Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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The markdown syntax on the on-topic page is not properly formatted
The markdown syntax on the this page is not properly formatted: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
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Top Questions page shows "-1 Votes"
I don't much like the new look of the Top Questions page. Too much whitespace, IMHO.
But one rather silly piece is the "Votes" indicator. It doesn't display the count of votes as I would ...
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Profile is showing the question score for my answers, not the answer score
My profile seems to imply that one of my answers has a score of 47 and is accepted:
However, as much as I feel that my answer is worthy of lots of upvotes, my answer actually has a score of 12 and is ...
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Possible bug: Upvotes lowers question score
So just now I upvoted this answer from Old Lamplighter (Richard). However, I noted that an upvote actually decreases the score of the question by 1. Same thing for the response by user Colleen V from ...
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Under what conditions are "Winter Bash Hats" taken away?
Not that I care much, but it seems odd.
Earlier today I had 8 hats. Now I have 6.
Under what conditions are hats removed? I don't believe I've ever seen that happen before, although perhaps I just ...
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Kill this user for being a 1 rep spammer
I think this user: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/115420/sarah-hanes should have their account deleted because they posted 2 spam posts. They are a 1 rep spammer who should be deleted ...
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Right panel behaviour - Bug or feature?
As you can can see on the image, right panel overlaps main white panel, if in "Edit answer" tab I scroll down. Is it a bug or feature?
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(User was removed) reputation reduction when I have never posted any questions or answers
I have never posted any questions or answers on this site (except comments). All my reputation points here is from the 100 bonus for joining and from approved edits
Yet today I have got a ...
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Late badge unlocking
Yesterday I unlocked the motor-board badge on the workplace site.
Thing is I haven't gained any reputation in over a year:
It doesn't bother me but seems like it might be a bug.
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Where did the comments go?
There were a bunch of comments on Should my manager be aware of private LinkedIn approaches I receive? How to politely have this happen?. A seemingly random bunch of them were deleted. There is no "...
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I can't post or edit - is it related to bot detection?
Did we activate or turn up bot detection lately? I'm getting a lot of "An error occurred during the edit" (or during posting answers) lately. For instance, I just got both errors trying to post and ...
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The "All actions", "Responses" and "Votes" tabs appears to be broken?
Anyone else experiencing an error when they click the "All actions" tab of their Activity page?
Apparently the "Responses" and "Votes" tabs are broken as well.
Apparently it was intermittent/random, ...
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Missing comment notifications?
Has anyone else been having missing notifications? I posted an answer on a Meta thread and had two users comment on it, but I never received any notification for the comments. Has anyone else been ...
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Bug when I want to view Badge information
I don't know whether it is just me or anyone happen to see this too. When I open a badge to select any badge to see the information, its like bug to bottom. I cannot scroll until the bottom.
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Double THE template issue
Is the double the from the inbox notification (pictured below) a template issue or are we rolling with it?
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Why is this question not showing as protected?
I put my answer as a comment here because there was no answer box, and the question was not even protected.
Trying to quit smoking but co-workers want me to start again due to me being more irritable
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Home page seems to be broken
Looks like the home page i.e. "Top Questions" is currently broken!
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Unable to load Popup - Please try again later
I can't write comments.
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Reopen request: Does mentioning a company name automatically make a question company-specific?
Vacation days not paid
This question asks about how to get paid for vacation days after being fired from an employer.
Now Hardee's may or may not have a policy regarding this. They're a big company;...
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Rep changes not popping up in navbar (FIXED)
None of my Rep changes (positive or negative) are showing up in the achievements drop down in the top nav bar.
I know I gained rep today and my total rep is correct, but I did not receive the ...
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Is the "I'm Done" button on First Post Reviews broken?
Some days ago I tried doing a First Post Review, and happened to notice a bug. I dismissed it as thinking it was some problem with my PC.
However, today I entered the First Post Review Queue again ...
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Commenting now shows "suggest improvements" which doesn't really make sense if I am the author of the question [duplicate]
I noticed Workplace StackExchange, instead of "add a comment", I see new copy for "suggest improvements".
I like that change but it doesn't really make sense if I am the author of the question -- I ...
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Tag display issue while editing a question
When I edit a question with Chrome v67 tags edits display:
It happens every time for me on this question: How do I communicate to a problem employee that they are being moved to a field office?
The ...
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Why are these answers ordered strangely?
Why are these answers ordered in the way they are?
The answers to this question are (at the time of this post) ordered with an unaccepted answer of 79 first, followed by an accepted answer of 38.
I ...
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Green Colors on profile have changed?
Don't know if it is just me, but have the shades of green on user profiles (accepted answers, line borders, etc.) changed somehow?
If we compare a screenshot from my main profile:
with one of my ...
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Rep gained not showing on achievements dropdown, but does in rep tab
I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. I gained reputation from some upvotes, but that change is not showing in the achievements dropdown:
I checked, and that reputation does appear on ...
