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kerning issues - click reads like dick, letter spacing

Using Firefox 16.0.2 22 on Windows 8, I've had a hard time reading certain sentences. Browser is normal zoom. clean looks like dean. click looks like dick. Screenshot if you cannot see it: And ...
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I shouldn't be review audited on my own posts

Was given a post to review I made myself about 2 weeks ago. Was "only a test" but I wonder if that's not something that should be filtered out...
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Network engineering's background on Programmers adverts is less than ideal

On the sidebar, this is what it looks like: Related from MSE from awhile back: Confusing placement of popular network question above related questions in the sidebar Please look at the other ...
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Why did the feed ban me from chat?

I was just banned from chat over this comment, which, to my eye looks fairly innocuous. Comment history before someone blew it away Clicking on the Feeds profile brought me to here Can anyone shed ...
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The cup of coffee has gone cold

The steam coming from the coffee cup in the favicon blends in with the background on an inactive Chrome tab (OS X). Although it's still barely visible, there should be more contrast between the steam ...
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When your question is flagged as a duplicate, the edit link appears to not render correctly

I posted a question that has since been flagged as a duplicate of an already existing question. The panel at the top of the question is as you'd expect, apart from the 'edit' link which hasn't ...
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"Disciplined" achievement badge awarded for migrated answer

This just happened: INBOX (Programmers SE item) answer migrated 2 hours ago Your answer to "Testing a method that reads from standard input and outputs to standard output" was migrated to Stack ...
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Very Annoying Chat Defect

If you are using Chrome and: your resolution is 1366x768 Your window is maximized A link is the last word of the last line of the message Then, if you attempt to click on the the link is covered by ...
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Titles of questions are too large on a mobile device

There seem to be a regression with font size on softwareengineering.stackexchange, when displayed on a mobile device. Here's a side by side comparison between SE.SE and SO. In the first screenshot, ...
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Deleted question as a known good audit in close vote review?

Hitting the close vote reviews, I came across this one. I'm really not sure what the proper action on it is. It's been deleted. I'm not sure if I should leave it open (it's deleted), close it (...
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Level 1 headers in profile description appear cluttered

I recently updated my Stack Exchange profile to include a link to my newly created Area 51 proposal Scientific Imagination. I included a sample question from the proposal as a level 1 header. It looks ...
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Edit form duplicates when editing a reviewed post

Recently I reviewed some first posts. One post's formatting was pretty bad, so I choose "Edit", to improve it. On Stackoverflow I do not have to add a summary, because I've got enought reputation. ...
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Unwanted horizontal scroll bar in all the pages in Firefox browser

There is a horizontal scroll bar in the bottom of this site in all the pages in Firefox browser. There is no use of the horizontal scroll bar in the pages. Configurations: OS: Windows 10 Pro Mozilla ...
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Network icons are broken

Any idea why the Hot Network Questions suddenly look like this on P.SE? (But not here on Meta.P.SE, for whatever reason...)
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I can't track the random badge

I am the all time top answerer in random (89 points on 11 answers). I keep looking forward to getting a tag badge in it. I can track C, version-control, database, math, git, history, open-source, ...
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Misleading "protected" message on closed question shown to users who are not logged in or have less than 10 on-site rep

Should I choose Doctrine 2 or Propel 1.5/1.6, and why? Is this the intended behavior? I was searching for the "answer" button because I read that I need at least 10 reputation because the question ...
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bug with horizontal scrolling

I don't know if this really qualifies as a bug, since the repoduction steps are a bit silly, but here it is: log on programmers (with chrome 25 in my case) reduce the browser window to get an ...
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Special Character in StackExchange Notification --Inbox

I encountered a special character notification in Stackexchange Notification --Inbox which is displayed due to presence of apostrophe punctuation mark in a word "it's" below is the screen shot. ...
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Extra commas in 'Share a link to this question via email,,, or

I looked at a couple of questions this morning and noticed we have a few extra commas in the text below the question:
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How did I get the Scholar badge when I have only just asked my first question?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/badges/10/scholar?userid=82480 Scholar: Ask a question and accept an answer. I literally just asked my first question 2 401 minutes ago. There ...
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What's that text above the viewport?

I was scrolling back up to the top of a page when I noticed this weird red text floating above the viewport in the "rubber-band-scroll" region. It says "Stack Exchange Inbox" and "Reputation and ...
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Site style: bold text is not distinguishable from normal text

I'm trying to replicate (this was supposed to be bold) the problem here. Browser: Firefox 17.0.6 ESR. bold (doesn't work) normal italic (works) That's how bold shows up on Unix SE: Update: turns ...
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Newest question(s) not visible

When a new question is asked, a message appears at the top of the questions feed, saying x new questions When I click it, the newly asked questions are visible. After refreshing the page, these new ...
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Bug: The 'View More' link underneath 'Reputation' is missing from the mobile view

I'd like to report a bug. The 'View More' link underneath 'Reputation' is missing from the mobile view.
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Editing an answer - fixed sidebar flows behind footer

Editing an answer and scrolling down causes the "sidebar" to flow behind the footer: Appears on my system (Windows 7 Professional) on all browsers I can test FF 45.8 (ESR) IE 11 Chrome 53
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Flickering primary tags on meta

Chrome on OSX here. No better way to explain this than steps to recreate: Start the ask question form on Meta Go to add a tag (focus the tag box). The primary tags will appear without any input. ...
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Text from the side overlaps to the footer when I scroll to the bottom most part of the page

Take a look at this screenshot. Then if you scroll at the bottom most part of the page you can see this. I think the text from the side overlaps to the footer of the page. It says here that it is ...
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A question was closed as duplicate even though the supposed duplicate was younger

I answered a question some years ago that was widely accepted to be the canonical answer to the very common question-- I think I had over a 200 upvotes and the answer alone added 2000 rep to my ...
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What is the purpose of making the question a link which redirects back to the same question

Reproduce: Go to Why would you store an enum in DB? Click on the title of the question The browser is redirected to the same question. Whenever I try copying the text of the question I accidentally ...
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