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Typo in flagging suggestions - “not a real question”

From the flagging summary: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overy broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its ...
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Should you really be asked to particpate in the moderator election when you don't have sufficent reputation to vote

I saw the "Please participate in the Server Fault 2012 community moderator election" notice and decided to take a look. After spending 10 minutes reading through the various candidates I then tried ...
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Where's the upvote for primary

Where are the upvote buttons for primary ? Is this a bug or do we need to wait ?
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Synonymizer badge not showing in my profile

I suggested a tag synonym several days ago which was accepted, but I haven't yet been awarded the Synonymizer badge. When will this badge appear in my profile? I thought it would have appeared by now. ...
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Flagged a spammy answer, answer vanished but I did not get 'helpful'?

I flagged a spam answer from the user Caleb Bahler in this question, but did not get the helpful flag (and presumably no flag weight either). The answer is gone - does that mean that someone else ...
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1answer
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Can something be done about the greek captcha's?

I've again encountered one of these: Now I know the Greek Economy is dwindling and I appreciate StackExchange trying to help them out by OCR'ing there scripts, but for our poor Western Keyboards, ...
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1answer
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Can't destroy account

I found a bunch of accounts that were sockpuppeting each other, banned them now one wants their account destroyed (http://serverfault.com/users/79615/mc9x) - for some reason I can't - I get the usual ...
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Blog RSS feed very messed up in Google Reader

I've had lots of trouble with the blog RSS in Google Reader. However today another issue happened that I think warrants notice: Almost all posts in Google Reader appear twice. This is more annoying ...
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Flag window dimming

While flagging an answer that already had a few down-votes to it, I noticed that the text that appears dims as much as the answer has. References: --------------VS-------------- I guess the ...
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Weren't lmgtfy.com links blocked?

How to install a vnc server on ubuntu In case of modify or delete, the full text of the answer is as follows: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+ubuntu+installation How'd that happen? Aren't lmgtfy.com ...
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New email settings dialog broken in IE8

I don't understand the new email settings dialog: Very confused whether that sends me emails every three hours (as per the drop down) or not at all (as per the checkbox). I'm unable to uncheck the ...
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FAQ - screenshots from bicycles.SE

Here i a screenshot from the ServerFault FAQ. The images are from bicycles.stackexchange.com! Could this be fixed please? Edit. I had not noticed that it was the case for all FAQs on stackexchange. ...
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1answer
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“Accept Button” does not work all the time

I am not sure what causes this issue, but I have been able to recreate a workaround to this problem. Sometimes the accept button simply does not register that I have clicked it. The only way that I ...
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1answer
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Chat link in top bar missing?

This morning, I sit at my desk, almost spill my coffee, get settled and open firefox 5.0.1 and what do I see? The chat link is missing. WTF mate, like my morning could have started any worse?
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1answer
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Why do the links to chat rooms show up randomly?

I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point the links on the sidebar to The Comms Room and Vote to Close went away. I wondered about their disappearance, but didn't bother to post a question ...
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Wrong link pulled into report when recording an exact duplicate on another SE site

When reporting this question on SF as an exact duplicate of this one over on DBA, the description of question 2868 on SF is pulled through, not the description of question 2868 on dba.se. The comment ...
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2answers
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Daily Vote Limit Reached at 38 Votes

I've voted 38 times today and can't up/down-vote any questions or answers, getting the Daily Vote Limit Reached message. Does flagging a comment as Spam count against these? Or any other actions? ...
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3answers
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How do the new vote pools work?

To see how the new vote pools function, I did all my voting at once over the past half-hour or so. I voted for both questions and answers. Now I'm getting a message to come back and vote on more ...
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1answer
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Privilege Description for Moderator Tools should be changed

Right now the description text for the "access to moderation tools" privilege says, in part: You have earned the highest level of privilege in our community With the addition of the "trusted ...
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2answers
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No editing toolbar

It appears something has broken, for me at least. The editing toolbar is currently not visible when posting a question or answer, yet if I edit an existing one it's fine. I tried FF, IE and Camino on ...
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3answers
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Moderator elections bug

I'm getting a banner telling me to cast my last vote on the moderator elections but I've already cast three votes. I've refreshed the page but still get the message. I've also verified that my 1st, ...
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1answer
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AJAXy control buttons on user profile page can break

EDIT: not sure of the etiquette but based on the comments I opened this on meta.stackoverflow.com as http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74544/ajaxy-control-buttons-on-user-profile-page-can-break ...
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1answer
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“DashH” timestamp incorrect

I posted the following question yesterday: http://serverfault.com/questions/217098/list-all-documents-webparts-and-sites-using-a-certain-solution-in-sharepoint-20 When you look at the site though, it ...
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1answer
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What's going on with tags on profile pages on SF?

