Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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AI Generated Content in Tag Wiki
Is it allowed to post AI generated content on a tag wiki page? For example the vdi tag has no wiki. Searching with Google provided the following text from Gemini:
In computer terms,
VDI stands for ...
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What are "advice" questions and how are they created? [duplicate]
When looking at the list of questions of a tag I'm following, I've recently noticed that there is a new "type" of question of which I haven't heard before.
It has the keyword "Advice&...
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Are there any additional principles for reviewing open-ended questions?
I had some free time today and decided to finish some review queues. After a few "First Answers" i stumbled upon a fragment of a discussion from the "Advice" section (this one). I ...
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Inbox Messages Icon Displays -1 (negative one) [duplicate]
The Inbox Messages icon is displaying -1 (negative one).
Here is a screen capture:
I am referring to the white "-1" appearing in the red circle.
I have never seen this before.
When I logged ...
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"Modified today" does not show anything [duplicate]
This question popped up in my feed:
Player movement is frame dependant even with Time.deltaTime
In it you will see "modified: today",
When clicking on the event history (the clock underneath ...
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Unable to comment on stackoverflow for the past month (js error) [closed]
When I click on "Add a comment" nothing happens, I thought maybe it was a temporary error, but It's been more than a month now.
I get an error in the console
Uncaught TypeError: (0 , ft.Z_) ...
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How does the "Interesting posts for you"/"Customized feed" work?
I have to admit, I don't understand how my customized feed works.
For example, its state right now:
As you can see, there is Google Cloud related stuff, as well as Cloudflare and Breeze (don't even ...
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How to opt out of experiments - documented method not working [duplicate]
In the last couple of days I've been presented with new opinion-based questions. I'm an infrequent visitor to [meta] so I wasn't aware of this, so I've had to dig around to find out what's going on.
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How to add novel information to a community-effort/locked post
How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript? has a community effort lock on it, preventing any new answers from being added. I can see why this probably happened, as it seems to ...
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How can I write good answer without being flagged as LLM-generated
I ask this question in continuation of this question.
Lately I've been trying to figure out exactly what makes a good answer on Stack Overflow.
If I write carefully, using proper punctuation, grammar, ...
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How should we deal with the narwhal project tags?
I would like to create a "narwhals" tags associated to the python narwhals project/library. However, the system does not allow me to do so as it's too similar to the narwhal tag.
Quoting a ...
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Reputation not updated after question reopened — do closed-period upvotes get counted later? [duplicate]
I have a situation where my answer received upvotes while the question was closed, but I didn’t gain any reputation for them.
Later, the question was reopened, yet my reputation didn’t update.
Here’s ...
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How do I preview the appearance of my question before posting?
The interface for Asking a question used to render a live preview below the Body block.
Like in this example borrowed from Math meta How do I preview my post before posting?
However, my recent ...
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Why was my answer deleted even though it fullfilled all the guidelines?
This answer to question Generate Java code given a diagram PlantUML (deleted) (both appended below) was deleted by a moderator as it provided a link and was considered self-promotional. This project ...
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Why can't I comment on an answer to my question? [duplicate]
I've got an answer to a question I asked yesterday.
Now I was going to comment to ask further clarification, but clicking on the "Add a comment" button has no effect.
Since I've always been ...
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Is "Community Activity" panel a live feature? How do I turn it off?
Sorry if I missed something, but I can't find an announcement, only two posts (1, 2) about an experiment, which I presume is still going on.
My site settings / preferences / enable experiments is OFF.
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My question was closed too quickly. I can't understand it [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question about server-side pagination in React, but it was closed as "needs debugging details."
The problem is that I tried to describe my code and the issue, but I don’t ...
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Problem joining Stack Exchange Meta Community
I wanted to join Meta SE to ask why I was having problems joining other SE communities. That same issue stopped me from joining Meta SE. I did see other questions here with a similar subject but the ...
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Find a close review with multiple duplicates suggested
On RuSO, while reviewing close votes, I noticed that when there are multiple suggested duplicates, the tabs for these questions are all named the same: Duplicate A, Duplicate A and so on. This is not ...
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How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
How to hide the disturbing "Challenges" counter or leave the event until hopefully possible?
Every day it shows this counter (i.e. (1)) unless I visit the challenges to mark it "read&...
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Is stackoverflow.ai a scam? The URLs don't seem right
I got an email leading to that supposed AI. First I laughed and thought: "they finally surrender" LOL.
Then I saw the URLs in the site aren't "quite right". Then checked meta and ...
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What is wrong with my question about Eclipse Lun3r and WebAssembly? Are questions like "How is it possible that this works in an old browser?" bad?
I am talking about this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/79546110/8902065
It received one downvote and it was deleted. I don't see why. My question is essentially how is it possible that my ...
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How can I improve my question on git and GitHub?
My question How can I undo pushing 12k duplicate commits to GitHub if I can't fix the local state? shows research effort and contains enough detail so that it should hopefully be clear and useful. ...
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tag wiki guidance could use some work
I noticed that the tag guidance for internationalization was
messed up, and tried to fix it. In the process I noticed two
more things:
The "What is a tag wiki?" text says that "The ...
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What is the Stack Overflow Lobby? Is it different from other rooms in Chat?
I've recently visited Chat, specifically the Stack Overflow Lobby, however, I was unfamiliar with the rules and expectations of the chat room. Does the Lobby follow the same rules as Stack Overflow ...