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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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At smaller sites, penalize hot questions having 3-4 close votes

At smaller sites (up to 50-100 questions a day average) closing a question takes hours or even days. As an example, this SO question has got 5 close votes in 15 minutes, while its twin at Software E …
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The robo-approvers are killing my will to review edits

people keep approving crap while I'm looking at it. Two or three "the post was already approved; please visit to edit" and I'm just "screw this whole thing". Above is pretty frustrating in my exp …
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Bring a "human factor" into review audit composition/selection

While there is no "officially implemented" solution for this, one can use whatever means are at their disposal now in order to bring the "human factor" to audits selection. When you spot a slippery a …
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71 votes
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In “network hot” questions formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that thes...

TL;DR When votes of 20... 30... 100 users clearly indicate that only one or two answers are popular, it does not make sense to pretend that other answers are popular too. In current version of “netwo …
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55 votes
2 answers
467 views

After question is closed expose close votes distinguished by reason in the timeline page

Suggest to expose close votes distinguished by reason in question timeline page after question is closed. Purpose of this feature is to help in discussing cases of closure when knowing vote split woul …
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47 votes

Don't let questions stick to the top of the hot questions list forever

One problem with hot questions seems to be that there is no way for "hotness algorithm" to differentiate genuine popularity from fake one, that is from popularity introduced by the algorithm itself. …
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44 votes
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Increase the Hot Network Questions randomness (proposal for testing)

Related: Ease up on the Hot Network Question Randomness. This is a recent change which resulted in a 30% increase in engagement. All of this engagement came from repeated clicks... we do have improve …
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What privilege should 30k users get?

Immediately protect questions having 3 or more answers. 10K users can vote delete questions two days after these are closed. Users with twice as much rep, at 20K, gain privilege to vote immediately if …
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34 votes
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Add an audit log to record when particular question enters and leaves hot list [duplicate]

The Hot Network Questions page displays a constantly changing list of 100 questions, since it deals with time since recent activity. But are changes in this list ever recorded anywhere for posterity ( …
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A real solution to ambiguous tags

My biggest issue with ambiguous tags is that writing tag wiki for these is a torture. * For wma, am I supposed to write about Windows Media Audio format or about Java ME Wireless Messaging API?   Fo …
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What privilege should 30k users get?

Guaranteed evaluation to status-* tag for open feature-requests at respective per site meta in one or two months. Users having substantial experience of access to (almost) full privileges after 20K a …
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22 votes
0 answers
372 views

Let's stop decreasing the hotness score of successive questions from the same site by 2%

This feature request is a follow-up to How is decreasing hotness score of successive questions from same site by 2% supposed to work? As was pointed out in the above question, currently this adjustmen …
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31 votes

Is there a way to turn off this disturbing green light from the status bar?

For a serial answers downvoter like me, this friggin' light turns on every time next piece of garbage is removed from the site (happens quite frequently). I am of course glad that site gets rid of lo …
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29 votes

Additional requirement for Steward or Reviewer badge to help new reviewers learn about using...

I wasn't going to go out on a limb but since a comment has been made... That would be incredibly annoying... ...I would like to address that. I performed over 20,000 reviews total in about 20 q …
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Vote to delete answers as duplicates of earlier answers

Duplicate answers don't fit well with the stated Stack Exchange mission "to make the Internet better". Site visitors have to waste time and effort trying to figure which one is more (?) correct and wh …
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