Questions tagged [hidden-features]
Stack Exchange is full of hidden features, some obvious (e.g. the /reputation page) and some less so (e.g. games in chat). Use this tag for questions about those hidden features. For hiding site community, use [hidden-communities] instead.
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Does the unlinked 'show users by participation' page still work?
Per this answer,
On per-site-metas, there is a tab for showing users by participation. According to the tooltip, it shows: Users most active in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, ...
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Is there any way moderators can view the "actual reputation score" of a suspended user, other than from the flags dashboard?
Users who are suspended have their reputation score reduced to 1 for the duration of the suspension. For moderators, sometimes it may be helpful to know the "actual" reputation score of the ...
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What are restrictions on screenshots from Stack Exchange that I want to post on my Blog?
I run a blog with a friend of mine on Digital Easter Eggs, and I wanted to document some of the Easter Eggs all over the site. Since it is possible that I might take screenshots of the same, I wanted ...
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Do we have any searchable public resources pages?
Stack may have hidden resources, such as clear, well-written, well tag info. (I know I've put some time into various tags, exhaustively linking to reliable sources on the subject, which I've seen ...
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Are there other undocumented paths apart from timeline and reputation audit? [duplicate]
I'm aware of these interesting (relative) paths that can be used on any SE site:
The timeline of a post, such as this example. It has a relative path like /posts/postid/timeline (similar to the path ...
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Do undeleted and re-deleted questions accumulate multiple, negative, hidden flags, and is this a desired behaviour or a bug?
It's not permitted to edit a self-deleted question. To do so, one must first undelete it. Having previously deleted a few of my own questions which the Math Overflow community deemed inappropriate, I ...
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Where to find list of behaviours/rules of Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Well, I know this is weird question. Recently I upvoted some answers, and I get a tooltip saying "You haven't been upvoted a question for a while. Questions need upvote too". It was nice to get it. ...
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How to use multiple SE accounts with the new login system easily? [duplicate]
There are SE sites which I want to use without being identifiable my main account. Thus, I have a secondary SE account, too.
(To prevent temptations ;-), currently there is no SE site for which I ...
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Top users of a tag: Any new privileges that could be unlocked?
I know a feature called Top users for a particular tag. Precisely, for answering. What I am not aware of is, are there any privileges which could be unlocked for being among the top users of a ...
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View history on SE questions
I don't know whether this has been asked before, but is it possible to access the history of questions viewed by a user while logged in on SE sites? I have noticed there is a viewed counter if that ...
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Why is the "recent answers" feature so well hidden?
For a long while, I've been wanting to find answers in the tags I'm interested in, because I like spending my votes.
I've given up hoping for a chatroom-friendly answers RSS feed, so I ended up ...
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How to get Community to post this message in comment?
I saw the Community bot had posted this comment here:
We detected an invalid link in your post, please correct it. (this
message will be automatically removed when the link is fixed)
The ...
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What is the purpose of "mark-as-read" page?
Going over my inbox, I noticed a weird link for the "bounty expires" item:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/messages/mark-as-read?messagetypeid=6&returnurl=http%3a%2f%2fmeta.stackoverflow.com%...
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Able to submit answer after question is put on hold [duplicate]
A few minutes ago, I submitted an answer on the question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20196583/checking-for-win-connect-four-java. When the page refreshed, I saw that the question had already ...
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Does SO moderation aid any kind of a search algorithm?
A question I posted was voted to close. On looking at the possible duplicate answer, I found that the questions could have arisen due to completely different backgrounds. But the answers were similar. ...
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