Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Some tag suggestions
snowflake should be renamed to "snowflake-method". The tag name should be telling and not leave users guessing what it refers to.
myersbriggs should be renamed to "myers-briggs". ...
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Am I allowed to promote a Discord server?
Am I allowed to promote a Discord server for a writing project that I want to include the community in?
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Censored comments?
Up until a few minutes ago, a relevant, important, and sufficiently constructive exchange was going on in the comments under this answer:
https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/55746/49392
Now, however, ...
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What happened to the (potential) Writing e-book?
Browing through Writing Meta, I found a couple posts about the Writing SE e-book, which looked intresting.
Is it (the Writing SE e-book) published? Drafted? Planned? Or dismissed?
Who is/was/will take/...
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Do we have any active advertisments on other websites?
Do we have Writing SE adds out on the web?
Or, if not, do we have any adds on other SE sites?
If not that either, are there plans to?
If not, could we start planning?
If not, I've run out of ...
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Is this question on or off-topic for our site?
This post asks a good question. I am wondering if we should migrate it to EL&U SE though, it seems like too specific of a grammar question for our site. I am asking here on Meta, so as I gradually ...
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Have new and medium-experienced users' posts dropped off recently?
Have new and medium-experienced users' posts dropped off recently? Is anyone keeping track of such stats?
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What is the status of the increase in repuation thresholds for privileges?
Almost a year ago, Writing.SE clamored for graduation, which was finally granted in August 2019, albeit without the standard increase in reputation requirements for privileges as was standard for ...
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Could my upvotes be removed?
If I click on someone's profile and scroll through their questions/answers posted and upvote a lot of them, can this be removed as looking suspicious or spammy? I know this happens with downvotes, ...
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Can I request a moderator remove comments from my question?
On my most recent question a user in the comments has repeatedly been harassing and trolling me, and though I stopped replying, deleted my own comments back to him, and flagged the comments he posted ...
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How to handle harassment?
Whenever my questions on Writing SE get even slightly political (usually in reference to LGBT topics or misogyny in writing), there's a user that downvotes the questions and leaves degrading comments ...
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how to award multiple bounties in the same question?
I just realized I don't get the sentence that says "you can start up to 3 simultaneous bounties". I have picked one answer that gave me the best insight to my question and then agreed with aCVn to ...
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I don't understand tag synonyms
Okay, I don't get this at all. When I've seen synonyms elsewhere (even elsewhere here), they just point to the main tag. You can still choose to add the synonym to a question but it will show up as ...
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Newsletter has broken HTML anchor tag
I have subscribed to this site's newsletter. I received the email but it has broken anchor tag at the end. The screenshot is of mobile screen but it is there in web also.
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Retracting flags on comments
I flagged a comment. Later, after some thought and after additional comments from the author of the original comment, I decided the flag was unnecessary.
How do I retract that flag? To retract a flag ...
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How to enroll in contest?
I see the contest going on right now on Writing Meta about the tags and Questions.
I would like myself to include my question in this contest, but I didn't find a way to submit my entry.
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Can the moderators please delete my question?
I had asked this question a while back..
How do I express a black person?
Altough I might have sounded pedantic, something had happened in real life which had triggered that question.
Now I am ...
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Do I lose reputation when I downvote things?
I just downvoted a question I found a bit ridiculous, and when I clicked on my profile and looked at my reputation tab, it said "-1 reputation". I don't know what my reputation was beforehand, but do ...
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how-to/help question -- badge progress
Sometimes I am able to find it, then I lose it again. I want to see how close I personally am to getting some badges... I know that sometimes I see the list of ALL badges and my progress, but I feel ...
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Motivation -> Psychology-of-writing retagging trouble
I've started retagging The questions under motivation that were about writer's motivation to psychology-of-writing, so that motivation could remain for character motivation only. (Doesn't make sense ...
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What is a positive question record?
In the achievement 'Inquisitive', it says that to achieve it you must maintain a 'positive question record'. What is this?
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How to migrate a question?
One of my questions that I recently asked was put on hold because it would be better on the World Building SE, so how do I migrate it there?
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What timezone is Writing Beta on?
I'm on US East Coast time, and I've been logging in every day, but because of, I assume, a timezone difference, my profile says I've only logged on 8 consecutive days. What timezone is Writing Beta ...
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Can one use Writing Meta as a sandbox for Writing Beta?
I recently figured out that Writing Beta doesn't have a sandbox feature like WB does. Now, people said this was due to WB being a rather different site, therefore requiring such a feature. But still I ...
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The site redesign
I guess this question isn't specific to Writing, more relevant to all Beta SEs, but I don't really know where else to ask. As of today (the redesign kicked in), about half my screen is empty white ...
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Can my question be marked as not duplicate?
I had asked this question quite a while back, I had not chosen the answer for a long time as all the answers were helpful to me and it was proving difficult to choose one.
