Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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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 ...
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Unable to figure out how to join chat
I have been active on Ask Different for around a week now. Although I still end up making some mistakes, I am gradually managing to get a hang of the system.
This is my first time on any of the Stack ...
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Take back a flag
I think I just have to count on moderation to fix my last flag which was a mistake, but is there a way I'm not seeing to take back a flag before it gets moderated?
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Request to merge questions on slow Finder updating
I was having the problem described in this question: Capturing screenshots on macOS Sierra is very slow. However, while searching I found Screenshot taking a very long time to appear on desktop first (...
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How can I keep screenshots from impacting readability of text? [duplicate]
I posted an answer that included several screenshots from my iPhone. When I view the answer, however, the images make it hard to read the text of my answer. They seem too large, and they are aligned ...
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New answer, comments, inbox message disappears - deleted?
I wonder if you can shed light on this experience today concerning this Q&A here..
I received an email today of a new answer to this old Q&A I posted concerning Excel 2011 and an issue with ...
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Why is my question being voted closed as duplicate, when I have made it clear that it's not?
For some reason, my question keeps getting close votes, claiming it is a duplicate of another question:
How can I configure iPhone to stop prompting me to setup Apple Pay?
From my perspective, I ...
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There is a question here that is outdated. How can we flag questions?
I am unable to provide an answer to a question because, apparently, I'm a noob. Yet, I can clearly see there is a question here that needs to be removed because it is outdated due to an iOS update. ...
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Why did all my questions get up-voted at once and then suddenly get down-voted?
Someone suddenly up-voted all my questions since the beginning, then suddenly with 1 day ago my questions got down-voted.
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What decides if a 'too chatty' flag results in immediate deletion?
I just flagged a comment as 'obsolete, chatty' on Music Practise, where I only have under 5k rep, & the comment immediately went... boom, gone.
I've seen it happen on SU & Ask Different too, ...
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Question about Ask Different account merging
I've created a second account by mistake and now I'm logged into it and cannot get out to log in the correct one. Can I merge the two or delete the one that I'm now logged in? I receive emails about ...
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Why can’t I make a comment on posts after signing up?
So I signed up to add a helpful comment but I can't until I earn a 50 rating. So how do I comment so I can earn a 50 rating? Confusing.
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How do I find my own questions?
I cannot find a link to my own questions (that I asked). Nor can I find anything obvious in searching for "my questions" or "How can I find my own questions".
EDIT: OK, So I have a partial answer.
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How to get a question migrated?
I asked a question about extension/app/freeware options on a mac for a particular use case, and a user suggested I might be better off at Software Recommendations.
I didn't know about that site at ...
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Change stackexchange.com user profile picture
How do I change my profile pic in my account or avatar? I signed up under my email for the account and I can't figure out how to change it from the current profile pic/avatar.
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I can't answer anything on Apple.SE so there is no way to gain reputation now
I just opened a account here on apple.stackexchange.com. I know the rules and was ready to answer some questions when I noticed that I am not allowed to answer any questions at all.
In the following ...
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'Mod attention' flag declined for question marked as Duplicate
The OP created multiple questions for the same issue. I flagged this one for mod attention with the comment:
This question is a repost of the OPs same question:
apple.stackexchange.com/...
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Remove [untagged] tag from locked question
How to Stop MacOS sierra from using background Data? is the only question to have the tag untagged.
As this tag makes no sense I tried to do the normal edit of the question to tag it correctly.
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Downloading chat transcripts
I'm trying to familiarise myself with how Chat works and came across the ability to view a transcript. I noticed, however, this appears to only be a day-by-day view of the chat transcript.
This got ...
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Incorrect review 'counter'
I've only been having this problem for the past few days, but since it hasn't resolved itself I thought I'd post here to see if it's been reported.
Basically, my review counter seems to be out of ...
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Migration rejection followed by repost on original site closed as duplicate, how do I proceed?
I had asked a question on the IoT and they immediately migrated it over to Ask Different, where it sat for a while (almost 2 weeks) and no answers.
A moderator from Ask Different thought it should be ...
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What is the star I see under the question down arrow?
I presume it is some kind of mechanism to help me keep track of things for later revisiting. I see I can click to change the state of the star. But I don't think star is the right name for this ...
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What happened to the bounty on this question?
I've not had much to do with bounties (though I've read the bounty docs), and would like to understand better...
The following question that I once asked How to disable default alt-left / alt-right ...
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Rename [omni-focus] to [omnifocus]
OmniFocus is one word, however the tag omni-focus is hyphenated.
Can the tag be renamed omnifocus to reflect the correct word?
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How do I respond to Mod question?
I flagged an answer as abusive because of the derogatory language the author used to reference another user (the answer has since been edited but you can see the original text in the edit history). I ...
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Misspelled tags, how to fix?
Rather ironically, the OP on this question misspelled spelling so we now have a tag called spelign.
Verify the automatic language detection
How are these dealt with?
I didn't just want to retag ...
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Why is a specific, non-customer support question on hold as basic customer support?
I asked this question on Ask Different:
I'm looking for one of these types of stylish MacBook keyboard skins [see image in original], but I don't want any of the keys marked. I just want blank keys,...
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How do I make a comment when I am told I need 50 reputation?
A post instructs me to post the results of a terminal command, but when I try to add a comment I'm stopped by a 50 reputation requirement. Not a very welcome introduction.
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Why is there no Delete Profile link anymore?
Under "Edit Profile" should've been an option for leaving the community.
Am I looking in the wrong place?
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Search for a special character returns no results
I wanted to search for a special character (⇞) on Ask Different before answering to a question, but a search returned null results. An answer on Can't find ⌃ symbol in keyboard contains the ...
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How do I ask a user a question?
I would like to ask monomeeth if he ever got a solution to his question?
How can I do this?
Also, why did I have to wait 40 mins before I could post this question?!?!
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Why was this Spam or Offensive? Can this be reversed?
I just noticed that this post was deleted as spam or offensive. I understand the deletion because it's not an "answer", but this was NOT SPAM or OFFENSIVE!
Can someone please reverse this, as it ...
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Rename [libre-office] to [libreoffice]
LibreOffice is one word, however the tag libre-office is hyphenated.
Can the tag be renamed libreoffice to reflect the correct word?
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Rename [ios10] to [ios-10] for consistency
It's happened again! Just like last time with iOS 8, can ios10 be renamed to ios-10 for consistency with the tags for the other versions of iOS?
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Rephrase 'Basic Customer Support' off-topic wording
I flagged this question and commented that it would be better suited for the SR site, instead.
@patrix, and probably others, agreed and put the question on hold. I was reading the 'hold' wording ...
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Are questions about very old Apple products on-topic?
I'm about to buy this old PowerPC eMac just for nostalgia, some fun and for playing some old games I have.
I know there's a beta site on retro computing.
However, is there any limit to age of Apple ...
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Why was my “rude or abusive” flag on a gibberish answer declined?
I flagged this answer (now deleted, metasmoke link for <10kers) as "rude or abusive". It was declined with a comment:
Please use other. Abusive is to track intentional malice towards people and ...
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HappyMacUser and ConcernedMacUser
These accounts from this thread looks like needs merging:
ConcernedMacUser
HappyMacUser
Is it possible to merge unregistered accounts?
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Why haven't I received reputation points for some of the upvotes that one of my answers received?
I answered a question, namely What are some useful ways to use Automator?, but I have not received any reputation points for the 4 up-votes that it received. Am I misunderstanding some portion of the ...
