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Winter Bash encourages bad behavior
Besides bringing some fun at the end of the year, some hat awards are meant to incite good behavior and also serve as more relaxed introduction to the Stack Exchange sites and their policies. While re …
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Add quote markup to comments
Comments have a very restricted markup ability. Currently supported text markups available are
Italic text
Bold text
code
One of the very common things people do in comments that is not supported …
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Tags cannot have accented characters?
On the newly created French Language & Usage (private beta started today), I tried to have a tag named évolution, but the accent on the é is lost. The SE engine really should allow accents on tags.
I …
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Delay answer downvote rep loss to voter to help hide voter's identity
A while back, I posted an answer to SO, which was downvoted. I wasn't sure who did it, but had a suspicion because I thought I had seen a particular user lose a reputation point.
When I deleted the …
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Please include the title in the question preview
It would be really swell if the question title was included right above the preview of the body of the question.
Every so often, I'll be asking about something and the very act of composing a good que …
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Dogfooding and Jobs - what's with SE using an external jobs portal and... not their own?
I've gotten back into the habit of checking the "work here" page on Stack Overflow, partially because it's a good way to read the tea leaves on the direction of the company.
It has, as far back as I r …
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Can we please get a <ref>erence / [cite]ation feature?
Some stacks (or should I say: all scientific and linguistic ones) have extensive quotation needs, others do try to make people back it up, best with citations to authorities. Some Q&A might cite not j …
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Detect and block question copied exactly from existing questions
Just now I saw this question and this question two questions which are deleted afterwards, which appears to be copied exactly from another existing question, and surprisingly some "users" also answere …
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Why has the green accepted answer indicator become darker on all the sites?
I just noticed this change recently; the green accepted answer indicator has become darker (i.e., from 47% lightness to 31%) on all the sites:
Previous design for comparison:
Was this intended …
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Will chat be accessible through the API?
Will chat be accessible through the Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange API?
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Ignore "The" when sorting sites alphabetically
On the Stack Exchange list of all sites, sites whose names start with "The" are sorted accordingly. It is common practice to ignore "the" and other similar words when sorting alphabetically.
I sugges …
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Why don't you like my "g"?
When a comment on a suggested edit is long enough to be on two lines, part of the descender of the first line is being eaten by the line beneath.
I'm on Chrome 27.0.1453.94 m and Windows 7 if i …
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Make the chat link one click away in the new top bar
In the new header could we please move the chat link back to where it was? (One click away)
As a daily frequent to the JavaScript room that's the one link I'd love to have visible 100% of the time.
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Why are "related questions" suddenly appearing above the answer input (instead of in the rig...
(outdated context): I was seeing this on all network sites.
Screenshot from MSO:
Did something with A/B testing related questions within the answers list (testing has concluded) go out of control?
W …
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Mechanism to track shares
When I share a question, say to my facebook or twitter, it gets tracked by the site. (I know it must, otherwise you wouldn't be able to provide badges for successful shares!)
Would it be possible to …