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Corrupted migration?

This has been resolved. We were performing some testing on Post Notices and in doing so we found this bug in the migration process. This bug has been fixed and there should be no more weird ...
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8 votes
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Trivial off-site link answer converted to comment but answer not deleted

Given that the answer is newer than the comment and answers automatically converted this way don't actually leave any deleted answers behind, what likely happened here is that the user posted two such ...
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Question posted an hour *after* the *most recent visit* by the OP

The profile page is heavily cached, and doesn't update as quickly as the question page. You can blame caching or magic, but I'd go with caching.
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Spurious double grant of "Steward" badge

The rules are being changed; you're getting one Steward badge for every 1,000 reviews in a queue. See this comment by Stack Exchange staff member @animuson: There's supposedly an announcement about ...
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Error with link text at the bottom of the post

Works on my machine Perhaps specify your OS / Browser / any extensions you use.
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How does rep calc work when nearing the 200 daily rep cap?

This comes down to a display oddity that occurs when there is an unupvote that takes place. The unupvote shows that is happened today because that's when the event took place, but the vote and ...
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5 votes
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What's the best way to intermingle code within lists?

You need more indentation :) This: 1. Try this query: select * from table where formatting = 'well-nigh'; 2. Or try this query: select * from table ...
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Featured Text links highjacked

I ran your post through MarkdownSharp and the tilde was not encoded during the rendering from markdown to HTML. So the problem is likely elsewhere on the server side. Hopefully an SO dev will come ...
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Is there a redirect bug on migrated questions?

When I open the SO link while not logged in, I end up at the "wrong" question, the one you linked first, i.e. ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for RDBMS instance However, when ...
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I have earned a badge but it is not showing anywhere

I know it's exciting to be the first person to earn the Socratic badge, but let's wait the recommended 24 hours before panicking too much. It's taken at least 100 days to earn, so 1 more day shouldn't ...
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Wrong shortcut key information in Help Center

Thanks for catching this! A fix has been pushed and will be live with our next production build!
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New mobile navigation got vertical scroll bar

Seems to have been restored at 17:48 UTC, January 23. See here more information: What happened to the top bar and it's restored now on meta.SE Quoting from the accepted answer by Shog9: There's a ...
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Unable to add comments for posted question due to javascript error

Debugging If you open up the Developer Console (F12) in Chrome and switch to the sources tab, you will find that some portions of the sites you are visiting are being serviced from different domains ...
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Rendering/markdown bug with bullet and code formatting

Thanks for reporting. This is indeed an issue around markdown rendering. We're using two different markdown renderers - markdown-it for the client-side preview and Markdig for server-side processing. ...
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Markdown issue with # in PostgreSQL code

This seems fixed by now. Don't know when it happened, but on re-visiting this post the # character isn't misinterpreted any more: Dynamically update JSONB rows - POSTGRESQL
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Error while submitting the answer

I've occasionally had issues posting code that includes certain terms - for example, CREATE TABLE. In my case, I believe this was being blocked by a content filter at my place of employment - I was ...
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