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45 questions linked to/from Propose a new 20k reputation privilege
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Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
I would really like to see all of my questions and answers on the profile page, even if some of them were deleted, and I don't have enough rep to see them on the site.
(Note that some questions are ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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What privilege should 30k users get?
The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving ...
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Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?
Stack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful.
I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are ...
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What formula should be used to determine "hot" questions?
Right now the front page Popular tab is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said in podcast #18, it is "a self-fulfilling prophecy." But this is not intentional, ...
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Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?
A lot of bad answers are slipping through the cracks on Stack Overflow. You can see some examples at
Thanks a lot for this post ... and other first time user curiosities
I've been paging through ...
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How can we stop premature deletion?
Update: discussion on specific changes to how deletion works is here:
Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
This needs to stop: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/15348333/revisions
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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide
I noticed that I can only perform certain actions such as commenting a finite number of times in a given period of time. Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or ...
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Should we be allowed to edit comments?
I am a horrendous speller, and my mild dyslexia does not help.
Sometimes I typo in my comments, I look at it a few days later and see something that screams to be fixed. But to fix it I would have ...
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Self-instigated rep recalc [closed]
In a few situations, it's nice to be able to get a rep recalc "on demand." In the past, I've simply pinged Marc Gravell about this, but it would be good not to have to bother him.
As an example, this ...
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The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions
So I have just read the newest blog entry and it seems to be addressing something I had brought up here before, namely a way to deal with the constant stream of duplicated questions. It's interesting, ...
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Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?
Example of where it would be useful
Another example
Clearly, that was the result of an inexperienced user.
If a question gets a bunch of replies, then the "comment" could easily get lost in the ...
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Feedback on tools/flagged changes
10k users have always had visibility to some of the flags in the system, in particular they could see spam/offensive and comment flags in the tools/flagged route.
The trouble was that these are the ...
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Promoting comments to answers
This has been mentioned before, but a long time ago, and got closed for a rather confusing reason (converting comments to answers is not an "exact duplicate" of converting answers to comments), so I'm ...
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Should polls be maintained as Community Wiki questions, or should they be closed?
First, I'm already aware of this question: Should poll questions be Community Wiki?.
But I think the problem remains: Polls are like shopping lists, and I think they should be closed.
I would like to ...
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