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Proposals for new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature. On posts tagged feature-request, voting may indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposed change, in addition to the quality or usefulness of the post itself. Feature requests are not brought to the company's attention until and unless a [status-review] tag is added by a moderator or employee.

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Do not load Facebook-based avatars directly from the Facebook CDN [duplicate]

Users who register for their account via Facebook get their Facebook profile photo as their default avatar. However, the avatar is not copied to SE servers or Imgur, and thus the original URL is kept. …
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Give new edit reviewers some audits to begin with

Apparently many new reviewers approve crap that: is just crap 💩 (or spam) introduces backticks to emphasize stuff add typos, chatspeak and other noise. plz help me kind sirs! Giving them some aud …
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52 votes
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Prevent low-rep (readonly) chat users from showing up in user lists

Yesterday we had quite an invasion of nazi/swastika-avatared trolls in chat. Of course none of them could talk since they all had 1 rep, but with such avatars them showing up in the user list is alrea …
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23 votes
2 answers
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Room-specific welcome message for new users

Lots of the bigger channels have some kind of rules, stuff people are supposed to read before posting or requesting access, etc. In the topic it clutters valuable space that can be used for more usef …
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21 votes
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Spam flags: Convert links to plaintext and discourage edits

As soon as a post has been flagged as spam, any links contained in it should be converted to plain text (even if there's a nofollow set). Additionally, when trying to edit such a post users should rec …
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Disable ignoring *everything*

Garbage In Garbage Out. If you do stupid things stupid things may actually happen. I'd say it'd be a waste of developer time to prevent that.
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Block SE sites from bugmenot.com

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/stackoverflow.com This is a troll heaven and there is no good reason for using a shared account from bugmenot on Stack Overflow or any other SE site. Blocking a site can …
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2 votes
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Resolve shorturls automatically [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links? It would be nice if SO kept a list of common url shorteners (there's a Firefox extension related to sho …
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21 votes
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New first-post review queue: "Upvoted comment" should be a valid action

The first post I saw in the new first-post review queue had three "Please post the code" comments, all without a single upvote. That's pretty noisy, ugly and not helpful to anyone So upvoting a comme …
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Warn users before posting if they have a tag at the start of their title

I like this idea. IMO it should work differently depending on the rep of the user: Low rep - tell the user about it, he's probably new and should be educated. Higher rep - create a suggested edit a …
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Dealing with SPAM: 6 (or more?) spam flags should destroy the user instead of the -100 penalty

Allowing users to delete someone else's account - and even if it's just a new one-rep one-post account - is a horrible idea. It would make much more sense to suspend such an account automatically for …
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17 votes
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Automatically check for Wikipedia plagiarism in case of new tag wikis

I just reverted a bunch of tag wiki edits by a ~7k rep user that just copied somewhat meaningless information from Wikipedia into various previously-empty tag wikis. I assume he simply didn't know th …
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8 votes
1 answer
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Show my own entry on top when I visit the elections primary page

It would be nice if my own entry during the Primary phase of the election was always shown on top. After voting on other candidates, you'll most likely be curious what your own score is, possibly comp …
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8 votes
2 answers
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Help Vampire chat flag

From time to time certain chat rooms (JavaScript and probably PHP, too) attract the attention of a fellow help vampire who thinks he can start sucking from the people in there. Often their message en …
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15 votes
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Show recent API-made comments for 10k users/mods to review

Since chances are good that even with the limitations some people will abuse the new write API it would probably be a good idea to show all comments made by it on a page within the 10k tools or mod to …
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