What is the difference between the close reason “This question does not appear to be about the software that powers the Stack Exchange network, within the scope defined in the help center.” And “Blatantly off-topic. This question has nothing to do with the software that powers the Stack Exchange network.”
@Mithical Alternately, the "Blatantly off-topic" may just be a historical/past version of the close reason? Depends whether @EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica is seeing it in any current modals, or if it's just something shown on some previously closed posts.
@V2Blast I see it when flagging it as “needs improvement” then “a community specific reason.” You can probably reproduce with a sock with more than 15 and less than 3k rep (or maybe my device is just acting buggy, but I doubt it).
@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica @Mithical And yeah, after some searching, looks like you're correct that it's only displayed to those without close vote privileges. Interesting.
While flagging a question, I noticed that the "blatantly off-topic" close reason wasn't rendering the link to https://stackexchange.com/sites properly
I assume that it's supposed to be just like how "network" is a link in the close reason above it. Can we get it fixed?
I have less than 3000 rep on StackOverflow. Now that the new closing changes are live, I cannot supply a custom off topic message:
I can enter a custom off topic flag message without issue here on meta, though it only has three canned off topic reasons, rather than five.
I'm not sure if this ...
I want to verify something - if a button says "Save or update", is it reasonable to assume that it either saves a new thing, or alternatively it updates an existing thing?
And to be more direct - I'm talking about custom filters. I just paved over one of mine because I assumed that "save or update" would create a new filter if I gave it a different name.
I want to check if my assumption was unreasonable. If it isn't, I'd post FR to change the button.
@Tinkeringbell After pressing it, it asks you for a name. And since you have a filter loaded, it defaults to the current name. If you change it (like I did) it saves the same filter but with different name. Even pressing back in the browser now loads your new filter, so you can't get the old one.
Well, I just got it from the browser history but it's not always that easy.
@VLAZ That definitely sounds like something that should be reported somewhere.. either the message on the button is too vague or it's not working as it should. Dunno if that's a report for MSE or if that filter is an SO thing only...
Tested it on MSE - same behaviour. I'm writing an FR to either rename it or change how it works.
Steps to reproduce are east: Create a new filter for "discussion" and save it as "Foo". 2. Edit the filter, remove "discussion", add "support" (completely different tags now). 3. Click "Save or update". 4. Enter a "Bar" for a name. The old "Foo" filter is overwritten. Pressing "back" in the browser loads the "Bar" filter every time because the filter ID is in the URL - it's the same filter ID as "Foo", so you just get the latest version of that filter.
To get the old version, you need to check your history and copy the URL while omitting the filter ID. Go to it, then save it as a filter. That's how you restore it.
Could somebody try creating a random filter, choose the option tagged with the following tags, and then type in “Z” and see what shows up in the autocomplete? For me, some of the tags that show up don’t actually contain the letter z
@KevinB cause there is not really something you can acomplish by drawin more attention to that. As staff has already acted on it. Best course of action would be a new post asking staff to reconsider their earlier decission
I got a very sudden increase of around 90 rep on Freelancing, which does put me in a position where I can nominate (as it seems the nomination period was extended), but considering how quickly it came in I'm hesitant to do so without letting the serial voting script run against it first.
I have less than 3000 rep on StackOverflow. Now that the new closing changes are live, I cannot supply a custom off topic message:
I can enter a custom off topic flag message without issue here on meta, though it only has three canned off topic reasons, rather than five.
I'm not sure if this ...
