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Auto-ban questions that use pastebin?

I agree with you that the code should always be present in the question so that a user can read the question and understand it in it's entirety without visiting external sites. However, This could be …
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Extending the capabilities of Stack Overflow by adding video tutorials?

Stackoverflow answers can link to videos but SO is not meant to be a tutorial site. The main premise is Q&A, so if you have a question, you ask it and someone else answers it. Depending on the type …
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New special group of tags for Stack Overflow

That would be a meta tag wouldn't it? Meta tags are frowned upon. In any case, those kinds of details should be in the question itself and not in a tag. If you have too many tags for a question the t …
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Option to add comment when flagging messages in chat

Of late I've noticed that multiple flags are waiting for me when I join the PHP chat room on SO. A bulk of these are flags of non English messages so I have no context on why it was flagged. What wo …
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Recommender system for related answers

I don't agree. The navigation you'd expect would be Problem => Solution. Wouldn't most users approach the site from the other side? They have a problem and they need a solution for it. It could be …
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What else can we automatically remove from questions?

tks thanks in advance ?????? plz help I specially find the multiple question marks annoying. EDIT Wow, I'm off the site for an hour and this happens! :) Just to be clear, I'm talking about th …
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Calculating accepted answer percentage

I don't see why this is really necessary. Your accept rate would come into consideration only when you ask a new question. At that point, if you've marked all applicable answers your rate should be …
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How do you consider reputation when rating/accepting similar responses?

I usually vote up answers that are similar to each other if they've been posted within about 5 minutes. After that there isn't much point because the poster could see that a similar answer has already …
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