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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a ...
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Drop-down list for edit summary on Stack Exchange sites
I usually edit posts for grammatical and spelling errors and strongly believe that most edits are for the same reason. I do hate typing "fixed grammar", or "improved formatting". So, why wouldn't ...
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Incorporation Of A Printer-Friendly Option?
Is it possible to have a printer-friendly option for the odd occassion when a solution may need to be printed out (in a nice neatly fashion) ?
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Why doesn't my superuser account show up on the network-wide accounts list?
I am using the same Google account to register for Super User as I did for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and IT security, but my Super User account doesn't show up on my network-wide profile accounts ...
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Software recs - better user guidance
There are many software rec questions on meta, involving correct tags, how to ask etc, but I can't find one that covers this aspect.
No matter how well a user follows the guidelines in How do I ask a ...
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Refer users to appropriate sites for off-topic questions on the On-Topic help page
On the android.stackexchange.com on-topic page, they include a link to Stack Overflow for questions related to app development (since it is off-topic for android.SE but on-topic for Stack Overflow):
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Delay in notifications
For the second time, i saw what i think to be a bug in superuser(i don't know if it doesn't happens in other SE sites).
I can see the title of the page where i am with a "(n)"(by n, i mean a number). ...
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Tag synonyms for denial-of-service
Since the DOS tag is ambiguous, I've just created the denial-of-service tag. I already started retagging a few questions.
The problem is that denial-of-service won't appear as a possible choice when ...
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Suggested edits on child metas
While there is this post on the topic, the reasons for it don't really apply anymore, as there is a review pane (complete with a suggested edits page).
As such, I would like to suggest that users in ...
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Why are there only few choices for flagging inappriopriate site of the network?
Only these 5 are available. I feel like some common options are missing, such as https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, which gets confused a lot because there are a lot of older recommendation ...
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How to get back to removed comments (particular case)?
I've asked a question and now, that I get back to it showing to a colleague of mine, I notice that portion of the comments have been removed.
I'd like to see those. That would support my claim of ...
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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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Why can't comments be downvoted?
Since comment upvotes don't yield any reputation, I'm just wondering why comments can be upvoted but not downvoted. I see a lot of comments with flat out wrong information or unhelpful responses, and ...
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Multiple edits accepted?
I recently attempted to edit this ansewer made by user207162. To my annoyance I found I could not. I was reviewing him because it was his first post and was almost forced to click no action needed due ...
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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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how can we understand some one answer my comment
when we answer a question if some one comment on my answer ( on the next login SU show us the comment(by the blue envelope)) but what if we comment on a question or comment other one answer how can we ...
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Has it ever been considered to raise the 30K character limit for answers?
Most questions can be comprehensively answered within the confines of 30K characters, however there are the occasional comprehensive answers that could benefit from additional comprehensive info that ...
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Tag request: Prometheus
I'm asking a Grafana/Prometheus question on SU, and I could see there is a grafana tag, but not a prometheus tag. And it appears I need 300 rep to suggest a tag (it should be noted I have over 3500 ...
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Audit reviews shouldn't treat comments as negative input [duplicate]
So I was reviewing first posts and came across a good question. Me thinking it has no answers yet, I left a comment asking for more information and suggesting a solution to the question. Afterwards, I ...
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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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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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Let user specify main tag for a question
I observed that a web page title for questions asked here is generated by the first tag + full question. However the ordering for the tags is fixed once added, unless one removes all tag and re-add ...
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Stimulate users to ask how they can achieve something (or: how to avoid the XY problem on SU)
I noticed people sometimes asking questions about a specific solution to their problem instead of asking how to achieve their goal (also known as the XY problem, as explained on Meta SO). For example ...
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Under Review mode to show accepted answer along with the question, with 1st new posts, or late answers
More of a suggestion than a question I guess, but so be it.
I'm having to constantly Check the entire question when reviewing Late answers or First time new posts.
I understand it wouldn't make much ...
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import comments into chat when comments could get chatty? [duplicate]
I know sometimes when there's some to and fro, you get a link offering a chat. And comments are imported into it.
