Why has this question become hot twice within a few seconds of interval? Is that expected to see this in the question log?
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The Boardgames Stack Exchange question  became a Hot Network Question three times, according to its :  All three events have the exact timestamp (19:14:39 UTC - shown when you click the 'toggle format' link or upon hovering) so it's probably a race condition or something. It's not a unique case;  finds instances on a single site, and  lists all occurrences in the network (currently 448). The current record holders, with 44 HNQ entry events, are   on Retrocomputing  on Worldbuilding
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Look at this . The title and question body are the same. I think this is not a good practice. Is it possible to create a mechanism to force a user to give a brief description which is different from the title?
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It looks like this issue has , but it just happened again on Travel.SE. Perhaps this is another corner case? These two questions are closed as duplicates of each other.           I had the last vote on each, although in both cases, my vote was for "Unclear what you're asking", but the weight of votes in both cases were for the duplicate status. So if the existing checks are only in place at the time someone casts a close vote, that would explain how this one got in under the radar. Perhaps another check needs to be done when the question is actually closed, not just when close votes are cast?  And as @gnat points out, low-rep/logged-out users get a Redirect loop when trying to load either question.  NOTE: A moderator has already fixed this particular circular duplicate situation by closing one of the questions with a different close reason.
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I just improved an answer which was one second later edited by another user with the same actions, so that the diff is completely empty. I think the later edit should been dropped automatically.  Here is the question I'm talking about:
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On Stack Overflow the last question was asked approx 1 hour ago. It is not getting updated. Since the volume of the users are a lot, I can't believe that nobody has asked question since last 1 hour. I think there is some problem.   Please look into it.  Edit : Now it is showing lastest question as 30 mins ago. But on the other hand same kind of problem is started on meta site. The active tab is not getting refresh with current discussing question.
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Waiting 60 seconds every time I make a mistake when posting a question with the Android app is a pain. Couldn't this delay be lowered to some more user-friendly delay?        (mistake = e.g. forgetting a compulsory tag)
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I've noticed the text of the Hot Meta Posts box is not within its limits. I guess this would happen for any question with a word that's long enough:
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Please have a look at . When the question was asked by the OP, it had a scope related problem in the code snippet posted in it. 2 answers were posted for that question. But after the answers were posted, a friend of mine from Stack Overflow, edited the question(not sure with what intention) in such a way that the bug in the code was gone(it actually self answered the question). Please have a look at the question revision history, where I've rolled back the question to the original state, which has the problem in place.  My question is that, should such a practice be allowed/encouraged that an edit to a question renders all the answers posted for that question, totally irrelevant? As anybody who comes to have a look at the question later, will be highly confused as to why a question was asked without any problem and there were so many answers posted to it(not everybody cares to go through the revision history)? I happened to notice that, but not everybody would notice it.
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When for the first time A new question I answer This haiku appears:     Little slab of meat   In a wash of clear jelly   Now I heat the pan   Such a message is Very strange; is anyone Seeing the same thing?  Have not seen again. Came and went like the wind does! Why I am so blessed?
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Recently, (on meta), I was able to answer  30 seconds after it was closed.  Close time:  2013-12-05 02:37:22Z Answered at: 2013-12-05 02:37:52Z   This is fine. It is not a bug, rather it is  as pointed out .  While answering the question, there seems to be an interval in which (web sockets?) check if a question has been closed or not. If the check returns true, you are presented with the following message:          After closing some questions, I found that the interval seems to be under 1 minute. (I got ~22 seconds, ~49 seconds, and ~13 seconds when testing)  In other words, if you are typing an answer to a question, you have less than a minute to submit your answer - assuming the question has been closed. You will then be presented with the message above and the submit button will now be disabled.  &lt;input id="submit-button" type="submit" disabled="disabled"&gt;         There are no evident problems with this. It seems to work well; however, if you edit the HTML and remove the disabled="disabled" attribute, you can bypass this and submit an answer.  Here is  on SO where I did this. (10k users only - I deleted my answer)  Close time:  2013-12-05 19:11:28Z Answered at: 2013-12-05 19:41:06Z   By removing the disabled attribute, I was able to submit an answer ~30 minutes after the question was closed.  Should this be allowed or not?  from Jan 2011, Jeff points out:     the grace period for answer submission is now 4 [hours] after after question closure   Yes, the quote does say after twice.  Despite the fact that this comment was written ~3 years ago, there is still a 4 hour grace period in place. After sitting on a particular answer for ~5 hours, I failed to submit an answer and was presented with the following:        This grace period is intended for people already answering a question before it has been closed. So why is the submit button immediately disabled upon being notified that the question has been closed? This defeats the entire purpose of a grace period. Especially since it can be bypassed.
