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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 ...
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
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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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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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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, ...
Jeff Schaller's user avatar
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
muru's user avatar
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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 ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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False bash syntax highlighting: '$#' should not get identified as comment start

As explained in this meta.se FAQ post: Stack Exchange does not have its own syntax highlighting engine. It uses Google Code Prettify. Therefore, any bugs and feature requests regarding syntax ...
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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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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 ...
Secespitus's user avatar
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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 ...
Yaakov Ellis's user avatar
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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. ...
Aaron Shekey's user avatar
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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 ...
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
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5k .. 10k reputation bug? header shows (unavailable) own suggested edit

The numbers shown there are the absolute number of pending review items. This includes things you've already cast a vote on and those you've submitted yourself. The SE devs have explained on the main ...
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Question answered 8 months before it was asked

If you look under the revisions history of the question you'll notice that the older answer was merged into this question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/185829/revisions.
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meta.unix.stackexchange.com link change leads to specific question on non-meta site?

It's the answer that has the matching ID number. You get redirected to ...questions/2842/debian-server-on-a-intel-core-i3-and-intel-q57-chipset-will-it-work/3895#3895, the canonical URL for answer ...
Michael Homer's user avatar
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Why am I not allowed to answer this question

There's a long running feature request to improve the wording of the protection notice. TL;DR: The association bonus does not count for protected questions. IMO it might be clearer if you read the ...
muru's user avatar
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5 votes
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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-...
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
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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, ...
Philipp Ludwig's user avatar
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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 ...
Stephen Kitt's user avatar
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Bug of answering questions

It doesn't say you asked it. I assume you are referring to the fact that your username appears on the front page (http://unix.stackexchange.com) associated with the question. If you look closely, ...
terdon's user avatar
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Broken buttons colors [contrast]?

Thanks for pointing this out. Looking into this further, the button wasn't displaying correctly on Unix.SE or Meta.Unix. A background gradient should have been applied, but wasn't. This was because ...
Hynes's user avatar
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Can't suggest an edit or flag the missing image, because the post is locked

It is a feature. The point of locking a post is to keep it from being developed by the community (edits, answers, anything) until the author fixes whatever rules it violates. It sucks when there is ...
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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:
Michael Mrozek's user avatar
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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 ...
terdon's user avatar
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4 votes
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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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