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How should we handle posts promoting unverified mental health "cures"?
Earlier today, I came across a post (on a travel-related thread) that included a link to what appeared to be a scam—promoting an unverified "instant cure" for depression. It was off-topic, ...
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Can we stop using "yesterday" for timestamps and switch to "1 day ago" or a specific timestamp?
The "yesterday" timestamp can (often) be a source of confusion (1, 2, for example); it is likely status-bydesign that "yesterday" means "between 24-48 hours ago", rather ...
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Combined flair rep keeps changing (± ~15k rep) for months
I've noticed that my profile's combined flair reputation has been fluctuating in jumps of around 15k rep over the past few months, even setting aside the repeated absurd account suspensions. I don't ...
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Is it possible for the Community BOT question analysis to occur at the time a user tries to post their question?
Over at Worldbuilding we regularly see questions with, eventually, an attached comment from the automated Community BOT that more-or-less says, "your post doesn't meet our basic expectations for ...
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“Comment not found” error when jumping to a comment
An error message “Comment not found” is displayed if one jumps to a comment by:
clicking on a comment in the responses tab,
clicking on a comment in the activity tab,
clicking on a comment in the ...
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Cloudflare blocking Wayback Machine from archiving Stack Exchange questions
Recently, whenever I try to archive a question using the Wayback Machine, Cloudflare's been blocking the attempt:
Given that any negative impact on the Wayback Machine's ability to archive SE pages ...
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Chat allows Room Owners to delete any message
Chat is now allowing Room Owners to delete any message sent by any user in a room they own, regardless of age. An RO cannot do this from the transcript view, though.
Is this behavior intentional, and ...
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Animated avatars are back
I noticed an old account where the avatar (from their Google account) is now shown as animated pretty much anywhere I've looked (Q&A page, profile, badge page).
For the intended behavior, see ...
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What causes the difference between score and (upvotes-downvotes) in SEDE?
As far as I can tell, there are some posts in SEDE where you get different number from Posts.Score and different number if you count upvotes and downvotes from the Votes table.
However, as you can see ...
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Networkwide search seems to be ignoring the recent questions
I wanted to find whether some specific recent issue was discussed also on some per-site-metas.
So I tried to search with the restriction using creation date. To my surprise, the search did not return ...
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Should we be closing completed bug reports/feature requests about deprecated software as "No longer reproducible"?
We've recently had some folks going through some of our older questions that are tagged with now-deprecated software tags (e.g. ios-app/android-app) and voting to close them as "No longer ...
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Prevent an answer being accepted if pending SPAM or "rude or abusive" flags
The following sequence occurred on Server Fault:
A question with gibberish was posted by a new user, and I flagged as rude or abusive as soon as saw it in line with What makes something rude or ...
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Where should I post questions related to the reliability and accuracy of certain Internet sites?
I want to upload a question related to the reliability and accuracy of sites or social media on the internet, but I don't know which site on Stack Exchange to upload it to.
Where should I post ...
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Chat search seems to be broken
I don't know when exactly it started, but I noticed this morning that the search function in chat seems to be broken, returning 0 results found every time. I have tried with many different rooms and ...
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"Hang on, you can't upvote just yet." -- so is my vote saved or not?
I've been using the forums for years, and I've always been prompted "You can't vote but your vote is saved" or something similar when I've upvoted a question or answer. It was reassuring ...
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