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Refresh the page content automatically if questions are searched by a particular tag

When someone searches to answer some questions by a specific tag (say [java]), then currently Stack Overflow shows all the questions, which are related to that particular tag, which is good. But ...
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Facility to search for posts that need editing ('edit' or 'update' tags)

I have recently been trying to get rid of the posts where they label an edit with an "Edit:" marker. I think that an option should be added to the Stack Exchange network home page for questions ...
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Is "is this old information still true?" an appropriate comment?

If I read a question from a couple years ago, especially when it explicitly references version information and is based on testing that is hard or time consuming to reproduce like this one: When to ...
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Safari is not showing notifications of updated answers

On Chrome or Firefox, when you are viewing a question and something has been modified, or a new answer was submitted, or other changes to what you are looking at, normally there is a prompt like "...
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Best way to ask and edit questions when you're in over your head

I believe my question is essentially the inverse of this thread re. updating questions. I have spent days trying to untangle programming problems involving my OS (10.8.2), homebrew, RVM, XCode and ...
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stackoverflow.com/questions is not updating [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Stack Overflow is not getting refreshed automatically Every time I open stackoverflow.com and click on the "questions" tab, the page doesn't update with new questions. Why?
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Is it considered a bad habit to post more than one question on the same topic?

Let me explain better: suppose I asked a question about a problem A. Then, while waiting for the answer, I continued my researches about and I found a possible workaround for A, but I have some ...
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Update a question or post a new question? [duplicate]

The question I posted earlier wasn't clear and I was myself un-aware of the exact problem so I didn't get any responses. After a while I was able to figure out the problem (but still looking for a ...
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Why do my favorites show recent updates, when I can't find what's been updated?

Whenever the "favorites" tab on my user profile turns blue, indicating that something's changed, I flip over to it to see what's been updated. I sort my favorites by "recent", and my understanding is ...
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what is the best way to handle questions that are no longer relevant because of new version, etc

I had a question here: bug in jqgrid, only the first search shows a dropdown but a new version came out that fixes the issue. Should I go and delete this question as the issue applies to a release ...
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