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How can my impact exceed the total number of users?

For a very long time, my impact has approached the total number of users. Now it is 14K, while the total user number is about 13K! What algorithm is behind this? Obviously, many people read our posts ...
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Why did this question not appear in the reopen review queue?

So we have this question which was closed at 2016-06-13 16:13:47 UTC according to the timestamp. There has been some meta discussion on whether it was closed for the correct reasons (not relevant to ...
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What are the criteria for receiving tag-badges?

There are two types of badges: There is a set of pre-defined badges like “nice answer” or “yearling”. Each badge has its own rules, and there is a complete list of all such badges that are available. ...
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Orange square for reviews shows only and always 3

This is something I've ignored so far (because I thought that it would get fixed some day), but eventually I'd like to address the issue though. Whenever there are review items, there's a orange ...
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The "unanswered" tab contains questions with an answer

The "unanswered" tab contains questions with an answer. Is there anything about the definition of "unanswered" - as used by our site- which that differs from the everyday meaning?
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algorithm for close-votings needs to be revised

When ever someone thinks that a question should be closed, he/she clicks on »close« and starts the close-voting-process for this question. Then everybody who has enough privileges can enter the ...
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Why do edits to another users' post have to change at least 6 characters?

In several posts, I found one single mistake which in some cases, was crucial to the meaning of the sentence (with commas, especially) or at least very irritating. While I tried to eliminate the ...
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Why is the time frame for editing comments so tight?

More than once it happened to me that I found I could improve my comment or wanted to add something, reopened it at a timestamp of "3 minutes ago", and tried to save the edit only to get notified that ...
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Error: Edits need to be at least 6 characters

I got the above error message when I tried to fix a few typos in a post. Since I believe that correct spelling is important on this site, I would suggest to remove or drastically reduce this ...
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Bug? Notifications are flooded

Correct me if I am wrong, but my notifications are flooded from all sites I am in within the stackexchange network, have a look at the screenshot.
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How is the "number of questions per day" calculated in the meta?

I'd love to see this site exit from the beta phase and becoming a real site. I've read in the meta (just now) that there's a number of 3.3 questions per day in it and that a healthy site would require ...
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Tis the Season too early

I just earned the Tis the Season winter bash hat for posting at Dec. 25 (while today is Dec. 24). (Whatever Tis the Season means).
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Why isn't there an "about" link on GLU?

I'm missing a link to about on GLU and GLUmeta. On other SE sites this link is between meta/main and faq. GLU: ELU:
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URL with special characters are not rendered correctly in chat

When posting links that contain special characters like e.g.: http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/backen_(Konjugation) the closing ')' is not included in the URL displayed.
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Bug? Reputation changes not showing for all members

Since the start of the Private Beta, I've received upvotes on comments and answers. I've also placed upvotes and downvotes. Still, my profile shows no reputation changes. I see that other members ...
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