Questions tagged [support]
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Are tag wiki edits put into the standard Suggested edits review queue?
I proposed 5 days ago an edit to a tag wiki that had no excerpt. I was curious to see if those kind of edits went to the Suggested edits review queue as normal question/answer edits so I looked at the ...
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How does one flag a user for potential abuse/moderation
This person is on a tear right now:
https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/44484/embalm-you
Pretty classic shitposting, IMO. But there's nothing in the UI of their profile for me to flag them. Am I ...
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Questions with an answer being edited and clogging up timeline?
I guess this is a good as place as any to ask this,
Lately I keep seeing very old questions appearing on my timeline and the only reason I can see why they appear is either the question has been ...
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Why did I get “User does not have permission to comment on this post”?
I tried to post a comment on this answer and received the rather impersonal sounding reaction “User does not have permission to comment on this post”. I normally have no trouble posting comments and ...
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Roll back an edit mistake
I made an edit to an old question, Bottom bracket bearing Issues, which had been bumped by someone posting a new answer.
I changed the OP words "non lockring side" to "non drive side"; I meant to ...
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Why is there a bounty on a question I already answered?
Can you identify this bike/frame?
Why is there a bounty? I already found the frame in question. I am confused
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Easy way to put comment for product rec questions
When you vote to close something as a duplicate, Bicycles.SE automatically puts a comment saying that its a possible duplicate.
Is there a quick way of getting a comment on voting to close for ...
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Tag synonym: cycle-computer --> bike-computer
We have 55 questions tagged bike-computer and another 13 tagged cycle-computer. These should be synonymized.
(And, on meta, we have both "tagging" and "tags", which should probably also be ...
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How do I create a tag synonym?
I'm trying to create a tag synonym: disc -> disc brake
but unclear how to do so. I should have the stats to suggest synonyms but don't know how to do so. Help?!
Update: also trying to collapse "...
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Where to tell people how you solved the problem you asked about?
I asked a question recently (Should an amateur attempt truing a wheel) about truing a damged wheel on my bike. With the help (and encouragement) of the answers I got the bike into riding condition. ...
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Cannot add answer, I have 108 points (100 from association)
The title tells it (almost) all.
I mean to write an answer to
How do I separate disc brake pads after accidentally pulling the front brake while the wheel is off?
but I get the sign
"protected by ...
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How does the Review page work?
If someone "Accepts" a suggested edit, is it automatically applied?
If someone "Rejects" a suggested edit, is it automatically killed?
Do several people have to approve/reject a suggested edit ...
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Delete or merge a user account?
Turns out I have an older account which was set up several years ago.
https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/5524/criggie
I do not have access to the email address that would be associated.
Is it ...
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Is there a procedure for flagging suspicious edits?
I was looking at the change history for the following question:
Whats a good bike for under $450
and it looks to me as though the question morphed somewhat from the original post of
Whats a good ...
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Orientation of images / use of style attribute with <img> tag
I made an edit to this question to convert the images from links to tags so that a reader wouldn't have to click on each one. In the original post all of the images were correctly oriented when you ...
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Why are there so many people with 101 rep?
This seems like it may be a glitch or bug. If you look at the list of users and work your way down from the top (rep-wise), you'll find that everyone from page 61 to page 186 (of 333 pages) has 101 ...
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Can only cast 38 votes (not daily limit of 40), any ideas?
So, I'm being taunted with the promise of the Vox Populi badge, the site even suggests that I "Go get it!" But when I try to do the last two votes I'm told "Daily vote limit reached; vote again in 18 ...
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Can a new user comment on their own post?
During review of Late Answers, I left a comment. The user responded by posting a new answer, saying that he couldn't reply to my comment until he had 50 rep.
I (perhaps mis-)understood that users ...
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Is there any way to privately contact someone on SE?
I wanted to drop a quick private message to an SE member. Email would be fine. Is this possible?
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Comments disabled on review?
I was in the review queue today and I saw something strange:
comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews
Is this a glitch, or something new? If it's something new, won't it be hard to ...
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How are close votes tallied when different reasons for closure are given?
I recently noticed a question that had been voted to close by three different people. Two votes were cast as "primarily opinion-based" and the third was cast as "too broad."
I was just wondering how ...
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Product recommendation and comparison
Can I ask a question in this site regarding the comparison of 2 products?
