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Please make highlighting of up or down votes on posts more visible on Super User Meta
On all SE sites, the up or down vote arrows next to posts are highlighted if I have already voted on that post. The colours and the highlighting vary on the different sites.
Unfortunately, on Super ...
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Please let me award a bounty to a qualified answer despite my tardiness?
My bounty expired because I didn’t log in for a few days, but someone answered during the eligible period and I wish to award them the bounty.
I noticed this just now — 5 hours too late.
If you look ...
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Change the close question text
Would it be possible to get the text in yellow box on questions closed for requesting hardware and software recommendations to contain a link to those respective sites?
Below is a recent example.
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PGP support for mails
Feature request :
Make a field per e-mail address where one's can enter a PGP key, so newletters and job alerts are encrypted (Facebook deos so e.g)
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Questioned marked as a duplicate (5 times) and original is answered but duplicate is not tagged as "answered"
Looking at this question align column with text and numbers it is marked marked as a duplicate.
The original question has been answered. My thought is the derivative question could re-display the ...
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Why do I need 15 reputation to mark an answer correct and 50 to add a comment?
So I found the answer I was looking for, better than the "community-accepted" answer, but it had 0 votes and I couldn't mark it as my answer since I needed 15 reputation, and I couldn't add a comment ...
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Any plans for a Documentation feature within SuperUser?
Sometimes, I come across information that I suspect is nowhere else on The Net and I think that posting it would be helpful to the community at large. I ask because the information is more ...
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RFE: hide vote counts for an initial 2 weeks
I would like to see up/down vote tallies not released until the question has had a chance to be viewed. It's fairly well established that seeing results of votes before you have had a chance to ...
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Failed a few tests recently for reasons that fail
Just failed this test:
https://superuser.com/review/first-posts/644425
How did I fail? By commenting. I commented
OMG. That made my heart hurt.
Yes, the OMG wasn't necessary. The entire comment ...
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Choose previewed tag?
I asked a question about Xen on Arch Linux. The tag [arch-linux] has potential usefulness, but the issue is primarily Xen. But it seems tags are sorted alphabetically so the question shows as arch ...
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Randomise order of 'Answered questions' responses for Election events
I'm not sure if the actual candidates in the election are randomly ordered, but I've noticed that as the default (is rightly imo) set to show the highest voted answer - currently David Postill appears ...
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Automatically embed image links
It seems that half of the questions from new users have linked example images (better than no example at all) that we then edit to make the image inline.
Could SE automagically alter posts to turn ....
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Super User not using my SE network profile
Normally when I sign up on a different SE site it uses my existing SE profile... however that doesn't seem to the be case here.
Is there any way I can set it to my network profile without having to ...
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New functionality: convert close votes
Close votes can be retracted from a question, but after that, no more close votes can be cast on that particular question.
I understand that voting and revoking several times would negatively impact ...
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Please create a tag for "graphpad-prism"
Please could you create a tag on Superuser for "graphpad-prism"?
Here's a description:
A statistical graphing program widely used in Academia and the Biotech and Pharma industries.
Two questions ...
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Who can I contact if I want to create a new tag, but I don't have the reputation points?
I would like to create a new tag "graphpad-prism" on Superuser to flag questions on Graphpad Prism (a statistical program commonly used in biotech and pharma companies). Superuser appears to be the ...
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Always display vote split
Since I made it to 1k reputation (yay!), I can now see the vote split by clicking on the current vote status of a question or answer. Is there any way so that I can always see these when I am logged ...
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Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent
Most of the questions are the same (configurations, non-programming) and it would benefit from having more people looking at questions. Some of those sites don't get a lot of traffic, the response ...
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Please merge [tag:extended-desktop] [tag:multiple-desktop]
Those 2 tags are exact duplicates : extended-desktopmultiple-desktop isn’t it ?
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Should adding a constructive comment fail an audit? [duplicate]
I have just failed this audit for adding a comment.
After having carefully read the question and the answer (which was in the first post review) I noticed that the answer ends with the following ...
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Make badges be worth reputation
I don't know if this has ever been part of the site and then deleted or what, but I think that badges should be worth something, preferrably reputation or maybe something new. I know that some new ...
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Tag wiki edit reviews - remove proposal from queue when a new one is created
From time to time I receive tag wiki edits for approval, and just after approving it I receive its newer version (from the same author)
I suppose that both versions were already in the queue when I'...
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Why not to implement a Keyboard Shortcut feature?
Often I find myself manually typing <kbd></kbd> tags to define a shortcut inside the editor.
Shortcuts are very essential in "Super User" context, and I think, as a formatting feature, at ...
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Set a rep threshold for editing closed questions?
Reviewing proposed edits I've found this one:
I've rejected it as "no improvement whatsoever", but also the question seemed poor quality and I've opened that too. It's closed as too broad, so it ...
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Can I get notified when my comment is deleted
Two days ago I replied to a comment (under my own question, which happened to be closed later).
To my surprise my last comment was seemingly deleted by an admin.
The comment was acceptable, as I ...
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Can we have the option to request approval when making edits
When we gain rep, we no longer require approval when we make an edit.
However, I feel there should be the option to request approval, (although it's probably only useful for tags).
