Indicates that a request (usually a feature request) has been considered, but will not be implemented. Generally speaking, a developer will leave a comment as to why, or the community will come to consensus that the request is unnecessary.
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Why aren't spam and offensive answers simply deleted from the database?
Given the recent spate of spam by a, let us say "disgruntled" user, why is it that the account is deleted but the deleted questions/answers still remain visible on the site (to those with the ...
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<kbd> tag looks wrong
According to W3C,
When the kbd element is nested inside another kbd element, it represents an actual key or other single unit of input as appropriate for the input mechanism.
The SU way of ...
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No background on downarrow-beside-username popup on main page, but it is there on question pages
If I go to superuser.com and mouse over the arrow near my name, it's hard to read because there is no background. I click through to a question, and on that page there is no problem.
This is on ...
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No “Get in touch” ability? [duplicate]
I have found constantly that I am trying to talk to users yet I am constantly dragged down by the fact that we are spamming the living daylights out of comments. Why do we not have an ability to post ...
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Has the possibility of having a “Vote to Answer” been discussed?
I've run across a number of different questions that may have entirely acceptable answers yet an answer is not selected either due to a user not returning to complete it, forgetting, or not thinking ...
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Could anyone create a tag called “program-like”?
Could anyone create a tag called "program-like"? It would be for questions that try to find a programs with the defined features (It´s a way I used to use this website, I define the features of an ...
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Merge [laptop-repair] into [repair]
repair x 247
laptop-repair x 81
I think these laptop-repair should be merged into repair - just like battery and laptop-battery - (link).
Questions about laptop repair can be tagged with laptop and ...
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System should teach users more by asking questions and showing FAQs
I don't want to sound pretentious. This is just a thought.
Recently I stumbled up this long Repository of FAQs on stackoverflow. It links to other FAQs giving very useful advices for users like me ...
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Winter bash hats in user profile don't support window resizing
The hat in users' profiles does not move with the centered page contents (including the gravatar) when the browser window is resized.
Demo in Firefox (Safari has the same issue), before and after ...
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Would it be possible to have comments that are flagged as offensive, immediately not viewable until they are moderated?
Example:
I'm relatively secure in my sexuality, and laughed more than anything. But, maybe it would be a good idea to have anyone with a reputation of over 1K be able to flag offensive content ...
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Merge [.iso] with [iso-image]
Option to mount .iso in Windows 8 missing post had tag with .iso while we have already iso-image tag for the ISO file.
While it's the only question which is tagged with that tag but I think it's ...
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Migrate question from SO?
I think this question should be migrated from SO. They've closed it and it has a TON of exp that could benefit this community.
I flagged it and RichB responded,
This should not be closed, it ...
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Windows 8 Challenge doesn't list users who've completed Tiles Challenge
Windows 8 challenge is here & live - and I can see level 1- 4 prizes have a listing for which users completed them. For tiles, however - it just mentions
Earned by n users
Can we please ...
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1answer
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'Preserve' State for keep real bad questions as reference
As this comment shows, even bad questions have some value in serving as a reference for, well, bad questions. However questions with a lot of downvotes tend to be deleted, so the system lacks a final ...
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1answer
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Why we can't we show that chatting user is typing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could we show if someone is typing on chat?
Consider this scenario
A and B were chatting for an specific answer and why can't we show the specific user is typing when ...
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1answer
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Why can't we allow one user one i.p?
Consider the following scenario:
Imagine that there were two people let us consider them as A and B. User A works at night and used to use superuser at night. User B works at day and used to use ...
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1answer
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Request for a markdown shortcut for XY
Perhaps it is my imagination but there seems to be an increase in XY problems on SU, to the point that I am linking to the MSO question regularly.
Questions are of the format "How can I realign the ...
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2answers
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Bounty system : case of bounty awarded but no acceptance
I have lately encountered several cases where a poster has awarded the bounty, but has not marked that answer as accepted (or any other answer).
This is the symmetric case to the grace period ...
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1answer
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Can we support internal “chrome://” URLs?
Is it possible that we could support the internal chrome:// URLs used by Google Chrome and Chromium? There are many questions where one has to access an internal page used by Chrome to solve the ...
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2answers
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How about sharing reputation across merged accounts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I have cross-linked accounts on several stack exchange sites (Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Super ...
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2answers
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A flag to inform moderators of questions answered, but not accepted for a long time
For example
Why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size?
Its more than 2 years old
It has been answered as well
Perhaps there should be a flag to inform ...
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2answers
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Inconsistent closing of questions
Last year I posted the question "How Often Should I Run ChkDsk?" and the question received a decent amount of views and a handful of answers. Today, I asked the question "Should I ever put my computer ...
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2answers
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Could we show if someone is typing on chat?
When @ at someone, it would be good to know when he/she types an answer. Just like in popular IMs like Facebook, Gmail etc.
