Indicates that a submitted issue is actually due to the existing design of the system and is not considered erroneous behaviour.
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4answers
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The return key in comments
I have noticed recently that when composing comments, pressing the return key
submits the comment as is. This behaviour differs from that when composing
replies. I am using Firefox. As I frequently ...
20
votes
3answers
318 views
Removing upvote in first five minutes eliminates possibility of restoring upvote later
Something like the following scenario has happened to me two or three times since I've been active on this site (and happened again today).
I read through an answer, like it, and upvote it. Then I ...
13
votes
2answers
180 views
Editing title results in unwanted “bump” …
I was looking at my old questions and noticed that some TeX in one of my titles was not entered correctly. I fixed it... and to my dismay the question is now on the front page. I'm concerned that this ...
12
votes
1answer
166 views
five-minute limit message should take precedence over five-second limit message
This is a somewhat trivial bug, but a bug nonetheless. It sometimes happens that one starts editing a comment, and then upon submitting the edit one gets an error message that the comment can only be ...
9
votes
1answer
138 views
Why are there so many first posts right now?
There are like 150 that need review, usually there are most 3 or 4 at a time. Is this a bug?
9
votes
1answer
429 views
Bounty awarded and original poster gone!?
This problem: "Second part of the factorial sum divisibility question" had a 500-point bounty on it, posted by a user 'caveman'. Just now I noticed that 'caveman' is gone, and the bounty has been ...
9
votes
1answer
194 views
Automatic removal of comments when a question gets closed as “exact duplicate”
It happened to me several times that a comment I made was no longer there after a question was closed as an exact duplicate. It is hard for me to tell what exactly is going on because I can't see or ...
8
votes
3answers
260 views
Comment error while posting comments
When I want to give a comment on a question/answer to a particular user, say David, i generally type
@David: This is blah,blah...
But recently that is the past 2 days, I am observing that the ...
8
votes
3answers
519 views
Broken imgur-links
Is there any plan to take care of broken imgur image-links?
They look like this:
(This picture is taken from Bill Dubuque's answer here which was posted not even two months ago—look at the ...
7
votes
1answer
144 views
Wrong answer count for questions with deleted answers
There is a slightly annoying new feature/bug that I first noticed one or two days ago and seems related to joriki's question wrong answer count after an answer was deleted and undeleted
For instance, ...
7
votes
1answer
74 views
Locking In Unvotes
I asked a question, and someone replied with an decent answer, so I upvoted their answer. A minute later, I discovered there might be some inaccuracies with their answer, so I un-upvoted their answer. ...
6
votes
1answer
245 views
votes not counting for the last hour or so
Odd thing, I did see my increased score when this answer was accepted: What's the best way to detect an algebraic number? but no sign of the three separate upvotes. Similar for yesterday's Can an ...
5
votes
3answers
83 views
migrated question incorrectly labeled as closed as off topic
I voted to migrate this question to physics.SE, as three others had done before me. I expected that it would be migrated once a fifth vote was cast, but when I checked on it I was suprised that it ...
5
votes
1answer
141 views
How can a question have 0 views and non-zero votes?
Today in the Top Questions happened that a question (of mine) had 2 votes, 0 answers and 0 views. Why 0 views? Shouldn't it be at least 2? Perhaps there is something to be fixed.
Update: just now it ...
4
votes
1answer
78 views
comments disappear on closure
A lot of comments were posted to my question Subtractive Goldbach but they have all disappeared. I don't think that should have happened.
4
votes
1answer
142 views
Can't change your vote after an hour?
It seems like if you vote something up or down, after an hour that is fixed and you cannot change it - this is irritating because people are still able to edit their post after an hour. Can we change ...
4
votes
1answer
101 views
Less-than signs and previews
If I write $m<n$ in a question, the preview sees the less-than and interprets it as the begining of an XML tag. I have to write it as an HTML entity to get ...
3
votes
1answer
333 views
Why the sudden jump of 100 points in my reputation ranking?
(Tuesday, 30.Aug.2011, Taiyuan China time)
Until a day or so ago, my reputation ranking was 774. Then, suddenly, with no activity on my part, it is 874, exactly 100 points higher. What happened?
3
votes
2answers
66 views
Title of question can change when it appears in “Related” list
Here's an example. This question had some revisions to its title:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1839/if-sum-n1-infty-fraca-nn2-is-finite-does-frac1n2-sum-i1n
...
2
votes
1answer
254 views
Free Downvotes!
A bug I've just noticed over the past two days... downvotes aren't costing me anything!
I downvoted something a day ago and noticed that my rep stayed constant (not supposed to happen), but the ...
