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What is curious badge and why I am not getting it?
The full badge description is:
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
A "positive question record" is defined as:
(total questions - negative ...
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Difference between "foo" and “foo”, 'foo' and ‘foo’ — and -- as well
We have now disabled all Smarty-like modifications text in titles.
From now on, the title text saved for the post is the title text that will be displayed.
If folks want em-dashes (ALT-0151) and fancy ...
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"/ask question" in the site header should be changed to "/ ask question"
Just because an alternate solution was offered in the comments, here it is for voting purposes:
I think the others should be changed to conform with the Unix
convention of no spaces at the beginning ...
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4-space indentation never works
Did you leave an empty line before the code? For example:
Test line
line 1 indented by four spaces
line 2 indented by four spaces
Test line 2
line 3 indented by four spaces
line 4 ...
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Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view
Code blocks delimited with ``` ("fences") were implemented just this January (see this meta post). Before that, three backticks was equivalent to one backtick, resulting in inline code formatting, as ...
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Impact dropped to almost half, without post being deleted
That is indeed surprising behavior! I just learned about the formula in researching your question. Based on the algorithm at What happened to the other people? My Impact (people reached) just dropped, ...
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Serial voting reversed (-10) but only one upvote made (+10)?
Note that this sort of invalidation isn't in any way a comment on you and doesn't depend on how active you are. The details of the vote invalidation algorithm are not known to us, but we do know that ...
terdonMod
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Is there something wrong with tags determining the language for syntax highlighting?
The shell-script was set to highlight using lang-sh. I just changed that so it uses lang-bsh instead and that seems to have fixed the issue. I don't know if that's because lang-sh was broken or ...
terdonMod
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How was this answer posted ten minutes after its question was closed?
As the meta posts linked by Jeff suggest, there's a window after the question has been closed where an answer that was already being composed can be submitted. 10 minutes isn't particularly egregious, ...
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How do I report an incorrect privilege notification
Jeff is correct: someone upvoted or accepted one of your posts, and then it was retracted within the grace period. The evidence is that the reputation tab of your activity says:
There were no net ...
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Bug in review badge award algorithm?
You're right, Steward can now be awarded multiple times: Steward badge can now be awarded multiple times -- backfill details. This is rolled-out in parallel to Visual design changes to the review ...
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Post new question cooldown timer is showing wrong warning
Most likely someone on your network asked a question somewhere on the network and doesn't have a lot of reputation so far. See for example this answer to Potential privacy breach due to question rate ...
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4-space indentation never works
There's another syntax for code blocks which is mentioned in the advanced formatting help. Surround the code by three backticks on a line of their own. The backticks have to be on their own line but ...
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"follow" link glitches to "You’re no longer following this question"
I can't repro this, and as only one user is reporting this issue, I can't justify the opportunity cost on spending more time on this.
That said, I am kind of baffled as to how this is happening, so ...
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Background image has been replaced with boxes
This is amazing, and will be fixed in the next build, coming up very shortly. We moved a ton of theming assets around, and I assumed incorrectly that this SVG background image was sized appropriately. ...
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I got no Inbox notification for a comment, why?
The first comment replied to you by name using @MarcusLinsner -- that's not just a convention, the site recognizes it and knows that the reply is for you:
If a reply doesn't contain a specific @name ...
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Shell syntax highlighting does silly things like consider rmdir a comment
You either need to specify a tag name, or a language prefixed with lang-. There is no registered language named shell, so lang-shell kicks it into a default mode the same as if you'd done lang-...
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Low contrast between voted-on and not-voted-on buttons
This was discussed on the stackexchange meta, and it was generally agreed that the new design is less accessible, due to low contrast among other reasons. However, the design will stay this way, ...
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identical lines shown as different in post revision diff
As Kevin said, there are escape (0x1b) bytes in there that seem to not be rendering on your machine. They show up as arrows on mine:
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Regarding links to U&L questions in answers, and the way they do/don't expand to the title of the question
That’s not something I’ve noticed recently (and I think I’ve used question links in some of my recent answers...). One thing I have noticed is that questions are replaced by their title, whether the ...
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Close vote queue limit VS vote close from question
No, it is intended behavior. It is a way of stopping "robo reviewers", people who go through the queues and just click blindly in order to get a badge (yes, this actually exists).
You can still close ...
terdonMod
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Markdown images using html img src
I have a high resolution screenshot from my mobile phone and I wanted to constrain the rendered view to 30% while leaving the image intact in case someone needed the detail.
Then height and width are ...
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Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view
I don't know what happened to that formatting. I tested the exact same markup in the sandbox and it rendered ok. I then added a single newline to the answer text and saved it, which seems to have ...
KusalanandaMod
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Privilege awards did not show up in achievements list
You're a veteran Stack Exchange user (not just because of your nickname) and that means some of the privilege notifications are not shown anymore. Specifically, all privileges with a threshold of 1,...
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4-space indentation never works
Let me have a go
code
yes it works! I left a blank line before it.
So the 'How to Format' should have told us about this!
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error submitting an answer
There was a bad build that got rolled back.
Copying Taryn's answer on MSE:
There was a bad build that was impacting the display of some questions. The build was rolled back and pages should be ...
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Bogus rendering when <br/> or <br> tags are preceded and followed by newlines
This is the expected behavior according to the Commonmark spec (link against the reference implementation).
The <br/> constitutes opening an HTML block , which (for most start conditions) is ...
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Certain parts of meta are broken with HTTPS everywhere
As Michael Horner points out in the comments these problems have been fixed in a more recent version of HTTPS everywhere.
My problem was that somehow I had turned off the auto updates of my Firefox ...
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Is expected that header elements use different fonts?
This can be considered status-completed with the new theme rollout. All three header levels use a consistent font setting.
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