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3 votes

"Please vote on merge poll" ... which has been closed for two months?

Your account is two months old, as anyone can see: https://askubuntu.com/users/1319 <td>member for</td> <td><span class="cool" title="2010-08-16 08:42:04Z">2 months</span></td> So it seems you had …
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3 votes
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Why can I create tags at 150 rep

see Reputation requirements compared
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
1 vote

Upload image from web: Does not accept IDNs

We only support a restricted standard ASCII set in URLs.
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
3 votes

It takes too much reputation to quickly close a thread

If you feel very strongly that a question should be closed, flag it for moderator attention! Flags are escalated to moderators and shown in their top navigation very promimently.
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
8 votes
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Why is the critic badge awarded if you downvote by accident and then upvote the same answer?

Why is it wrong? You indeed cast a downvote. Whether you revoke it later or not isn't relevant, it was indeed cast for at least a few minutes (that's how long the badge process takes to run).
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
0 votes

Cannot italicize words containing an underscore or an asterisk

We do not support intra-word Markdown emphasis. If you need that use HTML tags. This is by design. For context, see: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
6 votes

Cannot italicize words containing an underscore or an asterisk

If you want to italicize a word containing an underscore: like_this _like\_this_ If you want to italicize a word containing an asterisk like*this _like\*this_
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
15 votes

Is a user not allowed to give the bounty to himself?

Why would we allow this? Think it through. This means you could start a bounty, enjoy all the privileges of promotion that a bounty confers -- and then answer and accept your own answer to get "refund …
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
5 votes
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@Tag keeps vanishing

This is by design -- @postowner is never necessary when addressing the post owner, as the post owner is always notified of every single comment on their post, forever, always. So we auto-remove it wh …
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
8 votes
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Links without http don't get linked

This is correct and by design. If you want a link, be explicit about the link protocol. (hint: ftp:// works too.. as does https://)
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
2 votes

Number of people chatting

This is by design, as we want natural cross-pollination between all "family" websites. So when you see 24 people chatting, it means 24 people chatting at http://chat.stackexchange.com and you might f …
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