Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How to cancel a flag?
I started this question and the AI immediately pointed me to a duplicate. But the answer to that duplicate didn’t work. Now the AI isn’t finding that duplicate, so I’ll have to ask again.
I flagged ...
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How do I read the comments on this questions? Notifications take my to question's URL and nothing there
I have a question about my Ask Different post: Can anyone explain to me the difference between Terminal, CLI, CLT and Prompt?
I could see that someone requested a screenshot. When I clicked on that ...
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Ask Different newsletter archive
I am looking for old Ask Different newsletters.
Is there an online archive of all past newsletters available?
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Who are the moderators for Ask Different?
Who are the moderators for the Ask Different site and how many are there? I've noticed many people can close a question. Are they moderators?
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So can someone tell me what's wrong with the question I posted below?
so I posted a question here, Battery discharging while plugged in
and it was closed for being similar, which I don't think it is besides being battery related... I was told I could edit it and it ...
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Undo incorrect click in Review queue
So my A.D.D. was if full effect today and I clicked the No Action Needed button in my Review queue when I meant to click on not an answer.
Clicking around I could find no "undo" or way to revise what ...
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How can I get more answers to my question?
I asked a question on this site several months ago, and I still have not received a working answer. Is there some way I can get an answer to this question or get more people to view it without putting ...
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What if I answer my own bounty question?
I have been struggling with a python problem for several weeks. Recently I started a bounty on my question I had submitted. No one has answered yet but I have figured out the solution. May I answer my ...
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Why did I just get a large drop in reputation on this question?
I was just looking at my reputation and noticed I received a -10 recently for this answer.
When I look at the actual answer there's no downvotes. I also looked at the answer history and don't see ...
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Why a comment could be deleted?
A few days ago I asked a question on Ask Different and a user answered me. another user who is one of Ask Different moderators, leave an answer but based on the community rights, I believe his post ...
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Why can’t we flag as duplicate a question with no answer?
These two questions :
Touchbar seems to randomly trigger - hardware bug?
Button on touchbar is randomly activated without being pressed
Are exactly about the same problem but when I try to mark the ...
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It would be good if you could please undelete three comments on the YouTube Kids autoplay question
There were about half a dozen comments still visible on the YouTube Kids autoplay question. I flagged just one as "no longer needed" (too chatty), but all of them got deleted.
It would be most ...
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I posted a long question. Part of it is Apple-specific; part is not. Should it be kept open, or should it be closed?
On the main site, you can find a post I've written. Let me first summarize it and analyze it, and then ask you about it.
Summary and initial analysis of my post on the main site
YouTube offers a ...
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Direct email question from an AskDifferent user
So I just noticed an email that just arrived in my primary email.
It referred, specifically, to "Stack Exchange" of which I am not a member. So I assume it was referring to something on Ask Different ...
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Why has my reputation score suddenly gone up?
I just notice that my reputation score suddenly got bumped up by a sizeable number.
I don't see any count on reputation button on top right, neither do I see anything under and Reputation tab on my ...
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Should one remove me too part and hope it helps part from an answer?
Catalina and iOS 13 brought in a lot of new users and they try to be polite and helpful and write answers like:
I was having the same problem, my MacBook Pro, model xxxx, macOS xxxx was not doing ...
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“Close” and “Flag” don't work with Safari 12.1.1
It seems silly to ask, because there would already be a question here because it would affect very many people, but maybe I'm just too stupid:
If I click on "Close" or "Flag" on any stack exchange ...
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Why did I get -2 for an answer with a score of 1?
My answer to this question was not accepted but was upvoted once. Yet when I check my points the answer is listed as -2. What gives? This has happened twice in one day!
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Why was the “accepting user input” question received on the site while being off-topic?
Disclaimer: Don't flag broad, as it's all very interconnected and can be answered well in one post. One shouldn't repeat the whole story again and again. Also, I had exams so had avoided discussions ...
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Can an user see their post deleted for reasons of moderation and its comments?
As it often happens, a new user posts a thank you answer or asks a question in answer box, people leave comments under them telling them to ask new questions or leaving other related links and flag ...
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How is “extended discussion” defined
I want to know what the "official" definition here is, of "extended discussions", because when the comments under an answer are being used to further troubleshoot or gain relevance to said answer, and ...
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how to edit such long code/error blocks?
Accessing fileURL from My Photo Stream says "Operation not permitted"
This question has a terrible formatting. It is not suitable for:
Text: as it is code(in some form) and such texts are ...
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Undelete a deleted question
The following question was posted yesterday on Ask Different:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365151/emacs-gui-no-longer-opens-from-the-terminal-after-a-brew-upgrade
I engaged with the OP ...
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Why doesn't formatting work in comments (for me)?
I tried commenting on an answer, and all of my paragraphs were strung together in a single paragraph.
I used proper markdown, adding two spaces at the end of each paragraph. When that didn't work, I ...
