Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
43 questions
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2 answers
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Delete others' comments on my own post [closed]
If you use social media, you may know that all comments others posted on your own posts can be deleted by you if you see that it is unnecessary. I know TeX.SE, or SE in general, is not a social media ...
5 votes
0 answers
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Zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width space inserted in code
Please look at my comments to https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13716/30810: They cannot be copied and compiled because there are zero-width non-joiners and and zero-width spaces (‌​ ...
10 votes
2 answers
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CAPTCHA despite logged in with good reputation
I just posted my first answer on this site, sharing a solution I've found to a problem that was not yet listed. Given a high enough reputation score on another SE site, I received 100 reputation bonus ...
6 votes
1 answer
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Why can't I start a bounty?
I would like to start a bounty for this question. Am I missing the obvious? Why can't I start a bounty? Screens See by yourself: as opposed to What happen if I click on "bounty is available&...
11 votes
1 answer
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why does "asked yesterday" persist after more than 24 hours?
after absence for a day i returned to checking what had happened while i was gone. a question that i knew i had seen earlier reported "asked yesterday": the date shown, on a mouse-over, is "2014-09-08 ...
7 votes
1 answer
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Voting to Leave open, then still be able to vote for close?
This question https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194028/export-image-as-eps-but-pi-symbol-changes-in-matlab was in my Close Review queue. I voted to leave open. The post mentioned is just an ...
10 votes
1 answer
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Bug in how new user status is calculated
These, I suppose, are relatively exceptional circumstances1 that the designers of the stackexchange network didn't necessarily think about, but it seems that there is a bug in the calculation of new ...
8 votes
1 answer
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Why aren't the Winter bash hats available in the meta site?
Why aren't the Winter bash hats available in the meta site? Is it a bug or a feature?
6 votes
1 answer
249 views
Negative reputation?
Let us see this screen (29th November 2013): I know that Marien..., oh, Donut E. Knot, has many names and this is a source of a strange value. But should I communicate such behaviour of the platform ...
7 votes
1 answer
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Can't accept answer
Someone answered my question, but there is no checkmark to accept the answer. I've been unable to find out if I need more reputation to do this, if I'm missing something, or if something is wrong. ...
8 votes
1 answer
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URLs containing colons are escaped and do not resolve
The problem While writing my last answer I noticed that linking to external resources containing a colon does not work, since the colon is being escaped as %3a and thus mangled and the URLs do not ...
10 votes
1 answer
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why does a zero before a period disappear in a quoted environment?
i just entered an answer that included a quote from the bibtex manual. the quote started with the number "10." from a list. i entered it first by cutting and pasting, and expected some "corruption" (...
3 votes
1 answer
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Syntax highlighting not working on a post
I went to Multipart nodes with multipart subparts — style issue and the questions syntax never colorized (if that is even a term to use). I then went to another post and the syntax there was fine. I ...
4 votes
1 answer
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The counter of my spent bounties in Data Explorer is greater than that of in my profile?
Usually the counter in Data Explorer is smaller than the counter in my main profile because of the existence of deferred synchronization. Today I noticed an opposite fact as follows. From my main ...
22 votes
1 answer
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"1 times" is incorrect, every time
Recipients of newly-created badges live with the following reality: Is it possible to have this print as This badge has been awarded 1 time. Recently awarded to: in the event of a single instance?