Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change
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I lost access to the review queues?
I've been trying to check the review queues more often lately, and this last time I checked, I received a message stating I have no review queues available:
Update 1: If I navigate to the queue ...
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What's the deal with Community bumping obsolete questions? Necromancer bot?
I'm looking for new 'hot' Minecraft questions on the main page, and what do I find?
Minecraft 1.9 freezes if I click on things too quickly
Asked shortly after the 1.9 release in 2016. The problem in ...
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Bug or feature: I can't vote to close a question a second time
I voted to close this question since it is asking for game recommendations. However, I also wanted to leave a comment linking the asker to suggestions for sites that allow recommendations. I wanted to ...
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Only one Hot Meta Post is showing
Arqade Meta has recently had three different posts that have attracted quite a bit of attention, announcing three beloved Arqade mods giving up their diamonds:
The time has come, the Walrus said, to ...
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Why aren't tags for released video games auto-generated?
Recently I asked a question about Far Cry: New Dawn and the tag didn't exist. This is a major AAA game release by Ubisoft... shouldn't at least all AAA games get tags auto-generated to prevent the ...
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Creating tags for new games [duplicate]
Creating a tag requires a minimum of 300 reputation, which not everyne can achieve. New games are not always noticed by people and tags may not be created for them.
For example I am trying to create a ...
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I just received an Announcer badge for a question I have no recollection of ever seeing before
I just received an Announcer badge for this question. As far as I can remember, I've never seen this question before. I certainly haven't shared it (I know nothing about this game, and it looks okay ...
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Is there an issue with the required rep to vote to close a post?
I was looking around Game Development the other day and I seen this:
It is obvious that I have the privilege to vote to close post there. But when I looked at a post on Arqade:
it is obvious that I ...
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Should we reword the closure text for duplicate questions?
When we close a question as a duplicate of another, the following is displayed on the question:
I thought that the normal protocol was to have the original author edit the existing the question that ...
Timmy JimMod
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Why is this image here?
I came across this edit page and it looks to me like there is an image in it that should not be there. I think this might be a bug because in this window we should see the raw text of the image aka ...
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Excavator Medal not awarded
I'm a completionist (sorry) and I did something that I think, by definition, should have awarded me the Excavator badge (Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months) here. Do abandoned buildings ...
Fredy31Mod
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Why can I not down-vote?
When I up-vote it goes well it even records itself in my profile. Though when I try to dow-nvote it says I need 125 reputation to vote. Why is that? Is that a bug?
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Username with superscript letter
This user has a very strange nickname and I wonder how those characters can be allowed: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/161328/redarrowfx-%e1%b4%b9%e1%b5%92%e1%b5%97%e1%b6%a4%e1%b5%92%e1%b6%b0-%...
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Review queue bug?
Today I went to review a few things as it showed that there were a few things to review in the queue, however when I clicked on the review button, there was only 1 suggested edit though the indicator ...
DragonrageMod
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Peoples reputation vanishing
So this one person has a ton of badges but one reputation! I don't think this is possible unless there's
A. A bug
B.(unlikely) his questions got flagged as SPAM.
I've seen this happen to a lot of ...
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Do we really have 1.7k late answers to review?
Just seen this on the Arqade Review page:
Do we really have 1.7k late answers to review? I skipped through a couple and the answers do seem to be queued.
Is that a bug? Or what is it?
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Why do I have more rep from this year than my total reputation? [duplicate]
I was looking at my profile, and "Oooh! Top 2% this year? Lets take a look!"
Wait, how the hell is my total reputation less than my reputation this year?
After some investigation, it seems that this ...
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Answer Order Bug
I have noticed a bug here on answers for a question. The answers aren't displaying in order of votes, like they should be.
Here is a screenshot to demonstrate:
I have refreshed the page, reopened ...
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Adding any of "age of empires" tags to favorites, adds extra tags
When i edit my "Favorite Tags" and add age-of-empires-2, it gets normally added but in addition to the tag i added, i get 2 extra tags: of and age.
Same problem seems to occur with other age of ...
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My excerpt edit is not removed in the editing queue
I just created the nintendo-network-id excerpt, but because I have not enough rep yet, it has to go through the queue and get accepted. However, immeditaly after I submitted the edit, I got the orange ...
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We need a way to search only for questions or answers
Just a quick questions:
Why can we not search just for questions or just for answers?
Will this be a future option?
I think it may be useful for people, especially when they are looking for ...
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Flags in different chatrooms
I recently noticed that I get notifications about flags from chatrooms where I'm not a room owner. Now I'm not sure about whether this is intended or not but I feel like it doesn't really make any ...
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Suggested edits not updating [duplicate]
Because a picture is worth a thousand words:
The icon indicating how many suggested edits is not updating. I have refreshed the page multiple times, and even opened a new one, but it's always showing ...
