Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Was Community meant to own this bounty?
There's a bounty that's owned by Community on a question in which the original asker's account seems to be intact.
Was the bounty taken out by a second party whose account was deleted, or is this a ...
3
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0answers
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“This webpage has a redirect loop”
Sometimes when I load CrossValidated, I get an error that the page has a redirect loop. I can always resolve this by going to meta.stats.stackexchange.com and then reloading stats.stackexchange.com. ...
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3answers
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Is this a bug or is there a large lag between the time the grace period ends and the time a bounty is automatically awarded?
Edit: The grace period on this bounty ended around around 7 hours ago with no automatic award per the rule mentioned in the original post so I'm wondering if there is (a) a significant lag between the ...
3
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1answer
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Latex not formatted under review tab
I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior, but I find it a little hard to do reviews for posts including Latex.
Basically when I go to the review screen and see the list of all possible ...
2
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3answers
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Issue with accept answer after it turns to community wiki?
I just attempted to change my favored answer to a new reply here and I got 2 points reduced reputation as not having an answer accepted. The context is that the answer was accepted before it turned to ...
4
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1answer
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How to avoid a quirk in formatted R output?
I just tried to correct the R data.frame output formatting in a question. The markdown looked right: 4 spaces in for each line and a code block appeared. It all ...
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0answers
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Could we change the accepted answer check to a different color for us color blind folks?
So I just figured out that stack exchange exists like 2 months ago and I am now just getting active in the wonderful world of cross validated and its great.
One thing I came across just now is I ...
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1answer
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Uploading 5kB image takes more than a minute and without success
I just tried to upload a 5kB GIF image to the question I'm composing but it is still saying 'Uploading ...' even after more than one minute!
4
votes
0answers
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Reputation for the answer when the questions get merged
This question was cross-posted on math.SE. It got separate answers there and here (by me), both of them were accepted. After the merge, the one from the math.SE is shown to be accepted, but I still ...
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4answers
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Explanation of the Generalist badge
The explanation of the Generalist badge is “Active in many different tags”. This explanation is less clear then the ones of other badges. Especially what does many mean here?
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2answers
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Should the HTML title of this CrossValidated site still be “Statistical Analysis”?
Is it intentional that the HTML title for the CrossValidated site is "Statistical Analysis"? Or is it a hold-over from the beta name?
The HTML title is what determines the browser window title and ...
4
votes
0answers
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The quoted dollar sign is displayed correctly in preview but not the final post
It's possible to quote the star character from making italic text using backslash quoting:
*italic* → italic
\*italic\* → ...
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votes
2answers
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Preview of latex formulas not working?
I tried to edit this question to reflow the formula, and noticed that MathJax stopped rendering the latex code in preview window. I use Google Chrome 10 on Mac OS X 10.6.6 Also why does this valid ...
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vote
4answers
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Fonts too bold after recent MathJax upgrade?
This is not an actual bug, so I am tagging it as a feature-request, but after MathJax upgrade, all the fonts look more bold for me, as if too much antialiasing were applied. This happens both in ...
3
votes
1answer
45 views
Unnecessary message about MathJax loading
As I understand there were recent changes in SE engine, also MathJax version was updated. Now everytime I visit stats.SE, math.SE a message appears at the top of the page that MathJax is loading. It ...
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votes
1answer
84 views
How to unvote on comments?
Occasionally I mistakenly upvote a comment. There seems to be no way to undo this action. Is this a bug? A feature? My missing something?
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votes
2answers
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Accessibility and site design — acceptance tick and colour blindness
A user, @ran2, commented on this question/answer that they found it difficult to determine that they had accepted an answer because of their colour blindness and the choice of colour for the ...
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votes
1answer
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Bug: Character-limit calculation when editing.
I do not have enough reputation to make my own edits.
When I try to make an edit, e.g., to a title to clarify it, I get an error that I haven't made a change of at least six characters.
It seems that ...
7
votes
1answer
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MathML displays square roots of fractions incorrectly
I had set my preferences to use MathML, but I've just realised it fails to display square root of fractions correctly. With MathML,
$$\sqrt{\frac{n-2}{1-r^2}}$$
looks almost the same as
$$\frac{ ...
2
votes
3answers
204 views
LaTeX display problem on iPad
I sometimes browse the site on an iPad (16GB no 3G) using Safari and have noticed that many of the LaTeX equations are not rendered properly on stats.SE but are on other sites including the MathJax ...
0
votes
1answer
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Possible MathJax error?
This answer:
What is Deviance? (specifically in CART/rpart)
Seems to break MathJax, at least on my browser... apparently some font files are missing.
0
votes
1answer
58 views
Copying code blocks in Windows
Recently when I copy code blocks from answers and questions, the end of line characters are not being copied too. This means that everything is copied in one line, and this can cause problems when ...
3
votes
1answer
68 views
Code chunks rendered in too large a font
The font used to render code chunks (whoel paragraphs rather than in-line) is too large, and larger than on say SO. This makes it difficult to insert code chunks from languages such as R in Questions ...
3
votes
1answer
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Firefox 3.6.13 messes up Mathjax
This problem was first reported on Math.SE. I'm bring this to your attention since Stats.SE also uses Mathjax.
Basically, the latest build of Firefox version 3.6.13 has a known issue of messing up ...
3
votes
2answers
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Merge tags -> Duplicate tags
I recently merged [graphical-techniques] into [data-visualization]. I was expecting this to remove the graphical-techniques tags when the other tag already existed, but instead it added duplicates.
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vote
1answer
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The 404 not found image is not unique
This site's 404 not found image is not unique. It's shared with TeX SE.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/404
http://stats.stackexchange.com/404
It's entirely possible ...
2
votes
1answer
69 views
Chat room is frozen?
Gavin Simpson mentioned to me that he gets the following when trying to post in the "Ten Fold" chat room:
I see "This room is frozen; new
messages cannot be added." where the
message box would ...
2
votes
1answer
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Formatting problem
Sometimes formatting symbols are not recognized immediately after a TeX expression, as in the fourth paragraph here. (This is not the only instance I have encountered. A work-around is to put a ...
2
votes
1answer
56 views
Formatting problem
For some reason, this question is ignoring all paragraph breaks and formatting for the last 40% of the question. It looks ok in preview, but not after saving.
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vote
1answer
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2
votes
2answers
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Counts of 'Close votes' and 'Reopen Votes' are not accurate
The image below shows the current number of close votes and re-open votes for two questions on the main site.
.
As you can see the first question shows that it has 2 close votes and the second one ...
7
votes
6answers
164 views
TeX display problem
Sometimes maths seems to have strange and squashed spacing, but the problem is intermittent. For example, this is what http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1261/ looked like for a while on Chrome ...
2
votes
1answer
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“Visit link” problems
The "visit parent" and "visit meta" send me to http://stackexchange.com instead of stats.exchange or meta.stats.stackexchange
0
votes
2answers
57 views
How to remove tags?
There are a few tags that have no questions. I think these were previously attached to questions which have been re-tagged. For example, I changed timeseries to time-series on one question. Someone ...
