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Block the "food" tag

While we are not a site for all things food, the opposite is true: if a question isn't about food, it's quite certainly not within our scope. That's why I was surprised to discover today that we have ...
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Merge / synonymise [fat] + [fats]

I found fat with 25 questions and fats with 139, can a mod merge both? Perhaps keeping fats since it has more questions, with a nice description it can become a tag for asking about the use of ...
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Switching to 3-vote close/reopen

I'd like us to switch to three (instead of five) votes to close/reopen questions. This should allow for easier action by non-moderators; reaching five votes can be a tall order, especially in the ...
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Meta tags need blacklisting

We have recently had two meta tags (re?)appear, and grow in popularity. The first is the [cooking] tag, the second is the [recipe] tag. Since these tags should be applicable to basically 100% of our ...
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I see clickbait ads

On this site, I can see low-quality clickbait ads pretty often. Here are some screenshots (they're in Greek, links intentionally not included): I'm pretty sure this isn't supposed to happen here, and ...
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Merge [mortar], [pestle], and [mortar-pestle]

These three tags are pretty blatantly about the same piece of equipment: mortar pestle mortar-pestle I propose them to be merged. I prefer mortar-pestle to be the parent tag as it minimises ...
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Odd lines appearing under images

On questions and answers with an image, I'm noticing that there's a line placed under the image: American "Bacon Roll" - what is it? And here: Watermelon - picking and managing them ...
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Links became really blue again

Is it intentional this time or is it a recurrence of this: Links have turned blue It looks the same: As a note, these are the unvisited links for me.
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Links have turned blue

Looks like all the user links went, but only the visited links for questions. Things are a bit weird on meta too. On questions this includes the dotted line, not just the title/link:
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Text for a closing reason for culinary uses questions

We have used two of our three slots for reasons for closing questions as off topic. We hadn't thought of any special reason back when the list was made for the first time, but I have the feeling ...
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Suggested edits alert is unreadable

This was always a minor annoyance, but now that we have people suggesting multiple edits every day, it's become a full-blown nuisance: (Note that even though it's next the word "mod", it does not ...
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Answer count is un-bolded on some pages

The number of answers for a question appears in bold in most cases, but normal when the question has an accepted answer, under the questions tab/view. The HTML looks like: <div class="...
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Performance while typing (after site redesign)

Since the website was redesigned, I've been noticing very poor performance while typing. I do type reasonably fast, but it's quite noticeable - while typing this, the letters appearing on the screen ...
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Bug: Text Not Lining Up With Images

I've gotten this several times now but after a while the issue would disappear and I thought maybe it was just my imagination or something. But then the bug would appear again. Somehow the text and ...
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Triangle next to username not displayed on Android

In chrome, on the newest version of Android, the little arrow link to the left of my username at the top of the page is not visible. The link is still there but I have to click blindly and hope that ...
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Can we add the synonym [brine] for [brining]?

There are 26 brining questions (and it has a brief tag wiki statement), and brine only has ten questions. I don't even have the rep to propose the synonym, so could a mod help out?
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External search options box positioned strangely on search page

On the search tips page, it looks like the content div isn't wide enough for the text and the external searches box to sit side-by-side like they do on other sites. This is what is looks like on ...
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Is there a filter for your own questions that you haven't accepted an answer for?

Every once in a while, I do a sanity check for my accept rate. If I find a question without an acceptable answer, I'll open a bounty. If I find a reasonable answer, I'll pick it... As I have 63 ...
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Should we merge [bread] and [breadmaking]?

We actually had a previous meta question about this subject a very long time ago, in which the only response was that we shouldn't have separate tags to begin with. Now we do have separate tags, and ...
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In the profile, hyperlinks to Questions are double underlined

Instead of using single underlines, question titles show double underlines when hovering them in the profile: Apparently because the .question-hyperlink:hover has an extra: border-bottom-color: #666;...
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The button to copy the account in other SE sites is not correctly rendered

The "Copy Profile to all Stack Exchange network accounts" button on the profile "Edit" page appears as in the following screenshot, with Safari 5.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.2: The background is only set in ...
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Amazon link hacking

The Stack Exchange software rewrites Amazon URLs to benefit from an affiliate programme. Unfortunately, this seems to be broken at present. E.g. http:// www.amazon.co.uk/UMBRELLA-COVER-LARGE-PERFECT-...
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Incorrect positioning of phrase "accept or start bounty"

See image from my roster of questions Now, I don't know if you can see it, but the phrase "Have you considered..." is above the gray separator, so that it looks like it's the question the phrase is ...
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Why was my bounty removed?

