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404 error when clicking new "report user to Community Team" link on chat profiles on Stack Exchange chat
It seems like a new "report user to Community Team" link has been added to the "moderation tools" menu on all non-moderator chat profiles in the Stack Exchange chat server.
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Farewell and thank you, Des!
Today we say goodbye to Des, Senior Director of Product at Stack Overflow, after 10 years of service.
Des has spent the better part of a decade deeply invested in this network, not just as a product ...
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Is there an issue with non-ascii tags in Posts SEDE or data-dump?
From what I read in other questions, Tags originaly did not allowed non-ascii values. It is now very common in some sites, e.g. Ukrainian Language.
It however looks like the non-ascii Tags do not ...
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What is the official policy on the cases of anonymous moderator's actions? [duplicate]
My question is about two possible cases:
A moderator takes an action, such as deleting a question, but avoids any explanation, including that on the meta discussion, and doesn't issue any warnings so ...
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“Ask a question” page does not respect the preference to disable the new editor
The ProseMirror-based new Markdown editor performs poorly on my device and interferes with my user scripts that only work with plain <textarea> and <input type="text"> inputs. ...
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Optional leading pipes in tables do not work in preview
While leading pipes are not required for tables, it doesn't work in the preview. It does work with optional trailing pipes.
Markdown:
|foo|bar|
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42|1337|
Rendered:
foo
bar
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We’re using a machine learning model to fight against spam
Years ago, the dedicated Charcoal organization taught us that yes, you can teach a machine to flag spam automatically. After all, to quote ArtOfCode from How does spam protection work on Stack ...
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Wrong comment syntax for attribution when copying code blocks
The new copy button is still adding comment syntax to the attribution, but it's guessing the language wrong when no language is specified on the code block. This means the attribution ends up prefixed ...
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Bug in Markdown-to-HTML conversion: no-break spaces
When Markdown is converted to HTML upon saving a post, non-breaking spaces (NBSP, inserted either as the HTML entity or as the Unicode character , U+00A0) are generally left alone – as ...
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A proposal for bringing back Community Promotion & Open Source Ads
First introduced in 2009, Open Source Ads offered the Stack Overflow community the opportunity to propose and approve ads that members thought would be of interest to the community. These ads would ...
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What is the last series of digit in an answer URL for? [duplicate]
I learn a lot from StackExchanges sites and save things for the future in my knowledge base, always with the source to the original information. I like my links to have context, so having a bit of the ...
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Which flag should I raise for comments that were made into answers?
Suppose user X writes a comment that contains a (partial) answer to the question (against community guidelines on the usage of comments).
Later someone (either user X or another user Y) incorporates ...
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Allow moderators of all sites to flag and delete posts as plagiarism
Since March 2023, it's been possible for Stack Overflow users to flag posts as plagiarism. When a moderator handles such a flag, they can delete the post as plagiarism, which removes the reputation ...
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Where is the check mark to accept an answer? [migrated]
Disclaimer: I haven't used Stack Overflow for a while, so maybe a few things changed and I missed them.
A few days ago, I posted a question. I got two answers and I would like to accept one of them.
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Add 'Load to Last Message' button to mobile chat
On mobile chat, if you scroll to the top of the screen, there’s no Load to Last Message button like there is on desktop.
This button is really useful for highly active rooms. Could mobile chat get ...
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