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Enhancement Request: Indicate on the Tag listings when a tag is a synonym of another
I wanted to define some tags today (so many are left undefined when created) and chose to set the filter to "popular" and jump the the last page.
As it turns out, every single tag on the ...
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Does it make sense to be able to unilaterally edit Qs and As but not be able to unilaterally approve edits?
I've just realized that while my current level of site permissions on one of the SE sites allows me to edit other people's questions and answers at will, it does not allow me to unilaterally approve ...
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Add a way to link to the /tags page with a tag search prefilled
I'd like to link to https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags with tag search = "gpt" prefilled:
Can that be realized?
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Warn after the first tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags
Warn after entering the first new tag that one needs 300 points to create new tags. Don't wait until the user is through filling in the tags and presses Post, before informing him or her that all ...
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Is there a reason not to enable replacing internal SE URL text on comments with the page linked to? [duplicate]
On Super User, I looked for a Linux proportional font terminal, and found OS X or X11 terminal emulator supporting proportional fonts, in which the accepted answer suggested a Mac port of Emacs, but ...
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Add "Copy as suggestion" button to proposed suggestions in Traducir.win
Translation helper-proxy Traducir for Stack Exchange family sites has an ability to copy original (English) sentence as suggestion to edit area before reviewers can approve it. Can we add similar ...
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Add a scroll bar for the preview [duplicate]
While typing a post (Q/A) in the editor, below the editing area there is a continuous live update of how the text will look like after publication.
But the problem is, while I am editing some code in ...
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Allow opting out of review queues notifications
Yes, we should all serve our military duty.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues
But for those that aren't interested, we shouldn't need to rely on hacks.
Opting out of ...
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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Could there be a self-edit threshold that precludes a question from getting on the HNQ list?
I had to check out this question this morning in my moderatorial duties, and I was a little grieved to see it hit the HNQ at some point after it was asked, but certainly after the OP had edited it ...
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Display author name while editing a question or answer
I was editing an answer and wanted to say "we can also write this if [author name] agrees" but noticed that the author name was written nowhere on the post edit page interface. I had to open ...
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Please let me edit the titles of chat bookmarks
In chat, you can bookmark a series of messages, going from your start message to your end message. Afterwards, it'll show up at /rooms/<roomID>/conversation/<title>. This is useful for ...
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The behavior of popup vote totals losing their +/- sign if the absolute value requires 3 or more digits triggers awkward, sudden paragraph reflows
On the vote-total popup, the leading + or - is suppressed once the total hits three digits:
Demo:
Demo:
Demo:
Demo:
This happens in both the 🟢 upvotes on the top and on the 🔴 downvotes on ...
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Let's have a single form to ask questions and have machine learning suggest subsite for it
One of the common problems on practically any site of Stack Exchange are questions that are off-topic. Many users do not read the FAQ or take the tour, but even to an experienced member (like myself) ...
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Remove border from non-textbox elements when focused
The recent design change of adding a visible border around textboxes when they're focused is a good thing IMO.
However, when applied to elements such as radio buttons, it can just look weird, e.g. in ...
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Why do we lose rep when we down vote a post on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I have noticed that when you downvote a post (question/answer) on Stack Overflow you lose some points.
I think users should get more rep or it should stay the same if they downvote, as it would ...
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What is the expected way for a NEW user to identify the correct SE for a question?
Are the different SE sites intended to operate as a whole? Or is there no expectation that any one site should care about getting questions answered unless they are on topic for that site?
Use case: ...
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Uploading PNG image less than 2 MiB leads to error "Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB)."
I tried to upload PNG image with size about 1.3 MiB, but image uploader says that an image size is more than 2 MiB:
Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB).
Possible explanation for this is ...
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Why is there no way to upgrade a half-bounty to a full bounty after 7 days? Maybe some way should be implemented?
I don't understand why this gets downvoted for merely disliking the suggestion. The downvote button says: "The question does not show any research effort, it is unclear or not useful." It ...
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How can I find on which sites my question will be on-topic? [duplicate]
I'm going to ask a question about a web application, in detail how to arrange the objects on the page so the application is well usable on most devices and appears nice and practical to end users.
I ...
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Is it possible to make my list of saved questions accessible during "duplicate close" dialogue?
It would be great to have access to ones saved questions in the "duplicate close" flow. Most of my saves are duplicate targets for questions that keep on getting asked somewhat frequently (I ...
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Generalize the DMCA Takedown Help Center page
All SE sites have a /help/dmca-takedown page. Right now, it's very specific in both the title and the content regarding DMCA takedown requests. However, it would be helpful if it was generalized to ...
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Allow regular (non-moderator) users to easily view if/when a moderator accessed their PII
Mods can view some PIIs of SE users. There seems to be no easy for regular (non-moderator) users to view if/when a moderator accessed their PII.
Feature request: allow regular (non-moderator) users to ...
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Suggested edits dialog needs a Report button
The Suggested edits dialog needs a fourth button: Reject and report to moderators.
Else after we reject it it might not stay around on our screen for us to figure out how to report it.
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The SE Data Explorer captcha is unnecessarily annoying
Whenever I try to run a query with the Data Explorer, my process is:
Type the parameters for the query.
Click "Run query".
Click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox that suddenly ...
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Tag Info vs. Tag Wiki: be clear they are NOT the same
Here the user has just edited a "Tag Info" item.
