Questions tagged [support]
Use this tag for requests for assistance with tools and other features on the Stack Exchange Network. This includes understanding how features work and why they work that way, or how to better use them.
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StackExchange won't let me update my profile
no matter what I do, whenever I try to save an update to my profile, I get the following message:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
This email address is already registered. If it ...
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How can a user with a reputation of <2K quickly identify a good edit candidate post and avoid a poor edit candidate post?
I would like to avoid making suggested edits on poor edit candidate posts, as discussed in this post.
There does not appear to be much advice here on how to select a good candidate post for making a ...
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View chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites
Is it possible to view chat mentions across Stack Exchange sites?
Sometimes I'm doing something and I hear that sound that means somebody replied to me and it's in some tab of some window, where I ...
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Why can I not see my approved suggested edits on posts that have been deleted?
I recently noticed that I lost 2 points of reputation. I clicked on the reputation tab to see why and I came to the conclusion it was connected with a post that I had edited (as a <2K user on SO) ...
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Why can a >1K user not see up and down votes on deleted questions and answers accessible to them from the history of a review queue?
I was recently going through the history of my First Questions and Triage review queues to see how I am doing. I clicked on "Looks OK" of a deleted question which took me to the screen with ...
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Will the tracking pixels replace the existing advertiser tracking?
The company has recently announced a change to its advertising practices: they plan to allow the use of tracking pixels by select advertisers. I am under the impression that this is merely formalising ...
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What is the script being fetched from cdn.cookielaw.org when I open the cookie settings dialog?
What is the script being fetched from cdn.cookielaw.org when I open the cookie settings dialog? What is it for / what does it do / why is it needed?
Following the update in Update to our Advertising ...
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Get statistics about self-deleted accounts
It's interesting to know is there a possibility to get the number of deleted users on site per specified period?
Additional information like reputation, number of posts etc on the moment of deletion ...
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Where should I ask a question about LinkedIn? [closed]
I have a specific question about how to use LinkedIn more effectively regarding my career. I'm a graduate student but the question is about industry.
Which site would be the best for it? The Workplace,...
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Delay in Data Dump release
Our quarterly publication of the Stack Exchange Network data (the “data dumps”) is currently delayed. While the process of copying and uploading data was scheduled to begin on Sunday, December 3rd, we’...
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No link to orphan tag after tag merging in orphan-wikis page
As a mod I merged couple of tags, but now I can't find the link to nowadays orphaned tag wiki "scroll" in orphaned wikis page. What's the reason for that?
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MathJax render issues in cs.stackexchange.com [duplicate]
I see following for this following question - How to wiggle sort an array in linear time complexity?
I checked in incognito mode, in extension free Chrome instance (Version 119.0.6045.199 (Official ...
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Does Stack Exchange have Inter-Community Mechanisms to Prevent Repercussions Against Contributors Who Fairly Challenge a Deeply-Held Community Belief?
Stack Exchange is a great Q&A site and often provides satisfying answers in a way that other curated platforms, such as Wikipedia, cannot. Underpinning this platform is a community. Community ...
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If *all* of a user's many answers promote the same thing but they properly disclose affiliation, is it spam?
I just saw a user on a small site posting a bunch of uncited AI-generated posts (which is plagiarism) that all promote the same thing. They properly disclose their affiliation in each post.
I read ...
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Where can I ask questions regarding function naming common practice?
I've asked a question about code style practices related to function naming. Despite the posted answer (which unfortunately didn't help me resolve my problem), other users stated in comments (1, 2) ...
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How does searching by relevance work when searching a score range or threshold?
When I search for score:.-1 (for posts with a negative score) by relevance on Stack Overflow, I get a variety of questions and answers from a varying number of years ago. How are these results ranked?
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What is going on in November 2023? [duplicate]
Please, don't take this as something looking to create problems. I'm really concerned.
On November 18, 2023 the following post was created: Let's talk about (community) health
The last sentence ...
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Since when are users no longer able to view votes on their own pending edits?
I recall in the past that if you suggested an edit, and then clicked on the link to the review task, you would see that your edit was pending review/you were not able to review that item, but you ...
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What is the status of the changes to the moderator agreement agreed to during the negotiations in August?
As part of the strike negotiation results, several changes to the Moderator Agreement were agreed upon. These include:
A mandatory review period for binding policies
Stack Exchange, Inc. staff cannot ...
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Can I get statistics about my posts (such as views or votes) via a GDPR "Export my data" request?
I asked a question here about how to get data on my Q&A. The question was closed as being a duplicate of another question. That question is very different from mine, since it was asking for the ...
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Can I obtain data about my Q&A on all Stack Exchange sites?
Is it possible to download the following data on my questions and answers on all Stack Exchange sites?
The Stack Exchange site it appeared on (can be omitted as redundant if the full URL is provided)....
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Sites the ToS applies to
The links for Terms of Service in the footers of several Stack Exchange sites that I checked all go to the Public Network Terms of Service posted on stackoverflow.com, not on stackexchange.com. Are ...
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How to get synonym creation history?
Each tag may have several synonyms. On synonyms page like this you can see the synonym's creator. This is the user who started the process of synonymizing. In case if that done by a mod, no other ...
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What is a red-highlighted event in the timeline?
When I was new to the site, I always wondered what red-highlighted timeline events meant. Some events such as review events or audits are highlighted in red:
What does the red highlight mean? Why are ...
