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Is Stack Exchange accessible for the blind and visually impaired and what can be done to improve it?
I use a screen reader and visit Stack Overflow mostly. So, I can chime in for how things stand now (early 2022).
For consuming information, the site is minimalistic and quite a trial to navigate. ...
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Add the ability to ignore users
As you note in the quote at the end of the question, part of the problem is that moderators have only big sticks. Ignoring users who you know get under your skin is attractive, and I'm glad to see ...
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Add a way for users to "opt out" of the new contributor indicator on their own posts
status-review
I'm all for adding this option, but want to address a second issue related to meta:
Even if we do not get the option to remove it from all our posts - can we either have our meta's use ...
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Don't allow moderators to change personal settings
Agree. In my opinion, moderators should be able to change only the public fields, that appear to all visitors of the profile page.
Any other detail or setting can't be used for abuse or offensive ...
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Race condition allows users to award the same bounty twice to a user
After further checking what happened, it appears that what you noticed is correct - it indeed counted twice for my rep (+200) whilst removing only 100 rep from you.
At this time I cannot explain what ...
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Don't allow moderators to change personal settings
We discussed this internally and agree. Private preference related fields shouldn't be editable by anyone else but the user. I've set this to status-deferred as there isn't a scheduled date quite yet ...
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Add the ability to ignore users
This needs to be revisited. If not the ability to ignore a user completely, then I'd at least like the option to have posts from specific users not give me a notification. (Like Yvette Colomb's Can we ...
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Can we have an auto-flag for posts deleted by users as spam, rude or abusive?
There's a 'users with flags' list on /admin/users. Such posts need to have 6 or more flags to be deleted, so these kind of users are generally at the top of the list.
For posts reported by ...
GlorfindelMod
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Red indicator light falsely positive most of the time
Short explanation
This is a known issue for some set of users (particularly active users, unfortunately). We're working a major review queue overhaul (Yaakov is heading up this effort).
Longer ...
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Please don't red alert me for queues I've handled
status-planned We are investigating a variety of changes to make this work better for users in different states, including when you run out of reviews.
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Could we go to the meta sites more quickly?
The left side bar is very underutilised and could easily have a link to Meta. This could be gated behind rep if there's a concern that new users will go there before they can post, or it could be a ...
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Improving syntax highlighting language auto-detection
Update: I've written a Chrome extension to give us a place to land some of these ideas (and experiment with them) until hopefully they can be added to official SE one day. This fancier auto-detect isn'...
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Share annotations and suspension information network-wide for repeat offenders
Instead of annotations being automatically visible to all moderators when some threshold is met, let's enable intentional, explicit annotations at the network level, like we have for chat. This has ...
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Give moderators easier access to annotations and CM escalations on deleted accounts
A while back (wow! it's been two years already?!?) me and Shog started working on something that addresses most of this, 'cause of this other post. We spec'd out a whole thing, and divided it into ...
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Add the ability to ignore users
This feature really needs to be reevaluated given that's been a couple years since it was declined. This could also allow the network infrastructure to allow people to feel more comfortable here.
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Is Site Traffic Data Gone for Good After Fixing Previous Bug?
I talked to Dean about this... It's not lost, but... Getting it back into the system is gonna be a lot of work. Unfortunately, work we don't have the time for.
If, at some point, we can spare the ...
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Meta sites in "Your Communities" display different reputation
It seems the global reputation recalculation following the change in question upvote reputation in November 2019 did temporarily reset the reputation of Meta sites to their correct values, at least ...
GlorfindelMod
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Can other bots have an identifying label, too? Even user-run bots?
At this time, there's nothing on the roadmap that would include this work. I'll add it to a features request list but I don't want to get your hopes up - this would be pretty far down my list of ...
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Is there a way to see the history of questions protected by me or another user?
Update July 2017:
I've gone ahead and written this up internally for review as one of our features. While it's moving through the process, I'll change the tag to status-deferred.
I agree that this ...
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After question is closed expose close votes distinguished by reason in the timeline page
This remains fairly trivial compared to the other requests for breaking out close reasons, as the information is already displayed in the timeline for moderators.
In light of that, I would recommend ...
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Stop guessing/auto-detecting a language when you KNOW it will be incorrect
This is a hard problem for us due to many years of tech debt and how most users expect the site to act. We have a few potential options here:
Support every language hljs supports. This is the ideal ...
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Add the font changes as options in our preferences
We understand this request and think that it'd be great to have some additional options for this - it serves as both a customization feature as well as an accessibility tool. We've been looking at ...
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Could we go to the meta sites more quickly?
As pointed out by curiousdannii,
The left side bar is very underutilised and could easily have a link
to Meta.
Samuel Liew, nonetheless, was a couple of steps ahead and built a userscript named ...
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Is Stack Exchange accessible for the blind and visually impaired and what can be done to improve it?
To chime in with some updates, we hear you and agree that we can and should do better.
This year we have engaged some external firms to help us identify and plan ways to rectify our current ...
BMatt-StackStaff
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Add the ability to ignore users
While Hellbanning is distinctly different, the anti-community results are remarkably similar.
Stack Overflow is about content, not about people. You can't "friend" people, so therefore you can't "...
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Streamline moderators contacting users through chat
I agree that it should be significantly easier for moderators to create a chat with a specific user. I've gone ahead and written this up internally and thrown it into the backlog to be reviewed and ...
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Meta sites in "Your Communities" display different reputation
The situation May 12, 2020
The difference in reputation between the main site and meta is remarkable, on EL&U it says I have 79, 849 while on meta the score is 60,505, the resulting gap between ...
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Reduce number of questions from the same site in the Hot Network Questions on the right sidebar
Since the per-site limit is now five and the hot list contains 100 questions, the list must contain entries from at least 20 different sites at any point in time. (Probably more, as not every site ...
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