You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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What is the criteria to get the Socratic badge?
How is the Socratic badge awarded? I see the badge description as,
Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a
positive question record. This badge can be awarded ...
2
votes
1answer
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Problem with unwanted mobile layout in Google Chrome!
When I open this site on Google Chrome, it looks like :
Mobile and Tablet Layout
But works fine on Firefox.
All other stackexchange sites works fine on both Chrome and Firefox.
P.S:
I'm using ...
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3answers
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How to handle reviewing answers that are only comments?
When reviewing low quality posts, I often find answers of new users, that are just one line and should be converted into a Comment to the question instead (example: ...
3
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1answer
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What, after reputaton, determines the order of users on the /users page?
Yesterday I got to be exactly at the same reputation points level as another users, on the main /users -> all page.
My info showed up on the page before the user that already had that reputation ...
6
votes
1answer
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Is this a Double Post?
As I continue to earn more privileges through reputation gains, I'm beginning to broaden my posting knowledge. While watching the Review/Late Answers queue, I thought I'd check the list, and ran into ...
5
votes
1answer
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How to switch on syntax highlighting for python snippet?
I tried to highlight some code in this answer, by inserting an explicit
<!-- language-all: python -->
at the top of the file.
I also tried <!-- language: python --> just before the ...
6
votes
1answer
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Why aren’t simultaneous edits locked out (made exclusive)?
Twice today I have clicked on the “edit” link for a post,
spent several minutes working on it, and then clicked on “Save Edits”, only to be told
Another edit is awaiting approval for this post.
...
3
votes
1answer
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You're in danger of being blocked from asking any more while there is not a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts
According to the documentation:
The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned
if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or
deleted ...
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vote
2answers
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Is there a bug on StackExchange?
My Unix.StackExchange and my Stackoverflow are not updating correctly, I got some points, but they don't show up on my achievements tab. The tab "Your Communities" is also not updating correctly. The ...
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2answers
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I'm questioning my question questionability
can someone explain how is this question not a question?
How to make webpages concise?
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1answer
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Rewrite or duplicate answer in a new question?
There is this question about extracting section 9 api "manpages" from the kernel sources. The question is on hold for being unclear. If someone doesn't know that the coreutils or the kernel manpages ...
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votes
3answers
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How to make my problem solved? [closed]
I always search before asking which is my last resort. I've literally searched several hours upon this problem and all the solutions are irrelevant and/or not applicable.
What can I do to get this ...
4
votes
1answer
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Definition for Curious Badge
The explanation for the Curious Badge says "Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record"
What is "well-received" and what is a "positive question ...
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vote
0answers
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Why is linking to syslinux.com forbidden?
The other day, I tried linking to SYSLINUX and the editor told me that's forbidden.
Why?
Eventually, I linked to one of the pages under that Domain (EXTLINUX) and things were fine.
4
votes
1answer
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How to remove tag?
I accidentally created new tag while editing a question. I need to remove from this site. Is there any privileges required to do so? Or It will automatically get removed after I delete from the ...
5
votes
1answer
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Why aren't some codeblocks highlighted?
More often, I see some codeblocks like this c block or this bash block, which just aren't highlighted.
Often simple constructs like for-loops etc are, indeed, highlighted. But it looks broken.
And ...
6
votes
1answer
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How to flag (or report) a user?
Few days ago this user http://unix.stackexchange.com/users/77704/fucklinux add an answer which show his hate for Linux in a very rude way: I have flagged his answer as a rude one, and the answer was ...
0
votes
1answer
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How to create an appropriate tag that users will reference
I have been looking at tags lately on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange and I have always wondered what the general process of creating one is. Among that, I would like to know what it takes to create ...
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votes
1answer
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Why did I get -2 reputation without telling me why?
my reputation was 910 and when I refresh the page It becames 908, I have checked the achievement and INBOX and no reason is mentioned?
Note: this happened to me several times this week, even when I ...
6
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1answer
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Adopt a question
I would like to "adopt" this RHEL5 reverse tethering question, since I am looking for exact the same thing right now.
Is it possible to transfer ownership of that question to me?
Or: Should I ask a ...
3
votes
1answer
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How was my suggested edit not useful?
I just suggested an edit to the question Extracting text using sed does not work as expected. After a few minutes I checked back and found that an edit had been committed to the question. It was my ...
0
votes
1answer
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What do the 3 phases of the election mean?
The 2014 Moderator Election page states:
Every election has three phases:
1. Nomination
2. Primary
3. Election
However, there is no (complete) explanation of the phases; currently -- I presume ...
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votes
2answers
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Why there isn't enough attention for Network services questions?
This site is for Unix and Linux question and I think that Network Services configuration and management is an important part of it so why the question that related to this domain don't get enough ...
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3answers
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Please take a look at this vandalism post
It is that time of the day again. Time now is 21:00 CT. There is one particular spam post which occurs exactly around this time every day. The most annoying thing is, it happens on the same answer by ...
4
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1answer
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Why prettify mistakes `/*` as comment for “shell script”
Specifically this question. Apparently it's interpreting /* as the beginning of a comment which it isn't in any shell I known of (only JS, Java and some C-like language to my limited knowledge do ...
3
votes
1answer
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Can I nominate other people?
The Moderators Nomination have just begin and I'm so excited about this event
my questions are:
How can I know the moderators of the last year?
