Comment by Glorfindel on Stack Exchange site names for API URL query parameter
Oh, you're absolutely right, that's what you get when you try to reverse engineer an algorithm based on a piece of code which (partially) does the opposite :D
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for I have three pending suggested edits but there...
You cannot review your own suggested edits, so the system is indeed subtracting your three edits from the four in total. When you open the page when you're not logged in (e.g. in a private browser...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for On which day did it become impossible to upload...
I'm pretty sure that happened in the week of December 12th, 2022.Mobile has been shut down in its entirety as of December 12th, 2022.I have a commit in the repository of my broken image repairer script...
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Answer by Glorfindel for Stack Exchange API doesn't work for meta sites
Please note that https://meta.stackoverflow.com is a different site than https://stackoverflow.com. Click the [edit] link next to the site name:and type Meta Stack Overflow. When you run the query...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for What Stack Exchange website can I ask for website...
Such a question is off-topic on Software Recommendations: seeCan I ask for recommended websites? on their Meta.Some sites in the network allow for recommendations (of products, tools, but also...
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Answer by Glorfindel for How can I view the list of the questions that were...
There's an overview in the moderator tools - you need 10k reputation to access those, not a diamond:Other than that, your best bet is probably SEDE: this query lists the most recently reopened...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for According to "Be part of the community that decides...
Any question that has to do with the Stack Exchange family of communities is fair game.IMHO, that's the important sentence; the two bullets below are just examples of that, and not meant to be a...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Can you comment or vote on a revision?
You can leave a comment under the post; editors can be pinged, and this is the way to address concerns of or improvements to the edit. (Apart from making another edit, of course.)What matters most is...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for How can I view the list of my suspensions on a given...
Emails can be thrown away, but the corresponding inbox notifications won't be. You should be able to scrape your global inbox, looking for message type "moderator message", because that's similar to...
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Answer by Glorfindel for feature request: make numbered list formatting less...
Is this really necessary? The difference between1and1 · 1is (at least to me) quite obvious: above, the dot is shifted to the left (so it belongs to the first 1) and it has the same baseline as the...
View ArticleMake all links in 'Stack Gives Back 2022!' and 'Stack Gives Back 2023!' HTTPS
Two links in Stack Gives Back 2022! are HTTP, while their HTTPS equivalents work fine:Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)UNICEFIn the spirit of Network-wide HTTPS: It's time, can these...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Why was this spam post locked and deleted twice by...
Yeah, that must have been a race condition. Moderators can see the timestamps of flags in the timeline, and I see two spam flags cast at 06:29:07Z.Both were the third flag while they were cast, but...
View ArticleUpdate Help Center page about necessary spam flags to delete a post
The Help Center article about the privilege to flag posts still refers to the old situation where 6 flags were needed:What happens when I flag something as spam or rude/abusive?The spam and...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Close votes on "review first questions"
Even though you can't vote to close, you can flag as 'Needs improvement' - that will put the question in the Close Votes review queue if it isn't already there, and other users with enough reputation...
View ArticleEnable the announced 'Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are...
This a follow-up on Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content where I posted a now-deleted answer to comply with the guidelines. We frequently see...
View ArticleQuestion merge log still mentions 'bookmarks' instead of 'saves'
When merging two questions, the log mentions 'bookmarks' in the next-to-last line, even though Bookmarks have evolved into Saves:Beginning merge of question.Id = 396316 into question.Id = 176961 Moved...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on What does the helpful flag mean?
@convert actually, some flags can be marked helpful if e.g. 1) the answer you flagged is deleted (by the author, or by regular users in the LQP review queue) or 2) the question you flagged is closed...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Why is stackexchange.com not a single website with...
I can think of several reasons why you have to create a Stack Exchange account on every new site (and there are certainly more):The accounts you created appear on your network profile. It's possible...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Save vote/visit stats of all questions and answers...
@questionto42 thanks for the comment, you've found a bug in the Data Explorer.
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Strange new database 'Data.StackExchangePOC' is messing up cross-site SEDE...
I just read a comment by user @questionto42 that one of my cross-site queries isn't working. My educated guess is this is because a special database Data.StackExchangePOC was created two days...
