7
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This error is a teapot?
We return that error in a few scenarios where we have decided (for various reasons) that we really don't trust the incoming request - usually protection from botnets, hack attempts, attempts from ...
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Why does my visit counter keep resetting?
The two things that trip people up are:
UTC time, and
What actions count as access.
The second is purposefully a bit vague, but just visiting the home page doesn't count. You need to read a question ...
- 101
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It is impossible to get the Vox Populi badge
You have to vote more on questions, rather than answers. If you vote only on answers, you have 30 votes per day; each vote on a question (as long as you have five or more votes left) will increase ...
- 407
4
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Ended bounty questions are not being removed from the Featured tab
Thanks; there was a bug on the "tag engine" (the backend system that deals with this stuff) that failed to update the "count" of an index when that index was being reduced to zero (it is fine when ...
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Review indicator lits up, but no reviews are available
This is normal behaviour. The indicator shows that there are reviews available for someone.
So, for example, if you 'skip' a review, it is still available but not for you. Also, if you complete 20 ...
ChenmunkaMod
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3
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Incorrectly notified of "Mortarboard" badge
As Raffzahn said, this is a retroactive awarding of the badge due to the change that made upvotes on questions worth +10 reputation. If you take a look at the 2018-11-19 entry on your reputation log, ...
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3
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Is the 'Anoying Robot' broken?
The BBS had been frozen for inactivity. The system will do this automatically if no users post anything in chat for a few days.
The Annoying Robot doesn't count as a user for this purpose, so its ...
ChenmunkaMod
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3
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Recently deleted question does not appear in Meta "10k" tools
Not a bug, self-deleted answers are not visible in the 10k tools (thanks Shog).
I've opened a related question on Meta.SE: Why are self-deleted posts not shown in the 10k Tools?
- 9,502
3
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Navigating to an archive.org link in a comment loads malformed Retrocomputing URL
status-completed, according to Marc Gravell on Meta.SE:
Thanks to @IlmariKaronen's excellent detective work, it looks like
refer[r]er plays a strong role here. The good news is that we've
...
- 9,502
3
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Earned bronze badge (Disciplined) does not appear in Achievements dialog
Not all badges do appear in achievements. Users with more than 200 reputation don't see certain bronze badges in their inbox.
There is a question on the main meta to list those bronze badges that do ...
ChenmunkaMod
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2
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Can't submit Tag Wiki Edits
There is a limit to the number of pending suggested edits that any user can have.
As in this main meta post: The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide The limit is 20 on beta sites such as ours (only 5 on ...
ChenmunkaMod
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2
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Review indicator lits up, but no reviews are available
As far as I can tell, from historical observations on Code Golf Stack Exchange: somebody's just quicker than you at starting reviews, so they're not available to review by the time you click the ...
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User references broken?
You need more than two users, including the post owner. Editors can be @pinged, but they don't show up in the autocomplete list.
This happens because, when there are only two users in a comment thread,...
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Unusable ti-99 tag
Hypothesis
It appears that the tag was removed from all questions, yet still had an entry in the synonyms table. This put the website in an undefined state, because different parts of the website did ...
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2
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Why is the user profile different here?
That's your meta profile. Meta sites don't show the rep graph. Your main Retrocomputing graph should be normal.
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2
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Bug in commenting user from list
There are two different Staffans. This occasionally happens when a user registers an account part-way through using the site, if the cookie magic fails to connect the unregistered account to the newly-...
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Broken CAPTCHA challenge?
That's your browser blocking Google's JavaScript. I hate it too, but it makes my job easier so I can't really say much against it.
Temporarily allow https://[^/]google.com/.* and https://[^/]gstatic....
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Why does my visit counter keep resetting?
TL;DR: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
This might be caused by caching. A good tip when trying for the [• Enthusiast] badge is to perform an action every day (voting, asking, answering, etc.) to ...
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