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Button for issuing a review warning or suspension does not work
The button Choose a message template in the Moderator Tools "Issue review warnings and suspensions" page does not work. Instead of proceeding to the next step, nothing happens and the ...
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Could I get a mod to protect a question against deletion? (popular question, 4/5 delete votes)
I googled "git clone specific branch" and found How do I clone a specific Git branch?, which is closed as a duplicate of How do I clone a single branch in Git?
It has 4 delete votes ...
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What to do with answers that address the title but don't actually help the OP?
Ideally the title would always concisely and accurately describe the core of the question, but in practice that is not the case. Unfamiliarity, imprecise wording, and wrong deductions mean that askers ...
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A small blue dot appears all of a sudden in every question in my custom questions list
I opened the Stack Overflow site as normal today and realized that there is a small dot that prefixes every question. What does it stand for? If there's an announcement somewhere before any new ...
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Why highlight of questions with favorite tag has disappeared recently? [duplicate]
Recently (probably several weeks now) I don't have anymore highlight of questions with my favorite tags.
In below screenshot all top 4 questions contains at least one of my favorite tags (powerbi, ...
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Criteria for Protocol Questions
To program a code from a Protocol such as those defined in RFC, we need to dig in the details of the protocol specification and need to ask questions to understand. Please clarify the criteria what ...
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Why did my question have to be deleted?
This is a followup to my question What is the problem with my question? How can I improve it? that was too broad and was closed.
Version 3 of my main question write and run unit tests after concurrent ...
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A Gamified Coding Challenge Feature for Stack Overflow? We Want Your Feedback!
I’m Tom, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Stack Overflow. I first joined in 2015 when Joel was running the show, spent a few years here, and then boomeranged back in 2021. I primarily support ...
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Close as duplicate
I would like to close this as a duplicate of this, not because it doesn't follow guidelines.
I think the former question is one of the first search results it opo ups on Google for "python ...
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What happened to free vote-based advertising for Open Source projects?
I discovered this blog post and then learned that you have to filter posts by [open-source-advertising] and go to the relevant advertising period. Problem is, most recent period seems to be for 2021. ...
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Rename [coq] to [rocq-prover]?
Disclaimer: I have no idea about Coq or Rocq Prover, I stumbled upon this subject while reviewing a suggested tag edit.
This is as much a question as a proposal.
I noticed there had been a proposed ...
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How to post a screen shot [duplicate]
I can see that when posting a question for help, some users have included a screenshot. I am not able to include one, but can only describe my excel worksheet instead of showing it in an image.
Is ...
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Discussions learnings and potential next steps
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This post follows on the learnings from the Comments experiment. We’re taking a specific look at what we saw in Discussions and detailing some observations.
We’re proposing a further experiment ...
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What We Learned About Follow-up Questions and What's Next
TL;DR: Our recent comment experiments concluded, and we gained valuable insights: Users want to say thanks, and ask follow-up questions on existing answers. We know that current options aren't ideal ...
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Are comments occasionally/frequently cleaned up without a concrete reason?
On the Ask Ubuntu network site, there is a policy of deleting old comments if the moderators do not feel like they are important enough, and they decide the comments made by users are a distraction to ...
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