View ArticleSingle use tags are not deleted after six months if they were recreated via a...
The question Understanding risks of logging into Stack Exchange sites from a shared computer or network has two tags which have only been used once and have no tag excerpt or wiki: shared-devices and...
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Mod menu for Community Wiki answer thinks it's a question
When opening the mod menu for a Community Wiki answer, one of the options isremove wiki from this question(emphasis mine). Can that be corrected?
View ArticlePagination on stackexchange.com search is broken
Some searches on stackexchange.com seem to give the wrong number of results. E.g. searching for url:wiki.openttd.org gives 77 results, but they fit on 2 pages of max. 30 results; if you set the page...
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Improve wording of Community Wiki tooltip while editing a question
When editing a question as a ♦ moderator, you have the option to make it Community Wiki. However, as a reverse of Mod menu for Community Wiki answer thinks it's a question, the tooltip thinks it's an...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means...
You can't vote to close a question twice (unless your first vote expired): meta.stackexchange.com/a/250453/295232. That said, the error message is misleading indeed.
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Answer by Glorfindel for How can I see the number of questions that a given...
This SEDE query should do the job - at least for questions which were actually closed by the given user (close votes may age away). You have three questions here which fit the bill:I don't need to tell...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Protected questions should have a higher reputation...
After all, if the question is protected that means a moderator already looked at it and thought it is good as is. - questions can be automatically protected when there are 'too many' answers by low...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Is there any place to see a leaderboard of top...
Thank you @PeterJames - I'm currently very limited w.r.t. time, so I've just applied that fix and hope it works :)
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Does access via the API count towards Fanatic and...
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog no idea, and given the very limited spare time I currently have, it'll take a while before I can check it. I even doubt the tokens I have still work ...
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Who raised the most helpful flags on Stack Overflow...
Here's a list with all users with at least 500 helpful flags on Meta Stack Exchange as of 2024-03-13. To update this list, follow the instructions here, and please do not bump this post too often....
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Add a way to link to the /tags page with a tag...
I agree with @Shadow - I hope you don't mind I converted it into a FR.
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on What exactly is the "sql" parameter in SEDE and what...
Related: Are query parameters broken in SEDE
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Waffle bar appears on page with very recent VLQ flag but shows no content
When I open the Q&A page for an answer with a very recent (less than 15 minutes old) Very Low Quality flag, the 'waffle bar' (a moderator tool for handling flags) shows, but there's no content:This...
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Why does the moderator interface claim this question was closed by Community...
When a post is flagged, ♦ moderators can see which previous actions on the post have been taken by moderators. I was rather surprised that the waffle bar for this question showed that Community...
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Comment flags visible on wrong page after merging questions
I just merged a question with an answer which had a couple of comments flagged as 'No longer needed'. When I visit the merged question, the answer is gone, but the comment flags are still visible in...
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"Decline and delete" option in waffle bar does not show that comment is...
♦ moderators have a so-called 'waffle bar' to handle flags on Q&A pages:This includes two options to delete a flagged comment: a simple "delete" and (hidden behind the dots) "decline and delete"....
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Don't count automatic review comments posted by the...
Related: Why does the moderator interface claim this question was closed by Community while it wasn't?
View ArticleAnswer by Glorfindel for Improving error message when blocking posts due to...
Such a message would be incorrect (proof). I don't know the exact regex that's blocking that sort of content, but the second paragraph tells me exactly what I need to do, so I'm in favor of keeping the...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on What caused the drop in questions in April 2023?
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog even though the SEDE URL (and UI) contain Meta.SE, this is actually a cross-site query (and it doesn't matter on which site you run it,...
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on How can I get URLs and site names for a cross-site...
@AaronBertrand yes, that is a brilliant solution, I'll figure out what to do with this Q&A.
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on Questions about to become untagged
@Martin probably related to meta.stackexchange.com/q/398983/295232 and fixed next Sunday
View ArticleComment by Glorfindel on HTML tables are unusable
We do have table support but it doesn't work with HTML tags - most of those are indeed stripped out of the post.
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