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Hello/hi removed in questions and answers
I've noticed that whenever I start a answer with either the word hello or hi, that word has been removed when I post the answer or attempt to update it. A few things I've noticed about this:
Either ...
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How is a well-received question defined?
What are the technical criterion for a question to be defined as well-received? I am looking for the definition in context of the following badges:
Curious: Ask a well-received question on 5 separate ...
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New filter control for questions?
I just noticed a new question filter button in the UI.
When was it introduced?
Did I enable it unknowingly?
Is it a public or test release?
Is there a blog post announcing it's addition?
Can it be ...
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Community♦ decisions - sometimes remarkably rapid
After a quick couple of comments under a new question, I flagged it as a dupe of a similar question, which the OP seemed happy with.
How to use other key combination to replace ⌘W?
Within a minute, ...
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Is the 'Lifejacket' Badge a new thing?
I earned two "Lifejacket" badges today, [not both on AD] on questions that had passed the criteria for its merit a long time ago.
Is it just a 'new' badge, now being applied retrospectively?
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Who starred my chat messages?
While chatting in the Ask Different Chat room, I noticed that a couple of my chat messages were starred. A ★ appeared next to the messages and the message also appeared in the list in the sidebar ...
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Why does the list not properly render in a quotation?
Please see my answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/360783/45492. There I quote a Support article, however, the list is not rendered correctly in the quotation (see 1. below). I tried adding ...
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How can one improving/suggest edits to the Tour page
Is it possible to suggested edits or improvements to the Ask Different Tour page?
If yes, how to do it? Is it directly accessible for edits (just like other Q&A posts) to normal users (non-...
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Revert a mistakenly approved Suggested Edit
I mistakenly approved a suggested edit. I wish to undo the approval, but I am not able to find any option to do so.
Is there a way I can do it myself? Or do I need to seek assistance of a site ...
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How to close obvious duplicate
This question How to access the Menu Mnemonics of an X11 Program within macOS is and obvious duplicate of How can I get the Alt key to work in an X11 application?
However I can't mark the question as ...
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Migration To Ask Different - specific question
My question results from the question here which has a answer saying that this has been asked and answered on Stack Overflow.
OK all normal and a common occurence.
However in this case the question ...
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Why have there been a lot of old questions showing up on the front page on April 2nd?
I wonder why there have been a lot of old posts suddenly showing up on the front page on April 2nd? It's hard to find new questions among all these apparently unchanged old posts. What is going on ...
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Why are my two recent comments deleted?
I don’t understand why my comment in How to write this in latex and Translating the system into latex were deleted (I don’t see there anymore). What is false with these additional helpful information?
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Why are there reputation badges on meta?
From Why is there no reputation change in meta:
I wasn't around when the meta on the main trilogy was formed, but meta we down vote things we don't want to see. It's like a caucus or straw vote. If ...
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Why is my Meta profile showing 0 score when I have over 10?
If you go on my profile on meta all tags have a core of 0. Whereas if you click on some one then tags that score is over 10!
Why is this?
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How did I vote?
Now that I have your attention, I wanted to ask if it’s possible to access your voting history? I understand I can’t see how people vote, but can I see how I’ve voted?
If not can we make this a new ...
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Strange email about Ask Different from Stack Overflow
So recently I got an email from Stack Overflow saying that I am in the top whatever percent of rep earning users.
What I found strange though is that it's from Stack Overflow, not Stack Exchange or ...
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First suggested edit ban but still unable to suggest edits more than 24 hours later
Recently I had a lot of edits rejected. I know that when you have a certain number rejected in a period of time you get an automatic edit ban.
I have looked at my edit history here: https://apple....
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I uploaded an image here and it shows up called “[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bG06.png”, is that right?
I took a screenshot of my desktop image that I uploaded to here. It is a screen shot of the image on my desktop that I wanted to attach the first time. Why is it showing up as a Imgur.com website?
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Filter questions with specific tag literally (excluding synonyms)
Is it possible to filter questions on Ask Different (or any Stack Exchange site) with a specific tag literally excluding the synonyms?
E.g. I am trying to list all the questions with tag sed, but the ...
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Create 'Telegram' tag
I was looking for some Telegram related questions, and noted there's no tag for it, although there are quite a few questions about that topic.
Can someone with the Create Tags privilege can create ...
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My question was closed as duplicate
My question about iOS 11.4 Full Jailbreak was closed as a duplicate although it was asked 1 month earlier than an “original” question. Can someone investigate this?
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Is there any way to search for questions that have a certain image in them?
Is there any way to search for questions that have a certain image in them? I am looking for a question that I got an image from, but can’t find it in search.
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Background colour of remaining flags/close vote count
Whenever I choose to cast vote on a question or flag a post, the count of remaining votes/flags for the day is shown besides the button.
I have observed that the background colour of the box shown ...
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Why doesn't 'code' formatting seem to work for me?
I seem to regularly have problems adding code to my answers so that they're formatted properly, and I don't know if it's a bug, me, a combination of the two, or something else altogether.
By way of ...
