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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?

We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle. Inspired by ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
11 votes
0 answers
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Add a date range filter to the mass URL replacement tool

Stack Exchange staff has a simple search-and-replace tool to rewrite (broken) links without bumping the post. Can it be extended with a date range filter, so that it can update posts which were ...
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We need a mechanism for 'purging' seen inbox messages

There are certain situations where a message is better off not being seen. Things that are upsetting, rude, or offensive for certain, or one might want to housekeep their inbox. Dopplegreener's post ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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46 answers
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Magic wand time - what does your community need?

Continuing in my series of questions to you: Last week, I heard some great origin stories. This week, I’d like to refocus a bit on what could be better (in your view). I’m very curious about whether ...
Philippe's user avatar
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13 votes
2 answers
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How should I deal with a stubborn, annoying user?

Long story short, out of the blue there appeared a user that seems determined in their attempts on derailing discussions I start on SE. At first they were attempting to start comment wars and being ...
Ezequiel Barbosa's user avatar
19 votes
1 answer
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Reminders for [status-review] tags

While the ability to set status-review tags helps the mod community to help bring up topics of interest to their respective communities (and in the context of meta, to try to triage matters of ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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1 answer
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Filter questions by user [duplicate]

I've seen that the question of whether we could filter by user reputation has been asked before. However, what about filtering by users? Let's say, there are certain users whose questions I really ...
auspicious99's user avatar
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1 answer
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Muting Blocking or Filtering [duplicate]

The truth on this site has less buoyancy than passionate ignorance. We need to be able to filter people. Without this feature, contributing puts you in a huge risk. Arguing back with intellectual ...
Terijan's user avatar
187 votes
12 answers
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Are there specific issues with unwelcoming behavior toward LGBTQ persons on Stack Exchange?

Ever since the mass moderator resignations started, there have been hints that it is somehow related to how LGBTQ members of the community are or should be treated or welcomed. For example, in her ...
Robert Columbia's user avatar
50 votes
3 answers
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Can we implement temporary automatic comment ban on 'x' number of validated rude comment flags?

There's been problems with abusive comments since the site started. What's with all the rude comments recently? We still haven't managed to conquer the issue. Negative comments drive new users ...
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Please give the moderators option to revoke the privilege for commenting

Doing this, the mods could stop a user from posting harmful comments, without having to resort more drastic measures (typically, giving temporary suspension). It could serve also as an intermediary ...
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Please add option to mute a user or a post in the apps

I know of the old, status-declined request to Add the ability to ignore users. However, my request is specific to the apps. A few days ago, I had this incident where a user repeatedly commented on ...
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Can we have a feature to ignore specific user's pings? [duplicate]

This was asked 7 year ago Add the ability to ignore users The sites have changed considerably over 7 years. What's on topic has changed, the nature of the internet has changed and there's sites in ...
user avatar
-15 votes
1 answer
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How can I mark a user as undesirable for me? [duplicate]

That is if a user saves up, for example, 3 my dislikes under his posts, all his posts will be marked for me as undesirable.
Saimon Bigman's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
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Is there a way to mute user(s)? [duplicate]

If someone or some group of people are abusing the @user handles and asking trolling questions. Is there some way to mute the person and prevent notification from the specific user's usage of @ handle ...
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