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No need to verify us as a human being, twice or more
Do we need it? It's an annoying verification if we must verify us as a human if it's asked more than once.
Please make it only once after the verified process. Further, please delete the weird robotic-...
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Use of ELMAH code without Apache license 2.0 on stack-exchange-data-explorer
I am a developer on the ELMAH project and recently I was browsing the stack-exchange-data-explorer project on Google Code. And I noticed too many similarities between SimpleErrorHandler and ELMAH to ...
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Has Comment voting changed?
All of a sudden, I can't vote on comments on any StackExchange site. The voting arrow doesn't even appear when I point to where it should be. Is this a change in the site-wide functionality, or is ...
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Strange scroll bar in source code display
I recently asked a question on SO in which one of my code snippets had some strange formatting issues. The issues appear in the top-most code snippet. Despite a bunch of effort, I could not resolve ...
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Easier way to link to another Stack Exchange site in comments? (e.g. auto-link names, or similar)
When referring people to other Stack Exchange sites, usually in question comments, it's helpful to provide an actual link.
However, it's a pain to have to write [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow....
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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Remind new users to choose some answers?
I've seen some new users lately with very low rep that are asking away and not selecting answers. This hurts them and others. It hurts them because they don't gain the rep of having selected an answer,...
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Drop the score requirement for proposing tag synonyms (atleast for Super User)
Related to : Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym ?
Couple of days ago, there were certain changes done to the requirements of who can propose synonyms.
So you need a score of 10 or more ...
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Why is Stack Overflow's search box only big enough for two or three words?
Why is Stack Overflow's search box only big enough for two or three words? SO is a programming website, after all, isn't it? Shouldn't we have a big fat multiline text area so users can put log ...
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When I receive a chat invite, please notify me on the parent site and/or through the MultiCollider SuperDropdown™
I haven't really been involved in chat very much, but I was checking it out just now and it turns out I was made co-owner of a chat room! If I hadn't looked, I never would have known.
I think it ...
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What a "glate answer", badge needs a name
Old unanswered questions are becoming a huge problem, and we need all the tools to better attack them.
We have been toying with the idea of a new badge for answering a question one month later and ...
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There are too many notifications when you come to a site
This is bonkers:
Stack Exchange message counter
Stack Overflow popup notification bar
Mailbox icon
And I see this basically every day! It's not like I haven't visited the site in six ...
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Should the 'chat' link of a SE 2.0 site take you to the site specific chat room?
Currently the chat link on SE 2.0 sites takes you to the area in chat with a list of all the chat rooms. However, I would imagine many users would expect to see the chat link to a room dedicated to ...
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Usability of Edit Summary
I got tripped up by the placeholder text in the Edit Summary, so I am wondering what do other people think about it?
When I clicked into the Edit Summary text field, the cursor was not at the ...
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Feedback wanted: Ability to disagree with flags in chat
Just like the actual Q&A sites (maybe even more so), chat needs a way to govern itself, i.e. put much of the moderating duties in the hand of the community, and not only a tiny group of moderators....
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Should a tag creator be able to edit the tag wiki?
Should the creator of a tag be able to edit the tag wiki?
Background: Recently, Ether added the goatse tag to Is the Perl Goatse 'Secret Operator' efficient?, and I asked her whether she's going to ...
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Host meta and chat.meta on separate server
Looks like there are some problems right now.
I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be good for meta and chat.meta to (EDIT: continue to) be hosted in a different place, so that we can get updates even ...
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Why is Code Golf now the domain of Programmers.SE?
Edit
The Programmers.SE FAQ no longer has a mention of Code Golf, as Code Golf is now back to being the domain of Stack Overflow while the Code Golf Area 51 proposal gets off the ground.
Reference: ...
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Could Stack Overflow be damaged by "URL poisoning"?
This might not be a big problem, but say the following URL is a good Stack Overflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer
Try this. Open a ...
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What can we do to make Community Wiki better?
Okay, what's the problem here?
It's a well-known fact that the Community Wiki feature is not well-understood.
Yet another “community wiki” clarification question
Close as community wiki
Purpose of ...
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User agent stats that visit SE sites
Are there any stats on the user agents that visit the SE sites? So you can tell how many browsers/devices are used to visit SE sites.
Not only will this be interesting, but useful for stackapp ...
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Why doesn't the Stack Exchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ exist on Area 51?
Aside from the "gen-u-wine™" thing I actually want to have the global-inbox enabled in Area 51 (maybe http://stackexchange.com too).
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Is it bad etiquette to have a 0% accept rate on meta stackexchange sites?
Some people on this question
Provide a way to embed videos in answers mentioned that my 0% acceptance rate on meta.stackoverflow was "offensive" and that I was "dismissing the relevance of the site" ...
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Automatically suspend users from per-site metas
When a user is suspended from a SE site, it's usually going to be to stop them from causing trouble and give them a time out. Currently the process doesn't suspend them from the sites meta, and gives ...
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Copy profile link is too obscure
There is a copy profile to associated accounts link (here), but that is way too obscure.
I think it should be moved to (or another link shown at) a more prominent place, like the profile editing ...
