Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the request has been satisfied through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Kill the Retag option, use just Edit
For users with 500 < Reputation < 2000, there are two options: "retag" and "edit". It's great that the retag button is there, but it clutters up the question view. There is ...
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Community deletion of comments should raise a moderator flag
At present, truly rude or offensive comments can be deleted by the community with a single flag if they contain particular words or by a group of flags on the same comment. These comment deletions ...
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Disable chat migration notification if one of the users has insufficient rep?
Simple request, really.
Can we add a detection for the
Please avoid extended discussions in
comments. Would you like to
automatically move this discussion to
chat?
prompt, so that if one of ...
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On beta sites, the monospace formatting in a spoiler quote is evil.
It doesn't reproduce on Meta, but it will on any beta site. To see an example, check out this meta.chess post:
Edit:
I noticed that on SciFi, English, Area 51, and Electrical Engineering (at ...
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Alert users when a notice is added to their post
Moderators have the ability to add notices to a post if something needs to be addressed. For example:
These are handy, but don't notify the owner of the post they're applied to, so there's almost no ...
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Review bans should escalate beyond 30 days
Currently, as reviewers fail audits, they are banned from review for increasing durations (2 days, then 7, then 30). At present, this caps out at 30 days. The next time a reviewer is banned, the ban ...
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Showing comments for a question should not fail a "first answer, known to be good" audit
So this audit came up. It was clearly not a crap answer, and I could tell it was probably an audit because no username was being displayed, but I wanted to read the question before deciding whether to ...
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Include user being blocked from posting in user history
When a moderator views the history of a user, there is no indication of when the user has been blocked from posting a question or answer. This includes users blocked for repeated low quality ...
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Propose a privilege to sit in the 500 reputation mark
As determined from earlier discussions, the retag privilege serves a lot more confusion and a lot less of its benefit due to the suggested edit system. It must be done away with. It will be done away ...
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Auto-inserting Stack Overflow affiliate into all Amazon links [closed]
We have officially discontinued the Amazon book affiliate remnant ads, since despite our best efforts they don't perform well for our audience and cannot be made to perform well.
We've often wondered,...
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Notify us when one of our posts is edited
Your summary page shows "N Edits to your posts" for the selected time period but you really have to be looking for it.
Could we add edits to the notification feed? You could put the reason for the ...
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Could we make the review-banned-by-a-mod notice say something more descriptive?
Since we got minitech as a mod (yay!), lots of people have been getting review banned (and rightfully so).
Many of these people come to Meta to complain/ask about it. When they do, they seem to be ...
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User data in light of Stack Overflow's / Stack Exchange, Inc.'s acquisition
I would like to know how the acquisition impacts our user data, and specifically private user data.
I am aware that a large part of our contributions could be scraped from the outside (or even, ...
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Categories other than "off-topic" should allow custom close reasons
Custom close reasons are a great boon to Stack Exchange sites, allowing the community to provide more tailored advice to site-specific situations. Their big problem (aside from being limited to three ...
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Missing publicist badge?
I've had a link on my webpage to one of my Stack Overflow answers for a long time now. For fun, I track it with Google Analytic events, so I know for sure that I've received more than 1000 clicks. Yet ...
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We should be able to find questions or answers that we have deleted
I deleted one of my questions and would like to undelete it. This requires finding the question.
I think you shouldn't be prevented from seeing your own posts that you have deleted. It should be ...
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Can we rename the off-topic close reason label on the primary screen?
When you click on the button to cast a close vote, you get a list of options: duplicate, off-topic, unclear, too broad, and primarily opinion based. These appear to be consistent across every site. ...
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Display the original question beneath the answer edit form
Often when I edit one of my answers, it's because I want to better address the original question. The only problem is that I can't see the original question while I'm editing my answer!
I'd love to ...
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Can we have a square or triangle or heart or *something* after employees' names?
Given that not all employees have a diamond:
All Stack Overflow employees aren't given a moderator diamond; the Community team has tightened up internal policies regarding who gets one and who ...
ChrisFMod
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Provide official podcast transcripts
There has been some level of effort to provide written transcripts of official Stack Exchange podcasts. Transcripts for the first four Unicorn Meta Zoo podcasts were posted on Github, and the ninth ...
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SO is too eager to turn my edited answers into Community Wiki [closed]
I like to edit my answers. To clarify, illuminate, add examples, add links, point to new information as it crops up, etc.
It's highly irritating that my effort to improve my answer turns it into a ...
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Automatic insertion of dupe-banner after just one close vote is vulnerable to abuse
I see that the "close as duplicate" feature continues to undergo changes. Unfortunately, I must report negatively on this newest one.
This time, it's that a banner is added to a question as soon as ...
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Allow us to filter Suggested Edits and Review section by tag
I've had the ability to review suggested edits for a while now, however I don't often do so because the list is usually full of questions about languages and technologies I'm not familiar with or not ...
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Vox Populi, Civic Duty, and Electorate badges being awarded en masse
I've just been awarded the Vox Populi badge on Meta Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow, Gaming & WordPress. I don't think I've voted once today, let alone 40 times on each site.
Reports indicate that ...
