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Can I post my AskDifferent question to another StackExchange site, such as ServerFault or SuperUser?
While my question is Apple related, it is also a question that many users that frequent ServerFault and SuperUser may know the answer to since it is about server administration. Is is ok to post the ...
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Assembling a Twitter list of Ask Different users
I'm going to assemble a twitter list of Ask Different users from @StackApple, and just wanted to give everyone the opportunity to let me know if they don't want to be included. The purpose of the list ...
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Share your posts and spread community knowledge. We'll spread gifts!
This week the Apple universe is filled with hints about an impending iPad 3 announcement, speculation around what incredible product developments are next, and serene celebrations of Steve Jobs’ ...
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The @mention highlight color in chat is the same as default OS X highlight color
When I'm mentioned in chat, my name in the person's message is highlighted blue. 99CCFF, to be precise. The problem is, that's exactly the same color as the default OS X highlight color, and I always ...
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Reputation in meta
On the main site, I can click my reputation at the top of the screen, next to my name, and it will take me to the appropriate page of my profile. On meta, however, it does not.
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How difficult would it be to make an RSS feed of notifications? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Suggestion - Possibly Sitewide - Inbox Feed?
I'm picturing an RSS feed for each user which would contain notifications from the Inbox. This way, I could get an instant ...
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Mass modify product names for consistent formatting (for example, change XCode to Xcode)
In my opinion, Ask Different would be great if Apple product names only appeared as:
Xcode
iPhone
iPod touch
iPad
OS X
Mac OS X
and I never saw:
XCode, xCode, xcode, XCODE
IPhone
IPod Touch, ...
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Despite the general rule to not answer questions about beta products, should we allow Messages on OS X and Siri on iPhone 4S questions?
The general rule is that all questions on beta software and services are off-topic, out of scope, and should be closed on Ask Different according to our FAQ. However, we now have two shipping products ...
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Can we open questions about Mountain Lion before it is released to the general public?
Some questions about this software have been closed as it is not released,
However the OS has been released to developers. This means there is a chance we can have questions answered by anyone with ...
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1answer
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Can questions that have been merged be marked with “Merged”, “Closed”, or similar?
I just came across this question while reviewing questions with the mail.app tag:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5987/mail-app-import-from-entourage-failed (edit: this link now points to ...
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1answer
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Why can't I suggest edits here on Meta?
I've been trying to edit a post here on Meta Ask Different, but the link is just not there.
How can I edit a post then? Why can't I do it? It works fine on the main site.
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Do I no longer get reputation points for edits after going over 2000 reputation?
I've noticed that since going over 2000 reputation, I no longer get the 2 reputation points I used to get for doing edits on posts. Is this normal? And if so, why?
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Email notifications send already-read messages
I'm getting email updates. Theoretically, it sends me an email every three hours that I have an unad message in my inbox. However, it seems to also be sending me messages that I've already read. This ...
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2answers
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Inconvenient comment signature line break
Due to the length of my name, it's often wrapped in comments. This is entirely understandable. However, it often gets wrapped like this:
...[end of comment] -
Timothy Mueller-Harder
which looks ...
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1answer
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Reputation breakdown fails to show when (e.g.) +50 and -50 =0
On this page where your reputation is graphed which is the page you hit just clicking your score in the header, if you lose some reputation (say a 100 bounty) and then gain the same amount of ...
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1answer
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What is rollback?
I was reading through the badge descriptions and was wondering what the Cleanup badge was for. It says "First rollback", but what does rollback mean here?
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1answer
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How do we add tag pictures? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
can we have Tag Icons
On Stack Overflow, there are pictures next to the tag, such as the Android tag:
Or the Facebook tag:
How can we add pictures like these to Ask ...
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0answers
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Misleading hover text in Favourite Button
Hover over the favourite button, and you see the following text (Spelling mistakes amended ;) )
"This is a favourite question (click again to undo)"
This implies that you have made the question a ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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0answers
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Inconsistent Notification
If you try to upvote a question or answer twice, you get the nice yellow box that give an indication of the problem "You already voted on this question ....etc", and an obvious "Click in this box to ...
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2answers
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iTunes keyboard shortcuts: should Windows alternatives be listed?
I often give keyboard shortcuts in my answers. Usually, this is for Mac software, so I can just say "Use ⌘ (cmd) A to select all," but when I'm giving instructions for iTunes shortcuts, I have no way ...
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Chat Room Name/Subtext not set for Ask Different Chat
If you look at all the chat rooms on SE, (notwithstanding the temporary ones between users etc) they pretty much all have a) a witty name, and/or b) some following subtext, e.g. :
The Frying Pan: ...
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1answer
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Correct answer in the past, but now wrong! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can users do to address orphaned questions with newer/better answers?
Is it possible to correct an answer acception?
I answered this question in January 2011 and ...
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1answer
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If I have a hypothesis as to a solution, should it be a comment or an answer?
What should I do in these instances? It usually happens with "why" questions more than anything else.
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Could Community♦ not bump questions without accepted answers on meta?