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Kill the troll! [closed]
This answer is clearly a joke. Jeff Atwood says that the SX network is not a place to have jokes. Could a moderator do something with it?
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1answer
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Retags should not bump a post
I think (following the cd incident) that retags, as a maintenance operation, should not bump the question to the front page. What do you think?
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1answer
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question is closed without proper reason
This was my question How can I benchmark Linux PC
I see its closed as not constructive. Which means,
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve ...
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1answer
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Synonymous meta tags about tagging
There are some meta tags about tags that seems to be synonymous:
retagging is a synonym of retag-request.
tag-synonym-request is a synonym of tag-synonyms.
tag-wiki-suggestion is a synonym of ...
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2answers
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Undelete the List of free antivirus solutions for Windows
I went out to search for antivirus solutions, and quite a few questions are on super user for this. I believe a question like "what free antivirus solutions are there" is a valid question for this ...
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1answer
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Allow “private” messages between users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Private message feature
It would be a useful feature to have a button sitting on every user page that would allow one user to contact another in a private way, without ...
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1answer
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Reopen request for question 384894
I asked this: Is a 'telecommuter' SLA a good idea? Does it even exist?
I don't know where else on StackExchange to ask other than SuperUser. This clearly falls under the general SuperUser ...
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1answer
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Merge tags [802.11] and [wireless-networking]
Merge tags 802.11 and wireless-networking.
Considering wireless-networking has wifi as a synonym …
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Possible to suggest tag(s) after scanning through the question?
Is it possible to add this feature - after user enter his/her question into the question text area, the website will auto insert some suggestive tags for the question and insert them automatically in ...
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1answer
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Merge the various retrocomputing tags
retro 8 questions
legacy 25 questions
vintage 24 questions
I would suggest for these a common tag retrocomputing.
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1answer
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Unreview a post
Would it be possible to have a feature that allows reviewers to 'unreview' a post? That is, regardless of action taken, push a reviewed post to another user's review queue (or separate queue ...
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1answer
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Differences between plain-text diff and formatted diff
Plain-text diff and formatted diff produce different results in what they consider was added.
I wondered about the following editing diff in a recent post of mine:
I clearly added a sentence ...
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3answers
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Make reviewers explain why they accept a suggested edit
A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, ...
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1answer
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Captcha doesn't work with IE
All I can see is "I am human being".
I don't know which version my IE is, I don't know where to check it, but it came with Windows 7, so it can't be that old.
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1answer
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Is it possible to paste an image from the clipboard into a question or an answer?
When asking a question involving system message boxes I try to insert an image of the message box in the body of the question, instead of just quoting a long message (example).
However, the process ...
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1answer
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In comment @replies, can the user shown link to their profile or the comment being replied to?
Reading this: How do comment @replies work?
It describes how this mechanism works, but in using it (and seeing it used throughout the sites), it doesn't turn the name into a link to either the ...
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1answer
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Make [standby] and [sleep] and [suspend] synonyms
I believe standby and sleep and suspend are three names for the same thing. Currently questions are split between the tags.
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Synonym Breakage: Command Line vs. Command Prompt
I don't think those should by synonyms.
"Command line" is often contrasted with a GUI; it means that you're typing commands in a terminal-like Window. It's a platform-agnostic term, used in ...
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2answers
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Comment vote equilibrium: Ability to vote down
We can vote up and down for Questions and for Answers, but we can only vote up for comments. As some comments are worthy of down votes, this is a feature suggestion to add the ability to vote down on ...
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1answer
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Favourite/ignored topics bubbles broken
It appears as though the bubbles containing the favourite/ignored topics are missing a side:
Is this a new bug in rev 2011.5.9.4?
Edit: I'm using Chrome 12.0.742.30 dev. Works in Safari.
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1answer
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-7-starter as a tag to superuser.com?
I would do it but I only have 150 rep.
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Rename tag [tortoise-svn] to [tortoisesvn] to be consistent with other stack* sites
I world like to propose tha the tag tortoise-svn is renamed to tortoisesvn, because that is the tag that is used on stackowerflow.
That makes the cross site feature tagging better.
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SU Retag Request: [something-extension(s)] --> [extensions]
Search for extension on http://superuser.com/tags.
Can't these be retagged to extensions, to avoid having google-chrome and google-chrome-extensions as tags on a post? The search allows to search for ...
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1answer
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Allowing new users to have limited commenting abilities
There have been a few occasions where new users have had the same problem as others, but the issue hasn't been resolved. For example Ben in this Super User question. Unfortunately he has asked if ...
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Add a migration path to Pro Web Masters from Super User
As of now we have
39 questions tagged cms
14 questions tagged joomla
21 questions tagged drupal
22 questions tagged wordpress
And the questions on the above and other web master ...
