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Display tags in/near question title?
Seems we are not allowed to inorganically include tags within titles, for example "jQuery: How to append to an element?". When displaying questions, what if the tags were moved to be displayed next ...
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Allow sorting questions in the featured tab by favorite/ignored tag
Please consider letting us order featured questions in a way that is based on your list of favorite and ignored tags:
Favorites-First Sort - orders questions that have one or more tags among your ...
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As a moderator, viewing deleted comments on a post causes its "add comment" link to disappear
Now that deleted comments are displayed beneath a post instead of in a separate page when I click to view them, doing so causes the "add comment" link for the post in question to disappear until I ...
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How does one know if a question is already answered [duplicate]
Sometimes when i ask a question, i get a response that the question is already answered with a link to the answer. How does the answerer know it? I means he cannot manually go through the Q&A ...
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Please add language specific selective copy to code fragments
If the poster has copied from the user interface, especially in interactive languages such as Python lines entered by the user will start with either >>> or ... while lines of responses and ...
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How are community promotion ads counted?
I was checking the community promotion ad stats at Physics meta. I found that each click of mine counts in the Total clicks. I thought the total clicks is based on each IP address. But, it's not.
I ...
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What can I do about downvotes cast in retaliation? [duplicate]
A user posted an answer on Stack Overflow which was incorrect.
I downvoted it (and upvoted the other correct answer besides my own), and told him why I downvoted it, and he proceeded to downvote my ...
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Careers Sidebar does not display any jobs
Currently the Careers sidebar on Stackoverflow is showing up empty. In the console, I see the following:
GET http://careers.stackoverflow.com/gethired/js 500 (Internal Server Error)
The details:
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A comment box to verify suspected plagiarism when reviewing
I created a tag and wrote wiki content on it.
It was approved, however, I notice one of the reviewers rejected it as:
This edit plagiarizes content from an external source without proper
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Judging if a Retag is a Minor Edit [duplicate]
I've just found my access card to the suggested edits review queue, and find that there are a lot of low-rep retag edits in the queue thanks to this: Kill the Retag option, use just Edit
Now, as far ...
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SO's access to linkedIn when importing to Careers 2.0
When importing linkedIn to my Careers profile I get asked whether I accept the access to my profile requested by SO.
These include:
Your profile overviewName, photo, headline, and current positions
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Deleting an earlier comment while composing a new one clobbers the new comment
What Happens
Deleting an earlier comment on the same post while composing a new one causes the new comment composition to be canceled and the text being entered to be irretrievably lost.
As a ...
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Relation between [windows-scripting], [batch-file] and [cmd] tags [closed]
Which of the windows-scripting, batch-file, and cmd tags should be used when?
Common questions with these tags are ones about some code snippet that could work interactively in the command prompt (...
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Stack Overflow poor question quality patterns?
I made a simple web app that 'lints' SO questions. It basically points out a lot of common problems that lead to questions being closed, and potential solutions.
I think it should be linked in the ...
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Some detail on @Username: why doesn't Stack Overflow write a link to the referred user? [duplicate]
I've read the post How do comment @replies work?, but I am not sure I understood how to refer correctly to a user, for example, Sha Wiz Dow Ard. If I got it right, I have to write @ShaWizDowArd ...
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