Then I got the message ...
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Writing Critique
Requests to make critiques on topic on this site have come regularly since the site's inception. Every week a score of requests for critique are posted (and closed) on Writing.SE. It seems to me that ...
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Bounty Still Missing
Re. question: Incorrectly Deleted User - user31385. The issue I raised in the question has been resolved, apart from a 400 point bounty that has still not been restored to my account.
In the comments ...
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All comments on my answer have vanished, not sent to chat or anything else
For this question, Is it acceptable to use words like "heaven" and "god" when the narrator is agnostic?, my answer (with 80 votes at this writing) had a dozen or more comments, ...
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Incorrectly Deleted User - user31385
My profile (user31385) has been deleted because someone has got the impression that I am under 13. I was born in 1964 and so however much I wish I was younger, I'm not underage for this community. How ...
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Weird reputation
I look at yesterday, and I see I've earned 235 points. Only that shouldn't be possible: 200 is fine. Over that, accepted answer gives 15, so 215 and 230 are possible, but not 235.
Then today, I just ...
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Why are our traffic stats so low?
Right now the block on the right side of Main lists the usual stuff: ~6,5k questions, around 20k answers, 100% answered and ~22k users. But one stat seems to be quite far off:
We currently have 55 ...
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Can the name of our site in SEDE be updated?
Some time ago the name of Writers.SE was changed to Writing.SE as can be seen in the post This site is now Writing. Today I noticed that the Stack Exchange Data Explorer still uses "Writers".
The ...
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A determined duck is following me
Everywhere where I go, there's a duck in the bottom right corner, just staring at me.
Why is it there? When did they implement it?
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Are questions about nonlinear narrative design on topic?
Quite simply, are questions discussing nonlinear storytelling techniques (web, bubble, heap), on-topic in this section of the SE-verse?
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How to write a scientific thesis
I wonder if my question about scientific thesis writing is appropriate to ask.
Is there supported claim that a scientific thesis should not have many personal pronoun words e.g. we/you/our?
I would ...
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Why is question closed with only two close votes?
This question was closed with only two close votes. I have not participated very long on Writers SE. I'm familiar with other SE sites that require five close votes.
Two seems like a very small ...
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How Do I Link in Comments?
I'm sorry if this has an obvious answer, but I haven't been able to find it.
How do I link in a comment? I know that if I paste the URL, it will automatically become a link. But I've seen several ...
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Question is six years old, need updated answers
This question is six years old. I don't trust the answers, which were written by people who were waxing nostalgic about the past.
May I please just ask it again? Or must I set a bounty to get ...
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How do you include pictures at certain positions in the body of the question?
Specification
So, I ensure that my questions and answers are only of the highest quality. Nicely formatted, not like a wall of text and generally easy-to-read and understand. Plus, I'm deluded into ...
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How can I Remove the 'Possible Duplicate' Status on my questions?
I've asked two questions recently, both of which were similar to, but also different from, previously asked questions.
The first question received a comment from Lauren Ipsum, saying it was a ...
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only community that opens new window when clicking on community in stackexchange pull down menu
Why is this the only community that opens a new browser window when I click on writing community in the Stack Exchange pull-down menu on the top left of the screen?
This happens in Chrome, no ...
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'Unanswered' tab results in question that already has answer
I clicked on 'Unanswered' and the first question in the result list had an answer. ?
I saw this behavior in other communities as well.
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'jobs' tab on writer SE like in stackoverflow
Has it been suggested to get a 'jobs' tab much like they have in stackoverflow? If not I'd like to suggest it.
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Moving reputation from one user to another
A few months ago, I started using English Language and Usage Stack Exchange. I signed in as a guest and that worked for me for quite a while, using the same computer and browser the entire time. I ...
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Books made from Stack Exchange content
Do Stack Exchange's terms and conditions allow people to publish books from Stack Exchange content?
I found a bunch of such books on Amazon by the same "author." For example, this one with content ...
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Incorrect user board?
I just looked at the users tab, and Loren Ipsum only has 750 rep, but she is still at the top... Why is this? None of the users, even the ones that I thought had 10,000+ rep, have more than 750?
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Question About File Format Differences On-Topic?
I want to ask if, for my needs, it would be better to stick with Office Open XML (docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.) or if it would be safe for me to switch to the OpenDocument format (odt, ods, odp, etc.). I ...
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Meaning of "convention" tag?
What does the conventions tag mean?
I assume it means writing conventions, but then it dawned on me that it might also refer to conventions about writing, kind of like Comic-Con but about writing. ...
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Are all the tweeted links broken or just this one?
I was looking at https://writers.stackexchange.com/posts/17467/revisions where I noticed that the question had been tweeted. Cool but the #! in the tweet-link causes problems. Is this a common problem?...
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