Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
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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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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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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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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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Would it be possible to have a “community accepted” feature?
Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. This one, at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said ...
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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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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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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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Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
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4answers
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Mark a comment as the answer to a question
I have a question and have seen others to which the best and most relevant answer (at least the one that solved my particular problem) is placed in the comments to the question as opposed to the ...
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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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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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Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How about a difficulty rating for questions?
It might be useful to add a drop down field "Difficulty" for questions. With a very limited set of options, say:
Beginner
Advanced
Expert
This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a ...
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Right-hand sidebar covers the footer on the “ask question” page and markdown help page
I have noticed that while asking questions and scrolling to the bottom of the page, the right sidebar containing recent questions covers the footer partially. Also, a part of it goes beyond the ...
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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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Let's make it easier to reply within comments!
Here's my proposal. Every comment has a 'Reply' link after it. Clicking on this link adds the standard @UserName: to the comment edit box.
After posting, the @UserName: is converted into a ...
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Migrate shortlist based on tags?
Would it be a good idea to change the migration destination sites based on the question tags?
The new migrate option allows one to select from a limited number of destination sites. This group of ...
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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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Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting
I don't know if people don't explain why they up or down vote because they don't care or because they don't want the person to know they voted on an answer (or question)... But, it might be nice to be ...
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Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users
Often more than one person contributes to the community coming up with the final accepted answer to a question. However, it is only possible to accept a single answer. Restricting to one final answer ...
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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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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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Should we have a policy about “too much downvoting”?
We've never had an explicit policy around downvoting -- users are free to, if they like, cast all their votes as downvotes. Whether this behavior is desirable or not is another matter.
Now, we do ...
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Filtering “hot” questions [duplicate]
Is there a way to filter the "hot questions" displayed in the Stack Exchange menu?
I have a profile on Stack Overflow and that's pretty much it. Therefore the list as it is now is pretty ...
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Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?
This might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out...
There's a certain behavior among voters on SO that, while understandable, makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive:...
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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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Why not merge reputation across Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?
What's the point of having to accumulate rep separately across all these sites? There is clearly a very large overlap between the communities and if people find you trustworthy on one site, then you'...
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Make links posted by users open in a new window
Most of the time when I follow a user's link, I just want to see their site, look it over, then return to answer their question (not leave SO completely and not come back). Could we make the links ...
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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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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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Should questions closed as “not a real question” and “off topic” get an automatic downvote?
We currently have five standard close reasons network wide:
exact duplicate
This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with ...
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Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users
As a disclaimer, I must admit this may benefit me (I haven't checked), but probably not as significantly as most others. This issue is also something that has prevented me from answering questions by ...
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Prevent questions on 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, ...
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Privacy leak in permalink?
Update (Jan 8, 2019)
This is now 8 years old, but still getting occasional upvotes/attention, so I thought it's worth giving a summary of the current state. Despite originally being status-declined, ...
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Offering actual money as a bounty?
I have an idea for dealing with a question you badly want to be answered, which no one will answer, even after you've offered a large bounty: cash.
Users can offer cash, and whoever has the accepted ...
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In ānetwork hotā questions formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points
TL;DR When votes of 20... 30... 100 users clearly indicate that only one or two answers are popular, it does not make sense to pretend that other answers are popular too.
In current version of ā...
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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 StackĀ Overflow?
I think itād be appropriate as I at least ...
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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 ...
asked Nov 19 '11 at 23:08
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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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Remove vote UI elements beside own question and answer posts
Currently, the system makes you think you can upvote/downvote your own question/answer but then you get notified that you can't. Why have the up/down vote buttons there then?
In general, if some ...
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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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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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Electorate, Pundit, etc badge progress
We need more meta data about progress for some of the badges, particularly with new ones like Electorate, Pundit, and more. This started off as a whinge about Electorate, but has been expanded into ...
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How about newlines within comments?
I am aware that comments have only a simple field, with no formatting possible and that is fine (if formatting is needed, your comment should actually be an answer!)
But I find some comments hard to ...
