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Indicates that a submitted issue is actually due to the existing design of the system and is not considered erroneous behaviour.

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redundant question fields

See this answer for why these "endpoints" exist.
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Post body is optional field in questions method?

If you set body to false in the request, body on all the responses (two different fields of two different types in two different contexts with the same name... makes it hard to discuss...) is not set. …
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Are these fields redundant?

At this phase, this is technically correct. Note that changes in the main site could break this assumption over the lifetime of v1 of the API (not to imply any such changes are in the pipeline - or e …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
3 votes
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Answers suddenly not getting returned.

Take a look at the answers parameter. Docs
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Server has stopped obeying Accept-encoding header

A 406 response breaks* a ton of proxies. In effect, if we strictly follow the standard we prevent many people on corporate networks from accessing the API. We found this out the hard way. *Technic …
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3 votes

redundant data in users

These are around because of popular demand in the private beta. I have mixed feelings about them, honestly. However, I'd rather not remove anything this late in the beta.
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1 vote

nottagged parameter not documented

No it doesn't. For that matter, I don't recall /questions ever taking nottagged. The API just doesn't reject URLs with extraneous parameters. http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/stats?unicorns=yes+ple …
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api.meta.stackoverflow.com has state:normal - is this correct

StackOverflow Meta is different for the other Metas. This is one of the reasons that meta status is indicated with state and not just the site_url. Valid states are: normal - a full member of the …
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On Stackauth /sites new meta sites have wrong name

Infer meta relationships based on the site_url, not name. The differences in naming scheme are intentional.
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2 votes
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Badges displayed incorrectly?

stackexchange.com user ids are not the same as stackoverflow.com user ids (are not the same as Server Fault's, Super User's, etc., etc.). Stack Overflow user 1719 is voyce, who has the five badges th …
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api.money.stackexchange.com returning questions from 2009?

No, money.stackexchange is the first site seeded with the content of an older, SE 1.0 site. Accordingly, some of the content is "older" than the site itself, as are some of its users. In this case, …
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3 votes
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it

There are a great many fields on objects returned by the API that will be omitted if they are not set. The user fields you mentioned. locked_date, bounty_date, etc. on questions and answers a whole …
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1 vote
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Inconsistent sort ordering on users?

Sorts are not guaranteed to be stable. Check the creation_date on each user to convince yourself they are in order.
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3 votes
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Question's title attribute is not HTML encoded

Question titles aren't markdown, they're plain text. Accordingly, if you're going to display them in HTML you shouldn't display them "raw".
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What happened to nothingtoinstall.com?

NothingToInstall has been rolled back to WebApps.StackExchange. This has been discussed elsewhere, and should continue to be discussed elsewhere (read: no debate on StackApps, take it to the appropri …
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