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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Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?
Personally I think not. If the concern is spurious bumping then simply stop bumping the post after some arbitrary edit.
This site might be part-Wiki, part-Q&A but I think its clear that people ...
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Please tone down or remove the auto-expansion of the search box
In the last few hours, the search box has taken on a new behavior: if you click on it, the toolbar blanks out, and the search text field expands, moving a few hundred pixels to the left. This causes ...
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The remove icon on interesting tags is easily misclicked
The safe clickable area for selecting a favorite tag (especially for one letter tags, illustrated above) is quite small compared to the size of the remove button right next to it. Considering that ...
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Can you ditch the attribution for own content clause from the Terms of Service?
Deep in the bowels of the SE Terms of Service you will find the following sentence (in section 3. Subscriber Content), with one clause highlighted by yours truly:
In the event that You post or ...
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Stop bothering me with suggested edit review audits
I have spent considerable time reviewing suggested edits. Less so lately, mainly because of the brokenness around improving, but more and more because those !*#^)(@^&#)@ audits are getting on my ...
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Add a "Review posts with reopen votes" review task?
When a question is closed because it is considered to be "not constructive" or "not a real question", the text explicitly includes a hint that the question might be reopened after it has been improved/...
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Can't start a numbered list on a number other than 1
Why can't I start a numbered list on an arbitrary number?
Example:
Some Point
sub point
sub point
some explanation pertaining to point 1 above
this should be a 2. not a 1. as I wrote 2. but it ...
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Help users create dummy links that are not to unrelated commercial sites
A search for domains like mysite.com provides thousands of results on Stack Overflow and hundreds on Drupal Answers. I sampled some. Each and every one I checked was a post by someone ignorant about ...
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Comments that fail to post start the "You can only comment every 5 seconds" timer
First: This is not about whether rate-limiting is good or bad. This is not a misunderstanding of what the "Only 1 comment allowed per 5 seconds; timer reset." message means. This is not ...
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Suggested edit rejections for concurrent edits should not count for the suggested edit ban
Sometimes a suggested edit is rejected (by Community) because of a concurrent direct edit that takes precedence.
Since this is no fault of the edit suggestor, such rejections should not count against ...
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Can we add Markdown support for tables?
This is similar to: Is there Markdown to create tables? and Please add support for tables in answers and questions, but is slightly different. The other questions are asking more of a why question, ...
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Don't hide the "closed", "duplicate", or "migrated" state of questions on user question lists
The redesign of the activity page of the user profile broke a lot of workflows for moderators. One important purpose of that page was to gain a quick overview about what kind of posts a particular ...
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Further anonymize deleted accounts by changing the username in close/delete notices
When an account is deleted, the username in the user's posts and comments is changed to a generic user<userID>. But the username stays the same on close and delete notifications on posts the ...
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Alert only people that have been in the room recently for chat events
Chat pops up a notification anytime a scheduled event in a room you're interested in is about to start. Unfortunately, it defines "room you're interested in" as "room you've been in, ever", and there ...
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Move questions between Stack Exchange sites
I remember Jeff saying, when they announced Server Fault, that it was going to be possible to move questions between sites. I'd find that feature very nice as since then I've found at least 10 ...
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What is Stack Exchange's official stance on words such as "black list", "white list", "master", "slave", and so on?
I've just had one of my answers edited on Stack Overflow to swap out "black list" and "white list" for "deny list" and "allow list" respectively. There was no ...
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Traffic (views, visits) is not correctly registered on Site Analytics or Area 51
In the site analytics, privileged users can monitor some things like the total traffic on the site. However, it seems to be broken at the moment, all figures are almost zero. This is how it looks for ...
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Going to any question on the site brings an error page
I hope the staff can see this question, not sure if I will once I post.
Update: This does not happen on meta, this happens in programmers, and in StackOverflow. Happens in meta-programmers too.
If ...
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Do not expire single-use tags that have a tag wiki
Single-use tags automatically expire after a few months. This is arguably the right thing when the tag is a misspelling (though I'd prefer some way of reviewing the process — but this post is not ...
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For migrated questions, append {migrated} to the title, instead of {closed}
Using [migrated] makes more sense, as the question isn't actually "closed" per se, as it still exists somewhere in the Trilogy. When I see [closed] I just mentally ignore it and move on, but there's ...
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Choose to see reduced ads or not
I understand a lot of people really dislike ads and are happy to have the reduced ads privilege at 200 reputation.
Personally I've really come to appreciate SO, and in support I don't mind seeing ads ...
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We don't need (to see) flag weight!
Update
A new feature was added, but there appears to be no documentation out there. The change in flag weight caused by each flagging still missing.
TL;DR:
Flag weight is not very clear. Just telling ...
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This star on the Warm Welcome hat looks like a communist symbol
I've just earned the "Warm Welcome hat" and the red star on it looks like a communist symbol. I associate this symbol on this particular hat closely with many atrocities against my country: Poland, as ...
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Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags
Is there a way to configure your Stack Overflow account so that you receive notification emails when posts are made to specific tags?
Or do you simply have to log on to see new posts?
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Missing: "Meta/Chat/FAQ" from top navigation. Reward offered [closed]
The "meta" link (and FAQ and chat links) has disappeared from the top navigation bar of Stack Overflow all sites in the network...