Can I nominate a moderator ?
Can I nominate other ...
4
votes
1answer
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Is U+L good to ask about virtualization and XEN?
I like the SE network and U+L in particular, hence this is my prefered site to ask a question. I am unsure if it is "okay" to ask about a xen virtualization related question. Any advice much ...
1
vote
1answer
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What has happened to flagging?
Maybe it's just a strange coincidence but I haven't seen any flags over the last days. Has there been a huge quality jump or one in flagging lazyness or are the mods on drugs (handling everything ...
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2answers
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Why is the number of votes not clickable on this SE site?
A few days earlier, I came to know about this feature of SO. I am not sure whether it was present earlier also or has been added recently.
The number of votes for each question/answer can be clicked ...
2
votes
1answer
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does that question show a bug in asker identity?
In the unanswered list with the most vote the top question :
Completing avfs fake directories in zsh
appears asked by Shawn J. Goff
Then when you open the question there's no answer no comment ...
3
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0answers
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change a flag (or just remove it)
I just saw an answer which was flagged as both "low quality" and "not an answer". It was a very short answer but technically correct. Thus I flagged as "invalid flags".
Afterwards I had a look at the ...
2
votes
1answer
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Horizontal line between a question and comments
On Stackoverflow there is a horizontal line between a question and comments. This is an example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22369026/how-to-remove-header-new-line-character-and
And on Unix ...
4
votes
1answer
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Where's the 'invalid flag' flag?
I joked recently here that the "Flag or disagree" button is misleading in that there is in fact no "disagree" option presented. This bugs me most, of course, when I go through the queue and see flags ...
3
votes
1answer
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Overlay of flagging data with /timeline URL?
Perhaps I'm overseeing it but is there a way to see the flagging history of a question or answer mixed in within the /timeline URL?
http://stackoverflow.com/posts/{questionid}/timeline
The general ...
2
votes
1answer
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Any way to see what accepted answer was unaccepted?
This happens occasionally where someone will mark an answer I've provided as accepted but then unaccept it within the span of today. I find it a bit annoying because I'll see my rep at one point ...
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vote
1answer
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Second bounty to Q when funding party has provided an answer: are the conditions cumulative?
The situation is as follows:
A bounty is set for 50pts by non-OP
The funding party contributes an answer
The bounty is awarded
Then you read this:
To avoid overly promotional bounties, if you ...
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vote
1answer
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When I search for debian-installer, how do I filter out questions about installing * on Debian?
firstly there does not appear to be a d-i tag or equivalent so I am operating under the assumption that all questions about the debian installer will be tagged debian but when I search for "[debian] ...
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0answers
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Site for asking questions related to mobile?
I'm looking for a site where I can discuss things related to mobile, but I couldn't find any relevant site in Stack Exchange (Did I overlook something?).
Please suggest if any relevant site is here in ...
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2answers
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I cannot log into meta while using HTTPS-Everywhere in Firefox
I am running the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox. See website here: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere .
I'm using Firefox 25.0.1 on Kubuntu 12.04.
If HTTPS Everywhere is active, I ...
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1answer
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Why did I get -10 reputation for “user removed”?
In my reputation dropdown, on the top bar, I see -10 reputation for "user was removed". When I click on it, it links to my own profile page.
Why did this happen?
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1answer
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My Q still on hold though I edited it and clarified!
May I know why this Q is still on hold although I edited it and clarified. Now the Q is too simple to understand. 1 day has passed since I edited but yet it's on hold. I had been waiting for some ...
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0answers
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Request for moderator assistance: tag lock
To help push along a tag cleanup as mentioned in
Let's clean up the GRUB tags, I do hereby ask that the grub tag be locked to disallow future questions from being tagged such, in much the same ...
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1answer
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Re-tagging merged question
So as part of my effort to waste a day and hit the daily rep count the hard way by re-tagging, I came across Bring Debian to second Position in the GRUB Menu at startup which is a duplicate (no ...
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1answer
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six characters required on tag edit
So I've been doing some disambiguation of the grub tag, replacing it with grub2 or grub-legacy as appropriate, And I have done tag only edits to just shy of fifty questions, with no problem until I ...
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1answer
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reopen question closed as duplicate
Is sudo not installed by default in Debian? was closed as a duplicate. I believe this to be incorrect in that this question deals with a more subtle problem than the question it is marked a duplicate ...
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1answer
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My thread is missing!
I had a thread mentioned below but its not present on the page that opens when I click my name on the top. Its not in the 'deleted recent questions'.
...
2
votes
1answer
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Any way to open images in a larger window?
Is there any way to make images that are included in a Q & A open in a larger view when either clicked on or hovered over? Some times I need to post a larger image than will fit, but I don't want ...
4
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1answer
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How are secret hats during the winter bash earned?
I earned a secret hat today and do not have any idea how I earned it. When I saw others with secret hats, I had the expectation that it would tell me the "secret" if I happened to earn one. This was ...
3
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1answer
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boolean tags and rss feed
I subscribe to a couple tags' rss feeds, which is cool, and I would like to subscribe to a couple others but sometimes I am only interested in some of the questions that get a tag, and would like to ...
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0answers
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Where is privilege option in unix linux stack exchange? [duplicate]
Where is that inverted triangle/arrow option which is in the old bar?
I can't find privilege option on that new top bar.