Owww, my eyes. (10/12/10, 15:09pm, Windows 7 32-bit, IE 8)
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1answer
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Why am I false?

Getting this error around 9:30AM (CST): when visiting the Questions/newest tab.
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2answers
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i just got suffrage badge?

but i havn't used 30 votes today? is this a bug?
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1answer
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Comment text overflowing into related questions links

I just noticed this on a question. Did a quick search and couldn't see anyone else talking about it, and I can't see any real reason why it would be wider, Bens link is long but not long enough to ...
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1answer
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Earning “Student” badge for a closed question

You've earned the "Student" badge for What message can frighten system administrator the most? [closed]. See your profile. And there are no upvotes or accepted answers. Weird.
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1answer
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Recent reputation calculation bug

Not a big deal, it just displays wrong from time to time as seen in the picture: It should be 59, but shows 58. Update: Perhaps this is my mistake, looking back now I see there was another ...
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1answer
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Where are the “belongs on…” closing options?!?

I was trying to close this question as belonging on superuser.com, but I don't see anymore the "belongs on..." options when clicking the "close" button. What happened to them?
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1answer
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Losing “consecutive days” Credit on SF

In going for the all-important "Enthusiast" and "Fanatic" badges on SF, I've been pretty (er, um) enthusiastic about checking in daily. Tonight I checked my SF account to see that I'm back to only ...
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0answers
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Posting questions on ServerFault seems not to work in Opera

I've just tried asking a question (well, I've just tried asking it again, as the first attempt didn't seem to "take", I probably pressed the [Post Your Question] button and closed the tab) and it ...
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0answers
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Search suggestions don't display properly

When submitting a search query that returns no results, the site suggests searching with fewer words, and presents a list of links with various words red and struck out — or it's supposed to, anyway. ...
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1answer
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ServerFault's error page has StackOverflow branding

This is what I just got as an error page on SF: On the plus side, I've been on SF for more than a year and I'm almost sure that I've seen an error outside of scheduled maintenance. Nice! :-)
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The case of the vanishing tag

I just noticed an old post to which I added the .subjective tag. That tag is no longer there and the edit history shows no changes made since, so whatever happened to the tag? Might this be a bug?
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2answers
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Bug with number of close votes on summary page

The Most Close Votes tab in the tools page on serverfault (and maybe on other sites, can't get into the tools page on other sites) does not seem to be showing the correct values. If you look at it ...
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3answers
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Woah, SF has top-banner ads?

When I load SF question/answer view there's a banner ad that appears at the top and then quickly flashes away. Is this a bug? I managed to get a pic :
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2answers
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Bold + italic Markdown formatting breaks when used on underscored text

While responding to a question on ServerFault I noticed that there seems to be a bug in the display code. Using Bold (**) and Italic (*) at the same time shows up correctly as bolded italic text in ...
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2answers
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What does this error on account association failure mean?

"We found differing IP addresses between sites for this association request - please return to Server Fault and try again." I get this when trying to associate a newly created serverfault account ...
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Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?

Hi All, I was reading a Jeff Attwood post on ServerFault here (quite a long one, but not obscenely long) and saw that the last part of the question got cut off: When viewing the revision history, ...
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2answers
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just registered in ServerFault but my user pages said that im member for 24 days

I just registered in ServerFault but my user page said that im member for 24 days. is it a known bug ?
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Bug: Unanswered My Tags empty after clicking on a couple tags

I was viewing Serverfault Unanswered Questions with My Tags, and clicked one of the tags in the Unasnwered tags list, on the right, I believe Apache. This took me to the Questions section, showing ...
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Link detection for HTTPS

Links to HTTPS URL's aren't automatically converted to be clickable, see this example on serverfault: http://serverfault.com/questions/33630/syntax-highlight-in-bugzilla