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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.
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Additional Badge Ideas
Noted - user profile viewed 1000 times
Prominent - user profile viewed 5000 times
Renowned - user profile viewed 20,000 times
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The Electorate badge discourages voting on answers
I tend to agree. I posted a comment to the "clarify the wording" thread, which I'll expand here.
After the initial "you've voted 300 times" badge, there's really no incentives to keep voting on thin …
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Is Careers going to be worth it for Canadians?
Possible Duplicate:
CSO : Display countries/cities of employers
I've searched for jobs within 500 miles of where I live on jobs.stackoverflow.com, and I get at the most, three jobs. None for …
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Additional Badge Ideas
Scientist - upvoting X number of questions where:
you've provided an answer that received at least one upvote, and
you upvote at least one other answer
both of which happened before an answer was …
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Which tags on stackoverflow do you think needs to be improved and how?
Anything mis-tagged with a version number when it has nothing to do with a version, which I find to be a pretty decent percentage of occurrences.
For example, here's a c#4.0 question right now.
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How much does bad tagging impact StackOverflow?
One of the only problems with tagging is that new users won't understand the relationship between tags and how they affect the viewing audience for their question.
I often see new users posting quest …
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Why hasn't anyone won Fanatic yet?
Today's the day.
Front page is stacked with them.
alt text http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4804/fanaticbadge.png
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Is Careers going to be worth it for Canadians?
Just an update to using Careers from the Canadian perspective.
More than six months into the service, it's not looking to be very valuable for me. Out of 8500+ searches, I've had 56 "hits" and 8 vie …
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Using SO to petition support for [your favorite programming cause]
I just ran across this question on SO, and was completely thrown for a loop. I wanted to upvote it, downvote it, and close it all at the same time.
It isn't truly a question - the poster is stating …
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Displaying a User's Rep to Post Ratio
This metric (rep/post) has just as little meaning as any other perceived reputation statistic. People that outperform in less popular tags are far less likely to achieve the ratios of more popular ta …
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Stats for Comments
With the inclusion of the Pundit badge... you know this is coming to the forefront.
Will there be a stats screen for comments? Or is there already a way to show all your comments with their votes?
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Why are beta badges awarded at all?
As long as there are unattainable items in a collection of desirable items, you will always have to deal with complaints about this. The more badges that are restricted due to literally impossible cr …
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Should Single Transferable Voting (STV) be used to choose the best example questions?
I think it would be a great system, but ultimately would lead to far fewer votes cast.
People are lazy. When the buttons are right next to the question, it's a split second to say, "oh yeah, that's …
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Should we encourage users to delete their own duplicate answers?
If I post the exact same answer as someone within seconds of them, I certainly won't delete mine, and wouldn't expect them to delete theirs. To me this is a "tie", we both knew the answer and hit the …
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New Close Dialog on SO - Nice, but Unexpected
I hate the new menu. When I'm using my laptop it drops below the bottom of my screen and I have to scroll to register my vote. The thing is massive.