Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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1answer
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How to use backticks at the beginning and the end of inline code blocks?
I need to use backticks at the beginning and the end of an inline code block.
I have tried:
using multiple backticks
using multiple backticks with space character between them
using <pre> ...
7
votes
1answer
93 views
Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden
Inline code inside spoiler markup is never hidden.
>! Text is hidden but `code` is not.
(Used in the wild here.)
4
votes
1answer
20 views
An extra dot in the tour of the site
The "elevator pitch" of this site in the tour has a typo: the first sentence ends with two dots..
The reason is that the string describing the audience of the site ends with a period, which it ...
6
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0answers
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Leave double quotes in title alone [migrated]
Double quotes " in titles are rewritten to their non-ASCII slanted versions “…”. This is highly inappropriate on a site where quoting is an important matter. Double quotes in titles are often the ...
2
votes
0answers
20 views
Underline appears between reputation graph month names on hover
On my profile page, when I hover over the reputation graph, an underline appears between the month names. I'm using Chrome 44.0.2403.157 on Windows 10.
1
vote
0answers
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Accepting an answer from a question migrated from another site
I am the OP for this famous question. It was originally posted to ServerFault.com. After 4 years of existence, I think it is time to accept an answer. Turns out that I cannot. Is this by design or a ...
2
votes
0answers
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Question title mangled in “Hot Network Questions” [closed]
I was browsing another stack exchange community (space, if it makes a difference) and a unix question with mangled title appeared in the Hot Network Questions list.
Question: Add path to $PATH if not ...
8
votes
0answers
34 views
Weird double-underline for links to answers in user profile
I noticed some rather odd behavior when moving the cursor over links to answers displayed in my user profile:
I opened Firebug to see if I could determine exactly what was going on here. The cause ...
1
vote
1answer
27 views
Why did I get multiple awards for each tag edit?
I edited two tags: satellite and katello but it seems that I got +2 reputation twice for each edit:
Any ideas why?
12
votes
0answers
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Thumbs down for the Ads
For the last couple of weeks I have been diligently, like one of Skinner's pigeons, giving the thumb's up or thumb's down to the various SE network ads that appear in the right sidebar.
Why? Because ...
1
vote
0answers
12 views
Posting an answer triggers the “Confirm that you want to leave” dialogue
For the past few days (since the new profile pages came out, I think), each time I try to post an answer on U&L, I get this dialog when I click on "Post your answer":
If I choose "Stay on page" ...
3
votes
0answers
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Floating votes tab on new profile page
I just noticed that there is a ‘votes’ tab under the regular tab bar on the activity tab of my own profile.
The following screenshots are from Chromium 41 on Arch Linux:
Summary tab:
Tags tab:
...
5
votes
1answer
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Review a minor suggested edit
I just reviewed a suggested edit:
My first reaction was: what invisible edit was made to the text ( e.g. insert <BR>) to get this minimal edit in the queue. Then I noticed I had seen that ...
2
votes
0answers
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markdown bug in URLs inside italic (with underscore)
Markdown issues:
_http://example.com_
gives
http://example.com
(italic but no hyperlink) and:
_anything http://example.com_
gives:
anything http://example.com
Hyperlink but with a trailing _ ...
3
votes
1answer
48 views
4
votes
0answers
100 views
cannot log into chat
Can something be done to enable me to log into unix.stackexchange chat?
When I am logged into unix.stackexchange, I sometimes click on links to join chat, either within the comments of a posting, ...
0
votes
2answers
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strange question closing (after “leave open”)
I just had a look at the close review queue history and noticed something strange:
The question
Unable to connect to RHEL client release 5.6 (Tikanga)
is on hold but cuonglm was the last one voting ...
1
vote
0answers
15 views
Possible changes highlighting/rendering bug in Edit Review page
So, this is an edit I just got approved a few minutes ago: http://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/73579
I see a very minor discrepancy that may still be a bug though.
First, the ...
12
votes
2answers
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stackexchange.com is sending me unsolicited packets (and consequently gets blocked by firewall)
I am using a rather restrictive firewall on my machine, mostly to block potential port scanning. If any IP address sends me a unsolicited packet (packet that is not a response to my query) the IP ...
1
vote
1answer
31 views
Have to use chromium to ask questions on meta
My favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox and it works fabulously on most of the stackexchange sites but somehow that does not work in meta, i.e. the profile does not get transferred and I remain as a ...
2
votes
2answers
42 views
review queue notification not getting refreshed
My review notification screen currently tells me that there are 4 total items awaiting reviews as seen in this below screenshot.
However, after I go to the review queue, I could see that there are ...
1
vote
1answer
27 views
Clicking on a vote number does not split into up and down vote counts
On SO, clicking on the number of votes a question or answer has causes it to split into separate up and down vote counts. This is not done here on unix.stackexchange.
6
votes
1answer
32 views
Font too small for code sections in headlines
In a headline, sections marked as code use a font that is too small compared to the font of the headline.
Actually, the font size for code sections in title seems to be just the same as used for code ...
2
votes
2answers
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Header size on new user pages
The new user page is live. Rejoice!
However, the headers look odd here:
The ones with links within them are too big, so they run into the text below them, except for Reputation, which is too small ...
