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Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.

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How to search AU for a string containing “$”?

The quote trick used to work - it was even documented in the help center! Somewhere along the line, we dropped support for symbol-searches. Yes, that's annoying, but that's how it is. Until such a ti …
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4 votes
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Mixed apostrophes in “unclear what you’re asking” description

I don't know why it's this way, but that’s how someone wrote them. I blame Google Docs. Changing it now means forcing the International sites to re-translate the entire close reason, so... Doesn't se …
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4 votes
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Shouldn't the system prevent accidental verbatim duplicates?

There is a system in place to prevent exact duplicates. There's also a system in place to prevent the same user from posting too quickly. Unfortunately, these only work if one of the questions exists …
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Cannot see review history per user in /review

Only moderators have access to this particular filter; 10K users can view all reviews (except for skipped) for a given queue and their own reviews for a given queue (optionally including skipped). T …
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Getting "An error occurred submitting the edit" on only one answer

I don't see any signs that you've hit a blacklist or any of the spam-protection systems here. It is possible you just got unlucky and tried to hit the site when things were down. Seems unlikely thoug …
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13 votes
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Please fix spam detection

CJK characters were blocked on Ask Ubuntu in response to a wave of spam. The message is intentionally misleading, to discourage the spammers from just working around it. I've removed the block for no …
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4 votes

Failed a review audit that has a close vote

This is just an edge-case that, frankly, most folks will never hit. Audits are generated based on criteria that avoid posts with close votes. And review tasks associated with posts that you've voted …
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2 votes

Broken review test

This has been reported several times before. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce it reliably. ...With one exception: Opening the post editor in a new tab does not pass a review audit If …
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5 votes

Voting to leave open a question in review queue, then manually voting to close the same ques...

Obviously, posts live long and complicated lives, involving a great many actions beyond /review; you can find most of them documented in the revision history on the post itself. While it can be a bi …
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?

There are certain requirements for the question there, due to the space available and the need for at least two answers that will fit (one which must have a comment on it). Here are some eligible qu …
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