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StackExchange popup closes when using middle click
I recently suggested having clicking outside of the StackExchange popup close the window, and it got implmented and works great... most of the time. An unintentional side effect is that now when using ...
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Allow site proposers to post an admin message during commitment phase
So, Jeff and Robert left admin messages at Developer Testing : Unit Testing and more… and Electronics and Robotics:
So, technically the [feature-request] Allow one announcement during commitment ...
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StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ header thingy usability question
I ran into a small usability problem with the StackExchange link on the left side of the header bar. I liked that I could quickly see responses from various SE sites. But it wasn't immediately ...
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Should chat rooms with no activity in X days/weeks/months be removed?
We have 13 pages of chat rooms in chat.meta right now.
On the last page, there are rooms that haven't had activity since July 14th.
Should old, inactive rooms be deleted? If so, how long does a ...
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Why doesn't Stack Overflow have a chatroom like http://chat.superuser.com/?
I really found the chat rooms over on http://chat.superuser.com/ to be helpful. Why doesn't Stack Overflow implement this?
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Tag merge suggestion: VB6-Conversion and VB6-Migration tags [closed]
On StackOverflow both VB6-Conversion and VB6-Migration tags exist. As of this posting VB6-Conversion has 15 questions and 10 of them also have the VB6-Migration tag. The VB6-Migration tag has 74 ...
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Improving "How to Ask" sidebar?
I particularly enjoyed the Google Webmaster Central blog entry Tips for getting help with your site.
It covers how to ask questions in a public forum rather well, and I think almost all the rules ...
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Migrated questions to Android. Will they be linked to my account?
I asked and answered a number of questions on the Gadgets site (Requiescat In Pace) and they appear to have been migrated to http://android.stackexchange.com.
I was not in the closed beta there (I ...
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How many times is SO going to ask if I am human?
Shouldn't SO be able to remember that I am human. Do I have to stay human to keep using SO?
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Why are tags now limited to 24 characters?
This question is now a duplicate of:
Increase tag length to 30 characters on meta.gaming.stackexchange.com
When we at Gaming complained about the tag limit being too short, we were told that the ...
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Using the comment "pro tip" increases the risk of not getting notified about responses by new users
Most experienced users know that if you post a comment then the author / editors will receive the comment automatically without the use of the @use(ername) notation. These same users know that they ...
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What chat.meta.SO and not chat.SO.com?
SeverFault has Meta.SF and Chat.SF.
StackOverflow has Meta.SO and Chat.Meta.SO.
SF Chat, if I understand correctly, uses SF login.
SO Chat uses Meta.SO login.
Took me awhile to realize the ...
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Interface options for specifying language prettify [duplicate]
I'm the maintainer for Google Code Prettify.
Markup authors can specify the language for source code, but not markdown authors.
Are the SO admins interested in a way of doing this?
If so, might the ...
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Reduce Captcha threshold for high rep users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?
Increase captcha threshold for post editing for 5k users
It happens when I want to edit the question a little bit better, ...
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Can we add voting for tag synonyms in the abillities list for faq?
For the ability list:
15 Vote up
15 Flag offensive
50 Leave comments†
100 Vote down (costs 1 rep)
100 Edit community wiki posts
200 Reduced advertising
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Renaming the "Not programming related" proposal [closed]
The Not programming related proposal will soon go into the beta stage, but its name is a huge misnomer.
The description says:
Proposed Q&A site for expert programmers interested in discussions ...
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Remove [worst-practices] tag [closed]
Just saw the worst-practices tag show up on the front page. It's clearly meta, can we get it removed?
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Warning or confirmation on new tag creation
In retrospect of this massive cleanup operation, I would like to ask the community how they feel about a warning or confirmation (or just special highlighting) on new tag creation.
Everybody hates ...
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Sponsored Tags Pages Missing Links
Take a look at the following tag paages:
[Visual-Studio]
[Eclipse]
The Visual Studio page is missing the row of links that looks like this:
about the eclipse tag | faq | stats | hot answers | ...
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Shouldn't I have received the Legendary badge by now?
In my particular scenario, the reputation audit says
rep cap was exceeded on 152 days
Shog9's GreaseMonkey says I'm at 148, but it's been documented that there are many discrepancies and ...
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Should the tag "incorrect" be banned on Stack Overflow? [closed]
There are 10 questions on Stack Overflow tagged incorrect. I don't think this tag gives any value.
Ban it?
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Is "functional-programming" now considered a meta-tag? [closed]
I just tried to retag this question with the functional-programming tag, since it clearly relates to that. Imagine my surprise to be told that
sorry, the 'functional-programming' tag is not ...
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Why are the facebook and twitter sharing buttons not available on SOFU sites?
Why is it that Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons are not available on SOFU and their meta sites? Is it because SOFU sites are so popular that they don't need further promotion?
Note: The sharing ...
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Why did I not get notified that my question was closed? [duplicate]
I posed a question on meta.money.stackexchange.com and ticked the "Notify (email address) daily of any new answers" option.
The question was closed by an attentive moderator less than 20 minutes ...
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[student] --> [newbie] [closed]
In the spirit of one day having a pure, free of meta-tags question base, i have found [student].
[student] has 69 questions tagged and is pretty much the same as [newbie] and [beginner], therefore i ...
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