Questions tagged [chat-stars]
For questions about the ability to star messages in chat and the star list at the right of the room.
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Please log who stars chat messages
Currently, it's easy for people to see who has pinned messages on the chatroom star boards. However, this history isn't shown for whoever decides to star messages.
We've had instances in chat rooms ...
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Broken “Show all” links to starred messages in several Chat rooms on ru.stackoverflow.com
In a chat room used as a lobby, the Show all link that should lead to all starred messages contains an extra / at the end:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/156016//?tab=stars
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Chat stars on deleted messages should be removed
In a room that I own, a message was posted by a moderator and starred, then later deleted by the moderator. This is fine - I understand exactly why it was necessary. However, I don't believe the code ...
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What is Stack Exchange doing to fundamentally fix the recent and ongoing chat disruption through serial starring of messages?
Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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Why is starring a post still allowed for read-only users in gallery mode chat rooms?
The recent mass star-trolling incident made me realize that any registered user can star any message in read-only gallery chat rooms they don't have any write permission on.
This doesn't really seem ...
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Hovering over a deleted chat message makes it look like you can still star it
When you hover over deleted chat messages, it seems possible to star the message. As expected, clicking the star does not have any effect, but it seems better not to display the star at all.
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Why do I not have the Talkative badge with 47 messages and several have stars?
I noticed a badge (Talkative) and it seemed to me I should have been awarded it. Especially, since I had been awarded a similar Hat (Verified) during Winter/Summer Bash 2022.
The talkative badge is ...
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Not enough whitespace in starred chat message due to tags
Starred messages in chat don't have enough whitespace between lines, the problem is most visible if there are tags in the message. In the screenshot it can be seen that there isn't one pixel of space ...
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RSS feed for starred chats does not include starred chat posts
As an example, this chatroom displays the following list of starred chat posts on the right column:
However the RSS does not include links to the starred chat posts:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Wrong number of stars in chatroom information page
According to the badge on this page, the Trashcan chatroom has 7 stars:
but if you count the number of stars under Starred posts, you'll only get to 2. What happened to the remaining 5?
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Can I unstar a message if I'm the room owner? [duplicate]
Can I unstar a message if I'm the room owner (RO) by clearing the stars (assume that I only starred)?
Is that possible?
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Why can't I star this chat message? [duplicate]
I tried to star this chat message but the star immediately goes away and I get a message "It is too late to undo this operation". Staring other messages works fine.
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What sorts of links to outside sites are appropriate on chat in particular?
I've been told there may be some sort of policy against linking to outside chats from SE chats. Is this true? In general, are there guidelines on which sort of links to outside sites are appropriate ...
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How is the site on which the Happy New Year hat is to be earned determined?
The Happy New Year hat is awarded for posting a chat message that gets starred within 12 hours of January 1, 2021 0:00 UTC.
How is the site on which to award the hat determined exactly?
I think this ...
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Bug allows anyone to pin any message in any room! [duplicate]
I found a small bug that allows any user to pin a message even if they are not a Room Owner. If a message is pinned and then moved, it remains pinned in the room it is moved to even if the user who ...