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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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/users and profile pages (/users/...) space the link to the current profile (in the top bar) differently

Wow, you've got good eyes. Anyway, the bug is because the styles for badge icons on those pages are leaking into the top bar. Here's a simple CSS rule to fix it: .top-bar .my-profile .-badges ....
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Mobile App still showing old icon

It will eventually fall out of cache and pull a new icon. We cache things like this heavily to ensure we don't abuse your data plan.
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Inappropriate HNQ ad image

To not only complain about all the things but contribute to an actual solution of the problems, I made a few small changes to the base image that might already improve it to a large degree. I would ...
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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")
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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:
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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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In the front page of movies.SE, bounty.png is broken

Sorry for the disruption, this issue has been fixed
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Inappropriate HNQ ad image

Our HNQ ad base image has been updated and all the problems the question adressed seem to have been solved. It's more exciting, uses a matching color scheme and doesn't suffer from significant image ...
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M&TV icon in browser tab

Definitely a cache issue. I'll ask our devs to do a server side purge today.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Misaligned "Unregistered" characterization

I pushed a fix for this, will be on live after our next production build.
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Visited tags are styled differently to unvisited ones

Pushed a fix earlier today. Should be good now.
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Why was the design of the sub-headers in the Community Bulletin changed?

Along with the new profile, we've been been converting sites across the Stack Exchange network to a new CSS framework. As we have been doing this there is an ongoing critical rethinking of which site ...
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"Upload image" alignment issue

The CSS for this site includes a rule that reads: #header br { display: none } Since the image upload dialog is technically nested inside the #header div, this rule breaks all line breaks within the ...
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Issue with ad background and font colour

Indeed. This seems to be a general problem with all the sites that recently got the HNQ ads (after having been forgotten previously) and seems to be due to the use of some kind of default font color ...
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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 ...
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Why did our Meta just break? Links are white?

Must have been nargles. A fix is now live.

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