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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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Question and suggestion on Votes and Rep
I am curious about voting or maybe the lack there of. I am an enthusiast, no expert, but I love computers and love seeing the problems and solutions in the Stack Exchange. I learn something new ...
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Suggest another stack exchange site while closing
While reviewing close votes some times there are some questions that belong to other other Stack Exchange sites or communities such as https://gaming.stackexchange.com/.
Is there a way to suggest ...
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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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Split score into votes
On SO, if you click on a question or answer's score, you can see the number of up and down votes forming that score. I love this feature, but superuser.com doesn't appear to have it. Why not?
Thanatos
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Request for a button to copy share link to clipboard
When we click "share" , there is a popup:
In the popup, I suggest we have a Copy button beside the textbox (and near to "share" so as to minimize mouse movement) to make it easier to copy links to ...
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Migration - Replace ServerFault with SoftwareRecs?
I don't have figures for this, just a perception based on my close-votes, usually with new users though not always.
We have no migration path to software recommendations, even for well-structured ...
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Why is this question best suited for Superuser instead of Sharepoint SE?
When I saw this question, I flagged it the moderator(s) because I thought (and still think) that it is best suited for Sharepoint SE. However, the flag was denied.
My question is simple: why is the ...
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Should a bounty prevent a question from being closed
This question should be closed as not constructive or too localized. Yet it cant be voted closed, since it has an active bounty.
Shouldnt close votes take priority?
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How can I completely hide all questions with a certain tag?
Now that Windows 8 is out, my questions feed is overrun with Windows 8 questions. At this moment in time, 31 out of the 50 questions on the main page are about Windows 8.
I've got no experience with ...
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Flagging content that is later edited
I posted the same thing on stackoverflow recently.
It seems it needs to be posted here too.
The problem is that you flag some content that is "flaggable" then the poster edits the post and your flag ...
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Adding Media Library to Blog
The Gaming.StackExchange blog currently has a "Media Library", with an easy method for uploading multiple images to the blog. Currently we do not have this feature on Super User, and it is difficult ...
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Synchronization of Profiles Between Stack Exchange Webistes
Is there a way that I can easily synchronize my profiles between the Stack Exchange websites? It would be even better if I could just use the same profile across their websites.
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What does it take to gain reputation on superuser.com?
I've asked a couple of questions. I've answered a couple. But my rep is still at 1. What gives? I'd like to start commenting and up voting. And why doesn't rep span all the sites?
paul
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Can we make the font size when using "#" in markdown smaller?
The way that markdown is implemented in the SE sites, starting a line with # makes it into an HTML <h1> heading:
#Heading, (<h1>)
This may be just me but I find the # heading too large. ...
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Option for making an edit a comment
One of the reasons for rejecting an edit is that it should be a comment.
I propose that if the reviewer feels that that that is the case, they should be able to make it a comment.
For anonymous ...
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Why the blue bar on the left edge of the code tag rectangle on superuser.com?
SuperUser, unlike StackOverflow and Meta has a very weird code box. It has a thick blue edge on the left, which is very distracting.
I would prefer a clean box like this
I don't know why this ...
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The problem of the no longer working links
After some time it is physiological that answers may contain outdated links.
And it is a pity.
I see a couple of identification strategies:
A script that actively runs across the entire database to ...
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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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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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Guidance: editing question to reveal intent by removing author's obvious understanding, (or any reader's understanding)
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This ...
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Is there a way to exclude questions with certain tags from "Review" tasks?
When dealing with (in my case) questions that are Windows related, I have some of the worst luck trying to figure out what to do with them. Sometimes I'll stare at it for 3-5 minutes, and have no ...
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Use block quote style from SU on MSU
Block quotes are a good (if semantically questionable) way to visually separate e.g. screenshots as part of a post on SU, which might otherwise be mistaken as part of the post text, since the get a ...
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Should the CSS for H1 be changed here?
I was a bit surprised to discover that using headings is considered "yelling here" (see edit here). I'm familiar with the idea that ALL CAPS is yelling, that's common across the internet ...
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ACTIVATE QUALITY FILTERS FOR QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS! [duplicate]
Irritating isn't it? The most recent example that appears in previous feature request about the help pages. Is funny that isn't enabled here either. Can we enable it?
