Doing some close vote reviews today, I came across an audit question that I (arguably) failed. While looking over the question, I noticed an extraneous semicolon in the "STOP!" box at the very end.
There is a (very minor) typo in the Close Votes review audit failure message. The message is presented as follows:  STOP! Look and Listen. This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass. There are no major problems with this question. You should click Leave Open, or make minor corrections via Edit. Don't worry, we've already handled this post appropriately – but please take a minute to look it over closely, keeping in mind the guidance above.;  The ; at the end is a typo and is in the actual message that was displayed.
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Is it better to use a (digital) d100?  Also, do d100s have 0? You can't roll a 0 with percentiles, I think. How to prove that center of $GL_n(\mathbb R)$ is scalar matrices?  Again what can you say about the center of set of all upper triangular matrices and center of set of all diagonal matrices. What is serial voting and how does it affect me? I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.  During my investigation, I noticed there was an unusual event of type "reversal". In the normal place of a question title, it says "voting corrected".     What does this mean, and what caused it?  Did I do something wrong? Why did I lose all of that reputation? Is the system punishing me for leaving too many good answers?  Is there any way to earn it back? Question on groups of order $pq$ From everything I've read about quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement phenomena, it's not obvious to me why quantum entanglement is considered to be an active link. That is, it's stated every time that measurement of one particle affects the other.  In my head, there is a less magic explanation: the entangling measurement affects both particles in a way which makes their states identical, though unknown. In this case measuring one particle will reveal information about state of the other, but without a magical instant modification of remote entangled particle.  Obviously, I'm not the only one who had this idea. What are the problems associated with this view, and why is the magic view preferred? Bjarne Stroustrup once mentioned in one of his bigthink interviews that one of the greatest problems most programmers have is not finding or using the right libraries.  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Does anyone agree that posting library choice questions should be explicitly allowed on either stackoverflow or programmers? Winforms Textbox - Using Ctrl-Backspace to Delete Whole Word