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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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Remove accept rate display from questions, move it to the profile page
Acceptance rate is an absolutely worthless, meaningless metric and it should be taken out back and shot and then carved up into tiny bits until it is the consistency of chunky salsa.
People focus too …
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1
answer
97
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Would it be out of line to systematically ask a user if they've actually stepped through the... [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can we tell people that what they need is a debugger?
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Object+not+set+to+instance+%5Bc%23%5D
The C# tag gets several questions per …
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17
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Accepted
Allow asker to upgrade comment to answer
If the user was interested in providing an answer, he would have done so. Perhaps the user did not think his commentary rose to the level of an adequate answer to the overall problem. However, here's …
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28
votes
Warning message for VB.NET questions being answered with C# solution
I believe the community is well enough capable of policing this kind of issue on its own.
Since we're in the land of .NET, many times a C# answer will in fact be sufficient to get the VB asker past a …
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5
votes
Accepted
comment reputation or weight
The value of StackOverflow is not the comments, the value is the answers and, to a lesser extent, the questions. While comments can be informative or entertaining, we're here to provide answers.
Keep …
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5
votes
Accepted
Stack Overflow for business questions
There used to be a Startups site but it's no longer active. There are over 170 sites active or in beta on the network, and more are added as time goes on. If you have an idea for a specific proposal, …
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4
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Badge for Closing Question
I favor a 3 tier badge system with bronze, silver, and gold badges. It is not enough to close enough questions to get one badge, people should continually close questions that are duplicated content o …
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12
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How about mentioning someone in my question? / making a followup question
1) He's your coworker. Email him. Send him an instant message. Walk over to his cubicle. You have enough avenues for notifying him as it is, you don't need this website to act as another one of those …
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3
votes
Can you prevent receiving downvote within 5 minutes of posting?
The present voting mechanism is for the greater good.
Bad answers should be immediately identified so that harmful information is not endorsed through silence. Questions are often asked with urgency …
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3
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Split question upvote points based on answer acceptance
No.
The user already has a +2 incentive when he or she accepts an answer. And this additional incentive is only an incentive as long as the question actually gets upvoted. On the other hand, the use …
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11
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Add a question/answer ratio below the % accepted stats on questions for the asker
Please don't.
This site should not be about helping those who are deserving or showing favor to people who may give you a vote. It's about helping programmers become better programmers, better probl …
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2
votes
Accepted
Feature Request: Don't count reputation from upvotes if the score is under 0
Sometimes the masses are wrong. Sometimes you get a bunch of pile-on downvotes because somebody misunderstood the answer and then a couple of others got click happy. Maybe the answer got edited and th …
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2
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How difficult would it be to add a "Favorite Users" tab in our profile?
The benevolent creators of the Stack Exchange network (the SE family, if you will) have ever so thoughtfully already provided you this ability, you just need to follow these key steps:
Create a [SE …
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10
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Ability to upvote questions when answering
I don't like this renewed push to increase votes on questions, I feel it's a lot of hand wringing over something that really isn't a problem.
But even if it is a problem, I think drawing too much at …
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1
vote
Accepted
How to request an FAQ for a topic
A request to create a FAQ is not on topic for Stack Overflow. While un- and underdocumented software products are troubling, Stack Overflow is not the place to fill that general void in the market in …
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