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Vote to close dialog does not handle links to answers
These URLs work in a vote to close » duplicate dialog:
http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for
http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-...
Daniel BeckMod
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Community Voting System to accept answers not accepted by the OP [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community bumping [status-completed] on meta.SU?
I have noticed a lot of questions that are answered correctly and abandoned by the OP (i.e. they are not marked as accepted by ...
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Can we add a 'recently viewed' to the Users pane
The users pane let's us see our own questions, answers, comments, tags, badges votes etc.
It would be really nice if we could also see the most recent posts we viewed.
There have been so many ...
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Syntax highlighting for PowerShell is unavailable / inconsistent
On this question: Can LastAccessTime be set to an old timestamp using PowerShell? I have a code block in the question and in the answer. Both code blocks are defined by having their lines start with 4 ...
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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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Downvoting a question should require a comment/upvote of a comment
Downvoting questions
As you've seen in the title, In my opinion, a downvote at least requires a short explanation in the comments or an upvote of a comment if the comment already explains the problem....
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Downvoting a Closed Thread?
This is more of a overall StackExchange question than anything else, but it springs to mind that users can downvote a question that has been closed.
Why is this the case? If a thread was closed for ...
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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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Shouldn't there be a "Questioner Tag" so that responders should know how to frame ans. to best suit the OP?
If people at SU knew that I'm NOT primarily a programmer/computer enthusiast/computer application professional (in essence, someone who's supposed to know quite a lot of nitty-gritty of computers), I ...
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Add an option to create preformatted PC Specs to questions
There are times that it's really nice to know that the specs of the PC for a question. However many times these specs come in looking like this:
My specs:
OS: Windows 8
RAM: 8 GB
Processor: i5-750
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Using a temporary login
I login to the SE network with my GMail Open ID, but when I came to SuperUser.com today on another computer that's not mine, I was asked to login through the owner's GMail account. Is there a way to ...
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Different Categories of Windows
Should we break up the Windows version tags into categories?
Sometimes when I ask a question about Windows 8, I'm afraid more people have Windows 7 than 8, and so more people with Windows 7 would ...
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Why does this site have comparatively lots of posts for me to review?
Why do I find my review section to have comparatively lots of "Late review" and "First Answers" posts? On stackoverflow (which I believe is much popular than superuser) and android.stackexchange, I ...
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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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Answers as comments - please resist the urge
I'm lifting this straight from Photography.se as I think they have a very good policy on this.
I'm guilty of this too, but if it becomes policy then I shall also refrain.
Many times, short answers ...
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Any way to center the image?
Currently when an image is inserted/linked into any question or answer it goes to the left side. Even the <center> HTML tag doesn't works for this. It would be good if the images stays at center....
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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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reCAPTCHA image verification improvements
Sometimes when I'm quick, I get a reCAPTCHA to verify that I am human. I'm totally fine with this. Today I got a reCAPTCHA with images. I had to select peanuts or street signs, and somehow I am not ...
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Proposed cancel comment button
When typing a comment, there is no button to "cancel" comments. A cancel button does exist for editing questions... so why not also comments?
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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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Should the tag wiki for [security] direct people to Information Security Stack Exchange?
Would it be ok to edit the tag wiki of the [security] tag (on the main Super User) to ask people to consider asking the question on our sister site the Information Security Stack Exchange? It appears ...
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How can I move my Super User account associated with one Google to another Google account?
I switched my Google account which I used to log me into superuser.com
This currently is my only way to access superuser (old google account). My question is: how can I associate my new account with ...
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Newest questions with YOUR TAGS only
Not sure if this should be here or meta.SO, but...
A really handy feature for me, and I assume others, would be the option to see ONLY questions tagged with your tags, but in chronological order.
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make incorrectly answered question have unanswered status
I think there should be some way to make any "incorrectly answered question" have "unanswered" status. Just because someone has responded to a question doesn't mean that it is worthwhile. In fact, ...
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maintaining superuser signal to noise for new users
SuperUser has been open for beta for a very short time and already the flurry of questions is overwhelming and vast. There is a lot of noise (i.e. "Must have...") and very little signal at this point ...
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