I see that there is a tag on Product-rec, can I use it for the purpose?
My question is going to be on how the Bontrager ...
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Suggested migration sites
After freiheit's answer to this question, I thought I might ask the community for suggestions for sites to be added to our migration list.
One suggestion per answer please. That way the community ...
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What is the process to migrate a question to another Stack Exchange site?
Prior to the editing attempt to shoehorn it into a format that works on Bicycles SE, this question would have been a good fit for Patents SE. I've suggested a rollback to make it a good fit for their ...
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I asked a snow-related question. Why was it closed and deleted?
I don't like biking in deep snow.
I asked and self-answered a question: "Will it snow in my city? If so, when, and how much?". I am curious: Why was it closed and deleted?
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Is there a compilation of standard building blocks for comments?
On http://tex.stackexchange.com there is a compilation of standard text building blocks that can be used to comment frequently appearing types of questions or answers. Those are typically of a kind ...
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Why can't I get the RSS feeds of "bicycles.stackexchange.com" using stack2rss?
I can easily get the feeds of stackoverflow like this
http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/answers
But I can't feeds of bicycles in the same way WHY?
http://stack2rss.stackexchange....
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What are the restrictions on posting comments to bicycles.stackexchange.com?
Are there reputation or other limits on commenting on bicycles.stackexchange.com? Sometimes I see an add comment option, but only on the original question, sometimes below the answers and sometimes ...
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"Mortarboard" badge- new?
I recently was awarded the "Mortarboard" bronze badge. It's for earning more than 200pts in a day. Turns out I had done this in the past back in October of 2011.
Is this a new badge? Is the algorithm ...
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Account deletion
Ok.
I previously asked to have my account deleted.
However, the account was not deleted. My rep points were deleted, but not the account.
Anyway, meanwhile I am quoted,
2 Might want to also ...
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Why did I lose rep due to "User was removed"?
I had a look at my "reputation" a few minutes ago and saw I "lost" 15 point due to:
-15 2 days ago
-15 09:41 removed User was removed
I don't understand the reason for this. Can anyone ...
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Possible serial downvoting
Several minutes after posting a question I received several downvotes on my questions:
It's not a significant amount of reputation lost but I find it suspicious.
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Unusual Rep activity - Is there a way to track it for Moderators?
To our other Moderators:
In the last 48 hours I've had a series of rather unusual upvotes. If they are legit, then obviously I don't mind, but it seems... unusual.
Is there a way to track whether it ...
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What does serial up-voting mean?
I returned here after a bit of an absence to discover a big (for me) reputation subtraction for "serial up-voting". I've read some other posts explaining what this is supposed to be for, but none of ...
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Rebecca Chernoff - Real? or not?
I got this in email from Rebecca Chernoff of stackexchange:
"I would like to send you a gift to show my appreciation, but I need some details from your first. Please supply your information at the ...
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Stickers or swag request for Bicycles SE promotional purposes
A local cafe that I frequent (likely too often) has a real cycling theme with many cyclists dropping by...
Can I request some stickers or other self promotion stuff that I could give to them to put ...
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A guide to moderating Bicycles.stackexchange yourself - close voting
It appears that perhaps some of our high-rep users are unsure how the close voting system works, so I'm blatantly stealing a nice guide from crypto.se.
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How can I edit an answer with a semantic error?
This answer contains a semantic error. The word 'taught' is used to indicate the tension of a chain where the word 'taut' is the correct usage.
I can't edit it because my edit would be less than 6 ...
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What's happening!? (Campaigns in the works & Ideas that need work)
just a quick update on a few upcoming Bikes.SE initiatives. Please chime in with any questions, concerns or improvements.
Water Bottles - Jin is working on a design that incorporates your ...
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How do I accept an answer in this new layout?
I can't seem to figure out how to accept an answer in this new layout. I also can't see the arrows for upvoting or downvoting. Is it me, or is it the layout?
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Peer review for edits?
Thanks for your edit!
This edit will only be visible to you until it is peer reviewed.
Edited this question (fixed a link), and once I was done I saw the message above. I don't think I've seen that ...
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What's the number to the right of the orange dot?
That is the one up next to my username at the top of the page. The far right number.
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Rep not synchronized
I was under the impression that rep was synchronized across a parent site and its corresponding meta site. I'm getting a 30 point difference when I switch back and forth between bicycles and meta....
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