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Reputation point in chat room different than actual reputation on Arqade
So, when I speak in a chat room, or look at my profile through a chat room, I see that I have more reputation points than I actually own on Arqade.
How is it possible? Are the reputation points in ...
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How did I get a secret hat?
I got a secret hat.
How can I know how did I get it?
If I go into the hat selection screen, it just says "this is a secret hat", which doesn't make much sense.
Usually secret achievements and such ...
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Only able to use flag "Other"
I just tried to flag a post, and the only option I had was "Other".
I can see the full set of options when flagging other posts (and I refreshed the page to check it hadn't loaded incorrectly), so ...
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Why is my year reputation larger than my total reputation?
My reputation for the year is more than my total rep.
How is it possible that my year reputation is higher than my total reputation? This is my first year on this site so it's not possible that I ...
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Should we add an "other" option when flagging a post?
It's either just me, or there's no "other" option for flagging. There is the box to notify moderators, but that's only for content that requires their direct attention. We should get an "other" option ...
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Should we have a flag for answers which failed to realize a question's scope?
I am really new to the Stack Exchange community and after reading several answers, I seem to come to the same conclusion; that some fail to realize the scope of the question.
Now I'm unsure as to ...
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Garry's Mod Question shows up twice in question list
I do not know if this is a bug but Garry's Mod Question shows up twice in question list. Here is a screen cap.
Umm is this normal? If so then please just ask me to go away. :-)
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I get notified of my own Suggested Edits for review
I believe the functionality behind the review notification doesn't check the Suggested Edit's User Id against the logged in User's Id to determine whether you should be reviewing your own edit. The ...
RobotnikMod
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No Steam Log-In on other sites
Before we begin, I'm sorry if this is posted somewhere inappropriately.
When I first joined Stack Exchange (via Arqade) I was given the option of using Steam to sign in. When I attempted to sign in ...
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The site doesn't know what subjective means [duplicate]
I was asking a question earlier, "Can you pause the game in Starbound?"
A little popup appeared and told me off - "This question seems to be subjective and is likely to be closed"
I'd argue that the ...
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Is the "edit tags" element supposed be hidden?
I can't reproduce this on other network sites, but it could be reputation related.
Normally "Edit Tags" doesn't appear, but when you hover your cursor next to the tags, it appears. Shouldn't this ...
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Should featured (bountied) questions be required to give out the bounty?
Should featured (bountied) questions be required to give out the bounty for those who try their hardest in answering a question?
I think that the person with the highest ranking score after the ...
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Grace Note wasn't awarded the Constable badge
The SE team quietly introduced the Constable badge reserved for pro-tem modraters. On this site, that means Oak, Juan and Grace.
Flashback!
I am pleased to announce that these members have stepped up ...
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There's no [about] link at the top
The site exists at https://gaming.stackexchange.com/about, but there's no link to it.
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Did something change in the calculation of Helpful Flags?
The count of Helpful Flags on my profile has jumped up by several dozen since this morning, but I haven't flagged anything in the interim.
Did something change in how this is calculated? Is something ...
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Can I transfer my answer on a duplicate question to the duplicate target?
I answered a question, and later on that question was marked as a duplicate. After checking out the original question closer I realized that my answer to the dupe answers the original question better (...
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Got an achievement that was meant for another user
I think there's a bug in the StackExchange achievement system. I received an announcer badge for a question that I've never seen before. What makes it even more look like a bug is the fact that my ...
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mobile access layout request
The site doesn’t show some menus, like the "review" and "meta". So to use it I typed in the url.
Also the suggested questions that appear when you are creating a question didn't show either.
And ...
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Missing achievement in AnswerSwarm
I had a bounty on this question: What are the new units in Heart of the Swarm? which was awarded during the AnswerSwarm period.
Doesn't look like I have the 'My Precioussss' achievement. Any admins ...
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Tab buttons don't fade since rebranding
It has been brought to my attention that the buttons to change tabs no longer fade. Currently, if you hover over something like Tags or Users, it blinks to the right color, but if you check the web ...
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Date display bug
I found a bug, viewing my questions sorted by views. Can you see it?
If you're having trouble, I'll highlight it for you:
May 26th of what year??? This is important!
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Question sorting is kind of weird
On main pages of sites, aren't posts supposed to appear with the most recently edited one at the top, and then go in order from most to least recently edited?
Decidedly unlike this picture. I've seen ...
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What timezone is Stack Exchange in?
I just got a hat for posting on Christmas and it is still 1 PM on Dec 24th here in Connecticut.
What time zone is Stack Exchange Servers in?
So it is not UTC, and by logic if the server times are ...
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Some answers aren't accepted because the askers are long gone [duplicate]
I notice that some questions have lots of good answers, but there is no accepted one because some people come to StackExchange expecting answers right away, but leave after they see that nobody is ...
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