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Tom J Nowell

01:06

sessions won't work on plenty of managed hosts, e.g. they fail on WP Engine in mysterious ways, and they can invalidate caches

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Tim Malone

04:50

Is it possible to 'contact' a user of the site if they've never come to chat? (i.e. their name doesn't show up when typing @ in chat). Purpose: wanted to ask about a pattern of edit approvals that seem they should have been rejected

3 hours later…

toscho

07:40

@TimMalone Only mods can do that.

Tim Malone

Ah ok, thanks

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cjbj

09:56

Two old question just got exactly the same answer (wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/139154/…, wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/59585/…). There's no real reason to flag them, but I still find this behaviour annoying. What to do?

toscho

@cjbj Identical answers are flagged automatically, no need to do anything. Maybe it deserves a downvote …

Actually, he has posted that answers thrice. I've deleted two instances and explained the problem to the user.

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Stack Exchange

11:45

Q: How are older questions with an answer not accepted resolved?

For example: + Character in permalink This question was originally solved by the OP, which they put within their question. I took the liberty to separate that as an answer. Since this question has been essentially resolved, but not accepted by the OP, how does that work? Will the answer get ac...