User Ether

413 votes

Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions

answered Jan 29, 2010 at 19:20

73 votes

Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links?

answered Nov 13, 2009 at 1:25

71 votes

Accepted

Bold code in a question

answered Dec 11, 2009 at 18:27

53 votes

What can Stack Overflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?

answered Nov 20, 2009 at 5:46

26 votes

Accepted

Why was I downvoted?

answered Sep 17, 2010 at 16:32

23 votes

option to lock "interesting tags" section so 'x' isn't hit accidentally on a tag

answered Nov 11, 2009 at 18:44

22 votes

Accepted

What is this "spam haiku" nonsense all about?

answered Dec 13, 2009 at 4:46

22 votes

Change the definition of a "day" to be localized for users

answered Feb 21, 2010 at 4:38

21 votes

Why was Apocalyptic Defense closed?

answered Jun 16, 2010 at 16:27

20 votes

Accepted

Please stop deleting retag-requests

answered Aug 9, 2010 at 21:29

20 votes

"Duplicate of...[deleted post]"

answered Mar 23, 2010 at 22:54

19 votes

Electorate, Pundit, etc badge progress

answered Jan 4, 2010 at 4:04

18 votes

Is Stack Overflow turning into Wikipedia? And how can we fix it if it is?

answered Dec 22, 2009 at 20:57

18 votes

Accepted

Should up and down votes cancel each other?

answered Oct 16, 2009 at 18:26

18 votes

Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds

answered Jan 13, 2010 at 20:44

17 votes

Should the "yearling" badge recur?

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 0:41

16 votes

Should we encourage more closing?

answered Feb 3, 2010 at 16:15

15 votes

Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted

answered Feb 3, 2010 at 16:09

14 votes

Do not ask for confirmation on logout

answered Mar 2, 2010 at 19:58

14 votes

Allow me to prevent a candidate from appearing in future searches on Stack Overflow Careers

answered Mar 2, 2010 at 20:39

14 votes

Toggling between net votes and plus/minus votes

answered Mar 5, 2010 at 18:13

14 votes

"You have gained power. Here's how to use it." kind of message

answered Aug 27, 2009 at 2:58

14 votes

Legendary badge calculation

answered Dec 7, 2009 at 7:04

14 votes

Accepted

Why downvote questions posted by new users when their rep won't be affected?

answered Nov 21, 2009 at 0:35

13 votes

Can we restrict the ability of users to keep changing their names?

answered Nov 16, 2009 at 20:53

13 votes

Feature allowing SO to execute code snippets in a sandbox and produce useful results

answered Dec 10, 2009 at 22:54

13 votes

What should happen with a question that has both ignored and interesting tags

answered Oct 19, 2009 at 19:20

13 votes

Does Jeff Atwood sleep?

answered Apr 23, 2010 at 0:40

12 votes

What are the top issues when it comes to low quality questions?

answered Aug 6, 2010 at 22:23

12 votes

User wildly erasing all his posts continuously even after we rollback

answered Jan 22, 2011 at 0:51

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386 Answers

Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions

Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links?

Bold code in a question

What can Stack Overflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?

Why was I downvoted?

option to lock "interesting tags" section so 'x' isn't hit accidentally on a tag

What is this "spam haiku" nonsense all about?

Change the definition of a "day" to be localized for users

Why was Apocalyptic Defense closed?

Please stop deleting retag-requests

"Duplicate of...[deleted post]"

Electorate, Pundit, etc badge progress

Is Stack Overflow turning into Wikipedia? And how can we fix it if it is?

Should up and down votes cancel each other?

Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds

Should the "yearling" badge recur?

Should we encourage more closing?

Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted

Do not ask for confirmation on logout

Allow me to prevent a candidate from appearing in future searches on Stack Overflow Careers

Toggling between net votes and plus/minus votes

"You have gained power. Here's how to use it." kind of message

Legendary badge calculation

Why downvote questions posted by new users when their rep won't be affected?

Can we restrict the ability of users to keep changing their names?

Feature allowing SO to execute code snippets in a sandbox and produce useful results

What should happen with a question that has both ignored and interesting tags

Does Jeff Atwood sleep?

What are the top issues when it comes to low quality questions?

User wildly erasing all his posts continuously even after we rollback