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Code blocks with a blank line at the end of a post don't render correctly without a newline after the triple ticks
Here is the source of a code block:
```python
import math
print("test")
```
it looks like this when rendered; note the triple ticks don't show (...
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Should we decrease the number of close/reopen votes to 3?
A number of sites on SE have since a while reduced the number of votes needed to close/reopen a question to 3. As far as I can tell, this has been generally received well on those sites, as it allows ...
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Why the pile-on of downvotes for one (somewhat impudent) question?
One recently (June, 2024) asked question from a newer user rapidly received four downvotes. From what I can tell of the question, the wording was a little off and somewhat impertinent but the ...
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How should I change my recent "Counterexamples in quantum information" post, if at all?
Two days ago I created the overall well-received post Is there a comprehensive list of counterexamples in quantum information?. Yesterday I got a comment---which in ratio got a fair amount of upvotes ...
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Is it possible to enable markdown parsing of links in comments on questions and answers?
In the body of a question or answer, I can e.g. write [Shor94] to include a reference to a paper, and similarly I can link to other resources — but in comments I seemingly cannot, as I recently ...
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Should we close it or leave it up?
Update: The question was closed, then re-opened by 5 community voters, then "locked", and it currently remains "locked".
Today I rushed to ask a question that by its nature will be ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #3 — your "graduation" election — on Quantum Computing has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will show up on the moderators ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Shall we ban unregistered users?
Some sites have banned unregistered users from posting on their site. Related discussions to that thread include this one and this one.
Shall we do the same here? My opinion is that allowing users to ...
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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Quantum Computing Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2024
Summary: Quantum Computing Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on March 12th, 2024, as your “graduation” election.
The timeline:
On March 5th, 2024, I'll post a question ...
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Should we allow cross-posting?
Whether we should allow cross-posting has already been discussed roughly 4 years ago here. And in that post, I myself advocated that we should allow cross-posting because different sites have ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Thank you Auden Young
I noticed that Auden Young is no longer a diamond moderator on this site, and I just wanted to start a thank you thread here. Thank you Auden, I have appreciated some of your diamond moderation ...
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Can we add syntax highlighting to the Q# tag?
for q#, would it be possible to add csharp syntax highlighting? For now, I have been editing codeblocks in the posts as follows:
```csharp
but it would be nice if ...
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