Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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...And then there was silence... (to our esteemed CMs)
TildalWave has quit his moderator's position. Our esteemed CMs were quick to clean up the details of his resignation and chat transcripts, but are obviously playing the Cunctator when it comes to ...
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What is going on with these Mars questions with female astronauts?
In past about 5 days I have seen almost 6 to 7 Female on Mars questions. Which feels like a lot of repeatation.
How do we prevent or deal with these kind of questions?
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Does a sandbox page exist?
I am eager to try some some types of formatting, like in-line code, image customization, HTML support and a lot of other things to improve my posts. Does Stack Exchange have a sandbox page where I can ...
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Do i.stack.imgur.com PNGs and GIFs ever expire?
The GIF at https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdkOW.gif is linked here and here but now doesn't work. If I look at the same file name like this ...
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Need help getting two questions undeleted/unroombad so I can put a bounty on each of them!
My currently roombad (and invisible to those without enough reputation) questions"
Roughly express how much of our Moon's apparent libration amplitude seen from the Geocenter is due to different ...
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"manufacturing" as a synonym for tag "manufacture"
Could we either rename or make a synonym manufacturing for the existing tag manufacture?
Apparently I haven't asked/answered enough questions specifically with that tag to even suggest a tag synonym.
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How to cross post a question correctly?
In this question one of the comments said the question below should be in Worldbuilding.SE. From what I understand it is a place where writers go to ask questions. Still not sure really but it is not ...
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HTTPS forbidden on meta?
I often use a system that wants to block selective statements that I send out. Not sure why, but it's a work system, go figure... I've found that going to the site in HTTPS will prevent such filtering ...
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Is there an easy way to mass-fix links?
NASA has moved stuff, again. The online version of "Stages to Saturn", "Chariots for Apollo" and probably many others have moved to http://history.nasa.gov (was: http://www.hq.nasa....
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How to search for posts that contain "Falcon" but are not about a SpaceX rocket?
The Live Science article Why a microwave-beam experiment will launch aboard the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane says:
This time around though, a bit more information is on offer. According ...
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I have a question on hold, shall I completely rephrase it or ask another one?
I have a question Would NASA be financially self-sufficient if it could keep revenues from patents? which was put on hold because it seems to be opinion based.
To me the question is pretty ...
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Why I can't award bounty points?
I got a great answer for this question
Number of China orbital launches by year
Then I put a bounty and chose "Reward existing answer"
But I cant give the points to that user, why is that?
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Would my question "Can this have been a rocket" be on topic here
Last evening a relative of mine showed me a photo she took of what she believed was a rocket launch (Note we both know nothing about rockets and such). In the photo the flying "object" is not visible, ...
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Is there a way to prevent a question from being eligible for Hot Network Questions?
So I found a comment to an old Space.SE question that made an odd claim. The claim seems far-fetched yet strangely compelling. At the time, Organic Marble responded
citation needed
which made me ...
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Difference between [law], [regulatory] and [international-politics] tags? The last two have no use guidance, what might that be?
law 117 questions:
Relating to treaties, laws, ownership and disputes during the exploration of space. For non-space exploration related law questions, see our sister site Law Stack Exchange.
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How does the "posts with unsourced content may be edited or deleted" annotation get added?
Referring to
How does this get added to an answer?? I love this. Is it only done by moderators?
Unsourced BS answers (UBSA) are the biggest problem on the site today IMHO.
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How do these 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices work on moderator elections?
With four current candidates ("M", "G", "Y" and "W") and three choices (1st, 2nd and 3rd) there are 24 ways to vote all three, 12 ways to vote 1st and 2nd and skip 3rd, and four ways to vote for only ...
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Can/should answers be moved after substantial edits of the question?
This question originally asked for samples of old guidance/spacecraft software, which is an interesting question, which I answered with one example. However, at some point during some interaction ...
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Is it frowned upon to accept answers in bulk?
I usually wait a week to accept an answer on any of my questions-- and by that I mean I always forget to go back and accept answers on all of my questions. I just went to like 10-20 of my questions ...
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How does one report an offensive suggested edit?
on suggested edit https://space.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/27923
for question Are there any long term storable sources of vitamin C?
There is a VERY offensive "suggested edit" ...
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Activate Language Sensitive Highlighting for code/script blocks?
2021 (almost) update: Is it time to reconsider Language Sensitive Highlighting? Python has been established as a welcomed language and several java or javascript questions have been allowed and ...
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Are there ways to make posts with images better for low connect speed users? Does the spoiler feature help?
I have a comment/suggestion below this question which contains two animated GIF images that are 1.2 and 1.6 MB in size.
please put animated and heavyweight images under a spoiler or something...
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May I be forgiven and ask questions for Christmas?
I asked to many low quality questions, got a question block and wander if it is in the power of the moderators here to lift blocks? I will make sure my next question is a good one.
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Exact process in counting votes for closing a question
When a question goes to a vetting process, I notice that there is a counter called "closed" under the question, but I don't see any counter for the "Leave open". Does this mean ...
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What's the easiest way to get a link directly to an answer?
