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Whoa! 1300 items in the "Late answer" review queue

This is the result of a very recent change to the way answers enter that queue. Previously, the conditions were: the answer was posted at least 30 days after the question was asked; and the answer's ...
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Why is the user search so out of date?

You were only looking at the reputation earned during the current month: Click on the "all" to get cumulative reputation (modulo caching):
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If you look at the reputation tab of the author of the currently accepted answer you can see that the answer was today first unaccepted (11:04:00), and later re-accepted (11:05:36). It is very ...
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Entering the review queue with no close votes?

When a user (without the vote-to-close privilege) flags a question using one of the canned close reasons, the question will be placed in the Close Votes review queue (see MSE answer). Since that user ...
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I can't write 'Hello!' at the beggining of the question

You are not supposed to write a greeting at the start of the question. There is a script in place that removes certain common forms of greetings (or at least what appears to be like one, there are ...
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How can I post as guest again?

It is no longer possible to ask questions with an unregistered account on Mathematics Stack Exchange. The change was made on or about 10 Oct 2016, at least in part in because of the response to the ...
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A probable bug in the "people impacted" of my profile

You got a recent vote on a CW answer to a very popular question, which brought your answer to a +5 score. This makes all the views on the question eligible for the impact counter. Which is why you ...
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Why isn't this person a new contributor?

The author of the question you linked has previously posted a question here, on the $18^{\text{th}}$ October. That question was roomba'd today, approximately an hour and a half after the question you ...
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Nit-picky question on the *about me* section

The words "they", "them", "their" are also commonly used as singular gender-neutral forms. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they Thus, the "them" there is intentional and not in error.

Can't edit Edit Summary

This is kinda intentional; if you don't change anything, it feels odd to record a change record. Indeed: you can't edit the revision history, but in the general case, that is probably a good thing ...
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My answer was upvoted and accepted, but nothing happened with my rep. What can be the reason of that?

I assume you mean this answer. Note that due to a significant number of edits, it was automatically made Community Wiki, and upvotes and accepts on Community Wiki answers confer no reputation.
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How did I get more than 200 rep in one day?

The reputation cap affects only reputation you get from upvotes (and edits). The reputation you get from having your answer accepted, or bounties, is exempt. Getting a lot of answers accepted in a ...
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A low-rep user approved my edit. How is this possible?

Yes, because he's the OP. You can review suggested edits to your own posts when you are quick enough to get to it before others approve or reject it. According to this you get an inbox notification of ...

Cannot delete this question

You cannot delete it as it has two answers. You can only delete a question you asked if it has no answer or a unique answer that has not received any upvote at all, where "answer" means "answer post ...
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Why can a question be deleted (by non-moderator users) without being closed?

This is because it is possible that a question can have five reopen votes from users with above 10k reputation even whilst it remains deleted. An old post on the main meta explains some reasons why ...
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My complete account content got deleted from the site!!

The account was removed on purpose. Here is a list of its posts. (The last one was self-deleted.) Ways to split nonlinear ODEs in linear part + nonlinearity that may work https://math.stackexchange....
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Glitch Discovered During Downvote. I Gained the “Critic” Badge for Upvoting and then Downvoting my Own Question on my Own Account. Second Time.

The badge was awarded for a vote you cast for someone else's answer. You removed the vote literally one second after you cast it, which might be the cause for your confusion, though — as that means it'...
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Css-update with bug?

Today, a new topbar was rolled out. One of the changes is the location of the site-switcher, which is now on the right. The Stack Exchange logo on the left now takes one to https:/stackexchange.com. ...
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Can't see all my edits

Does not seem like a bug. Edits done withing five minutes by the same user after posting or an initial edit are put together in one revision to avoid cluttering the revision history. (Except if ...
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The link only exists once you have at least one helpful flag. The page exists it is: https://math.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/[YourUserID]
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A possible bug in the review test system

It looks like you're in the Low quality posts queue where I understand your concern but what postmortes said in the comments is correct. We're mostly checking for robo-reviewing - people just pushing ...
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Downvoting can be identified easily?

For the moment, this is by design. It honestly hasn't been a problem to date and when someone is able to accurately figure out who downvoted them, it's usually beneficial - for example, for ...
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MathJax Color fights Hidden Text and Wins!

I don't know why you're using colored text in spoiler blocks, but the obvious solution here is to just not use colored text in spoiler blocks. Spoilers are fairly reader-hostile by-design, so if ...
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Question update notice not showing any more

On 2 March 2017 the default front page changed from the "active" ordering to the "interesting" ordering. The goal of this is to show users a list of questions that are more likely to be interesting to ...
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