Questions tagged [specific-question]
Use along with [meta] to ask about specific questions here on Meta Stack Exchange. Questions about questions on other network sites are off-topic here and should be posted on the site's meta instead.
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What is the dispute surrounding my 2018 chat suspension question?
My old question How could I have handled this better in chat (flag apparently led to suspension)? from September 2018 has, within the last hour, been locked, unlocked, locked, unlocked, and then ...
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"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code." - Not a single line of code was written that day
I really need to ask this question on SO, but I'm not sure what's triggering the "code formatting" checker that is disabling my submission. I've cut sections out of the code that I think may be ...
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"We are no longer accepting questions" questions
When you type "We are no longer accepting questions" into the title of a new question on MSO, you get, roughly, 7,435,654,757,034 possible duplicates.
Is there no way that, when this phrase is typed, ...
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Title vanishes when editing a question
While trying to edit this question I noticed the title vanished:
This is for inline edit, in the edit page there's no title and no tags as well.
Most likely the cause is the first revision of ...
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Very old, very popular question, now closed
My question, Saving Raphaël image as PNG on Internet Explorer, has been closed.
Please take a look at the view counter. Please, take a look at how old it is. Please, read it carefully - it's ...
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Revision history shows all the text changed - post stored as one long line with 
 instead of line breaks
For example, look at this edit history:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/359735/revisions
It looks like every single revision replaced all the text in the post, even when the revision comment says ...
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How to encourage users to self-answer rather than delete?
Is there a way to encourage users to answer their questions if they've found an answer, rather than deleting the question. For instance, its owner deleted this question:
Buffered I/O in Chicken ...
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Revision history says these two questions are deleted, but they still exist
While playing around with some SEDE queries, I came across the following two odd questions (both from the same user):
758706: Insert matching parentheses xcode? (revision history)
1101705: Input ...
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What to do with a question which is a "duplicate" of 2 different questions?
This question seems to have several possible answers.
One (for now) exists as an answer to this question; OP indicated that the answer is not good enough (might be good for future viewers though, so ...
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Casted a delete vote, says 27 votes remaining
Two users cast a delete vote on this question, one was me, but when I went back to the question it revoked the delete votes and this is what am seeing
So where are the votes which were cast just few ...
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Can a moderator undelete a question deleted by its author?
Yesterday I answered this question Finding best path given a distance transform and after a while it was deleted by its own author.
Can a moderator undelete a question deleted by its author? It seems ...
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Is it possible to undelete this incorrectly migrated-then-locked post to reveal useful answers?
I wrote a lengthy question last year on SO about matrix multiplication. It was answered well, and it had gotten about 20 upvotes and 3000 views. In January a moderator decided controversially to ...
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How to deal with this question?
Yesterday I saw this question and flagged it as "very low quality":
This question has severe formatting or content problems. This
question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might ...
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Question I didn't favorite shows up in my network profile list of favorite questions (but not in site account's list)
I have this Stack Overflow question as top-voted among my favorite questions on my network profile:
But I didn't ever see this question until today, and I never marked it as favorite. And in my site ...
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Where should I ask my question about ISP networks?
I tried asking the following in networking, but it does not seem to fit the topics. Maybe there is a better place to ask?
I have a pretty general question about how networks work on ISP (Internet ...
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