Questions tagged [post-notices]
For questions (and discussions, etc.) on Meta Stack Exchange about post notices. A post notice is a relatively brief banner message that appears above a post. Post notices typically either explain why the post is locked, or (for questions) what type of answers are needed.
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Wrong post notice for an answer migrated with its question then subsequently deleted
This question was initially asked on the main Stack Overflow site, then migrated to the meta site along with this answer. The answer was then deleted on the meta site via regular delete votes. However,...
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Full Stop Overflow™ on deletion notices if moderator icon exactly aligns with end of notice
On meta sites where the moderator diamond and staff symbols render in special boxes, if there's a box at the end of a deletion notice and it happens to exactly align with the ending border of the ...
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Question with the same post notice multiple times
I randomly stumbled upon Harmful temptations in programming (archive), which has two historical locks: I suppose this is a bug? Another post conveniently shows that there exists an error message to ...
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Error message about duplicate post notice shown as preformatted text
When I tried to add a post notice earlier today, something went wrong (maybe a server error, maybe a connection problem). The post notice was created but the UI wasn't updated. When I tried to add the ...
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What is the PostNotices.ExpiryDate field used for in Stack Exchange Data Explorer?
The Schema for Stack Exchange Data Explorer says the PostNotices table has fields for DeletionDate and ExpiryDate. I assume the DeletionDate is when a Notice is removed from a post, but I can't figure ...
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Post notice for protected questions is confusing; please rephrase it to make it clearer
The post notice for protected questions currently reads Highly Active Question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement ...
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The phrase "it is not currently accepting answers" (in close post notices) has nothing to do with "accepting answers"; coherence, please
When a question is closed, a post notice is shown and it states the question "is not currently accepting answers". Example: This suggests that if the question wasn't closed, it could accept ...
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Make the opinion-based closure notice say "is seeking opinion-based answers" instead of "is opinion-based"
When a question is closed as: Opinion-based This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers. …a post ...
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Unable to translate "Want to improve this answer" notice
There's no string to translate notice (can be added by mods manually) on answer: Want to improve this answer? Add details and include citations to explain why this answer is correct. Answers without ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
On questions like this one that have a tendency to be answered by low-rep users who don't cite any sources, mods can add the following post-notice: Want to improve this post? Provide detailed ...
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What does "the traffic data in this chart is outdated" mean on the site analytics pages?
I encountered this message at the Chinese and Math analytics pages and don't know what it means: Effective May 10th 2022, the traffic data in this chart is outdated. We are working to resolve the ...
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"Go get it" button for editing badges should link to the 'Annotated Posts' page
If I'm tracking one of the edit badges and click on the progress bar, it offers me a link to 'go get it': Clicking on the button takes me to the Low-Quality Posts review queue. It's actually quite a ...
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No space between "bounty" and the username in bounty notices [duplicate]
This might be the smallest bug, however, it is irritating to see the username is connected to "bounty" with a period. There have been times when I think that could be a particular syntax on ...
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'Thanks for submitting an edit' banner is missing a space
After you submit an edit, the following banner is shown: Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members. It seems that there is a space ...
GlorfindelMod
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Closed post message "List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" is misleading
It says List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege Apparently, that's not the case as mentioned in How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?...
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