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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.
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How can we make First Posts review actually useful?
It's critical to scrutinize first posts. They're by far the most likely source of spam, and the most likely to have other problems.
You say
Allow flagging, commenting, comment voting, etc... But …
45
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New year, new experiment: Login and Signup UI
I don't like the email and password placeholder. Either make the placeholder "Email" and "Password", or get rid of it altogether. It doesn't really add anything useful as is. Your users don't need an …
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Suggested edit system is causing grief, needs to be rethought
<2k users submit edit suggestions, and get +2 for every approved edit, up to 1000 rep. This enforces to new users that improving the site is encouraged.
It also is ripe for abuse.citation not needed …
2
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Why does the lower quality question often appear higher in Google search results?
For every x good questions, there are n x mediocre dupes. Your search terms turned up one of the dupes, because the wording matched closer to it. By the exact same logic, the original poster didn't fi …
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0
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Lost fanatic streak in the app [duplicate]
A couple circumstances happened at once, making my access apparently not count. Is this correct behavior?
I use the iOS app a lot. I'd been refreshing the feed, but possibly not much else on that pa …
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Posting code to Stack Overflow that will be assessed by a university. Is this plagiarism?
It's not a question of Stack Overflow's policy. It's a question of the university. It's not plagiarism if you wrote the code, but their software doesn't know that. You could ask them about it?
Pastin …
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Stack Exchange iOS app nearing beta
First of all, this has been a pretty fantastic ride. The speed of status-completeds is unprecedented.
The biggest detractor to me is the inability to work in the app in a similar way to functioning …
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For whom is the iOS app being designed?
To me the fact that feature requests are submitted through MSO lets this question answer itself, in that if you want a feature, you can request it, and the votes (in conjunction with time) give the de …
4
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2
answers
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Revival and Necromancer are too Similar
Necromancer
Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more.
Revival
Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more.
Necromancer is the silver badge …
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Do people really look for Users that often that it deserves its own tab in the iOS app?
You know, there is room to have your cake and eat it too:
Or do like the Music app does, and provide a ... on the right for choosing the buttons you want to see.
Edit
So like it or not, this looks …
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0
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"A" Flagged as Dupe of "B" Which was Closed as Dupe of "A" [duplicate]
While ♫ living it up in the CVQ,♪ * I came across a dupe question being closed as a dupe of a question which already had an answer. I thought "Hey that's silly. I should just follow the link and propo …
6
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0
answers
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Confirmation Before First Post [duplicate]
Related: Confirm post preview for low-rep posts
Should first posters be required to click through a screen showing their formatted post, confirming they approve of how it looks before submitting? So …
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1
answer
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Make Badge Width Consistent
Personally, I think the /badges page is a bit...unsightly.
Adding min-width: 10em to the badge class gives it much more consistency:
I propose this be adjusted site-wide, both for the badges page, …
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Do most question answerers prefer gratitude or reputation more?
I do it for the people who need help - the ones asking the question.
Both of my parents were teachers, and I too find joy in educating others. I myself spent a couple semesters teaching at a universi …