I think I had at least one day more. I read a couple of hours ago "your bounty will expire tomorrow" and usually the hours are shown, for example "it will expire in 10 hours", etc. It was for this ...
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Focus after comment - bug

After writing a comment (I'm using Firefox) and hitting [Enter], I can't use the arrow keys or page-up/page-down keys anymore to view the post (move the text up and down). I used to be able to use ...
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Proposed edits are all shown as owned by "anonymous user"

I started noticing this yesterday. Every proposed edit is showing that it is proposed by an anonymous user. There is no way to determine which account is proposing the edit. However, after accepting ...
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Merge request for my two accounts

I would like to ask you to merge https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/4044/johannes-schaub-litb into https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/6538/johannes-schaub-litb . That is, the older account ...
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Please blacklist the [technique] tag

Even after we've finally managed to completely eradicate this awful, awful tag from the question pool, people still continue to add it to new questions. Almost every day I see it reappear. It just ...
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A link is broken within a list.

In a recent answer, I made a list with the <ul> and <li> tags, as always. When I placed a link in one of the answers, it was broken, it looked like that:[description text][1]. What did I ...
3 votes
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Did something happen to "Start A Bounty"?

Is it my imagination or could you Start a Bounty on someone else's question? I've finally found a question that I'm willing to give some rep to, but I cannot find the link.
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Suggestion - Change Link Color

I was reading this question - How to make my pasta less brown? - particularly Michael's answer. He links to a recipe of his. However, I only knew there was a link there was because I read his answer ...
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"parent" seems a little ambiguous

I was just asking the question "I wonder if it would be useful having a link from meta SA to SA at the top." I didn't realise that "parent" was up there and meant the regular SA site. 'parent' in ...
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"Unanswered" tab shows closed/merged questions

When I click the "Unanswered" tab, most of the questions that show up are in fact unanswerable - when I click on them, I find they've been merged with other questions and as such are effectively ...
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Bounty awards are unreadable

Feast your eyes on this: 'Nuff said (I hope). Fix it, please.
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Icons for favorite in non-beta site

Right now, when I look at a question that I have NOT selected as a favorite question, I see a yellow star under the vote counts for that question. Selecting a question as a favorite makes the yellow ...
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StackExchange box is transparent and too big

Clicking on the StackExchange box in the top-left opens a transparent (no background?) box that covers most of the page in overlapping text. Opening this box on other sites (like Stack Overflow) opens ...
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Is there any way to remove a vote?

I popped into a question today was trying to give something an up vote but I clicked on the wrong reponse so I tried to take it away but instead of taking it away it gave it a down vote which really ...
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Can we replace some of the leftover "Food and Cooking" references?

I hope/suspect that the actual text is only stored in one or two places, but nevertheless the "title" of our site appears in a lot of places other than the logo itself. I'd like to see the "internal" ...
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"Related Questions" box overlaps with the Title section

When I type in a question title and tab out of that textbox, the Related Questions box appears, but not in the right place. It seems to be offset several pixels up and to the right, and overlaps with ...
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Could we please choose a single format for visited/unvisited links and stick to it?

This has been bugging me ever since the "Better Homes and Gardens" site design was implemented: in the main listings of questions[*], questions that are new to you are bold/darker, while questions you ...
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What happened to the "chat room" link?

There was a link to both meta and the chat room near the top of the page before, and it seems to have disappeared. Is there going to be a permanent link added back to the main page / menu bar thingy?
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Weird display issues on Edit Post screen

I just went to edit one of my answers and saw this: So... I think this one speaks for itself, I'm not exactly sure how to describe what's happening. Code blue! Note: This only happens when you edit ...
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FAQ tag is illegible on meta

You can view this simply by going here: https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq
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How do you get to the privileges page?

I wanted to check what I can/can't do on the privileges page but i can't find a link to it anywhere. So.... where's do I click?
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View counter off the rocker?

According to the view counter, my question How to substitute eggs in homemade pasta? asked this afternoon, has been viewed 1,261 times. The view count seems to rise and rise in between page refreshes, ...
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How does flagging a question work?

I'm having issues flagging questions. I've tried doing this twice before, and I'm not sure it worked either time. I don't think it worked because it never showed up in Tools - Flagged and I did not ...
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Bug? "Users with less than 100 reputation ..." [closed]

Not sure if that's the right place to report this. I've got 100 reputation on cooking SE. However, when I try to post two questions within 20 minutes, it says "users with less than 100 reputation can ...
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Get the FAQ up, please.

Today I told a user to please read the FAQ to understand why recipe questions were off-topic. He did. He said it didn't help. He's right. One of my biggest issues with the current state of things ...
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Diacritics in tags

I noticed today that tags can't contain characters with diacritics symbols (I tried to add the "túró" tag and I got the "tr" tag: the software just removed the unallowed characters without notice) so ...
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Starting with a reputation score of 1.

Starting with a reputation score of one on a new side is hard. I can't create my own tags (asking different questions is hared), I can't add more than 1 comment every three minutes and I'm constantly ...