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Different layout spacing when on User tab
I am aware this might be a small/insignificant detail of the UX interface specific to The Workplace1.
However, I have noticed that the spacing between elements in the top bar (esp. your badges, rep ...
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Text alignment bug
I just discovered a graphics bug when looking at the Close Vote pop-up. You can see below that there are text alignment issues for the close reasons that already have a vote count next to them. I ...
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Glitch in top banner
Just today I noticed a glitch showing up above the Search box in The Workplace banner. It looks like a small strip of the background is covering up the black banner. This occurs at The Workplace and ...
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Comments not expanded by default?
On mobile web, the non-upvoted comments are not expanded by default, only on Workplace.se. No other site does this, including this Meta. Is this by design or a bug?
There is no user settable option ...
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Private Beta reference in Help > Asking [closed]
The Asking section of the help center still shows the page How to Ask Questions in Private Beta. I think that should be removed as we're not in private beta any more.
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The paperclips are on the wrong side
The site theme appears to put the content area on a stack of paper with paperclips on it.
However, the paper clips are on the top right:
Assuming a left-to-right language (the site is in English), ...
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Layout bug with election
I noticed a layout bug on the election screen. My choices overlap the edge of the text and blue background with the profile information.
As you can see the "a" is clipped by my second choice and my ...
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My question was edited by a moderator, it was a poor edit, and now edits are locked?
My question New employee has offensive Slack handle due to language barrier
Was met with a rather hostile reaction from a moderator, locking the entire question down so that only they could edit it. ...
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"How To Format" bar on Ask Question page is behind some content [duplicate]
Here's what it looks like on The Workplace (tested and buggy in IE and Firefox):
Here's what it looks like on ELL (non-buggy):
Steps to reproduce:
Navigate to https://workplace.stackexchange.com/...
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Please change the visited link color
Riddle: "Detect the visited link".
I know this partially depends on monitor settings and quality, but a better contrast between the colors of ordinary text and visited links would be appreciated.
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Is the illuminator badge bugged, or is this by design?
Whenever I find a that takes a while to understand or has a poor title I'll edit it after I post my answer. I find myself doing this quite a lot so out of interest I started tracking the illuminator ...
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Why can I not answer a protected question when signing up with association bonus?
I just created an account here because I wanted to write an answer. Since I'm an experienced long-time user of the stack exchange network, I got the +100 rep association bonus (see profile). However, ...
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Review counts not matching review queue?
Ok, this is probably a "I'm a dumb new 10k user" type question (yes, she did nominate as a mod ;) ), but I keep getting notifications for there being items in the queue:
However, when I check the ...
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Unable to edit question although reputation (568) allows doing so [duplicate]
For this question here, I am unable to edit the question as the edit button is disabled for some reason. My reputation, @ 568 allows me to edit questions. I was going to improve the format by ...
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Z-Index on sidebar help is incorrect
When scrolling down the page to make a post on, it seems that the container holding "HOW TO FORMAT" has an incorrect z-index, or just looks invalid. It scrolls down and appears below the bottom image ...
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Some kind of bizarre font overlap issue
Consider this answer: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/42592/
Sometimes, I see the following, which looks fine:
But if I refresh the page enough, I find that about 1/5 of the time, it looks ...
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Tag layout broken when asking question [duplicate]
When asking a question and entering the tags, it can happen that the content appears cropped.
This is Windows 7 SP1, Firefox 36.0, 100% zoom and AdBlock disabled. 1280x1024 screen size, maximized ...
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Accepted answer to question no longer shows green check mark + change in answer order
Yesterday, I am pretty sure I accepted an answer given by a poster named HLKEM to this question here. However, just now I went back to add some relevant details, and the green checkmark signifying ...
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Original-poster's-name-background overlaps blue selection
On Ask Ubuntu, when you select a multiline comment that the OP posted, the background on the name is below selected text:
There is a small gap there (2px).
On the workplace it is different:
Overlap!...
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Tags cut off, Similar Questions overflowing
While adding tags to a question I asked, I noticed that the box that displays as you type in a tag was getting cut off. Also, the list of "Similar Questions" was overflowing down to the bottom of the ...
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Elections page not working on mobiles?
I generally visit this site on my mobile phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note3. However the elections page does not seem to have a mobile version like most of the site and the desktop page that is available ...
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Reputation count for questions with 100+ rep overflows in "related questions" section
I did a cursory search, but couldn't find if this bug has been reported before.
On the "related questions" sidebar, questions that happen to have a reputation count of three or more digits is ...
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Incorrect question sorting
Description:
When sorting the questions on the main site by the number of votes, the sorting is not done correctly. What I mean is that a single page will contain questions from x votes up until y ...
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Detecting fake/spam questions via bizarre unicode gremlins?
First, I am not too sure if this is “Workplace” specific, or a question best suited for the larger Stack Exchange world. If this question can be moved to a more appropriate place, please do so.
So ...