Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Community bot spam
Community bot looks like popping up a random questions that are quite dead and actually answered - looks like it should be stopped, or we're risking to look as a spam junkyard
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Looks like my answer just disappeared, not even shown as a deleted one
I do remember answering this particular question recently - and just saw it in a list as the one that has no answers - and I can not see my answer even as a deleted one. The link is Security question ...
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I'd like to step down as a mod
I would like to step down as a mod.
I was not entirely sure how to proceed, so I posted here.
So if this is the wrong way - let me know and I'll go about it another way.
The reason why I do want to ...
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Question repoening
Good time of the day! In this question it seems to be a fake Tor/TorBrowser distribution - I used to help one person before with the same problem. The question is put on hold, but I think I'll be able ...
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Moderator vandalized the answer
The person in the question stated clearly that it's a russian-speaking one and asked the whole question in russian. The question was about the old site bug with localized downloads for Tor browser. I ...
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Vandalism: moderator attention required
Two of my answers were vandalized by @canonizingironize user, here are the links: this and this. Both times a very important remark from me has been removed - I'm placing an explicit statement that "...
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Personal offending messages
It started with this, now I see the direct offense here. Yes, I do remember the "flame threads" back to 1999, and - no, I don't consider it to be a sane way of making a dialogs. Note to moderators: I ...
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language discrimination in Q&A
In a post during question I see that person has not-so-good english and he's russian. I'm answering on russian to provide a help that is suitable defenately better to a person who is in need and now ...
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Possible vandalism from moderator on an answer
The question here has a clear answer I gave to an author, but it was converted to a comment.
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Does this site support questions related to illegal/unsolicited uses of Tor?
This question, although seems to be an 'Unable to connect' issue, is about Adult (probably CP) site.
What is the community's stand on entertaining such 'dark' uses of Tor?
Personally, I think if a ...
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Why was my flag declined?
I flagged this question as unclear what you're asking, but it was declined.
But one of the moderator Andrew Lott has clearly mentioned in his comment yesterday "Please edit your question to clarify ...
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Closing abandoned questions
I noticed that we have quite a few abandoned questions. Just go to the end of https://tor.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest and you'll find questions where user input is needed/was ...
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Login to Meta.Tor doesn't work with Tor Browser
Currently I saw a new question at Meta and wanted to login here. I'm using Tor Browser 4.5.1 or 5.0.1-alpha and was not able to login to the site. It works without any problems at the main site. But ...
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Disabling Cloudflare for Tor.SE?
Our Stackexchange page sits behind a CloudFlare proxy. For Tor users this means solving CAPTCHAs. Many of them are hardly readable and quite annoying. So is there a possibility to disable the use of ...
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What does top X% this month/this quarter/this year/overall mean?
Looking at any specific user at Users menu, one would observe an statement declaring the following:
top x% this month
top y% this quarter
top z% this year
or
top k% overall
What does these ...
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What means 'User was removed' in reputation changes?
Today I noticed that I lost 5 points of my reputation because 'user was removed'. What exactly does this message mean and why does a removed user cost my reputation points?
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How to recovery deleted post on Tor.SE?
I have no idea why someone delete my question:
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/1374/torcoin-the-real-way-to-make-tor-rich
I'm trying to recovery text, to rebuild it somehow to send to arma. ...
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How can I find answers or question from the last 7 days?
I contributed to the Tor Weekly Newsletter in the last weeks. So I looked for some questions and answers in the last seven days and picked some of them. I figured that seeing all answers or questions ...
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How do I deal with flags
So, the SE UI started bringing active flags to my attention, and I'm unsure how to handle them.
One of the flagged answers was to the qestion How to configure proxy setting in Pluggable Transport ...
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SE chat and TBB issue
I can't login to SE chat using Tor Browser Bundle. Even tho I'm logged in SE. Seems like chat.stackexchange doesn't read the cookies written by stackexchange?
And when I click on login button, and ...
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Is the language comment supported?
Does tor.SE support the language comment for specifying the language of formatted code?
In my answer https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/667/66 I use
<!-- language: lang-sh -->
in front of a ...
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Suggesting migration of off-topic questions to other Stack Exchange sites
Just a while ago I encountered an off-topic question (“Installation complete” msg when opening tor link in Android). I wanted to suggest closing it and migrating it to the Super User site but Closing >...
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Does the search in Stackexchange search comments as well, are they indexed by bots?
If someone enters a new question or uses the search function of StackExchange he/she gets suggestions of similar questions or results.
Does this take comments on the question or one of the answers ...
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How can I see my status on the fulfillment of my commitment?
When I first committed to the Tor proposal, it made me agree to be active on the site in the early days to ensure a successful beta. The agreement/commitment involved asking and answering some set of ...
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human verification, recaptcha impossible to read
Has anyone else see captcha verification when trying to post answers? Sometimes I'll get a recaptcha. Posting using Tor.
This question required captcha verification. Just be because of 3 links.
This ...
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How to make this site multi-lingual?
Tor has a lot of non-english-speaker users around the world. How can we make this SE site useful for them? Is there a way to make an SE site multilingual?
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How can we get SE to enable https for all of this site?
Here I am with http://meta.tor.stackexchange.com/questions/ask loaded, writing my question. When I click "post", it's going to send my stackexchange credential cookie, yet again, over cleartext.
In ...
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Why was my question likely to be closed as subjective?
I was going to ask a question and a box popped up saying that the question would probably be closed. I don't like it when my questions could be closed, so I didn't ask it. How does the input form scan ...
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