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Profile picture cannot have transparent background
I never liked that SO/SE relied on the external gravatar service, so I was glad to read that it doesn't any more. However, it turns out that one cannot use as profile picture a PNG file with ...
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LOL debugging are we? - Stack Overflow homepage alerts false [closed]
Refreshing the Stack Overflow home page is giving me an alert('false');.
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"Late Answers" and "First Posts" encouraging unnecessary actions
I've come across many posts that can only be described as okay (see examples below). They're not good enough to deserve an Upvote and not bad enough to deserve a Downvote, there's no point in editing ...
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Don't automatically dismiss spam / offensive flags when a post is deleted by the owner
We just had an incident with a user trolling the site using what appears to be multiple accounts. A few hours ago, they did something similar, but moderators were never made aware of it.
They ...
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Should we get rid of all the tag synonyms which differ by only one or more hyphens? [closed]
There are tons of tags out there which have a synonym of the tag itself, just with a dash added into it. Originally this was done to connect those tags so that two different tags for the exact same ...
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Free Vote-Based Advertising for Open Source Projects
As Stack Overflow has grown, it has become increasingly clear that we're going to have a significant amount of unsold ad inventory for the forseeable future.
Thus, we'd like to put that space to good ...
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Provide a way to embed videos in answers
To explain a point on this question, I made a video at screenr.com and linked to it.
I tried to use object/embed markup, but it was just ignored, which is a good thing because it would not be a safe ...
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Allow moderators to flag comments normally
When a moderator flags a comment, the comment is instantly deleted. For a moderator, the only difference between using the “flag” and the “delete” button is that using the “flag” button asks for a ...
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Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE
With the recent change in the moderator privilege distribution among staff members, not everyone gets an immediately visible diamond symbol next to their name.
Hovering over a user card is not the ...
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My real name was used in a beta invite email
I've been participating in the engineering private beta this week and filled in the form in the sidebar to invite a friend.
I was very surprised to find out that my real name was sent to that person ...
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He who must not be named? (aka Anyone can ping everyone in chat)
For some or other reason, typing @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ in a chat room pings everyone who's been in that chat room for the last 7 days...
Seems to work in all chat rooms (I only tested 2 as I don't want to upset ...
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Keeping special status for Accepted Answers without sticking them to top forever? [duplicate]
I often see complaints about highly voted answers (an indicator of community respect) appearing below an accepted answer which may have far fewer votes e.g. Shouldn't the answer with more votes be ...
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List of Comments on User Tab
I suggested this on UserVoice, but with the discontinuation of that site wanted to move the suggestion and discussion here.
A list of all comments on the User Tab would be useful. Recent comments are ...
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Impose a re-entry delay on users kicked out of a chat room
Currently, moderators can kick users out of a room. I've done this to two users now, and they just come right back into the room. I conclude that it's not effective for its presumed purpose (slowing ...
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Block migration if user is suspended/question-blocked at destination
There's a sad little loophole in the suspension/question-block system: migrations.
Example: Let's say you've been suspended on MSO, but you really, really want to post a question here now. All you ...
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Moderators should be able to undelete comments
Since recently moderators can see a list of deleted comments. There should be a possibility to undelete these comments as well, at least for a certain period of time. Sometimes moderators delete the ...
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What is the idea behind the new top header icon color?
Before
After
If this was intended, what's the idea behind this?
More 'readable'?
The change seems to be platform wide, but due to the white background color on SO it does not seem to have any ...
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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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Please use the new Mod/Staff label tech to identify Community as a bot
We now have some really fancy new staff and moderator labels. They've gotten good reception, and I genuinely like them—they work well.
Included in response to this feature was a request by Laurel ...
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Reconcile the 5 edits limit with a large set of updates of one's old answers
Context:
Gitolite V3 just got released (an authorization layer in Perl to manage read/write access on Git repositories).
As a result, all the old V2 documentation links I used this past two years in ...
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Formal adoption of Pro-forma comments script into SE engine proper
My Pro-forma comments script has now gained quite a following (and it - allegedly - just got bust by upgrading to jQuery 1.7.1). This is a personal request to the team to consider adopting it.
Not ...
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Move the remove tag "X" icon inside the tag in interesting/ignored tags
Currently, the list of tags in "ignored tags" and "interesting tags" has a little "remove tag" icon to the right of each tag. However, since this icon is not inside the ...
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Automatically suspend accounts recreated after a moderator deleted the original
A common scenario we run into on Stack Overflow is that we have a troll, spammer, or obvious sock puppet of another user and moderators decide to delete this user. We go on about our business only to ...
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Reset question grace period once an answer has been posted
When answers are posted within a question's initial grace period, it is possible that further edits could completely change the question (see "chameleon questions"), and render those first few answers ...
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What happened on Aug 7? Massive unaccepts
I was looking through my reputation history on Stack Overflow and was surprised to see that I lost a whopping 558 points on August 7th! Expanding the view I see a whole bunch of questions apparently ...
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All Stack Exchange site logos are showing up as the 3D Printing one
This just started happening on non-meta sites:
Meta Stack Exchange's logo in the "Featured on Meta" section seems to have been replaced with some site's logo. Mousing over the icon does produce "Meta ...
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