4
votes
1answer
43 views
Unable to rollback to the current revision - on previous rev
I was trying to roll back to revision 2 of a question because, in revision 3, code formatting was introduced inappropriately in multiple places and I did not want to start editing from there, and at ...
1
vote
2answers
58 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
42 views
Community user reputation reported as 3
How come this community user has a reputation of 3?
http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community
Is this a bug? I see the community user as not a person and generally has the reputation as ...
4
votes
1answer
34 views
Why do titles containing “..” remove these dots
An example would be here. I had to exchange the original double dot .. in the title with `..` in the question title.
Why does SE remove the double dots in a question title?
1
vote
1answer
34 views
What determines what is the oldest question?
I answered a question this morning, and after finishing my edit, did see that it was answered by someone else with very similar information, 2-3 minutes later. I briefly thought about commenting on ...
5
votes
2answers
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Why is New Relic advertisement sticky?
10 out 10 refresh/page change on UL have the New Relic advertisement in the sidebar. Seems like the normal Community ads, and non-community ones aren't appearing at all.
Is this really expected?
3
votes
1answer
42 views
The syntax highligher for this js script seems to have a bug for the code after the */ [duplicate]
Regarding this question, seems all stuff after the /* was grey-ed, with or without finding the matching */.
2
votes
2answers
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New users posts review count calculation
Suppose if I see a first post asked by a new user, I can use the edit button under the question and make the edits. Something as seen below.
However, in the review queue, we have an option as ...
6
votes
0answers
26 views
The blog link still points to the main Stack Exchange blog
Even though the blog is online, the "blog" link in the top bar dropdown still points to blog.stackexchange.com. It should be fixed.
1
vote
1answer
50 views
Bug with tag selection when featured question selected
today I face this page:
If you look carefully you will not see the featured question tab on this screen, and it just make me click back and reclick on the link I used and same error...
Step to ...
2
votes
2answers
104 views
Strange color on buttons?
It seems the buttons have a strange color that doesn't match anything else on the site.
8
votes
1answer
33 views
Change “MacOS” to “OS X” in the help center
I was reading through the On-Topic page of your help center and noticed this line:
The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)
Which was what I ...
3
votes
1answer
29 views
Can't close as duplicate with no answers
In the Review Queue, I came across a question where Gilles had already voted to close as a duplicate: the question and the duplicate.
However, when I attempted to vote to close, I was asked to select ...
1
vote
1answer
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invalid flag: declined
I just had a look at my flag history. There are several points I don't understand.
These are not flags which I have "created" but such which I have handled in the flag queue.
There was this answer ...
0
votes
1answer
22 views
Login loses the question page
Here on Unix, login is not as smooth as on other sites on the Stack Exchange network.
I was on this question page :
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name.
I ...
1
vote
1answer
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Where is my badge…? :-S
I was looking forward to my Strunk & White (funny: not even my dictionary knows that word...) badge. It says: "Edited 80 posts"
The users list says I have 100+. Is that limited to certain kinds ...
2
votes
0answers
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@ user addressing in comments doesn't work sometimes
I have noticed that several times recently, just now with this question.
I start a comment and want to address the OP. I write "@" and start typing the name but the autocompletion doesn't appear. ...
1
vote
0answers
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:hover { border-bottom } on “Related” list in questions causes list to “jitter”
Just a quick note to say that (using Chromium 31.0.1650.57) the a:hover { border-bottom: ...; } attribute on the items in the Related list shown when viewing any question pushes all links below the ...
3
votes
2answers
46 views
bug in tag alias?
Today I tried to ask a question with tag regex and got rejected with:
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
Creating the new tag [regular-expressions] is not allowed since the tag ...
0
votes
2answers
45 views
references to FAQ
Now that the FAQ seems to have been transformed into 'help' there are a few problems with the analytical badge description.
That description both refers to 'FAQ' which should now be 'Help` or 'Help ...
5
votes
1answer
84 views
Font discrepancy between badge pages
When I look at the Great Answer and Great Question badge pages, there appears to be a significant discrepancy between the font and point used to display the question, despite it being the same ...
1
vote
1answer
57 views
The site does not work with black black background
The default browser window doesn't need to be white.
And if your default color is black it's hard to work with the site.
screenshot
1
vote
1answer
17 views
False Flag Highlights
The introduction of the new, spiffy top bar has bought with it a recent bug.
The highlight for flags now sits there, glowing bright yellow, urging me to atend to the task of weeding through the flags ...
4
votes
0answers
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google chrome closes comments during spell checking
I prefer not to use the mouse when typing, I'm using the keyboard. (typing with the mouse is no fun.) I tend to think faster than I type so I sometimes get letters out of position. Spellchecker to the ...
2
votes
1answer
29 views
Missing reputation tab on meta.unix.stackexchange.com account page
I seem to be missing the reputation tab on my http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com account page, and options to view specific information about this subject through dropdown that is displayed by click ...
0
votes
1answer
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“deleted recent questions”
There's a link at the bottom of the questions tab on a user's profile page that reads "deleted recent question". That doesn't seem like correct English; it should say "recently deleted questions".