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Clarification - Code of Conduct - Sensitive content and questions
The section "Sensitive content and imagery policy" of the Code of Conduct available on this page states that the network does not allow some types of content or imagery including
Sexually ...
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Are merged questions indexed by search engines?
Scenario:
question A is closed as duplicate of B
user raises a flag on A to request it gets merged into B
flag is declined because some variation on "loosing a good signpost"
I know the ...
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How do I track the status of a ticket I lodged over the contact form?
A couple of weeks ago I used the contact form that the sites have, but I have not received any response. Is there a way to see the status of that ticket, since they give a 6 digit number but I haven't ...
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Deleted posts showing in the Earned Bounties list
Normally, one can only search their own deleted posts or they need a direct link to the deleted post. However, I've stumbled on a case where in the list of earned bounties on someone else's profile ...
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What's the exact data flow for translations on non-English sites?
This question was originally posted on ModTeam, but I decided that it would be better to post it here on open space, since not only mods/staff can participate on SE sites localization process.
To add ...
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What's the action when a site has no moderation activity? [duplicate]
On the site I am referring to there are three moderators, one has not been active for more than a month, another announced that he/she is leaving his/her position, and the third, I think, shows no ...
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?
As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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Make answering notice for unregistered users be translatable via Traducir
On sites where answering for unregistered users is available, they will see the following notice below the post body text area:
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
Please be sure to ...
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What happened to the LLM-based title drafting tool?
A few months ago, I saw some blogs in the community about the title drafting assistant:
this blog and this.
I've noticed that the community has recently been providing AI-related services, including ...
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Is StackExchange programmed to intentionally mis-hyphenate "Democrats" to characterize them as "rats"?
I asked a question Did US president Theodore Roosevelt call Democrats "prison vermin"? on Skeptics SE and noticed on the mobile version it displays as:
Is Stack Exchange programmed to mis-...
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When is it not a good idea to rely on automatic handling of low answer quality score flags from the Community user?
The Community user flags some posts with Low Answer Quality Score flag. There are several options to handle such flags:
Approve (with comment)
Reject (with comment)
Resolve flags automatically (no ...
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What causes a review task to become unavailable to a specific user?
Sometimes, review tasks are not reviewable to specific users, but are reviewable to others. Sometimes I am not offered review tasks and if I track them down manually I see:
You are not able to review ...
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What's the purpose of inactive "apply to answers too" checkbox on mod menu if the item text already refers to answers only?
If there are answers with wiki status, the mod menu for a question contains the following item (Remove wiki from answers):
* text autotranslated from Russian to English
What's the purpose of inactive ...
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Why are Reviewer stats shown only for the suggested edits queue?
What is it about the suggested edits queue that users may see (by clicking Reviewer stats) the number of reviews a reviewer has made? Alternatively, what is it about the other review queues that users ...
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Can having many flags marked as helpful after a flag ban undo a flag ban? [duplicate]
Assume some raised 40 flags. The first 3 flags got declined the first day, causing a 7-day flag ban. In the next 4 days, no other flags are declined, and several flags are marked as helpful. Can this ...
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I have a permanent indicator of 3 unread messages in Inbox [duplicate]
EDIT
I learned about selecting only Unread messages in my Inbox here.
When I tried it, there were no messages shown, but selecting Mark all as read removed the indicator, so the issue was resolved. I ...
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Which site is for asking user-related YouTube questions? [duplicate]
I posted a question (wrongly) onto superuser.com with my YouTube topic.
It's a particular user problem (not related to programming, or API), just a pure end-user question.
Now superuser.com is not ...
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In the moderator interface, why can the value for a "Low answer quality score" be negative?
How can we explain a low answer quality score with a negative value in moderator flag processing?
Related: Unable to translate "Low answer quality score" sentence for processed flags with ...
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Where can I see the number of flags that were marked as helpful over the past 7 days?
When getting a flag ban, one can easily see the number of flags that were declined over the past 7 days. Where can I see the number of flags that were marked as helpful over the past 7 days?
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Why do magic links work only in comments?
Is there a specific reason why magic links such as [so], [meta.se], etc. do not work in questions and answers, too? Is this by design? They would be handy, especially in the meta sites.
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Cannot open https://stackoverflow.com/
I have not been able to open the link https://stackoverflow.com/ recently. The page said "You are not allowed to perform this action."
But I can open "https://meta.stackexchange.com/&...
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Problem with link to text fragment [duplicate]
When I write a link to a text fragment, like this, the link works in the editor preview properly (on the linked page skips to the given text fragment and highlights it), but on the published question, ...
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Viewing my flag statuses [duplicate]
I used to be able to view the status of my flags (i.e., whether they were helpful or not helpful) in my profile. I've been rooting around in my profile quite a bit over the last few days trying to ...
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Is the icon update for accessibility purposes?
I just noticed an update on the SE icons (on many sites if it's not all):
Is this for accessibility purposes? Or is it for purely aesthetic purposes?
I'm just curious about the reason for the change
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Where can I ask questions about being hacked / compromised?
Is there a SE site suitable to ask questions regarding a hacked/compromised server?
I came across this question where the OP's WordPress site has been compromised, and while I am pretty sure Stack ...
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How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year?
I am looking at some question reopening statistics. How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year? Preferably with the count of how many reopen votes ...
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