I've just asked ...
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Automatically generate comment at close vote
When I cast a duplicate close vote on a question, the system automatically generates a comment (I vote to close the question being duplicate of ...)
I think it's very useful as it gives an early ...
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Restrict tag creation?
I feel we have more tag-cleanup-request question here than what would be good (at least it's my personal idea).
Is it possible to make creation of tags more controlled (/ difficult,) by...
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Editing tag wiki excerpt after partial review did not invalidate original votes
Referring to this tag wiki excerpt edit, which was initially longer and worded somewhat differently. I received 1 Accept and 1 Reject citing the reason "Most of this should go in the wiki. The excerpt ...
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Should we edit old, non-interesting questions?
From time to time I see old (3+ years), non-interesting / low quality (no answers at all or having comments asking for clarification without further effort from the OP) questions jumping to the top of ...
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Quit bein' so blockin' [closed]
I think Stack Exchange is too strict on closing and deleting questions. Perfectly feasible questions are marked as low-quality, too broad, or "unclear what you're asking." Are we really going too far ...
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Is there currently a way to host CSV or tab delimited data for helping with database, spreadsheets, or any grid-like applications?
I noticed a pattern with Excel and Google Sheets questions that sample data is often presented in non-optimal ways. The data may not exist, only a screenshot of the image requiring someone to build ...
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Why doesn't Superuser have superuser.stackexchange.com address unlike other stackexchange websites? [duplicate]
Similar to Stackoveflow, Superuser has independent domain. Is this because Superuser was older than most of the StackExchange sites before the StackExchange idea did come up?
What's the relation ...
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Add votes to close on main page
On the main Questions page here on SU, would it be a good idea to add a votes to close count, similar to the Votes and Answers count?
I think it would help close questions faster keeping SU cleaned ...
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Provide "Average time to answer" stat to new visitors
In the sidebar of SU there are various stats on the different pages about Questions - questions without answers, count of questions.
According to this the time to answer a question monthly average is ...
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Can I use rep from another Stack Exchange sector to place a bounty?
I'm assiduously frequenting the Stack Overflow and Code Review sectors, where I got some reputation.
In the other hand I rarely visit Super User, because it doesn't match my skills, so for me it's a ...
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Adding the notification icons to the blog
My home page is the Super User Community Blog
When I launch Chrome, I like to read the blog and to see if I have new notifications.
Unfortunately, the notification icon are not in the bar, so I must ...
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Should there be a tag for MSRPC?
Should there be a tag for Microsoft Remote Procedure Call or does the DCE tag suffice for people? I was running a search and can find nothing on Stack Overflow or Super User Stack Exchange sites. What ...
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Allow rep from ALL Stack-Exchanges sites to be considered for rep-required functions [duplicate]
For what it's worth - my question is absolutely NOT a duplicate of the 'hypocritical' one linked above.. though it is similar. I wasn't asking WHY Rep is independent between SE sub-sites (it's ...
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Add SoftwareRecommendations website to the close vote (when post belongs on other SE site)
I guess (I have no stats other than my experience) one of biggest reasons posts are closed as off topic (but there is another suitable SE site) is people asking for software!
We have https://...
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Special requirements before voting a question into negative territory [duplicate]
I had a question that got attention from one user. The Comments got toxic and the reputation of the question got voted into the negative range (presumably by the commenter). So I deleted it and ...
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Why spam questions are not removed from the recently changed lists once deleted?
Clicking on x questions with new activity banner to see latest activity I often also see "old" (> 5 min:) ) spam questions still in the list, however the question itself is already removed.
Why ...
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Can we get tabs like in Stackoverflow?
I really like the customizable tabs in stackoverflow where I really can filter for questions I'm interested in.
(When) Can we have it here?
Update
I've asked this question almost a year ago, do we ...
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Add softwarerecs to the migration targets
This feature same request
Add softwarerecs to vote to migrate option
was declined in Feb. 2014, since the circumstances meanwhile changed I don't think this is a duplicate.
Software ...
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How can I create just an answer without a question (blog)?
I know this is a question answer forum, but the last 2 years I've been building three systems (2 computers, old and new, running dolphin and a XPenology NAS) and found some very interesting facts. ...
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Allow migration of suitable hardware questions to the Hardware Recommendations Stack site
There was a site proposed in Area 51 called Hardware Recommendations. It is now in public beta and I think it would be helpful to migrate and redirect users with hardware questions to this site ...
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How can I find question that have newly assigned bounties?
Assume there are 150 questions featured/with bounty, and I have read them all. An hour later I come back, and now there are 152. Currently, it seems I need to scroll through and read all 152 to find ...
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What flag to use for questions related to 'Hackintosh(s)'
This question was recently asked:
https://superuser.com/q/1016904/465600
This is a question really to do with the Hackintosh community but I am not sure what to flag it as.
Hackintosh doesn't ...
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Change quote background color, to make code in a quote stand out
The
quote background (this is inline code) color
is the same as code background color.
Please change it because code sometimes appears in quotes.
(I realize meta has a different theme but the ...
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Feature Request- adding "date tags"
There are many questions that have never been answered as they have been stomped on by newer questions. There are also questions where the user has got an answer but it didn't work for him.
My ...
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