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Did we change the voting button formatting?
This was an intentional change by SE to "graduate" the voting button styles across the network. You can see the main meta post for it here: We are graduating the updated button styling for ...
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Profile name has changed unexpectedly?
I checked your user history page (visible only to moderators) and it shows an "edit displayname" event on 2023-05-20 04:09:35Z where your username was changed from NJohnny to user92109.
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Should closed questions return to the front page?
The only questions filtered from the home page are either historically locked, heavily downvoted (less than -3 on main or -7 on metas), or deleted. All other questions will show up on the home page ...
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Where's the duplicate?
It's a serious bug, but already reported on main meta and devs are looking at it:
Closed as a duplicate, but the duplicate list is empty?
Here's hoping it'll be fixed as soon as possible.
In the ...
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A question was chosen as a Hot Network Question simultaneously 26 times, according to the revision history
This is a (well-)known bug, see my Meta Stack Exchange question Very hot network questions found. Staff is aware of it, but the priority is
Very low since it doesn't appear to affect actual ...
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Why is this Community Wiki answer branded with a deadname?
When a Community Wiki post is created or edited, a copy of the primary author’s username is stored. Therefore, it won’t be changed by that user updating their name (or deleting their account).
Only an ...
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Why can't I add the Origins tag to my question?
The tag origins is a synonym for history-of. So if you tag a question with origins it will be automatically converted to history-of.
If you view the page for questions tagged history-of and click on ...
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Will the moderator who has been deleting my comments kindly contact me?
Just so everyone knows what we're talking about, here's the full list of comments from this answer:
Was it Garthe who had the singing career? – Mark Bannister Nov 14 '11 at 11:04
@MarkBannister, no, ...
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Why do I have more flags available?
The base amount of flags per day is ten but you get more per day as a reward for having more reputation or good flagging history - up to 100 total flags per day.
If you read the flagging privilege ...
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Is there any reason why I was randomly awarded bounty rep by Community?
Those bounties were awarded by a user who has since deleted their account. You can see from the revision history of the question that it was the user now known only as user112267 (the question OP). ...
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Why is fez's reputation showing up as -202 on the "Users" page?
You're looking at the reputation of the users in this calendar month, August. Since this user gave a bounty, their reputation in the last month has fallen.
Due to the numbers, it's evident that they ...
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What prevents someone from tagging users in comments?
From the main meta post on how comment mentions work:
Who can be notified with this feature?
The author of the post.
Note that the author of the post will always be notified of any new ...
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Number of new inbox items is almost never correct
The red number is the total number of new items. However, if you have multiple answers or multiple comments you got on a single post, it only displays the most recent one in your dropdown inbox. This ...
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White background covering up the stars background when viewing a question
Thanks for reporting. We've already fixed that in our development environment so this should be live in next couple hours.
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Links to book series on Amazon are being mangled
This appears to be a (replicatable) bug, relating to the auto-insertion of Amazon links by Stack Exchange.
Until it's fixed, there's a simple workaround. Use a URL shortening service (like TinyURL ...
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Is it a bug when pending edits by myself appear near the review button?
No this is a known caching issue and status-bydesign.
Quoting Shog's answer:
Caching. And some complicated eligibility rules.
Most of the time, the top bar will indicate what's still TO DO ...
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What is this no-change edit? How did it happen?
The edit description says "edited tags". I'd assume that the editor added/removed a tag which no longer exists and therefore doesn't show up in the edit history.
A little sleuthing confirmed my guess....
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Shouldn't the Private Beta link be removed?
That page in the help centre isn't editable even by mods. Removing the irrelevant link would require an SE employee.
Also, the "How to Ask in Private Beta" link seems to be on every SE site, even ...
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Only adding 4 tags, complaining about more than 5?
It’s the underscore that’s causing the problem. It doesn’t seem count as a valid “word separator” for tags so “Conrad” and “Stargard” are counting as two different tags. You can see this even more ...
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The site turned orange
It’s a bug and is getting fixed now. See the main meta post on it:
A fix is getting deployed now. We’ve got a new theming API in Stacks that was leaking a bit. Funnily enough, all the themes we ...
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Any reason the site starts to talk in Russian to me?
Firstly, congrats on being able to create tag synonyms! And thanks for the report! I've fixed this to correctly provide per site translations for the privilege help text.
The explanation is basically ...
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Is there any reason why I was randomly awarded bounty rep by Community?
There were 2 500 rep bounties placed on the question and apparently awarded to your answer by the same user, the one who asked the question. However, in between the bounties being awarded and you ...
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Markup glitch: “Tagline to show on mouseover”
This is because the person who posted the ad on our Community Promotion Ads page didn't include a proper tagline other than the generic one. Here's his post in edit mode:
I just edited the tagline to ...
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Mismatched icons?
This would appear to be the same issue as what has been highlighted on SO meta recently. This question explains the same issue as yours: I'm seeing the wrong site icons in my profile page and from ...
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Two different icon shapes for linked/related questions in sidebar
This is status-bydesign (I think)
From the source of the webpage, we see that the accepted answer divs have the class
<div class="answer-votes answered-accepted default">8</div>
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Not receiving any reputation change notifications
There was an issue with some of the reputation messages going to the achievements drop down - the initial fix helped, but did not resolve the root issue, which is why you have seen the issue come back....
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Strunk and White progress link leads to 404 page
The button is gone, so this is no longer a problem:
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SSL Certificate Still Invalid
Meta links have been switched to scifi.meta.stackexchange.com, and now have a valid HTTPS certificate. See this post on main meta. This should probably be status-completed now (but my flag requesting ...
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Need more contrast on the close screen
After a lot of design changes to the site, this is no longer an issue.
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