A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Can a moderator please reopen this specific question
I have an answer for the question, but the question was closed because too narrow geographically. I think this is a broadly applicable question and should be reopened; the problem is a bug in the ...
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how to email anyone help with get unbanned [duplicate]
How to email someone to get help with unbanned
How to resolve this problime
this is not answered
I do have lower writing and explaining skills
I have worked on my writing skills to get better.
How ...
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On which Site would you ask about Jet Engines?
I've looked at the mechanics site and it seems like it's more for cars; however I have a question about jet engines and there doesn't seem to be a site themed for general mechanics.
On which site ...
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Is there a way to search all of a user's suggested wiki edits?
I recently found a wiki tag review in which the editor's suggested content was completely plagiarized.
Before I got a chance to reject it the edit was already approved by three other reviewers. As ...
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request to fix the account [duplicate]
My account has been banned from posting questions. Now my question is, what should I do if I have some questions I'd like to ask right now?
As my account is blocked, I am unable to post questions, ...
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Where is the reputation list required for permissions to do stuff on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I would like to know how many reputation points I need to perform each possible task in Stack Overflow. Is there a publicly available page on Stack Overflow from where I can get this information?
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Please delete this question [ID 17275214]
I do not understand why a perfectly valid question I asked is getting downvoted:
Is it allowed in HTML5 to wrap a <li> inside an <a> tag?
Please delete the question as the website ...
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Automatic bounty award rules - open questions [duplicate]
I read the rules of implicit bounty award in the help:
If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period),
the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at
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Banned from asking questions, but I don't understand why. [duplicate]
I can't post questions any more. The error message I got says I should read this: http://goo.gl/C1Kwu
That page says that my questions and answers are very poor. I don't have hundreds of up-votes ...
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Why are moderator delete votes hyperlinks but community votes aren't?
As shown in this example, delete votes cast by moderators link to their profile but close votes cast by 10k users do not.
What is the rationale behind this?
I'm going to also tag this as a bug ...
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1answer
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Edit suggestion rejected by Community, similar edit got accepted later [duplicate]
I recently suggested edit which was rejected by the community. Edit was on question iOS Music app and play/pause audio. I highlighted important keywords and function names for better readability, got ...
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I can't review for two days after failing one audit
I was reviewing Low Quality Answers and I failed an audit (I kind of think the audit was wrong, but this isn't what this is about. Then again, I may have just made a mistake).
I was a bit shocked to ...
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Clarification on edit rejection
I recently had proposed an edit which was rejected, and I'm looking for a bit more information.
The edit was on this question: Why does appendTo() and insertAfter() change font size?
I added some ...
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1answer
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Why was this question protected when no one answered? [duplicate]
Why was this question protected when no one answered? There are no 'thanks' 'me too' answers and my answer was posted today.
Galaxy Note 1 has become slow after upgrading the phone 4.1.2
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Why can't I use my Stack Overflow account to access Android Stack Exchange?
I have a Stack Overflow account. My username is 'mdarwin' and I have the badge 'informed', whatever that means.
Now I want to ask a question on Android Stack Exchange and for some reason it doesn't ...
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1answer
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Reputation gain greater than actual rep
How can I have reputation change greater than my reputation?
What is the "change" field even for?
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delete all stack accounts [duplicate]
I am really struggling to delete my accounts, very buggy sw and i want out, please!!
Really don't know what is wrong with my grammar, maybe I should try French (re big red pop up box) I have tried to ...
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1answer
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Adfly while browsing Stack Overflow
In the last few days, I've noticed that Stack Overflow gets redirected via AdFly especially when I click on a user. Why is this being done these days? Or am I the only one facing this?
EDIT:
It ...
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What is the 'Recently Deleted Questions' page in the user profile?
On the questions tab of the user profile, there is a link that states "Deleted recent questions". This links to http://site.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/xxxxx. The title of the ...
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What does “selfclear” mean as a comment flag disposition?
I recently flagged a number of comments. I didn't just want all the comments nuked (which I know is easiest), so I flagged just the ones I thought were obsolete or should be removed. Almost all the ...
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1answer
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How to filter uninteresting questions [duplicate]
I get a lot from Stack Overflow, I want to contribute to others' questions too, but numerous .net, html questions come to the front page, while what I am good at is c and linux. How to filter those ...
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Why am I banned? [duplicate]
On the main stackoverflow I have some good rep (27)
I ask good questions and give out some good answers
I upvote answers that help me and I contribute as much as I can.
how can I lift my ban; and ...
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We used to be able to do [faq#how-to-ask], what's the alternative with the new Help Center? [duplicate]
Say I want to refer a user to /help/how-to-ask, With the older, [faq] syntax, I could have done it easily using a hash after the word "FAQ":
Please check the [faq#how-to-ask]
How can I do the ...
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1answer
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Can't edit out “Dear …” [duplicate]
I am trying to edit out "Dear Baju" in this answer. But when I click edit, somehow, "Dear Baju" is not there:
But after saving it's back again:
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1answer
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Question text disappears when I go to edit it [duplicate]
In order to preserve this state, please don't commit any edits to this question.