So we've established that it's appropriate for meta to contain questions that aren't really answerable. Which suggests that the algorithm whereby Community♦ randomly bumps questions without accepted ...
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How are tag badges chosen?
Our list of tag badges is pathetically small in my opinion, and in dire need of changes, the most obvious of which is iphone -> ios, yet I feel that any iOS answer (iPhone, iPod, iPod-touch and ...
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4answers
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Should I be changing titles from “How to…?” to “How can I/do I/should I…?”?
This was a question that I brought up in the chat room yesterday. I brought the question over here to meta so that all the answers from all the people could be put into one place.
The question is: ...
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Should we expand site scope to include iTunes Connect?
I would like to call for discussion on the scope of this site in light of recent changes by Apple to broaden the audience for the iTunes Connect program.
I understand the initial hesitance to have ...
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2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat - Wed 8 Feb 03:00 UTC / Tue 7 Feb 10pm EST [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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1answer
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Can we add a “minor edit” checkbox when editing a question/answer?
This is an extension of Should making edits bump a question to the top of the list?, which was asked yesterday. I have a tendency to edit a lot of question and answers, which bumps them to the top of ...
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1answer
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What to do with a bounty when the problem is solved but not by one of the given answers?
I've got a bounty on this question that I used to draw additional attention to it. I've since solved the issue, but the solution wasn't one of the given answers. What should I do with the bounty? ...
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1answer
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Should we have posts on meta that aren't questions that can be answered?
Most posts on meta seem to invite answers, which is what the SE engine seems to be good at. But there are some posts that seem more like announcements and less like anything that can be answered. On ...
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Could the voted/unvoted button artwork be further differentiated on meta.apple?
The selected and unselected states of the vote-up and vote-down buttons here on Ask Different Meta aren't distinct enough for me to understand the difference. I'm including a screenshot that I just ...
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Should making edits bump a question to the top of the list?
I noticed today that even a tiny edit like simply removing the word "thanks" form the end of a question can bump it right back to the top of the list of questions.
Whilst this does alert interested ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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Can we establish official rules for community wiki questions?
I have noticed that the majority of large community wiki questions have rules for posting. However, they aren't standard rules. Can we establish some official rules for community wiki questions?
My ...
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How can we define the new Music/Video iOS apps?
iOS 5 brought us Music and Video as two seperate apps, these cannot be tagged correctly as the description for Music relates to songs and sond that is playing not the app, and the same applies to ...
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Privileges page refers to wrong site name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please change name of site from “Apple” to “Ask Different”
The Privileges page twice refers to this site as "Apple" as opposed to "Ask ...
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1answer
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Refining policy on hardware recommendations
I understand why "let's go shopping" questions are unhelpful to the site and thus closed. But my understanding was that this policy does not make all hardware recommendations off-topic on Stack ...
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1answer
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Bug does not count upvotes
I noticed that all upvotes (in total four) between 10:28pm and 11:48pm where not counted for my account.
one question: all upvotes are ignored
second question: one upvote is ignored
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Refund the bounty if no anwers recieved
I offered a bounty on this question: Can I enable AHCI mode of the SATA controller when booting to Windows on a MacBook with Nvidia chipset? and didn’t get any answers. Now I think the amount should ...
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1answer
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Access to some moderator tools should be linked to flag weight or edits
So users with 10K reputation get access to moderator tools. And now 5K reputation gives you access to the queue of suggested edits to review. And absolutely, high reputation users give so much to this ...
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The iOS Challenge- Winners!
Update: Congratulations to the following people for winning the iOS Challenge!
The prize for the most viewed question goes to jjeaton.
The prize for the highest scored question goes to Michiel.
The ...
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1answer
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Why don't I see an “edit” link below the post on this page?
This question:
Cant authorise computer to play itunes songs
could use some editing, but I don't see an "edit" link below the question as I see on other questions.
I tried editing the URL to match ...
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1answer
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Which area is my question right for?
I have a question about the advantages/disadvantages of using Drobo or Synology with my Mac media server setup. I asked the question on SuperUser and someone closed it because it was too much of a ...
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1answer
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What shall we do with duplicate answers?
I have asked a question, and have some pretty incomplete answers, one answer duplicates the point of the so far only good answer (thanks Matt) and is not at all constructive as it doesn't go into any ...
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Bug in Chat inbox
I have found a possible bug in the chat inbox, it appers that I have 6 red notifications, I click on teh arrow and nothing appears, when I click away the red notification sign goes away.
I log back ...
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The background doesn't change when a question is deleted
I deleted my own question, http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/34705/problems-when-connecting-to-wifi-with-the-ipod (the link is for 10k users), because I discovered that the problem is the ...
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What is the general consensus here about “thanks” at the end of questions?
According to this page on Meta Stack Overflow, salutations, tag lines, thanks, etc. should be removed from posts. If I do that here, are my edits likely to be accepted? Is it okay if I remove those ...
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Community Wiki on the rise?
I noticed that there a lot of questions that are flagged as community wiki, even if there is not that much answers or are quite new. For instance there are 10 questions on the homepage currently. Is ...
