Questions tagged [warning]
A message displayed to alert the user to a problem or potential problem.
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Can mods see a tally of the warnings and suspensions a user has received, and is there a way for the user to see the same tally?
In a discussion in chat, a mod said
Phil is really not helping you - he had various warnings and suspensions for failing to follow site guidelines." (ref)
My question is about what a mod can ...
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Warn after the first tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags
Warn after entering the first new tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags. Don't wait until the user is through filling in the tags and presses Post, before informing him or her that all ...
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Should users receive an official warning before being banned for an inadequate use of SE? [closed]
I use Math Stack Exchange for several months. Today, I got 666 reps and posted here an inoffensive joke about the Devil's number, which I deleted 10 minutes later. Ok, I shouldn't have done that.
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Is the 'recently declined flag' warning supposed to get dismissed?
I was recently told pressing on "review" (highlighted above) should dismiss this warning for the next flag raised, but that is not the case at least as of asking this.
If it's meant to ...
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Wording of declined flag can be confusing
"Your recent flag was declined" can be confusing. Which recent flag? My recent one was helpful (really), which is why I bring this up, because I thought I had another recent one declined.
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The "mostly code" warning should say "this post" instead of "your post" when editing someone else's post
While editing someone's post on Stack Overflow, I came across this message when OP's post was mostly code:
It looks like your post is mostly code; please add some more details.
But.. this isn't my ...
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Warning stating "some of your recent flags have been declined" is incorrect
When greater than 10% of your flags handled in the last 7 days have been declined you'll get a notice in your flag dialog indicating that some of your recent flags have been declined:
Attention: some ...
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Warning when using or seeing φ and ϕ in the same thread
The symbols φ and ϕ (both lowercase phi) are swapped in many fonts and this is problematic on Stack Exchange. See here.
Therefore, users should see a warning when they see or use both symbols in the ...
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Warning Underflow™ in flag dialog for flag warning/ban messages
In the flag dialog, there is a warning message shown to users who recently had flags declined or are currently subject to a flag ban. Unfortunately, it looks like a recent CSS change caused the notice ...
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Warning before deleting a question [duplicate]
This has already happened to me several times:
a user posts a question;
I provide an answer;
the user deletes the question.
I know that the person who asked the question can do this at will if my ...
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The "there are already 30 answers" message shouldn't override the "you already answered this" message
When you try to post an answer to a question that already has 30 answers you receive the following message:
This question has more than 30 answers already.
Did you read through all the existing ...
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MathJax {alignat}: Typo in Warning
Minor bug/typo:
Warning should say Argument to \begin{alignat} must be a positive integer, instead of ... must me a ... as shown below during an edit.
(taken from Bin Packing with Relational ...
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Add warning/notice about responding to a long-dead discussion
Occasionally, I get notifications about a comment response, and it seems someone has noticed some question or answer from 3, 5, 10 years ago, and decided to join the "lively" discussion without ...
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Un-upvote an old post is not showing any warning message
Except Meta Stack Exchange, if I'm trying to un-upvote an old post which was not edited in the recent time, previously I used to receive the following warning message in all the Stack Exchange sites.
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Warn new users who ran into a question ban on other sites before they post here on Meta
I propose that new users who recently ran into a ban from asking questions anywhere else on the network be shown a warning before asking a question here on Meta Stack Exchange.
A huge portion of those ...