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Formatting bug?

I was looking at this Q&A and I noticed that the OP's signature block on the question looks odd: It looks like it's trying to write the name twice? Digging a bit deeper, looks like the user's ...
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Hay, the close question procedure is missing something [duplicate]

I wanted to identify a question for closing due to that it belongs in another SE. The dumb thing doesn't let me choose the correct SE. Why can't I choose another SE, like the math SE, for the ...
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URL with tilde in it not correctly working in body of answer

This question has an inlined link that fails to go to the right page. The same (to my eyes) link in the comments goes to the right PDF. When I paste both URLs into a text editor, the problem becomes ...
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MathJax going wrong on Chrome

This question has the following raw title: A problem on $\mathcal{Z}-$transforms and signal stability but it renders like this on Chrome: and like this on Safari: ...
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i still have trouble accepting this

i just don't get why my rep should suffer because SE removes some user that, evidently, liked a few of my posts.
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"needs more focus": Significantly different from former "too broad" close reason

The new "needs more focus" wording is Needs more focus This question currently includes multiple questions in one. It should focus on one problem only. And that doesn't cover the 80%* of ...
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what is this "user removed" thing?

From time to time I remember having seen negative-points on my sum, indicated by the phrase "user removed". Eventhough still annoying, that's not much of a problem. Nevertheless, you just wonder the ...
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"-198 Serial voting [of someone else] was reversed"

this is literally "erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system", so i am calling it a bug. what happened? why did it happen? what is the justification for it happening? i don't really need or ...
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Deletion Rationale Clarification

Yesterday I gave what I believe to be a valuable answer to a posted questions: Get the dominant frequency of motion to correlate with tempo BPM of a song This morning I find that the user has ...
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Reason for being off-topic missing from list?

In the list of reasons for closing a question for being off-topic, there was one along the lines of "This question is not about signal processing as defined in the help center". I don't see that ...
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okay, if i have sufficient rep to edit someone else's question and it has immediate effect

... why is it that when someone else, assumedly with less than sufficient rep, edits a question and I (with sufficient rep to change the question) approve the edit, why is that not sufficient to ...
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Missing bounty?

I answered this question during its first bounty period but the answer didn't get enough votes or get accepted during the first bounty period. The poster then started a second bounty and then ...
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Any idea why the $\tt hat$ "$\hat{}$" is a bit off?

I am noticing that the hat accent in $\textrm{"\hat"}$ is a bit off for the past days, going top-right as an exponent. And that's for both inline and display mode. Even the entry on the famous MathJax ...
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Convert to edit where edit has an image causes images in original post to be replaced

When I deleted an OP answer using the mod convert to edit option on this question, the edit added the edit but didn't update the links to the picture. So the ...
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Weird badge award

I got an Announcer badge for sharing the IP address of Filter coefficients for colored noise Voss Algorithm which caused 25 different users to visit the question. But I have no recollection of ever ...
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My edits need approval again… AND I can vote for my own edit, giving it half the approval needed

Edit of question: Need help implementing DCT Type 4 algorithm I edited the question, and then noticed that I was presented with the "your edit will be placed in a review queue" form that low-...
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Questions in "close" review queue with no close votes

In the past few weeks I've ocassionally seen questions on the "close" queue that don't have any actual close votes. Has anybody else seen this? Is it a bug?
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Another little bug in the display of answer scores for accepted answers

Just adding to this related question: In user profiles under Activity => Answers [or Favorites / Bounties] there's a similar problem:
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Number of answers is not visible for questions with an accepted answer in the favorites tab

I was reviewing the favorites tab in my DSP.SE profile page, when I realized that the number of answers is not visible for those questions with an accepted answer. On the other hand, questions without ...
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Closing as off-topic: Any clue why we have some Portuguese words in this ?

I decided to put a close vote on a question a few minutes ago and then I fell on some Portuguese words, a language I do love btw. Any clues ?
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MathJax not rendering

Recently when writing/editing an answer, MathJax has at some point stopped rendering formulas and will only start rendering again if I refresh the page. I've had the problem for maybe a month now. ...
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how can we make necessary edits to a question that doesn't change enough letters to prevent auto-rejection?

the title says it all. it has to do with this edit in which all i needed to do was add a couple of backslashes. but i have run into that problem before. so i end up changing more than i intended, ...
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Why are equations not visible in the Review pane?

I have observed that In the Moderator's tool, review pane, equations are not quite visible. Why is this so? Is this a bug?
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Logo gets cut off in meta [closed]

The meta logo is getting cut off: It happens for me in both IE9 and Chrome.
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