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Canonical post in first post review, how to react?
To my understanding canonical questions are a ServerFault convention, of which the review-question selection algorithm is completely unaware.
Which is to say, it had to happen some time. Treat it ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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"You can only post once every 40 minutes." Why do I get this error?
This rate limit applies to users with less than 125 reputation, and all posts made by anyone from the same IP address on any Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange site count toward the limit, even if they ...
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Delete reasons in the Low Quality Posts review queue are alternating
It depends on the reputation level of the person whose answer you're reviewing. If they have too low a reputation to be able to post comments, the first option will be used. If they have enough ...
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The Server Fault logo has some alignment issues
Yes, it confirmed by looking of source code of svg file. The xml below was grabbed from svg file especially on SF logo parts.
<g>
<rect x="-176.6" y="-178.1" fill="#...
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This is why this site suffers from a lack of talent
We are a site aiming for professional system administrator.
I can easily understand the downvote for that sentence alone;
don't downvote me if that concerns you and makes you upset, just be a
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yagmoth555Mod
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Bug: Code block scroller hides the code
If I'am not mistaking, it's a Chrome/Chromium bug;
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=914844
I got the link from that thread; Cannot dismiss scrollbar in code box, blocks view
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yagmoth555Mod
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The Meta help pages may contain some copy/paste typos
No. The company name is Stack Overflow. Again.
This change hasn’t reached all parts of the network yet, though and on the bottom right of th page you can still read
site design / logo © 2018 ...
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Why serverfault about us leads to stackoverflow about us?
No, this is correct. Serverfault is a part of the StackExchange network which is run by a company named StackOverflow.
This link is clearly labeled as "Learn about StackOverflow the company".
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"Disciplined" badge remained after undeleting relevant question
Regular badges will not be revoked except in very special circumstances.
How do "badges" work?
Regular badges, however, once earned, are yours to keep. Even if the criteria by which you ...
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This is why this site suffers from a lack of talent
The site used to have considerable talent but it mostly moved on when it got bored answering basic questions that already have answers here or are easily found elsewhere, reading manuals as a service (...
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The Help Center contains outdated names and URLs
Now done, all link updated, and corrected the old name of Information Security.
Thanks for your report !
yagmoth555Mod
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Veeery old review answer
This answer at Meta SE posits that this is OK:
This is, while unusual, an expected result of the system.
The way the late answers queue works is by checking two things.
Was the answer posted at ...
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The tale of ghost: vmware tag
After digging out SEDE once more , I found some explanation why this happened. But still I need SE-dev to finding the root cause of this inconsistency.
Inconsistency when viewing and editing post
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The tale of ghost: vmware tag
It's just about as killed as killed can get. In fact, vmware is in our list of blacklisted inputs right along side amazon. I'm afraid I don't know how those tags are being translated in the edit ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Visual bug with displaing badges
This has been fixed and will go out in the next build. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Can't reject or approve suggested edit
Based on the comments received on this question I believe we can conclude that:
The particular suggested edit can for some reason only be reviewed by moderators.
There is consensus that the edit ...
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Stack Exchange newsletters including ServerFault sent with Stack Overflow email?
Server Fault is part of the Stack Exchange group of websites, the largest of which is Stack Overflow. It's quite normal for email to be sent from Stack Exchange's general mailing system.
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Broken link on http://serverfault.com/tour
This has been fixed.
For posterity: it's easy to find the intended target of a broken link now that the blog is open-source.
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title vs <title>
This was to downgrade the google results of dumb scrapers. They would just take the crappy title and put all their SEO efforts into it, whereas the Stack Exchange network has excellent SEO even with ...
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Can't reject or approve suggested edit
That edit suggestion is for an answer to a locked question. Apparently, it was submitted 25 minutes before the question was locked.
Only ♦ mods can edit locked questions or answers to them. I ...
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Join site when trying to upvote
Are you actually signed in with your user account as that is the requirement to vote?
https://serverfault.com/help/why-register
Registration is not required to participate on Stack Exchange; you ...
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