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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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Flag your own questions as "for the experience"

Give the question asker some sort of preview before go live We already have this feature, see the preview down below? You can also edit when you don't notice straight away, such as I did with …
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3 votes

Adding linkage (Not a link) to user when using @ tag

From what I gather, many of the occurrences of @-notifications are undesirable - so much so that comments in which it can be fully determined that the notification is redundant, it is removed automati …
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Incorporate off-topic migration route content into Ask Question page

I don't think I need to dig around to find links to back me up when I say that some people just have trouble asking their question in the right place, regardless of there being info to the right givin …
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5 votes
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How to differentiate between my own types and built-in ones in questions

Someone competent in that area of development that intends to answer your question will likely recognise the types - but the easiest way might be to link to the online documentation for "built-in" typ …
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4 votes

Mark posts from mobile devices

This makes little-to-no sense - is adds no value to the signal, but instead just noise. The information might be useful at a statistical level, in terms of Stack Exchange monitoring traffic and devic …
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4 votes

linking common messages on SO to metaSO

Links to jsfiddle.net must be accommpanied by code. To be fair, that's a very explicit message, and I'm not sure what more could be elaborated on a dedicated page or link to a meta post or whatev …
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Bad answers make unanswered questions seem answered: marking bad answers bad

There are elements in place to facilitate handling these kinds of posts: Not an answer: flag them as 'not an answer' this is available through the dialog accessed from the 'flag' link under each p …
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Prevent the post text area from being obscured by the sidebar when resized

To my knowledge, this is exclusively a browser 'feature': I'll assume you're using Chrome? Regardless, this is not a bug with any particular bearing on SO, it is a bigger issue than that. I'd perhaps …
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2 votes
1 answer
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Unflagging reviewed first-answers

OK, this might sound down-right dumb to some people, others way see it as a user issue - I don't know, I'm just here to bring it up... While using the review page to moderate first answers I was curi …
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Is there a way how can I edit flag?

No. The scenario doesn't solely depend on your selection, so consider that either: A) enough people will also flag it, then it would seemingly be relevant, or B) enough people will flag it for el …
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1 vote

Encouraging users to be more specific about tool or server versions

Your initial examples are prime examples of a bad question, IMO. Not so much because people could never know the answer (we all know plenty of users could provide exquisite solutions for these very qu …
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6 votes
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How to remove irrelevant answers to posts?

I can see this question of yours that doesn't have an accepted answer, it has an attempted answer but, as per your comment, it was truly a further enquiry and should have been a comment. I've flagged …
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6 votes
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Can the comment deletion modal popup be replaced, or at least tweaked? [duplicate]

Modal dialog popups have always been a great bugbear most everywhere, and it just got worse - or perhaps simply more noticeable. At least for Chrome v29.0.1547.57m, there are some changes that cause t …
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3 votes
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Can we implement auto spelling correction, just 1?

To me, this line sums it up: (im is more iffy.. it could refer to instant-messaging). There are too many in-betweens and once a simple change is in place, naturally be prompts will come for 'just t …
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2 votes
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Where can I find a link to http://careers.stackoverflow.com?

You don't, it finds you. These systems, although they seem 'connected' in terms of pulling data through to Careers, are distinctly different. That is to say, Careers is able to 'poll' your Stack Exch …
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