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Even after I deleted an answer on my own question, the bounty required is still 100
The help center has the following note about bounties:
To avoid overly promotional bounties, if you are offering a bounty on
a question that you have already posted an answer to, your minimum
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How has an on-hold question been answered?
There's a window of 4 hours (often referred to as "grace period") after a question being closed in which answers can still be posted.
The "Post Your Answer" button and the box in which to type your ...
MastMod
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Code following bulleted list not formatting
This is kind-of working as intended. What you observe, is the code being taken as a point in the bulleted list.
If you want this, add another 4 spaces of indentation and the code will be formatted ...
MastMod
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Where's the auto-move-to-chat link?
This is mostly just a misunderstanding in how the move to chat link works. It's not so simple as merely "lots of comments on a post". That comment chain was essentially one person leaving ...
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I don't think I earned the "Teacher" badge
The text is ambiguous. Contrast the following two readings:
Answer a, question with score of 1 or more.
Answer a question, with score of 1 or more.
However a "teacher" is normally the ...
PeilonrayzMod
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"I'm Done" option disabled
That's not a radio button you can ever select. If you edit the question, leave a comment or flag/vote-to-close, it will be selected automatically.
It should've moved up automatically and luckily there'...
MastMod
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Odd formatting bug in display of assembly code
They are caused by tabs, and yes, tabs are "evil" on Stack Exchange. They break code formatting.
Here is shown on the real post, no problem!
This is shown in the editor, still looks good!
And ...
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April Fools' Joke background is bugged
Code Review's gargantuan tiles were inherited from the following style rule in the site's theme:
body {
background-size: 280px 503px;
}
I guess it's ...
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I think there is a bug with the duck thingy
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
See a duplicate question on the network-wide meta site
Short version is: It's not really listening. It's just an animation.
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Formatted C++ code is outdated for current standard
The language syntax highlighting used in Code Review (normally) comes from the language tag set on the post. This is one of the reasons we have only one language tag per post.
The language syntax ...
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Suspicious downvotes on questions
The cause seems to be a lone user acting in a negative way. If you see a similar pattern in the future please let us know. We should be able to handle the situation quicker next time.
PeilonrayzMod
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Suspicious downvotes on questions
Thank you for the report on this Toolic! It helped to provide a starting point to get funneled into an escalation request from mods to our CM team and then to our dev team and then to me!
While we don'...
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Nav bar? Where are you?
This is by design, the floating nav bar is only on Stack Overflow, I checked other sites on the Stack Exchange network and they all have the same behavior (nav bar locked on top of page, not floating)....
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Why can't I create a 50 rep bounty?
If you've already given a +50 bounty on a question, the way the system works is that you're allowed to put up more bounties on the same question, but they need to be double the amount of rep of the ...
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Insecure links in custom close reasons should be HTTPS
JNat, GraceNote and myself went through all the sites and edited these reasons to have valid meta links.
If you find one that we missed... Let me know & I'll fix that too.
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Favorite categories - not all favorite tag questions are colored
When searching for specific questions containing, say, python I don't have all of the questions colored.
That's exactly the problem. As @Vogel612 correctly states in a comment, if all questions in the ...
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Why does the Community bot have 5 reputation?
The Community user is special, as is explained on Meta.SE.
It's a bot operating on the entire network and it's reputation doesn't mean anything. For example: if you flag a question as spam the ...
MastMod
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The help-center contains links to meta.codereview.* instead to codereview.meta.*
I have fixed the links on:
/help/someone-answers
/help/how-to-answer
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MathJax tripped for some reason on the search page
An excerpt is selected from the post to highlight the keywords in context, and subsequent edits to the answer mean that the snippets chosen are now different and the problem is not reproduced. ...
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Revision page now fails the x-overflow
This is fixed as reported https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/361474/235711.
I found this because I had inadvertently made the problem worse. This did tip me off that I also needed to fix https://...
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"Find out how review queues work" pop-up even after 1k reviews
Note: the feature is still under development. This answer risks being out-of-date the moment I post it. For up-to-date information, see the MSE post "New onboarding for review queues".
Is ...
MastMod
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Tables are displayed incorrectly
This is a known problem, also on other sites. The preview will parse correctly even without newlines around the tables, but the post itself will not. See revision 4:
...
MastMod
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Minor typo in Help center AI policy
Oops. Fixed, thank you.
There was indeed an 'E' missing.
MastMod
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MathJax is really eager to be applied to posts
Begin and end work outside of math mode
The dollar signs are not the only delimiters that MathJax looks for. Because environments like \begin{align}...\end{align} ...
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Non-HTTPS, wrong hostname links in sidebar
I've updated the links to use HTTPS and the correct URL format for this meta site. Thanks for the heads-up!
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Couldn't dismiss mr. robot
I am unable to duplicate this. Given its age, I assume it was fixed in one of our Stacks updates over the last three years. Marking this as completed.
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Vote to Reopen Prompt Bug
This has been appearing network wide. Apparently Adam Lear pushed a fix that should be going into production with "the next build". As such I'm marking this as status-completed
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Search result displays unparsed HTML in tag excerpt
Fixed by removing these highlights from tag excerpts altogether. Details: Unparsed HTML shows on search result page
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Python 2.x merger bugs
So here's what I did to perform the merge requested in the meta-post you linked:
Synonymize python-2.6 into python-2.x
Rename python-2.7 into python-2.x (I botched that one)
Synonymize python2.6 into ...
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Mathjax formatting missing in rendered output of suggested edit
So... This isn't the bug you think it is. The same behavior can and does show up on Mathematics, and they've lamented it for years:
https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2809/reviewing-...
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