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  • @Ollie: Maybe post that as a bug-report-reply? I haven't gotten any inbox notifications about tables yet. Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 21:46
  • @Ollie: Can you link to a partial screenshot of that? Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 21:49
  • @Ollie : It's not that bad. Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 21:51
  • Can you link to an example of an appear-to-be-table? Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 0:55
  • @Userthatisnotauser: Sure. But why are you "not a user"? Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 9:34
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    I know basically nothing about SEDE... But might there be any way to find such posts using a SEDE query? Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 22:28
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    @V2Blast: 1. That would be an extremely expensive query which would probably fail. 2. Queries are site-specific, aren't they? 3. I meant for this to be done for everyone, not for individuals to be able to do it for themselves. Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 23:09
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    @einpoklum: Regarding point #3, I wasn't meaning this as a replacement for your request, just as an alternative (e.g. in case SE doesn't implement this). I think point 2 is correct. (I know nothing about your first point.) Commented Dec 6, 2020 at 23:21
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    I see how this could be useful but it's nothing we're going to invest time in now. The cost/benefit ratio doesn't look compelling to me. People have been creative to work around the fact that we didn't have proper tables in the past, so surfacing all these posts with confidence is going to be a massive rabbit-hole for marginal gain. These posts seem to have been doing fine without proper tables so there's not much of an urgency to trigger a conversion now. Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 8:40
  • @HamVocke: That's fair enough, I guess. However, the obvious cases of code-segments with lots of -----'s and | whatever | might not be a lot of effort. Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 9:11
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    Here you go: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/… is per site, as I couldn't get the networkwide version to run within 2 minutes. Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 9:19
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    @rene: I think you should make that an independent post... Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 9:22
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    If you say so. Done that meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357555/… Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 13:00