Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Election candidate statistics overlap candidate's user card, plus sprite CSS problem
There is a display problem on the current election page.
Information overlaps the "user card" and hurts legibility.
Compare (bad):
To better from the current ...
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"Possible duplicate" message is difficult to notice
Update 2011-04-27: Jin removed the quotation image altogether here
When a question is closed as a duplicate, the duplicate question is selected (by the users who vote to close) and then attached ...
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Over-zealous anti-pleasantries algorithm
In my first answer on ELU, I encountered difficulty in answering succinctly, due to a program built into the site that removes so called “pleasantries”.
The question concerns how to write “salutations”...
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Can't search for a question about "that" and "which"
I knew this question was there: When is it appropriate to use ‘that’ as opposed to ‘which’?, but I tried searching for it and couldn't find it. Many usage questions concern function words in English, ...
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All mods are equal, but some mods are more equal than others
/about:
Dear Jin, this is funny and all, but... but... BUT!
(Opera, Chrome, Firefox; Vista.)
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The Incredible Shrinking ELU Banner
Something awful has happened to the top of all our pages. Earlier today they looked like this:
But now it has shrunk to a nearly unreadable proportion:
The new version is completely shrunken, which ...
tchristMod
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The accepted answer check mark is almost indistinguishable between active/inactive
The active vs inactive checkmarks are very difficult to tell apart on this site:
When I'm scrolling down the page it's hard to tell which answer I've actually accepted (or if there is one). ...
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50 question per month limit?
Shog9's answer to the SE meta question 50 question per month limit? appears to confirm that there is such a limit, but this ELU user appears to have asked more than 50 questions in the past week.
Did ...
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Formatting comments is such a hassle
In this question: Helper: loose vs. lose I added a comment with the following markup:
clarification: by “should be pronounced *loss*” do you mean
“should rhyme with *dose*” or “should rhyme with *...
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Our help page incorrectly states that it takes 6 spam / abuse flags to delete a post
I learned after posting this question that our help page is incorrect.
It currently states the following:
The spam and abusive flags are designed to automatically eliminate truly disruptive posts ...
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Different users' edits are amalgamated
Revision 3 of https://english.stackexchange.com/posts/83629/revisions is attributed to me.
I edited the question to remove the code formatting and present the quote correctly, and did only that. A ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Why are comment lists abridged in the middle?
In longish lists of comments the list gets abridged and a "more comments" link shows up at the end, kind of like an ellipsis. Normally, one would expect that such a list would be trimmed at the end, ...
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Pretty boxes not rendering correctly
Today I notice that the box around the box around the user information is not rendering correctly in my browser. I'm using Chrome 47 on Windows 7. Here is a screenshot:
Yes, I drew those circles by ...
Kit Z. FoxMod
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Apparent regression in link markdown
A paragraph ending with a link having a tooltip is wrongly combined with the next paragraph. In some cases, the link is also corrupted and some of the markup shows up as content. At least one page “in ...
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Is the editing help page supposed to be this hideous?
See the editing help page. In Safari 5, at the very least (the only browser I have available at the moment), it has no background at the top, unlike most of the English.SE site.
Take a look at ...
user11550
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Background of long OP username looks ugly in comments
I just noticed something funny in the comments to this question:
See the messy "scratches" on each end of the OP's username? I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be there.
The reason this ...
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"Read-only mode" banner is illegible due to color scheme
The Stack Exchange network was put into read-only mode today for a failover test. A banner was posted on each site to advise users of this. However, on English.SE (and Meta.English.SE), the banner ...
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Color of certain elements in Main site doesn't match up with the rest of the page
It is obvious that the grey of the blocks and the grey in the horizontal rule don't match up with the rest of the page.
Adding a small amount of the color from the background to it could greatly ...
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Improper formatting of Welcome box
A user from another site (tombull89) wishes to report a formatting problem for non-logged in template. Here is a screenshot.
He is using Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows 7, but Cerberus reports the same ...
Kit Z. FoxMod
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To bið or not to bid
The word bið is not the same as bid because one is Old English for be and the other is an etymologically unrelated word that you can find in any dictionary.
The what the eth here is that search ...
LaurelMod
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Bug squash request
In the Users page (either the quarter view or year view), when I hover over Barrie England's rep, the popup shows the amount twice (along with the total rep):
In the week, month, or all views, or for ...
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Design bug when editing an old revision
Example:
Reproduced in Chrome 8, Opera 11, and IE8.
This is how it appears in Safari 5.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.
Edit: Bug is still present. Chrome 14 on Windows 7 looks just like above.
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Double scrollbar in First Posts Queue
When reviewing first posts I noticed there are two scrollbars:
Here are links to some reviews that I saw this on:
https://english.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/303268
https://english....
LaurelMod
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Link style on the main site
Is this still active?
According to that thread there are supposed to be fine dotted lines beneath links. I have no such lines. Sometimes I actually do miss the links in the color scheme.
Links as ...
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Can this error in a vote-to-reopen screen be fixed?