They then read about a seemingly additional "Tag Wiki" that they might want to edit.
As Tag Info and Tag Wiki are probably NOT in ...
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Clarify the values for delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page
There are items with delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page. But the values specified there are not clear:
Actually it's relate to number of votes already given (the first one), and the number of ...
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The Activity Data section of the user settings page is misleading
The new advertising policy states:
Retargeting pixels are allowed for a limited number of vetted and pre-approved Programmatic partners.
On the settings page of my profile it states:
Stack Overflow ...
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When there are multiple comments on my post, have the notification lead to the oldest
Currently if multiple comments on one of your own posts, you get a single notification, not multiple. What happens is that all comment notifications for the same post are grouped together, only the ...
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Cookie settings dialog spells the same word in both American and British English in different places
In the Cookie Settings, specifically under the "Privacy Preference Center" section, I've noticed a discrepancy in language usage related to personalization. The term "personalized" ...
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Add an option to sort answers by the viewer's previously cast votes
Motivation: When I sort by highest score, what I really want is that by default, what other people found the most useful is at the top, because I'm in a mode where I want to find things that will be ...
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Edit review page: looks like all tags gone
No big deal, but here with the side by side display, a quick look gives the false impression that all the tags were removed in the new version.
So perhaps it would be best to repeat them anyway, in ...
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Let's remove spam/offensive edit suggestions from the original poster's inbox as quickly as we can
Some of us have taken it upon ourselves to seek out the worst of what finds its way to Stack Exchange so that the majority of users don't have to see any of that. That's how the spam and rude flags ...
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Why is there no "duplicate answer" comment on late answer reviews? [duplicate]
When reviewing Late Answers, the Delete option description reads
Answer does not address the question, is a duplicate, or cannot be improved.emphasis added
as shown here:
However, when I select ...
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Improve accessible in-page navigation (e.g., for screen readers) by having header elements for answers
When using a screen reader, it's difficult to navigate between answers on question pages
I'm wondering if there is any way that each answer could be marked as a heading to make it easier to skip ...
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Ryan's bio description has a first/third person mixup
The bio of Ryan Polk contains mixed references to him, it's partly in first person and partly in third person:
Ryan is Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow. My role is to grow the product pieces ...
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Votes on rejected migration on destination site should not contribute positively or negatively to post ban calculation on the destination site
A moderator on one site requests migration and the post comes to the destination site. The destination site rejects the migration, but in the process, the migrated question received plenty of votes in ...
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feature request: make numbered list formatting less math unfriendly
As explained in this other post, numbered list formatting can be quite math unfriendly. Would it be possible to use a new numbered list, used on circles, squared or "bracketed" numbers, as ...
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How can I hide optionally right side panel at stackexchange.com?
Is there a built-in way to hide right-side panel (with links and blog entities) when reading answers to questions at stackexchange.com?
It takes significant place on screen and makes text and code too ...
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On the stackexchange.com filters page, use a background color instead of having to load an external image
On the filters page on StackExchange.com, a static external image is loaded to force a background colour instead of applying a CSS background-color for the HTML element .filters-sidebar .filters ul li....
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Can staff please post an answer upon tagging a question as [status-completed]?
Related: Remove questions with moderator tags from the Unanswered list (2011)
We currently have 425 wholly-unanswered questions marked status-completed. This is a problem for three reasons:
Answers ...
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Periodically publish a data dump of all IDs in the image ID space (and make it available in SEDE)
I see that Imgur has an API to query for image IDs in its ID space, but api.stack.imgur.com is not an API endpoint (and SE is moving off Imgur anyway). Say I want to get all the IDs of images in Stack ...
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Allow users to remove notifications in their inbox
Deleted comments on followed posts persist in the global inbox is marked as status-bydesign - if you have already seen a notification, then it is never removed from the inbox. That includes if the ...
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Can we make the spam flag description more clear?
Currently, the description of the spam flag reads as follows:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
This wording is very confusing because it's ...
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I suggest to do a flag button inside an edit block [duplicate]
There isn't an individual flag for edits: we can't use a special flag relating to someone who edits a post of another user. Now the only way to draw a moderator's attention about someone's edit is to ...
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Mention the maximum image size for images uploaded in chat
The maximum image size one can upload in the chat is 4 MiB (at least for JPG and PNG files, one day someone should look at GIF files). The limit is not mentioned in the chat.
Feature request: Mention ...
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Allow high-reputation users or topic experts to "endorse" answers posted by other users
The problem
I am a Physics Stack user and I made a feature request that I was told would be a better fit for the mother meta site. I am a user who primarily answers way more than I ask.
In short, the ...
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Could altering the level of reputation required to view and comment on deleted answers improve people's trust in the impartiality of the site?
I believe that trust in this platform and the quality and impartiality of the information it provides is very important. For this question, my assumption is that one of the things we want to do is to ...
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Why is the color contrast in the comment instructions barely readable? [duplicate]
This is an example from the Politics site. I have noticed it on other beta sites. Black font letters on a medium-dark blue background is difficult to read.
I am sorry about the large section that is ...
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"Clear" button for tags field
I think the tags field would benefit by a "Clear" button.
I inadvertently pasted three sentences into the select tags field, thereby creating dozens of tags. Had to click the delete 'x' one ...