But other times a chat is appropriate and because of no to and fro, it doesn't come ...
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Can we rename "window" to "gui-window"?
When I was looking around in the windows tag (while waiting for an answer...) I noticed that many people when they were talking about the Windows OS, they tagged it both with windows and window.
I do ...
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Display recently awarded gold badges on sidebar (below hot network questions)
Can we use the free space below the Hot Network Questions section to display recently awarded gold badges? No bronze or silver badges like it was done in the past. Just gold badges like for example:
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Make images wider than 640px clickable by default [duplicate]
Starting situation
If you insert an image which is too big, the system scales it down to fit into the post.
The downside is that you sometimes can't read everything on those downscaled pictures (...
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Display views on mobile site
As far as I can tell, currently there are no means to display the number of views of any given question on the mobile site.
All other relevant stats (number of votes and answers) are seen correctly, ...
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Can we please "lock" a post during edit
This has happened many times, I see a post which is fairly big and un-readable. No problem, the OP is not English and I can help. To get half way through when I see a notification telling me an update ...
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Asking whether the user meant MAC or Mac
When typing a question containing MAC, there should be question for the user whether he/she meant Mac/Macintosh. E.g. this question: how to connect Macintosh on LAN had MAC all over the place before ...
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No visible flag flag summary
If a comment flag is the first flag a user has on a site, then even if that flag is marked helpful, it will not show up on the flag summary page.
As soon as an another valid (non-comment) flag is ...
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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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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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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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Flag as off topic - move to linux/unix community is missing
I have tried to flag ALSA stopped working with default device as off-topic, to move it into Unix & Linux community.
However there is no option for that (or I don't see it?):
Is this missing on ...
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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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How to drag attention to someone else's question?
I found out badly answered/voted question:
disable the F1 key for whole system
And I hope it gets more attention, so the "best answer" could be the right one (the regedit thing). Just to help out ...
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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Can we remove auto-conversion of sloppy answers to question comments?
This answer to another question of mine is the context for this question.
I have more than once, had the Post Your Answer button just move my answer to a question comment for me. But only if it ...
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What software does Super User use for its voting system?
What software is used for the Q&A voting set up on Super User?
I once had a link to a similar software (Photobucket used to use a similar thing) online but have lost it since and can't find it ...
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Can we have j/k style (like Gmail) scrolling through posts?
Can we have j/k style (like Gmail) scrolling through posts, or is it already possible?
Often you don't want to scroll with the mouse, and using the down arrow or spacebar is just not enough.
You ...
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How to get my question answered by sharing the link across stack exchange sites
I posted a question (related to wordpress) at wordpress.stackexchange.
How can I share the question across a similar site "Superuser" (it has a tag for wordpress)?
Is it possible or not?
I want ...
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download all questions asked and answers received from a website stackexchange account?
I've got a bunch of questions posted on a given stackexchange site, for example, superuser, and I would like to download/export them in a format that I can store locally in my computer. How can I ...
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Why do people have to gain reputation on each Stack Exchange site before being allowed to comment?
I have been reading this discussion with some interest. (Why can people answer a question before being able to comment?). The answer so far is that new users might not understand the way the site ...
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Why were the comments removed from this question when the comments provided the answer?
The comments to this question Excel 2013 32bit and 64bit crashing on form were removed when the asker accepted my answer but the actual answer and quite a few 'Things to try' steps was in the comments ...
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Is the Platform on Stackexchange generic or be-spoke?
So I was googling something for some advice and came across a site that /has/ a simular styling to what I see on 'Stackexchange'. For example:
This site here
I know it's a very small similarity, but ...
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Do association bonuses stack?
If a user gets 200 rep on one stack receives their bonus on a second stack and they then get 200 rep on a third stack, Does the user receive another rep bonus or does it only happen once?
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Is it possible to send stackExchange questions/answers to ReadItLater, or to browse them when offline from a smartphone?
I frequently stumble upon interesting questions and answers during the day, but don't have time to read them during work. I've setup readItLater with my smartphone, for offline browsing, and synced ...
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My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic; where can I ask it?
My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic with the explanation that "This question is not about computer ...
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