The question Reset AutoNumber(Identity Field) in DataBase begins with the text, "Hi All", but the editor strips ...
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Consecutive days incorrect and calendar off by 1 day? [duplicate]
My profile shows I've bee active for 1 consecutive day. I've actually been active for over a week, and its showing I was not active on Friday the 21st (today) but I was active on Saturday the 22nd ...
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Community♦ rejected my edit but another one was accepted. [duplicate]
I suggested an edit where all that I did was put code into a code tag. I did not actually change the code itself. Here is the edit that I made. I thought that it seemed reasonable since all it did ...
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1answer
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This post doesn't cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by
I was reviewing Low Quality Posts today and saw this message. Is this something new?
This post doesn't cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to ...
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On-topic post closed as off-topic
Artifactory has:
A tag on Stack Overflow
A programmable REST API
The question How do I download the latest artifact from Artifactory? was closed as off-topic. IMO, it is not. Can it be ...
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How to access history of review audits
I have just been banned from reviews for 1 month and have no idea why - I didn't fail a review immediately before the ban appeared (I've had a few fails before [mostly unfair, in my opinion]) so not ...
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1answer
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Did something just change to cause issues with [css-selectors] tag?
On two different computers, whether I put in the url string /css-selectors, or put [css-selectors] in the search or click on the css-selectors tag, they all rewrite as merely css, with the url string ...
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Where can I find out who the mods of a site are? [duplicate]
It used to be that when I went to /about I would see a list of that site's moderators at the bottom of the page. However, following all the redesigns, that information is no longer listed there. This ...
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MSO votes activity tab doesn't show closure and reopen votes sub-tabs
MSO votes activity tab in my profile doesn't show closure and reopen votes sub-tabs. Is that OK?
For comparison, votes tab in my SO profile shows mentioned sub-tabs. Comparison screen shot is below.
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Can we prettify makefile code? [duplicate]
I was wondering if there is a makefile prettify language tag that I can add to highlight variables, flags or whatever prettify is able to identify.
As mentioned in the comment by Frederic, I'm ...
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Why this answer was deleted?
In a former question I got the advice to post deleted answers here if I don't understand why they were deleted. I'm not sure how this should work as only users with enough reputation can see deleted ...
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Ask Question option is blocked [duplicate]
I have asked only few questions and I have also good points with lots of votes and accepted answers. Then also, I can't ask more new questions. When I click on Ask Question button, it displays some ...
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1answer
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Votes casts do not match
When looking at my total votes in the 'votes' tab (not the summary) on my profile on SO I saw that I had a total of 236 Votes Cast. However when I look at my badge progress of the Civic Duty badge it ...
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search for non-closed, non-duplicate questions?
I usually try to find questions where I can help. That would be an "answers:0" search (perhaps also with "votes:0" to avoid doomed questions), but that still brings many closed / duplicate questions. ...
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How much close votes does a question need to be closed? [duplicate]
I couldn't find how much closing votes an question need to be closed. Or depends it on a moderator who closes the question?
Lately I've had a question with 3 closing votes, but it wasn't closed. So I ...
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How do you escape html in answers? [duplicate]
I expect to be downvoted to hell but I'm having trouble finding the answer to this
I'm trying to write: <a href="url">
but clearly you can't see that because i can't escape it
I see now that ...
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Is it possible to delete (or make private) my chat history?
I'm wondering if there are any privacy controls or any ability to remove or hide my chat transcripts from being publicly visible.
For example, anyone may visit your profile at ...
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Flagging question as off topic - where is ServerFault option? [duplicate]
I notice a lot of questions tagged VMware should be migrated to ServerFault, but the option is not available as you can see in the picture below. Is there a way to pick what options show up here?
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What does this icon mean on suggested edits?
What does the blue icon in the picture below and its value indicate?
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Major CSS issue [duplicate]
I believe the image says everything. I've noticed this on several pages thus far.
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how do I remove my user account from SO [duplicate]
How do I remove/delete my SO account? I have looked at the menu's and cannot find anything. Can I request a manual deletion?
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1answer
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Can I use my auto-generated SO gravatar in other places? [duplicate]
I have an auto-generated gravatar as my display on SO. I wish to associate that unique, but non-descriptive, gravatar in other places (such as github). I have grown rather fond of it. Is there anyway ...
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1answer
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Created a tag with a typo, but can't change it (or suggest synonym)
I created a new tag for C/AL (Client/Server Application Language for Microsoft Dynamics NAV), which was recently approved. However, I just noticed that I have a typo. I am unable to suggest a synonym ...
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Sometimes “user was removed” is less secret than others?
Yesterday, I had an accepted answer removed on this question (10K), due to the question being removed.
It seems clear that the user was removed.
How did I track this down? Well, my reputation tab ...
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Why I am not able to ask question from my account? [duplicate]
I am not able to ask question, it is saying we will no longer accept any questions from this account? Why is it so?
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I think my question is not active [duplicate]
I asked the following question: error occur when saving image to local path ,
It seems to be inactive. That is, the view count doesn't seem to be updating. And the bounty message
question ...
