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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.

20 votes

Request: Require moderators to leave a message they themselves type, when closing a post

When people considering answering the question have issue with it, they leave comments and those can then be addressed. They are not obliged to, by design. Sometimes even after doing so, the topic …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
25 votes
0 answers
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Questions closed for multiple community-specific reasons should be clear about that fact

It happens sometimes - especially on Stack Overflow - that a question will receive three close votes for community-specific reasons (i.e., as off-topic), and each voter will choose a different reason. …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
8 votes
0 answers
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Ability to take comment discussions to chat is extremely undiscoverable; please fix [duplicate]

Occasionally when I am trying to figure things out with someone asking a question, I come to the conclusion that it would be better to use the chat. This typically happens well before the stage where …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
23 votes

Can new users not be bait-and-switched?

I'll spare you the vitriol of the Trustpilot reviews, but it ain't pretty. Don't worry; everyone on the Meta sites is acutely aware of how SE, especially SO, is perceived off-site. And yes, our reas …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
25 votes
0 answers
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The policy of editing out “noise” should be proactively explained and more easily referred t...

Across the network, but especially on Stack Overflow, it's considered important to edit questions and answers to remove noise. Of course I agree with this policy; it's part of what keeps the sites wor …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
1 vote

Can we get a better mechanism to communicate with the OP?

I noticed a pattern while going over the recent meta post at The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not? and it spurred me to revive this nearly-12-year-old complaint. Several of …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
8 votes

What is the expected way for a NEW user to identify the correct SE for a question?

What is the expected way for a NEW user to identify the correct SE for a question? This is, in some sense, the wrong framing. Stack Exchange is not fundamentally about the flow "I want to know somet …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
5 votes

How to easily access your "saved for later"/duplicates list when voting duplicates

The searching for the duplicates in the Vote window is unfortunately not good enough Simply add in:saves to your search query, and the results will automatically be restricted to questions in your s …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
186 views

Offer a bounty for a new canonical Q/A pair

For personal reasons I am no longer interested in contributing new questions and answers to Stack Overflow; but I think this idea would have much broader applicability than my specific use case. Suppo …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
16 votes

What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Isn't it just an em...

What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Depending on the circumstances, they could be improved. Some questions have seen dramatic turnarounds in the past. Negative s …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
-4 votes

Shortcut or button for copying posted code from Stack Overflow

This is a terrible idea If you're answering a question Have higher standards. The question should basically never have that much code in it in the first place. Learn to demand a proper minimal reprodu …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
5 votes

Prevent comments when downvoting

If I'm commenting to explain an issue with a question, it's because it's something that I think prevents the question from measuring up to the site's standards. If I think that is the case, then it fo …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
4 votes

Should "move-to-chat" be provided on demand (as a button perhaps)?

I wish to voice my support for this suggestion. I ranted about the problem separately months ago, noting how many years it has been, and there has unsurprisingly been no action in those months either. …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
9 votes

Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in

I have ignored the details of your proposal, because the proposal is motivated by profound misconceptions about Stack Exchange that render it moot. In the last month or so, an abnormally and extremel …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
4 votes

Flag window redux: proposed syntax

Addressing an objection from the comments Trying to factor out "should be" from the close reasons seems like a premature optimization. It makes the individual labels harder to understand, because some …
Karl Knechtel's user avatar