When one votes to reopen a question one has already voted to reopen, the message "You have already (or previously) voted to reopen this question" appears:
Note that "(or previously)" is unnecessarily ...
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Have any ELU users experienced a recent large loss of rep explained as "User Removed"?
This is not a duplicate of the 2017 question mentioned. That question was about an event on ELU alone, involving a well known (to ELU) single user, and easily comprehended. This question is about a ...
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Six votes recommending deletion, but not deleted
This answer to Is there any word for “killing someone by conspiracy”?
got into the Low Quality Review queue,
where it got six “Recommend Deletion” votes (and no others)
and the review is labeled as ...
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'Your answer' leads to tips for stackoverflow not english.stackexchange.com
When I select 'Your Answer' to a question, the guidance says:
Thanks for contributing an answer to English Language & Usage Stack Exchange!
...
To learn more, see our tips on writing great ...
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Migrations are stuck
It looks to me like all ELU migrations elsewhither are stuck, and have been so for a day or so. This includes any migrations from ELU to ELL as well as here to our own Meta.
What's happening is they ...
tchristMod
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New top bar has introduced a design glitch
The new top bar has upset the ELU banner by pushing the central box down too far. Its ornaments no longer line up with the horizontal line.
This affects the main site and Meta.ELU.
Note: not ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Graphics cover the text
On https://english.stackexchange.com/tools/flagged, one of the blocks appears as in the following screenshot:
The graphic covers the block title.
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Can this minor style error be fixed?
One user is slightly lower than the others. Can we get a fix for this? The page is
https://english.stackexchange.com/about.
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"You don't have the permission to use this type of flag"
I was trying to flag a question as very low quality, because I couldn't decide between "unclear what you're asking" and "asking to do your homework for you", but then I got this error message.
Why is ...
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Chat hangs while loading
Visiting http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/95/english-language-and-usage hangs at Loading English Language and Usage, Just a second…. This has occurred at least three times in the last few weeks, ...
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How can I delete a draft answer?
Occasionally, I start writing an answer to a question, get distracted, come back later to a "there are new answers" message, load the other answers, decide they're the same as (or better than) what I ...
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Just doubled up on gold Steward badges... badging bug?
I have, for some time now, had all 6 gold Steward badges for 1000 reviews of each type. These badges explicitly say they are awarded once per review type only. (And I haven't made 2000 reviews of ...
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UX issue, ask a question button
The "Ask Question" a primary call to action is treated as a menu item. I actually couldn't even visually locate this button. I had to open stackoverflow, view where the button was and then compare ...
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Related tags don't have thousands separators
The tagged questions pages (for example) show a count of questions at the top, like "8,279 questions tagged".
Below is a list of related tags, and their counts. However, the counts are missing commas ...
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Editing tag wikis produces design bug
The tag wiki edit page has, well, a few layout problems.
The title intrudes upon the header.
The excerpt box protrudes into the help box.
The help box text extrudes from the help box.
(Yes, I used ...
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Close vote reason display issue
I've just (yesterday or today) started seeing poor text positioning on the close vote dialog, specifically that the already-selected reason's description is overlapping with the title:
This is on:
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Side bar formatting problem on the elections page
I've noticed a side bar formatting problem on elections page.
The fancy border doesn't stretch with the content ...
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Broken link "ask" on FAQ page
Broken link on FAQ page: https://english.stackexchange.com/ask is 404:
Of course, if your question isn't adequately answered by these resources, feel free to ask here on English Language and Usage ...
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Fancy frame on election nomination page overflows
This is how the left-side frame on https://english.stackexchange.com/election/1?tab=nomination looks like in Safari:
I know it has already been reported there, but the question was marked status-...
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Grammar error in Review
FYI, I noticed this on ELL this morning, and it shows up here as well:
This question doesn't meet a [sic] English Language & Usage Stack Exchange guideline.
Eddie Kal has posted on Meta SE about ...
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10k tools flags page display problem
I think this is due to the recent changes to the formatting of the 10k tools (rather than me upgrading to Firefox 6.0):
(I've grayed out the questions and names to protect the innocent. Obviously, ...
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Please fix the standard sans-serif page title
Once again the site design has been disrupted by a standard change.
This is how Help pages used to look:
They now have really bold titles:
Because of the size of the heading, this unbalances the ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Watched tags: design flaw
The title in one of the sidebar boxes isn't right. I hadn't noticed this before, so it may be new, although I don't think we've had any tweaks recently. Or perhaps it's just me and my browser (Chrome ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Community wiki answer changes to normal on migration?
My recent community wiki answer on ELU, on migration to ELL, changed to normal.
Is this normal?
It's possible that some people on ELL will think that I'm copypasting others' comments for rep.
NVZMod
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What happens when questions are migrated twice?
A question I answered was closed and presumably automagically migrated to Writers. I lost some rep because the question was no longer on ELU.
It's since been migrated back because it is actually ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Green block for days with accepted answers
My reputation page displays the following in Chrome and FireFox (both for Mac):
It appears there's a little css issue for days that have accepted answers where both the score and the background are ...
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