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Should we have new moderator elections?
This is what I wrote (with slight edits) at the MO chatroom:
I guess I should mention that I am often in contact with my fellow moderators, especially when a sticky situation arises that I'm not sure ...
Todd TrimbleMod
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Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names
This is not a mistake. It’s an intentional change to the site that the board and moderators agreed on. We coordinated poorly and did not have a formal announcement ready when the change rolled out; ...
Ben WebsterMod
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Kitty can’t fix it — Old questions inaccessible for logged-in users, giving “unexpected error”
Thank you all for reporting and excellent documentation of this issue! We have applied a fix and all the affected pages should now load as expected for logged in users as well as anonymous users.
As ...
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What is the deal with changes to the front page?
I find the new site basically unusable, and don’t expect to continue much participation here if it stays in its current form.
Tim requested more details. The main point is that I can't skim the main ...
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Should we have new moderator elections?
As of last month or so, the majority of moderators is in favor of holding elections "soon", but the person we chose to get the ball rolling may be occupied with non-MO commitments right now. ...
S. CarnahanMod
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Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names
For users with an ad-blocker who want the old behaviour back: it seems adding https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/8844.6aa9de60ac9aca9f14f4.en.js to your ...
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Where did the reputation go?
StackExchange is constantly evolving. Since the script is maintained by the moderators, and we are not notified in advance about these changes, we have no choice but to be reactive.
Changes happen, ...
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"[error] I'm a teapot" when trying to add a picture
The "teapot" error is one of the various responses we return if something looks very suspicious at the http/form level - most likely because of an XSRF check failure. On mathoverflow, this is usually ...
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Color of links (both in posts and comments)
Based on this request, we've updated the link colors using a brighter blue that is more distinguishable from the surrounding text, and tested with a colorblindness simulator (though it's not an exact ...
- 101
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Braces don't render in preview
This had to do with the citation helper script - mostly with how I implemented the integration with the editor.
The fix is being deployed right now.
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Should we have new moderator elections?
I think this might be a good idea, even though the current moderators are doing a fine job overall. The last election was now seven years back, and it might be good to have fresh perspectives.
Part ...
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Should we have new moderator elections?
I thought the community deserved a little update on the internal moderator discussions on this point. My answer below just speaks for me, but I did run it by the other moderators, and got no ...
Ben WebsterMod
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Spoiler mechanism not working
Look at the source code1 - this part has a newline after each word:
! Spoiler
with
multiple
lines -
this
does
not
work.
But this happens if I put the same text into a single line:
Related posts on ...
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Kitty can’t fix it — Old questions inaccessible for logged-in users, giving “unexpected error”
This is not a resolution of the bug, but at least I have found a way around it: If I log out of my account the affected pages all become accessible. If I then log back in I get the "kitty" ...
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An error in calculations of percents in reputations?
If you click on the number "0.0x%", the links gets you to reputation league for MathOverflow. (The link given in the question is actually list of the registered users and not the reputation league.)
...
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Formatting problem
This had to do with the citation helper script - mostly with how I implemented the integration with the editor.
The fix is being deployed right now.
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Did ArXiv trackbacks for MathOverflow stop working again since September 29th 2016?
I've updated the MathOverflow script to use https, and set it to re-run on posts modified since September 29.
Thanks for the notification of the problem, and the ...
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Did ArXiv trackbacks for MathOverflow stop working again since September 29th 2016?
I have to admit that I initially got aware of the since September 29th 2016 missing trackbacks for MO, because we at PhysicsOverflow faced the same issue.
Now I am happy to report that our system ...
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Should we have new moderator elections?
I don’t have a strong opinion in the matter, but I’m curious how many upvotes an answer that said “Nope, everything is fine, no need for new elections” would get.
Ben WebsterMod
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Why is my feature-request not showing on meta?
It doesn't show on the homepage, but you can find it via the list of questions. This is status-bydesign; questions with a score of -4 or lower on the main site and -8 or lower on the meta site are ...
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What is the deal with changes to the front page?
Yup, it's called changes to the post summary and it's currently in the Bulletin (i.e. it's "Featured on Meta"). Apparently my searching skills are quite subpar :).
It's a change that ...
Tim CampionMod
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My gravatar has changed
This is because of a change that was made to the process that Stack Exchange used to generate the gravatars. The change was done for security reasons because of a vulnerability that was found in the ...
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Having the MO Mathjax parser recognise \( \) is a regex away
The real issue with using \(...\) as math delimiters is the interaction with StackExchange's Markdown engine, since Markdown uses ...
- 101
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TeX bug: \mod and \pmod gone
MathJax v2.6 was released on Dec 30, close to the OP. These updates can lead to errors if a browser cache contains a mix of MathJax components with different versions. In that case, clearing the ...
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Text on some buttons has become unrecognizable
Thanks for reporting the issue. This will be fixed with our next production build.
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Chat page has disappeared
That room was deleted, since it contained less than 15 messages, see this FAQ. I used my chat superpowers to undelete it, although it is bizarre that this happens for rooms created from comments. I've ...
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What's going on with badges?
Because of the notifications, I happened to notice earlier today that my bronze badge count showed 1030, but now it shows 918.
There is a recent announcement about change of logic how the publicity ...
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Reputation for editing deleted questions disappears into memory hole?
If you check the checkbox "show removed posts" on your reputation tab, you should see also the reputation lost when post with your suggested edit was removed.
You can check the section "My reputation ...
- 4,588
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Are "old" questions/answers eligible for badges?
In fact you have received the enlightened and nice answer badges for this post on July 18 2016.
You'll have to scroll a bit down or even go to next page. Here is screenshot from your page listing ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible