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Is your question about tv or TV?

I'm quite sure all these various places you list source their text from one and the same generic site description sentence (as also used for e.g. migration notices). However, this can only be changed ...
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An anomaly concerning the "Closed" banner for closed questions: Is its appearance variable?

It's a). I believe it works like this: People with the close-vote privilege (like Jenayah) see the full closed banner, with the close reason and the list of close-voters. The OP also sees this ...
F1Krazy's user avatar
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Text/image overlap in reopen vote review queue

Thanks for reporting. Fix is waiting in repo and should be live in couple hours.
Paweł's user avatar
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Badge "Curious" not getting awarded/updated. Is this a bug?

It's because you didn't fulfill the second requirement yet Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record And you have 1 deleted question with bad ...
Ankit Sharma's user avatar
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Do deleted questions affect reputation?

According to this related answer on Meta Stack Exchange the reputation gained from the votes on a deleted post is not removed if it's at least 60 days old and has a score of at least 3. Reputation ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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Yearling badge twice in 2 days?

The badge has a very simple algorithm. As quoted by Jeff Atwood: You'll get the yearling badge as long as you have at least (Years * 200) rep by the target date. Details on how the Yearling badge ...
iandotkelly's user avatar
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New chat welcome message "OK" button is invisible

Thanks, fixed now. The movies.se theme has extra styling for buttons in the bottom area, and those extra styles were incorrectly applied here as well.
balpha's user avatar
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Is your question about tv or TV?

Well... better late than never, eh? The sidebar on the Ask Question page should have the correct capitalization now. I've also updated the audience description and you can verify it in the site ...
Adam Lear's user avatar
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Can't suggest an edit to a tag wiki: "The edit queue is full at the moment" error message is always shown even if the edit review queue is clear

Thanks for the report - this was also raised and addressed on on SE-wide meta See: It is now impossible to make a suggested edit to a tag-info
KyleMit's user avatar
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I can Rickroll Stack Exchange, and so can you!

This is fixed, but I feel like editing the body of the report to get it rebaked would be destroying something beautiful... so instead let's have a much more boring example embed here:
Adam Lear's user avatar
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An extra user on the list of moderators

This is an artifact of the status of his accounts being changed from employee to normal user since he recently left SE. For more information on this you can see this Meta-SE Question Its been noted ...
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Please Improve Youtube URL Parsing

All sounds good; fixed in code - available after the next deploy (when the "rev" at the bottom of the screen is higher than "2016.3.23.3373")
Marc Gravell's user avatar
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Question got reputation for 2 upvotes but showing 1 upvote in the post

The user's question did indeed get a downvote, as can be seen by any user with the privileges for showing the vote differences on question: The reason he didn't get a reputation change from the ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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Why is it telling me that I flagged a question as a duplicate when I didn't?

Note that it says you already issued this type of flag, not directly this flag. This is simply due to the fact how flags are categorized. You already issued a flag for closing the question. Closing ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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In the front page of movies.SE, bounty.png is broken

Sorry for the disruption, this issue has been fixed
Kyle Cronin's user avatar
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Movies & TV Tour Display Bug

This isn't a bug, this is a design choice In the tour, these are just example Question and Answers. You are intended to be reading the text to the left, for example "Just questions...." or "... and ...
iandotkelly's user avatar
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I am trying to post a question and it says my question body does not meet the standards

It isn't a bug. The system is working as intended. It happens to users here and there. It is one of the quality checks system performs on questions in order to avoid poor questions. It is not exactly ...
Nog Shine's user avatar
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O brother where art thou tag

Nope, we don't have inside jokes, as far as I'm aware... Edit away.
Catija's user avatar
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Is this a bug that I bumped into?

This is not a bug. The list of "linked" questions in the sidebar does not only contain links from this question to the other ones, but also links from any of the comments or answers to any other ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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Review not posting in the ribbon?

According to this answer on the related question on the main meta, for users below 10k reputation the review counter only shows the number of pending "Suggested Edit" review items, not the number of ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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/users and profile pages (/users/...) space the link to the current profile (in the top bar) differently

The issue is in this computed Css rules in all.css .user-page .badge1, .user-page .badge2, .user-page .badge3 margin: 0 2px 0 6px Please fix/remove/make it like every other page, which lacks that.
cde's user avatar
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Visited tags are styled differently to unvisited ones

Pushed a fix earlier today. Should be good now.
Kurtis Beavers's user avatar
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Why did our Meta just break? Links are white?

Must have been nargles. A fix is now live.
Kurtis Beavers's user avatar
2 votes

Review queue empty, but always showing a high number

This is a known "issue", but it's definitely by-design. The number shows the total amount of items still in the review queues, including the ones you already handled yourself but which might still ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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Why are there always 2 views immediately after I ask a new question

On Meta I imagine there will typically be two views right away because meta questions get one-boxed in the chat room. That means they have one view from you and one "view" (more than likely) due to ...
Erik's user avatar
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Error in rendering of superscripts and subscripts

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/296182/288417 says status-completed, and it is. Yay.
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Question showing more views. Why?

Since the view counter is obviously just showing the number accurate to the order of thousands in that place (as noticable from the K), it's rounding to the nearest multiple of 1,000. It would be ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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/users and profile pages (/users/...) space the link to the current profile (in the top bar) differently

Back at The Workplace we had the same issue (see: Different layout spacing when on User tab), which I noticed and posted a year ago. However, with the Rollout of new network site themes seems that ...
DarkCygnus's user avatar
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Mismatching design of "we are offline" page

As can be viewed under http://sstatic.net/movies/app_offline.htm, our "we are offline" page has been largely updated to match the site's design (even though the color of visited links doesn't seem to ...
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