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Community has 5 rep?
We try to never let the bots earn rep, but this one became sentient. I challenged Community to a battle of epic proportions and removed the extra 4 reputation by force. Lesson learned: never trust ...
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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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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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8
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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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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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6
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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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6
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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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Unupvote + (re)upvote isn't cancelled out for daily reputation cap calculation
This isn't a bug, it's status-bydesign. The unupvote is the confusing piece.
Your rep for Nov 17th shows a -10, but this is actually impacting your rep on the day for the original vote, July 30th. ...
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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 ...
Paul WhiteMod
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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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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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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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What can I do to get my deserved badge on a closed question?
This was a network-wide bug that affected multiple badges; the code tried to award them, and did everything (including notification) except actually award the badge. It was fixed within a short time, ...
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The Ads display screen still restricts the ads to 220px
You're entirely correct; an oversight. Fixed next deploy, thanks.
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DBA Stackexchange bug
There is no bug here, that is a summary row showing a metric for each site with relevant data, and it has nothing to do with individual posts. Here is what mine looks like:
In general, issues ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Badge tracker stuck?
I experienced the same issue while tracking my gold SQL Server tag. I needed to reselect the badge from the tracker for it to actually update the graph.
This has been asked-and-answered at "...
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Error while submitting the answer
So just to test this, I went to the question ( DDL trigger permission Error ) and copied the text in the rendered code block (not the "raw" text from clicking on "edit", just to be clear), and will ...
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Migrated posts treated as different user
The comment has been deleted.
The problem originates the fact that you have multiple accounts and they have not been merged. You can learn about merging accounts here:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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What can I do to get my deserved badge on a closed question?
From comments:
Andriy M: I think you've already done what little you could do: this looks very much like a bug and you've reported it.
ypercubeᵀᴹ: You did get the badge, about 50 minutes after ...
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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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What can I do to get my deserved badge on a closed question?
I've voted to re-open your question since it is likely to help future visitors to the site.
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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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vote
Accepted
The Ads display screen still restricts the ads to 220px
For more details check out the related post on Meta.
The gist is that the code is shared between the demo area and the sidebar. As such they were unable to update the size of one without affecting ...
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