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Bugs when editing long question on iPad
I am having problem editing any long answer from the web browser on iPadOS or iOS. The new Stacks editor features three modes: rich text, markdown, or markdown with preview, and none of these are ...
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The workflow for salvaging a question
I ask a poorly received question, which then gets deleted by the Community bot. I later decide I could have asked the question in a better way, so I edit the question and request undeletion via a mod ...
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Updating link on the "flag posts" privilege page in Help Center to be more informative
I recently had an answer flag declined, and in doing due diligence to try to understand why I've been reviewing many site guidelines. This revealed conflicting guidance on when to use the not an ...
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Why was my link-only answer flag declined? [duplicate]
I recently flagged this link-only answer with the "In need of moderator intervention" flag with the note: "Link-only answer". But it was declined with the note:
Declined - Using ...
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Getting "Your friendly, fear-free guide to getting started" email after turning off "Promotional"
I just switched the "Promotional" switch on https://stackoverflow.com/users/email/settings/current to off after discovering it was turned on (which I definitely did not turn on). Almost ...
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Popular JS-related question asks contradictory things in title and body
Consider this question:
How to check for an undefined or null variable in JavaScript?
The title seems pretty straightforward, but the body of the question asks for a less verbose form for the ...
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Question the tag synonym flex -> flexbox
Does the tag synonym flex → flexbox make sense when have lots of tags that contain the string flex? If we consider Adobe/Apache Flex (apache-flex, flex3, flex4, flex4.5) with more questions than ...
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Why is the [api] tag half-missing?
As far as I can tell, the tag still exists. But not quite.
I can add it to a new question:
I can also see the tag wiki, and see questions with that tag. If I check a question with the tag I can see ...
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Misrepresented revision / edit diff
I changed two single-character variable names, because those were clearly typos. Why is the revision view claiming I did substantially more changes than I actually did? If those were somehow necessary ...
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The [rest-client] tag is used for different libraries
As per the tag-description, rest-client is about ruby:
REST Client is an open-source HTTP and REST client for Ruby.
Since this is the name of a general concept and also the name of a popular Java-...
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Do we care about consent when editing other people's answers? Do we have to? [duplicate]
I just had this edit on my answer: https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/33077337/2
In the original answer, I gave a rough answer without knowing about the specific variant of programming language (BBC ...
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Staging Ground submit for re-evaluation button is not working
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: I want to interrupt a Google Sheets app script if there is incomplete data
I have a question in the Staging Ground. Whenever I try to submit for re-...
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(retag?) [audiovideoplayback] - not used to current wiki description
Background
The wiki description of audiovideoplayback describes Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback and links to that C# API (it says that might be deprecated, and if the tag still stays then someone ...
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Allow choosing multi-award badges as the next badge in the user's profile
This issue came up for me recently after reviewing questions in the Staging Ground for seven consecutive days. I was tracking the Steadfast Reviewer badge in my profile, and was slightly mystified to ...
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How to rollback bulk self-vandalised answers posted by another user?
I came across answers by the same user which were initially good answers (at least most of them), but were recently edited in bulk by the author to convert them into nonsense (putting abusive text in ...
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