Unanswered Questions
321 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Adding a link with a space in front causes the link to not work
When you paste a link into the "Insert Hyperlink" box, it adds it automatically as a citation link:
[Example 1][1]
[1]: http://example.com
But when you paste a link starting with a space , it ...
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More info on "For more info visit Meta" required
The current wording for content dispute notices is:
This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being
resolved. For more info visit meta.
To me, the emphasised part isn't ...
CommunityBot
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Does restricting the number of links for new users do any good?
New users with 1 rep face the following restrictions on all SE sites:
What are the new user restrictions?
New users cannot:
post images
post more than two hyperlinks at a time, either ...
CommunityBot
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Help readers understand what "link-only answer" is in canned comments sent from Low Quality queue
I noticed that the canned link-only answer message is currently plain text, while some other messages have links helping reader better understand used concepts.
For example, current message for not an ...
CommunityBot
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Prevent 0 character links
SmokeDetector drew our attention to this former spam post on Biology Stack Exchange. Here's a screenshot of how it looked like:
At first, I thought it was just another 'not an answer' post, but one of ...
GlorfindelMod
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Temporarily block (disable) links in spam-flagged posts
Today there was a spam post (copy for <10k users) to Science Fiction & Fantasy whose purpose appeared to be to induce people to click a malicious link. At least one user did:
First of all, ...
SpevacusMod
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Given that Stack Exchange no longer adds its referral code to rewritten Amazon links, can we get rid of the link rewriter?
tl;dr: There is very little, if any, purpose to maintaining the current rewriting and redirecting mechanisms for Amazon links in Stack Exchange posts, since the redirecting mechanism no longer adds SE ...
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Prevent Markdown links from escaping the tilde character (~) on Stack Exchange
When Linking to a Text Fragment, :~:text= is used as part of the URL to identify text to highlight:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/370143/#:~:text=to%20identify%20text%20to%20highlight%3A
When ...
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Links in E-Mails look like phishing
Stackexchange started to use URLs in E-Mails, that look like phishing and have nothing to do with the real stackexchange domains.
Example:
<a
href="http://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/wf/...
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Be able to specify a particular room in the chat magic link
From Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments there are several very useful magic links that show up in comments. In particular, there's [chat].
[chat] – link to the current site's ...
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A bot script needs to be run to convert meta.[site] URLs to [site].meta URLs
The Community bot already ran through posts to convert internal http:// links to https://, which is great, but it needs to be run one more time: this time, it needs to convert links of this format:
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Make visited post titles a more distinct color on Meta.SE
When you visit a post (eg. from /questions or from the home page), the link to that post is changed to be a different color to mark that you've visited it.
The benefit of this is that it visibly tells ...
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Block fumacrom.com from appearing in posts
The domain "fumacrom.com" is an alias for "adf.ly", which I just came across as a spam link on Stack Overflow. Since we already have adf.ly on the blocklist, we should add fumacrom....
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Can we have a "toast" notification when visiting a direct link to a deleted answer/comment?
Background:
Because users with <10k reputation cannot see deleted posts, visiting a link to a deleted answer, silently opens the parent question without a clear indication that the linked answer ...
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A Theory of Moderation page not found in Stack Apps tour page
In the Stack Apps tour page,
the A Theory of Moderation link leads to a 404 error:
Red marked line in picture:
Reason is that the URL is not rendered, and is showing the raw https://stackapps.com/...
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