I'm feeling quite lost at the moment. Additionally, I could ...
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Can we get flair as an image?
Currently, you can get flair as HTML, Javascript, or JSON. Let's say I'm extra-cautious of XSS vulnerabilities. In that case the HTML and Javascript options are a no-no for me. JSON is possible if ...
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Answers deleted via Recommend Deletion votes in review should not be undeletable by the answerer
In the last few days, I've come across four instances where a non-answer was left by a new user, that answer was deleted by the system after six Recommend Deletion votes in the review queues, then the ...
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Positive reputation notification for edit approvals uses relative URL, which causes the link to go to the wrong place
Today I received a notification for reputation gain for an approved edit suggestion, and I found out that the link is relative. This means that if the achievement is on a different site in the network ...
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User cards are no longer showing reputation or badges across the network
I cannot see reputation of any questioner or answerer on their user cards, but editors' rep & badges are still shown.
Questions tab with any filter(new, active) is unaffected.
Mobile sites are ...
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"We're no longer accepting" message should not be hosted on meta [duplicate]
When users receive a question ban they see a message that links them to a post on meta in the faq tag.
I would like to put forward the hypothesis that this is the way most of the users who post ...
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Why is upvoting being recommended here?
I've just noticed that the full text you get on the First Posts review queue includes:
When in doubt, upvote the question and leave a comment to help the user out, or click Skip if you are not sure ...
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"The Loop #2" contains inaccessible images with no transcription
The latest blog post, "The Loop #2: Understanding Site Satisfaction, Summer 2019", contains a graph showing percentages of responses to the site satisfaction survey:
Coded responses to &...
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Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced?
After thinking about
Should the weight of downvotes be increased?
which I declined for the reasons specified in my answer, and
Please charge rep for questions after threshold
I have a proposal.
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"Vote too old to be changed"... but I haven't voted!
I saw what looked like a good answer, and immediately upvoted it.
Then, as a good citizen, I decided to reserve my right to vote until I'd ensured that the answer was valid. So I immediately ...
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Stack Overflow needz moar ads
This got me thinking...
Not about a contest though. I don't want people reviewing questions so that they'll get something in return; folks should be doing it because they care about the questions, ...
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Proposal for awarding credit towards First Questions/Answers badges based on First Posts activity
Update (2021-09-14): This is now live
See below for details on how it works. Carryover credit for First posts review work is now being taken into account when calculating eligibility for the Reviewer ...
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Raise bounty later?
I've asked a question on SO and set a bounty of 50 rep. on it. Would it be possible to permit me to raise this bounty, if I see that it doesn't get enough attention?
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Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout? [duplicate]
When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?
EDIT
It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site ...
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Citing Stack Overflow discussions
I want to cite Stack Overflow answers in scientific publications.
For example, I could be tempted to cite an answer that has provided a good benchmark analysis to a special problem (e.g. arrays vs. ...
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Answers don't like hair (i.e., "hair" at the beginning of an answer is automatically deleted)
As you can see I made an edit but it won't stick and gets deleted right away; another user with 20k rep also tried to make the same edit with no luck.
This is the answer where it happened. Also I ...
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This year's Winter Bash violates the Geneva Conventions (no, really)
I know the title of this post sounds like a bit of an exaggeration - but it's not; the 'Lifesaver' hat awarded in this year's bash which includes the red cross emblem violates Article 53 of the Geneva ...
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Close Votes expire too soon for low-traffic tags
On low-traffic tags, a bad question may pick up one or two close votes, but simply hasn't been viewed by very many people with the close-vote privilege.
So, after 4 days, the close votes expire, and ...
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Let's Encrypt certificate issue requiring urgent renewal
Stack Exchange's certificates are in need of renewal ASAP due to the Let's Encrypt CAA rechecking bug. They have sent out notification emails to affected users but I'm reporting this here just in case....
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Implement a Tag Black List
Based on my answer here, I would like to propose the implementation of a tag black list.
The black list should contain a list of tags that should NOT be used on the site and disallow people with ...
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Change "On Hold" wording to make grammatical sense
I recently stumbled upon an on hold question. The verbiage is a bit... awkward:
on hold as off-topic by Al Everett, Mysticial, Doorknob, Sha Wiz Dow Ard, Josh Caswell 18 mins ago
This question ...
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Include a "reject all" button in the cookies banner
Proposal
The cookie banner should have a "Refuse All" or, to be more accurate, "Accept Only Essential Cookies" or "Refuse Non-Essential Cookies" or "[insert a label ...
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Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds
Recently, Jeff was inadvertently alerted to the fact that the rate limit on comments was a flat 30 seconds, and that users could button-mash their way to success. Apparently, this was not the original ...
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Clarify Electorate badge wording
"Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio" is the current text.
"Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions" is my proposed text. (Or ...
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Dismiss the "Meet The Overflow" and Podcast Episode banners network-wide
There's a new banner shown on some of the technology Stack Exchange sites:
Meet The Overflow, a newsletter by developers, for developers. Fascinating questions, illuminating answers, and ...
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Careers 2.0 mocking my poor answers
I just got an email from Careers 2.0:
We're impressed by your "r" tag answers on Stack Overflow.
I've written two answers, with 0 and 1 upvotes. Maybe the algorithm should be tweaked so it's a bit ...
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