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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Encouraging people to explain downvotes
Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?
Related to Meta Super User efforts:
Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
and Meta Server Fault efforts:
Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions
We already auto-remove ...
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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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Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
With the new Duplicate close ...
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Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate
My feature request (or anti-feature-request perhaps) is the following:
Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate.
For those of you who know "Fawlty Towers", the whole issue of a visible accept rate ...
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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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Syntax highlighting language hints [duplicate]
Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?
Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than ...
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Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments
Ask yourself how many times you typed the following in a comment:
[meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com)
Me, personally, I'm sick of it. Can we have some data.stackexchange.com-style "magic links" ...
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Decision on rejected edits should be displayed as a notification to the editor
Update, April 2014: I fully support Shog9's proposal of adding the message where it belongs—in the actual editing form. This is less intrusive than displaying it as a notification, but it serves the ...
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The future of meta.stackoverflow and meta.stackexchange
Historically this site, meta.stackoverflow, has been the place to ask questions about not just Stack Overflow, but the functioning of the entire Stack Exchange (2.0) network, including Area 51 and ...
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Cancel misclicked flags
I'm wondering (since it just happened to me), is it possible to "cancel" ("undo", "delete", "retract", whatever) a flag I just raised if I misclicked it, so the mods won't waste time?
I looked ...
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We're switching to CommonMark
I’m Ham and I’m a developer on the Teams team here at Stack Overflow. Over the past few months, I’ve been heads down working on the way we turn Markdown into HTML when writing and editing posts across ...
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Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders
In order to increase the efficiency with which poor quality questions are closed, it could make sense to have weighted close votes for a small subset of qualified users.
A very good way to measure ...
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The robo-approvers are killing my will to review edits
Already I have lost all hope of looking at late answers etc. It's just a parade of meh. I can't make any kind of intelligent decision because I can't see the other answers to the question, for ...
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Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting
Many times it takes me a while to properly compose my question before posting. Sometimes it's just a jumble of ideas and concepts, and is not something I'd want seen immediately. However, there is no ...
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Is there Markdown to create tables? [duplicate]
It seems like a lot of people try to display tables in Stack Overflow questions, but don't do a very good job. Is there Markdown syntax that supports creating a proper table?
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Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)
When viewing any question, it would be nice to see the total number of votes as a little tagline underneath the total vote score.
It would be nice to see the difference between:
+0 (0 votes) &...
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Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
So it looks like Stack Exchange now supports HTTPS (to some extent). Which is awesome! But there are a few problems, the main one being that some content is delivered over the CDN, which is plain HTTP....
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How about a "Vote not to close" option to counter the "Vote to close"?
My request is simple: Many times, there will be a question where some people feel like it should be closed. At the same time, I'll feel like it's a perfectly legit question, and it should therefore ...
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Allow recovery from flag hellban
Currently, users can get stuck in a permanent flag hellban from which there is no recovery.
I've asked around before and it doesn't look like recovery is possible. To recover, you'd need to gain ...
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Should downvotes on questions be "free"?
As I'm sure you all know, downvotes "cost" 1 reputation. That is, every time you downvote:
-2 to post owner
-1 to you
This is done to make sure downvotes are cast only when you feel ...
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Cancelling upvote on comment?
As mentioned on uservoice:
For something that can be done so
easily by accident, there should be
the ability to undo mistakes.
I know that I have clicked several times on a comment up-vote ...
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Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them)
I'd like the recent activity and responses pages to show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them). If I leave a comment somewhere, I am implicitly engaging in ...
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New users can't create new tags: show a singular or plural message?
The same error message is shown if a user (without sufficient rep) tries to add one tag or several:
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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user themselves. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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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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Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge
With the addition of Recent Activity a while back it became much easier to know what's going on. However, sometimes when a badge is awarded, it's not immediately clear why it happened.
I suggest ...
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Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ...
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Does systematic self-deleting need to be prevented?
This case (and other similar recent ones) makes me think something must be done about users systematically both deleting their questions after they've received a satisfactory answer, and deleting and ...
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When will data.SE get updated data?
Zypher promised that data.SE would "soon" get live data:
How to count the number of times I earned 200 daily reputation?
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5865764#5865764
I ...
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Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue
The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with ...
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Age close votes after 14 days, regardless of views, allowing recasting
I've been putting this off for a long time...
Close vote aging - the deactivation of votes that haven't resulted in a question being closed - is a critical part of the vote-to-close system, but has ...
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Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?
The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.
It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what ...
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Disable migration for questions older than 60 days
This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems.
The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels ...
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Deprecating our mobile views
Update 2
On March 2, 2022 we removed the Mobile button from the footer. This means the mobile views are removed entirely from Stack Overflow. Last week, we also removed the Disable Responsiveness ...
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Direct Link to a Comment
The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to ...
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Should delete votes be limited like close votes?
First off, let me say that I am not against deleting questions. I have done a fair bit of it in the past.
However, I think that when the same three or four people account for 80% of the deleted ...
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Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?
Quite often Transact SQL questions get tagged as t-sql when the convention now is to tag as tsql.
However, no matter how hard you can try to educate users that the 'correct' tag is tsql, you're ...
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"Abusing" bounties for unlimited profit
Six days ago I put a +50 bounty on Why doesn't jQuery work in Chrome user scripts (Greasemonkey)? which wasn't asked by me, but to which I'd previously posted a pretty decent answer. Since then I'...
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Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote
I had an old question that I revisited in order to link it in a new answer. I noticed that in the comments Steven A Lowe had a funny comment that I -- at the time -- had responded to with "why can't I ...
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Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version
Duplicate questions that use different words to describe the same problem are important for people to find the content via search engines. But the user experience when an anonymous user arrives at a ...
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Badge progress reports
Is there a way to view your own progress towards certain badges? For example:
Tumbleweed - What value constitutes low views for a week?
Fanatic – Is there a way to view how many days in a row you ...
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Every "close" has its thorn: replace "close" with "on hold" for the first five days
That's right, I'm starting this out with a pun. Featuring a Poison song. I'm good with it.
TL;DR
We're looking at replacing [closed] with [on hold]. This sort of thing was proposed in a popular post ...
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Dismiss flags on the same posts with different validities
Sometimes a post has both valid flags and invalid flags. As far as I can tell, all the flags on the same post have to be dismissed with the same validity.
The scenario I encountered (on this question)...
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Allow diamond moderators to reverse question migrations?
It has happened on occasion, due to the high amount of 10K moderators on SO that questions are migrated to the wrong site, and needs to be reversed. Although currently it is possible to re-open the ...
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Search [tag1] OR [tag2]
Is there a way to search questions that are tagged with either tag1 or tag2?
Actually, I would like the general filter,
([tag1] AND [tag2], ...) OR ([tag3]
AND [tag4], ...) OR ...
And even
[...
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Should We Zap The Low-Occurrence Tags? [closed]
I just looked on SO, and found that there are about 12,880 tags with only a single use. There are 26,250 used less than 10 times.
That's just too many for the community to fix. I think we need some ...
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Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted
I keep on seeing a fair number of questions (such as this one) which get marked as answered within 5-10 minutes of being posted. Sometimes the questions like this are insanely popular and actually see ...
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Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators [closed]
Currently the migration path options from SO are:
Meta.SO
Serverfault
SuperUser
Webmasters
Programmers
If we are going to be limited to 5 options, shouldn't we periodically re-evaluate which sites ...
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