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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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Nicely discouraging serial upvoting

I never experienced this issue myself, but I can imagine it happening. Your proposal is reasonable, well worded and easy to understand even for new users, so I suggest implementing it. I would make a …
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10 votes
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Include StackPrinter app on trilogy sites?

I found myself using the StackPrinter application fairly often, so I wondered if it should be included on all sites. A tiny grey "print" button per question would be enough, and would quickly prompt t …
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1 vote

Adjusting commit calculations for pre-SE 2.0 groups

Sorry, I'm positive that this will not be implemented for the reasons you outlined (but I'm not SO staff so who knows). Regarding the calculation, members with low rep in the SOFU system are given an …
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0 votes

Improvements on StackOverflow frontend & user experience

Think of how often you'd actually want to add or remove tags from/to your lists. After just a few weeks, most of the work will be done. But then, the additional icons are not used anymore and just tak …
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3 votes
2 answers
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Display a short "Getting started on SO" for new users

It seems many new users don't get some of the ideas of SO, esp. the concept of accepting answers. Can't we just display a prominent message with a short, useful hint about this for new users? I believ …
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2 votes
3 answers
146 views

Highlight the tag that marks a question as interesting [duplicate]

I'm interested in seeing which tag is responsible for marking a question as 'interesting'. A slight change to its visual representation would be enough.
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2 votes
1 answer
51 views

Leading users to the right site in the SE network?

I'm occasionally surprised by the vast number of SE sites that exist by now, and I feel that I'm losing the ability to judge correctly where to put my questions. This issue is probably shared with a l …
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2 votes
1 answer
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Redesign the default view - the sidebar takes way too much space!

On SO, in the default view (Recent Questions), I've got more than 2 screen heights of Interesting Tags and Ignored Tags. Followed by 2 screen heights of Recent Tags and Recent Badges. The actual ques …
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-13 votes
1 answer
247 views

Require a comment regarding the close reason [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should a user have to add a comment when they vote to close I'm very surprised that this has not been asked in this manner before. (Did I miss it? Search didn't display …
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5 votes

Make the "new answers to old questions" view available for people with <10000 reputation

I would appreciate making this tool available to more users. I was not even aware of its existence, but it seems to be very useful.
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4 votes

Bookmark/Mark as unread

I suggest that users be able to mark a post (not just a whole question) as read (instead of unread). All posts are initially marked unread. A post is marked as read on voting or commenting. It will a …
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3 votes
1 answer
153 views

How transparent should questions with ignored tags be?

Inspired by this question, I actually rather thought of the opposite - to make ignored questions even more transparent. Currently, they are visible enough so it becomes a bit difficult to distinguish …
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7 votes
13 answers
2k views

How about a difficulty rating for questions?

It might be useful to add a drop down field "Difficulty" for questions. With a very limited set of options, say: Beginner Advanced Expert This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a sp …
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0 votes

A new badge proposal - "John List"

Badges should be positive only.