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I began this answer with a salutation, and hopefully it was never posted, because that's what the system is supposed to do, as per Jeff Atwood's answer on Meta Stack Exchange:
We now automatically remove salutations from posts as they are entered.
I got really tired of performing this edit over and over, so anything matching the form of …
^ #...
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We now have a prototype for inserting citations!
See it in action in this video tutorial.
It currently requires you to install a user script, and has only been tested on the Chrome browser.
To get started, open Chrome, and click on this link to download the user script. Once you've downloaded it, go to the "Window" menu in Chrome and select "Extensions". ...
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Just click on the Blue Stack Exchange sign, and there's a link to meta there.
Update: This no longer works, and now one must click on the "word bubble symbol" at the extreme right of the toolbar to get to meta.
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You're right, line spacing has been increased, as mentioned here on Meta Stack Exchange: New post formatting
Many people don't like the change, and posts like Please revert the line-height change! and this answer are very popular right now. Stack Exchange has already reduced the line-height a bit from their original intention.
There is no setting in your ...
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You can hide the part in HTML comments:
BEFORE <!-- this is something I want to hide --> AFTER
produces:
BEFORE AFTER
Spoilers would be another option, but perhaps less clear in conveying the intention.
>! This is something I want to hide
produces
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I want to see how may people also have this problem or if I am the only one, so let me conduct a basic poll.
$\bullet$ If you have the problem where typing a long answer with plenty of mathematics symbols (an answer that fills at least one or two pages) on mathoverflow runs slowly, then upvote this answer.
$\bullet$ If you do not have any delays when ...
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I am not sure about people using mobile devices, but on desktop using comment replies doesn't seem that different for users with non-Latin usernames.
If I am in a comment where such user can be pinged, after I type @, I am offered the username(s) with non-standard characters.
For usernames which start with a Latin character, I am offered the username(s) ...
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I share the view by one of the moderators in the post you have linked to that providing such a tool is a bad idea.
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Sure, the editor and preview components are open source. It's released under the MIT license which is one of the most permissive copyleft licenses in existence.
You'd need to make your own customized bits, but it wouldn't be entirely difficult to have it work entirely from local storage. If you come up with anything neat, feel free to share it :)
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Since other answers mention HTML comments, let me clarify that using them is only a commonly employed custom on SE sites, which just abuses the fact that it works by accident.
In reality, the Stackexchange Markdown parser does not support HTML comments. What actually happens is that the initial < followed by unrecognized content is parsed as an invalid ...
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No, there is no way to change this behaviour through the current interface.
Note from the blog post François linked to that long ago no comments were shown until a link was clicked. There are a number of 'features' of the Stack Exchange platform that discourage comments (or at least lengthy interchanges in the comments), and generally I think this is a good ...
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Boundary regularity of suitable weak solution for the Navier-Stokes equations, J. Funct. Anal. 268 (2015), no. 8, 2171–2187, MR3318646.
The above is supposed to be a reference to a paper by the mathematician Hi Jun Choe. If it appears as a paper by Jun Choe, then the salutation-deletion software has been over-active.
Edit: worse than I thought; it ...
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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 science and if you are still having issues, let us know).
We didn't make the main question link color in the question list the same blue because now that the ...
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If it really bothers you, it is trivially easy to inject your own CSS styling onto the site using a userscript. This requires tampermonkey or greasemonkey depending on whether you're using chrome or firefox (or check your browser's userscripting capability). A good resource to start re-coding is this page. It is as simple as making a new userscript that ...
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Thanks to jeq's suggestion, there is an answer on stackapps for that exact purpose! That doesn't mean it shouldn't be a standard feature, but it does mean that you can have this feature right now.
The script is called Stack Activity. I've just tested it on Chrome and it works wonderfully:
answered Nov 28 '14 at 3:20
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My apologies if this should be a comment rather than answer, but robjohn has a website with some very handy bookmarks to deal with these issues. Obviously it would be preferable if a bookmark bar were not needed, but rendering on and rendering off are quite helpful currently.
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There was apparently some A/B testing of this some days ago, see Anna Lear's comment here:
We're currently A/B testing this feature [next badge/privilege progress in the achievements drop-down] to see how it performs. ... No promises on whether we'd add an option to disable it (assuming we decide to keep it), but I will say that if we see overall ...
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The description of moderator tools is a bit short on details. Here is a slightly more detailed description of these tools. The relevant part is the following:
The delete category has views relating to questions and answers that have been or are being deleted or undeleted:
Most delete votes, sorted by number of votes
Most undelete votes, sorted by number of ...
answered Dec 30 '13 at 19:02
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You went to "favorites" tab. Now (not necessary, but just to see what post was last active) select "Activity" and then click the date (sssssh, it is the secret, for this reason the timestamp looks unclickable ;) ).
If you are taken to the question, then something was happened to the question. Go to the revisions (if no "edited X time ago" displayed, ...
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If a question is already closed but not particularly offensive, it isn't really necessary to flag for moderator attention. Such posts will be cleaned up by some routine process after a while.
If you do flag such posts with text like "off-topic", it just means that some moderator will take a few seconds to close the flag by clicking a "helpful" button. ...
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I've realized that at some point I must have enabled the FriendsStack extension in Chrome, and then completely forgotten about it. This extension supposedly allows one to favorite users, but I never ended up using it, and it now appears to presume that one is using StackOverflow rather than another stackexchange site. (Perhaps I could have made a different ...
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${}$ Hi Jeremy,
The trick is to use tex. I preceded the salutation by dollar sign - open curly bracket - close curly bracket - dollar sign.
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On the top bar, click on the StackExchange menu to get:
answered Dec 8 '15 at 2:55
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This is an artifact of some fail-over testing we did during the weekend. Sorry about the noise, this should be cleared up for everyone by now.
For those that don't know, we have redundant data centers, data replicates between them. If something happens in the US East, we can (very quickly) come back up in Oregon, without anyone losing anything they've ...
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