I can get the link to a question by hovering the cursor over its title. What's the smart way to get a direct link to one of the answers? The only way I know is to go to the user's page and hunt for ...
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My question was closed for being off-topic even though the admins moved it here
So, a while ago I asked a question over on the astronomy stack and the admins migrated it here, soon after that happened the question was closed for being off-topic. Later it got moved back to the ...
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Did you mean: satellit altitud
Any ideas where this might be coming from?
No, why would you think such a thing you silly goose?
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Is there a way to search for all questions by a user who deleted their account?
I'm looking for a reference I provided in a comment to a question asked by a user who subsequently deleted their account. There were a lot of related questions so I can't remember which one it was by ...
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How can I find something I wrote years ago in The Pod Bay?
Several years ago I added several messages in The Pod Bay about Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson about their discovery of the cosmic microwave background and their 1978 Nobel prize in Physics.
Linked ...
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Confusion in creating a tag
I recently attempted to create a new tag and a corresponding description for it. Not every step was clear to me and, whilst I think I simply did it wrong, I'd like to check the process before I ...
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Is there a way to disable mathjax in a comment
I recently tried posting a comment of:
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Was annotating and deleting a answer at the same time intended?
This answer was annotated as needing sources and deleted by a single vote at the same time.
I agree adding sources would improve it, but it seems a bit heavy handed.
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How to show this particular tweeted (GIF?) in a question? - trouble downloading
This is a cool video/GIF/moving image of a satellite transiting the moon as seen from the Royal observatory.
I don't understand exactly what I'm looking at from a web point of view - if I try to ...
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Is the SXSE review queue (and new reputation indicator) now broken?
With the old header, the review queue flags were active and often overstated what was currently in need of attention for a given user.
Since the new header, I've now never seen a notice of things in ...
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What do "days represented" mean
Under this link, 4th line from the bottom, I found an item called "days represented". Could someone let me know what it means?
I was trying to find it in the help without any luck.
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Formatting chemical formulae
In this answer I tried to improve the formatting of chemical formulae using the method I learned from Chemistry SE, but it backfired (and yes, that's especially bad in space exploration). Without ...
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Is a question really "Only One Question"?
In a comment on my answer to this question, a commenter said...
"Naturally people disagree about these kind of things, but if we credibly read the OP as being only one question (as the site ...
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What can I do to try to see if I have overlooked or under-appreciated the acceptability of answers so that I can accept them?
I checked my stats:
'user:12102 is:question` yields 2,338 posts.
adding isanswered:yes yields 1,985 posts or 85% (the whole site is currently around 88%)
adding <...
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Missing 'Rollback' button
https://space.stackexchange.com/posts/51696/revisions at the top has no 'Rollback' button/link, only
"Source Edit Link Full". Why is that? Is it because the answer was deleted an hour after ...
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Where should I ask question related to indoor farming
As a project, a bit of fun and experiment, I want to work on 'Indoor farming', but with great projects come great questions. So did I, mostly with light frequency, intensity, watt, stuff that you can'...
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Any way to award a second +100 bounty to a second answer to the same question?
I've awarded a +100 bounty to this answer. but there is a second answer that uses a different approach to the derivation that I find equally helpful, and I would ...
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Please help me to understand how tags end up visible when you start typing a different but related term in the tagging window of a question post
I've been active in Stack Exchange for several years and posted many questions, and while I'm not stupid per se I have never figured out how the site's tagging system works. It's a black box to me.
I ...
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What fraction of my questions have accepted answers? How can I find out?
I have a lot of questions here and a great majority have answers, and for a great majority of those an answer has been accepted.
Is it possible for someone to figure out what fraction of my questions ...
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Do all tags have associated tag badges?
I tried to look at my progress towards a space-shuttle tag badge but there does not seem to be one for that. Are they manually created? Or am I missing something?
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I edited but forgot to vote to remain open a question in the review queue, is there a way to do it now? Would it make any difference if I did?
I'd edited a question from the review queue for close votes, but I forgot to click the "Leave Open" button.
Is there some way I can add my Leave Open vote now? I've poked around in metaFAQ and found ...
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How do the "Upcoming events" links work?
On the Beta page, when I click on any of the links about upcoming events, I only come to a chat page where there's no mention of those events. Is there any information about the events available and ...
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Request for mod help: please stop the conflict with this user
This is about this answer and the OP who--for reasons beyond me--refuses to use the "accept answer" button and only wants to leave comments saying it's the correct one (and to also complain ...
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Why does "last seen" time not agree with time of last edit?
I noticed and edit made about 1 hour ago and left a comment about it, then I checked the user profile and it says last seen 15 hours ago.
Does "last seen" not include edits to others' posts?
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I didn't get a notification about a comment that @-mentioned me
I didn't get a notification about the following comment:
@MatthewChristopherBartsh many science journalists have absolutely no clue about the topic they are writing about and just regurgitate ...
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Is there a way to give someone the edit privilege before they reach 1000 rep?
I have noticed that user47149 keeps submitting very large amounts of good suggested edits to the queue. However that user has less than 1000 rep. Is there a way to make that user bypass needing edit ...
