-implement-these-without-using-itertools-python
How to handle these situations? Myself and one other user, have posted an answer ...
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1answer
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Closed Question Help
Link to closed question
It was a simple question of if the tImage would scale properly from iPhone to iPad.
I posted a comment that I found the solution.
I wanted to post a photo to show how it ...
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0answers
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No default syntax highlighting for questions tagged c++-cx
I noticed that this question didn't have any syntax highlighting for its code, even though the question was correctly tagged with the language c++-cx.
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2answers
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What's the appropriate Stack Exchange site for asking about setting up dual monitors?
I have tried every solution given on the Internet, as well as some tricks up my own sleeve.
Nothing works to help me "extend" my desktop and not "duplicate" it across 2 monitors.
My question is ...
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What does “transmogrify” mean?
In the last image of the privilege description of "access to moderator tools", there is a button named "transmogrify". What does it mean?
The dictionary entry makes it more confusing:
...
0
votes
1answer
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Is there a way to filter on the number of votes?
I would like to make a filter that only shows questions or questions with an answer with X or higher votes, but sorted by newest. Is this possible?
1
vote
1answer
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How can I see answered set of questions?
Usually I can see Unanswered tab in the StackOverflow so that I can see the list of Unanswered Questions. But, I was wondering if there is any way/trick to see the list of questions that are already ...
2
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1answer
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Cannot use my old account
I have been using Stack Overflow with my Facebook account. However I deleted my account. By chance my current computer still had the account on. So registered into Facebook again with different e-mail ...
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1answer
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How is the quality of a question automatically evaluated? [duplicate]
When I try to post a question without any code only using plain text on Stack Overflow, it gives me a validation error:
This post does not meet our quality standards.
OK I got it. Without any ...
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0answers
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Suspicious Login - Please try later [duplicate]
When I am trying to login to Stack Overflow, I am frequently getting the following error:
Suspicious Login - Please try later.
Till I delete all the cookies and temp files I am not able to log ...