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I don't know if I'm being paranoid - but earlier I made a comment on a question that showed no research effort:  . I got a rather snarky reply, and a couple of minutes later I noticed that two of my top questions (which are otherwise on completely different topics) received downvotes within a minute of each other.        It is hard not to suspect a connection between these events, especially in light of the tone of follow-up comments made by the OP (who might not have noticed that I helped improve the answer that was ultimately accepted in the mean time).  Not sure if I am being over sensitive or paranoid; should I just move along? "Spiteful downvote" gets quite a few hits on this site, and maybe I am just too new to be immune to it.  My question(s): "Is there a process to reverse such behavior? Do the comments in the above question merit a flag? Should I shrug an move on?" Any words of advice or encouragement appreciated. Sorry if I sound whiny.  update - the question linked above has been removed "for reasons of moderation". Probably a good outcome. I appreciate all the helpful inputs this generated!  edit This is quite different than the question cited as the duplicate: in that one, a person lost reputation because a user was removed; in this case I suspect an individual user down voted two of my top questions in quick succession "out of spite". The message (shown above) in the rep dashboard was quite different... I request this question be re-opened.
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A question in my reputation tab shows two downvotes, and my reputation total reflects this:    However, the question itself shows only one downvote:    The downvotes were cast several hours ago, so I don't think I should blame caching.  What's going on?
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Here's this message from Sathya:    It usually shows like this in the rooms when you're in another chat room:    I edited the post to change a word repetition that sounded weird (Can you tell I'm bored and we don't have any flags in our queue?), and suddenly it changed the author to me:    What happened here?
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I flagged a  yesterday as a duplicated question and now its status is set to eventinvalidated. I can see this in my Flagging History section.  I'm not sure I understand what it means since the post is still there and has not been deleted. It's the first time I have seen this status.  Could someone enlighten me about that?
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A few days ago, someone posted a question about updating dataset. After some questions/comments to his question, it didn't receive answers (and no up/down vote).  1 or 2 days later, the user posted the  (he just reformulated the question, posted less code and with bad formatting, the code doesn't compile due to missing ' for comments), so it would be harder to get answer for this question . The question received a +1.   I flagged this question as a duplicate of the previous and asked user to edit the previous instead of creating a new one, but he deleted the previous.  I do not blame the asker, I understand he wanted to keep it's 5 points rep  :) And it seems he solved his problem later.  But now the flag is marked with eventinvalidated because it is impossible now to accept or reject it?   Since my flag is no longer appropriate, I am just curious about what could happen to this flag?
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I was browsing SO today when I stumbled across these two questions:    So, both questions are closed.*  The problem?  Each questions is closed as a duplicate of the other; within one minute of each other (they were both closed "8 minutes ago" when I first checked).  Can we add a feature to detect this and prevent a circular Close as Duplicate like this?  Better yet, prevent newer questions than the current one from showing up in the Close as Duplicate list.  *As of 2010/06/17 18:32 UTC the first question is now reopened and the second deleted.
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before :         after :        This is confusing. This is two different designs for the same thing. To sum the changes up:   Different banner on top of the post. Before: banner pushed as part of post contents and can be edited.   Worth to mention the "marked as duplicate by ..." message in the bottom is the same.  Suggested fix: simply run a script that within the same transaction Reopens all questions closed as duplicates before Feb 7th 2013 then closes them again as exact duplicates. If possible prevent this from bumping the question i.e. don't update the "last activity" time stamp.