2
votes
4answers
89 views
trouble in quoting a page from Wolfram Alpha
I wanted to put a link to Wolfram Alpha. I have plotted $(n!)^{(1/n)}$ (with parentheses included). But
...
2
votes
2answers
118 views
Why can I not use my additional 10 votes on just questions.
I voted 30 times on answers and questions, before reaching 30 votes. I cannot reach 40 votes. I beg the title.
2
votes
2answers
120 views
Weird reoccuring bug : @ someone.
I find the following occuring bug weird.
When I post a comment I start with @someone.
But for some reason this does not always get into the text.
I get no error message but it is not there.
In the ...
2
votes
1answer
84 views
I did not reach upvote rep limit, yet I did not get my +10 for an upvote
See here. Just curious, as I do not understand why the system did not record the +10 rep points for this upvote.
2
votes
2answers
132 views
Italic variable appears as \$n\$ in browser title
See Sum of $n$ consecutive numbers divided by $n$ for an example.
The title of this question has the variable $n$ in italics. When rendering in the browser title bar it is displayed as \$n\$. I am ...
2
votes
1answer
127 views
Bug: answer posted after closing the question.
The question Does doing mathematics make you more intelligent? was closed, but 13 minutes after closing there was an answer posted.
I suppose this is a bug, and not a feature of the software.
2
votes
2answers
147 views
Meta.Meta: A bug in the meta Community♦ user?
This question was bumped by the Community♦ user, even though it has an upvoted answer, and it was tagged status-completed.
Maybe the meta Community♦ user should be trained not to bump meta questions ...
2
votes
1answer
88 views
What are the white brackets around a questions stats
Today I noticed the question about writing a paper in algebraic geometry here had something funky with it on the front page. It had big white brackets around its question stats.
What is this?
2
votes
0answers
41 views
Underscore formatting bug, excited (maybe) by subscripts of nothing. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Matrices not rendered correctly
I'm trying to display old-style notations for combinations, that is, ${}_nC_r$ for the thing now typically written $n\choose r$. To get ...
1
vote
3answers
197 views
Math Stack Exchange reputation bug
There seems to be some problem with my reputation. I have received 2 upvotes and the OP accepted my answer, but this is not reflected on my account.
1
vote
2answers
251 views
why is badge awarded ?
could anyone tell me why is citizen patrol badge awarded ?.........It shows that i earned this badge 1 hour ago...but i have'nt logged in for about a day.What is meant by first flagged post ?
[Note ...
1
vote
2answers
167 views
Something wrong with Enlightened badge?
I woke up this morning to find myself with another Enlightened badge awarded for a relatively old question for which I received no recent votes, nor recent acceptance.
Furthermore the list of "Recent ...
1
vote
1answer
84 views
1
vote
1answer
57 views
@user not showing up in postings [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Comment Link to OP not Possible
I am using a Chrome browser.
Sometimes, when I use "@user: {my comment}", the @user user name does not show up in the comment posting, ...
1
vote
1answer
146 views
chalkboardy stuff cute but a little distracting
The "chalkboardy" up/down arrows, star, etc. are kinda weird... any chance you could just use plain up/down arrows like on most other stackexchange sites?
1
vote
1answer
57 views
How many lines get allocated to “intro to a question” under Questions tab?
I was surprised to see more lines than usual allocated to this question. How does that happen?
1
vote
2answers
87 views
List of questions reverting back when using the back button
If I view a question and then press the back button in my browser, the list of questions tends to revert back to an older version than the one I was viewing when going to the question. Often, this is ...
1
vote
0answers
95 views
About the Ordering of Answers
I found this question "A question about hyperbolic functions", where the OP accepted his own answer with no upvotes (so far). The strange thing is that the accepted answer doesn't show up on top, no ...
0
votes
3answers
250 views
Moderators ignoring flags
For some reason the moderators have ignored my recent flags. My flags have not been declined, deemed helpful, etc. Is there a reason for that?
0
votes
1answer
159 views
No idea what's happening in my profile!
What does this imply? I don't get up votes once I reach 160 reputation for a question? Is this very common. There are 23 events and the reputation stopped just after 16 up votes.(Laughs) A bug need ...
0
votes
1answer
116 views
Why am I not being notified of comments
I am not being notified of comments on the stackexchange inbox anymore.For example,this question: Evaluating an improper integral
Did's comment in response to my comment(made in response to Did's ...
-1
votes
1answer
122 views
Six questions limit per 24 hour
How can I know if I had posted 6 questions previously when would my 24 hour limit gets over for posting more questions?
Edit: I had posted 6 questions, after few moments(within 5min) I found 2 ...
