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How can I cancel an up-vote or down-vote?
To retract an upvote or a downvote, just click within 5 minutes from the previous vote the same vote button. This will retract the vote.
Past the 5 minutes the vote is locked and can be changed only ...
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Something Weird is Happening with Reputation
Time counts here.
Once you reach the threshold, any upvote you receive is lost.
As an example, once you are at the 200 rep limit, getting the sequence of 1 up - 1 down and 1 down - 1 up will lead ...
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What happened to my comment to the question about merfolks' handling of their dead?
First of all, answers shall be written as such. Answering in comments when the question is closed is bad form, and gives the bad message that a user can neglect asking well written question and an ...
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Community events are not being correctly shown on main (but are on meta)
Took me a while to find this, since the normal criteria would dictate that both events are shown.
Turns out, there's a bit of logic that runs to add meta posts that are featured network-wide - that ...
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Links not formatting properly when there are 9+ of them
This is caused by link number 8:
[8]: https://media.knivesandtools.com/Exact1200x800/140088/bo121547$01-boker.jpg
To be precise, the ...
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Tags: global-warming undefined... consolidate or leave separate?
I agree with the separation completely: it clarifies the differences between the two terms.
However, there are questions out there about global cooling and other large-scale climate changes that aren'...
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Missing reputation
You had one upvote...
Upvotes on an answer give the answerer +10 reputation.
From the help-center : Voting up
So you got 10 points...
...And one downvote
Downvotes remove 2 reputation from the post ...
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Read-only mode issue?
This is a recent-ish issue (maybe couple of months old) that seems to affect users randomly. It is somewhat rare but with enough users somebody eventually gets affected.
It is also localised per site ...
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How do I accept an answer?
Located to the left of the answer, below the upvote and downvote buttons there is a gray check mark. Clicking that will turn it green and mark the answer as accepted. See the following image:
NOTE: ...
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Is something broken about the “necromancer” badge?
Badges are awarded when all the conditions are met.
If the answer was posted on Feb 17 2017 but the conditions were met on Oct 28, in this case
Answer a question more than 60 days later with ...
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Bug in dollar sign + link preview
It's not a bug, it's an intended feature.
Anything enclosed between two \$ will be treated as a mathematical formula by MathJax, and displayed accordingly. Like you can see in this following text ...
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Is there a reason, this specific SE site is unbearably slow?
Just for the Record
Simply because this is an interesting bug report, and because someone else might experience a similarly slow WB.SE session in the future, I think it worthwhile to copy the ...
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Community events are not being correctly shown on main (but are on meta)
Just a heads up on how I think this should work:
We have 4 different sections:
Upcoming Events
Blog
Featured on Meta
Hot on Meta
If a Link is in multiple sections, we discarded all but one of them (...
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Help me get on to Area 51
If you're using the HTTPS Everywhere browser add-on, that might be your problem. Otherwise, someone else recently made a similar support request on MSE that got fixed, so I'd try there.
Area 51 has ...
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How can this after-close answer exist?
I'm going to blatantly steal Monica Cellio's answer to the same question when it was asked on Mi Yodeya Meta in January 2015, because it puts it far better than I can:
There is a grace period after ...
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What's wrong with printing in Worldbuilding
This is fixed as per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/329187/235711
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Bounty reason isn't showing up
Looks to me like the bounty reason notice got removed the same instant that you removed the hard science notice, probably because both are technically notices on the question. That's plainly visible ...
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A closed question that has recieved multiple edits, opened again, then reverted to its original state, why can't I vote to close it?
Each user is allowed only one close and one reopen vote on any one question.
You participated in the original closure of the question at revision 3, and the reopening at revision 6.
Thus, you have ...
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Sandbox ad on right side of screen doesn't use HTTPS
This is a non-issue with modern, standards-compliant browsers.
Along with a bunch of other headers, every response to a request to worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com comes with these headers:
<...
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How can this after-close answer exist?
I’ve seen this discussed on the site-wide meta. The poster can submit the answer late, and it is accepted. Normally the browser communicates with the server and learns that the question closed, and ...
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My recently asked question does not show up on the active page
I cannot reproduce this
Your question shows up just fine. Right now it's directly under the question "Inorganic alien consciousness [on hold]" at 14th position in the active questions.
Other ...
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When the system prunes community events, why doesn't it prune the oldest?
This is actually the same bug as your other one: the system does not differentiate between short URLs with a user ID attached and short URLs without one (or long URLs that point to the same post, for ...
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There is a missing link in the blog side panel of the questions page
I saw it too -- a link to that SE blog post, and "page not found" if you followed it. It's now fixed; that link goes to this blog post.
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Should tags biology, biochemistry, anatomy, and life be consolidated?
I agree with Zxyrra except in the case of life<->biology. Those two certainly seem very similar. There are also ongoing problems with life that are more complicated than this, for example ...
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Automated message directs me to find answers where none exist
First of all, when your first question got put on hold as 'too broad', you should have edited that question to narrow it down instead of asking a new one. Even when a question is closed, it can still ...
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Why is my score being capped at 194 (not 200) today?
Hmm, good question. I think it has to do with the deletion of this post, from which you had gained 6 reputation. When it was deleted you lost those 6 points again, but it seems like you've been "...
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Robot bleeds into non-maximized page
I can reproduce this when I resize my browser window:
The background colour of the content div is set to rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95) so, it's 5% transparent. ...
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some of the answer text is smashed together in my question need help
This was caused by some specific links in an answer, when placed without markup. Only the answer containing the links was affected. I edited the answer so that the links were present with Markdown, i....
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some of the answer text is smashed together in my question need help
This is a relevant excerpt from the post that was causing a layout breakdown in Firefox, so that the problem can be reproduced and verified in that browser.
By definition, bacteria are prokaryotic ...
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Is there a community-specific bug report feature?
It is not a bug.
It is meant as a moderator only feature, as pointed out here
And also a more thorough reasoning is posted here
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible