Questions tagged [status-declined]
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Allow an edit to notify downvoters: "I think I've fixed the issue now - please check"
To me, a downvote usually indicates a problem with an answer. When I downvote it's to mark the answer as having a problem, not the person. If the answer is fixed, I want to remove that downvote - but ...
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Any way to send a personal message to another user?
There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting ...
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Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions deals with various ways of rewarding the finding of duplicates, a tough and increasingly necessary janitorial task.
Here's a concrete suggestion:
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Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where ...
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Allow downvoting comments
Answers and questions allow both upvoting and downvoting - comments, however, only allow upvoting.
I think it would be useful to allow downvoting of comments for two reasons:
First, if you ...
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Don't remove the @ part of my comment
Recently I posted a comment on Stack Overflow on an answer by (say) Felix. He replied to the comment, and when replying to him I started my comment with "@Felix". Stack Overflow stripped that ...
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LaTeX on Stack Overflow? [closed]
MathOverflow has an awesome engine where you can embed LaTeX in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going on Stack Overflow?
I think it’d be appropriate as I at least ...
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Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam
This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as ...
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Tab for questions that are labeled with favorite tags
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our favorite tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the ...
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The title word filter is one of the worst ideas ever implemented on SO
There are numerous (1, 2, 3) questions concerning this problem. I realize this is a borderline duplicate, but I'll re-iterate the futility of this particular filter and why it should be outright ...
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Reset votes on migrated questions
All votes should be reset when a question is migrated. That's votes on the question, in both directions, as well as votes on any answer.
At the moment, downvotes are cleared from the question. Yes, it ...
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Ban ChatGPT network-wide
Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.
However, the reasons for the ban really apply to much or all of the network, and certainly for sites that are similar ...
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Mark answer as favorite/star [duplicate]
Often times I am not interested in the question so much as I am the answer. Unfortunately, the only site option for bookmarking an optimal answer is to bookmark the question. This leaves you having to ...
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BLOCK QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS
RECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT THIS QUESTION WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER — BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF ...
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Should the weight of downvotes be increased?
When we started Stack Overflow, we wanted to make sure that downvotes were more of a visual and psychological motivator than a punitive action. That's why
upvotes are +10
downvotes are -2, and cost ...
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Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers
It would be great to have the option to fold code snippets, entire questions and answer posts on a user basis and allow defining some generic foldable regions within the question/answer editor.
Non ...
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Introduce a "general reference" close reason
There is a certain amount of questions that are absolutely trivial in nature: How to format a date, how to concatenate a string, et cetera. Questions that could be solved by taking a look into the ...
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Add a strike-through to the editing interface
If you highlight some text, you can just press a button to have it automatically emphasized on indented 4 spaces for a code sample. I think it would be great if we had this feature with strike-...
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The generalist badge should be gold
I think that the Generalist badge (Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags) is too difficult to get, compared to other silver badges; it should be gold instead.
Edit: it's ...
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Markdown footnotes?
Would you like them?
You could have Markdown to have a popup appear to insert the footnote's text [*].
EDIT: you can use a symbol and then <sub></sub>, but that won't give you a link ...
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Change upvote/downvote tooltip on meta sites
Since voting on meta sites mean something different on the main sites, can you change the tooltip as well:
This question is useful and clear --> I agree
This question is unclear or not useful --> I ...
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Can we allow 7.5K users to suggest tag synonyms without a score of 5 in the tag?
Feature Request: Could 7.5K users have the privilege of proposing synonyms without the 5 upvotes per tag requirement? (in other words unrestricted synonym suggestion)
Background: I would like to be ...
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Let users with sufficient reputation use "problem" in titles
This is partly related to: Using the word “problem” in titles – however this one here is an actual feature-request.
Problem, Sir?
I am trying to edit a question that contains a specific error ...
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Allow more than one @name notification per comment
Now this is probably a surprise to many since I always see thousands of comments like the following(10k only):
@Sarfraz, @balpha just told you they
did in the first comment he wrote.
Also, allowing ...
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Get rid of the question ban on Meta; suspend actively harmful users manually
This user appears to have been question banned because of two unpopular Meta suggestions. (He says so in Chat)
Look at the two contributions that appear to have gotten him banned. Like those of many ...
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A "friends list" on Stack Overflow would be nice
I think it would be nice to have a "friends list" on Stack Overflow. This would allow us to be able to follow the questions and answers that are posted by users that we want to watch/monitor.
I ...
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Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
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We should be able to close questions as duplicates of any question
Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good ...
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Please don't refer to 2019 as 'a great year'
There's a bug on the Winter Bash 2019 homepage:
Stack Exchange invites you to celebrate the end of a great year …with HATS! As you use your site, you'll discover hats and other items hidden behind ...
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Allow us to vote to delete from the Android app
Currently, the only way to vote to delete (and undelete, since you can't see deleted posts) in the Android app is to open the post in a browser, and then vote to delete from there.
Can we get delete ...
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Does SO need social networking features to improve the experience for expert users?
No, not like this:
Hear me out!
As Stack Overflow grows, it becomes increasingly ridden with extremely newbie and mediocre questions. It's just natural. The team are fighting hard to keep the crap ...
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Can we get an indication comments are hidden between the comments?
When there are several comments some of them get hidden, which I don't mind, except when comments in the middle are hidden and I don't realize it till I get to the end. Then I have to unhide the ...
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Accepting an answer should automatically upvote it as well
Is there ever a case where you would want to accept an answer, but not upvote it?
I can't think of a single situation where this would be the case.. So would it not make sense to have the "Accept" ...
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More options when flagging for migration
I think there should be more Stack Exchange networks available when flagging a question to be migrated. For example I'd think that the following question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6452890/...
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Bounty Hunter badges
I suggest two new badges:
Greedo - first bounty earned (bronze)
Boba Fett - earned 2000 rep through bounty (silver)
Imported from UserVoice ticket, "Bounty hunter badges", originally ...
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How should a user's death be handled?
It is a bit of a morbid concept, but having recently had a friend die unexpectedly and having to deal with the online repercussions of this event has gotten me to thinking about what should happen to ...
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Make first draft of a new answer part of the permanent revision history
I find the grace period can lend itself to some unscrupulous behavior on popular tags. I've often seen an earlier, minimalist answer be updated within the first 5 minutes, and incorporate something ...
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Add badges to Markdown?
I always found it odd that although I could compose questions and answers with tags in markdown, I can't do the same for a Great Question, Great Answer, or any other badge. I assume that this is ...
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Display lost/negative reputation in topbar achievements
When you get reputation, you get a +X green spot on your reputation feed telling you that you gained reputation and if you drop down the menu, you get more detail.
How about we make it that when you ...
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Explicit "do not award bounty" button
Shouldn't there be a way to prevent automatic awarding of a bounty? For example, if someone provides an answer that sounds good but is totally wrong, it may happen that it gets a score of +2, but ...
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Prevent questions on the Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)
I have experienced this on a couple of sites (and I'm not the only one):
You look through the question list. You see a pretty bad (or at least not-so-good) question heavily upvoted.
Or even worse, a ...
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Replace links with the current question title in comments
In questions, links get converted into question titles (see Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?)
Can the same functionality be added to comments?
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Please enable low-rep users to easily breakout up and down votes on their own questions
I know once you get a certain amount of reputation, you can see the total up and down votes for questions. Well, my proposal is to always be able to see this on your own questions and answers. You can ...
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Building an archive of deleted questions
Back when the first discussion about deleted questions came up, I promised to look into building an official unofficial read-only archive for good deleted SE content.
I had a plan to build something ...
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Adding support for math notation [duplicate]
Every once in a while I miss having the option to write some LaTeX math on SO. E.g. when talking about automata. I'm certainly not the only one. And I think the person answering this question would ...
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Make the mobile apps open source!
As the mobile apps aren't maintained anymore, and won't be in the future, many users are waiting for bug fixes or new form factors to be supported.
If the SE development team is too busy with other ...
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Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who ...
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The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter's lament
I've downvoted several of the answers on these Meta discussions:
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
Both questions are typical self ...
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Bold code in a question
Frequently when I ask a question I have to include quite a bit of code for reference purposes.
It would be nice to be able to bold the important lines in the code.
For example this code:
<...
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Hide trivial comments
Update: this particular implementation has been abandoned for now, please help us measure the cost of displaying comments instead.
If you look around the internet, you'll find that:
99.9 percent of ...
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