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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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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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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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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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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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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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Protecting or marking self answered questions to avoid "lack of research" downvotes
I recently had a small problem to solve, googled and found a solution. Since the question was out of Stack websites, I thought I would post it already with an answer, and so I did it:
Replace any ...
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Limit time for downvotes
Can we put a limit on the downvote system please (I'm talking years)?
The reason is the SU rules change in regards to what is on and off topic. So current queue (at time of writing) is filled with ...
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Penalty for unexplained down-votes [duplicate]
Often I come across perfectly valid questions which have been down-voted for no apparent reason, sometimes with no comments or answers at all.
I don't think a down-vote should ever be made without ...
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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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New badge for answering N questions
This has nothing to do with the fact I've attempted to answer nearly 1000 questions, but based purely on that fact ( :) ), should there be a badge for answering certain thresholds?
Joking aside, ...
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New style for part of super user
The logo for Super user, I interpret as a [ square bracket and a } curly bracket, with a · middle dot in between. [·}.
To keep that style, I noticed a place it could be added. When there is a new ...
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Close question after some days of acceptance (if user accept the answer)
I get disturbed by an answer for a question posted by me, if I did accept and confirm an answer a couple of months ago. I better suggest you to close/mark the question as "no more answers needed".
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A picture is a thousand words. Let's make use of that more. Promote Pictures in SuperUser
I've been to so many forums on computers over the years an one thing always stands out.
The Lack of information.
Take this recent question for example:
https://superuser.com/questions/750311/how-can-...
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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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Ability to follow users or add friends?
I am sure this question has been asked several times, but when I search for "favorite user" or "add user to favorites" all I seem to get is posts for favorite question of the week. Please respond ...
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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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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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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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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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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 "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 having ...
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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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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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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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Private message feature
I would like to know if it's possible to have a Personal Message feature in SU. Sometimes I want to email a user or even a mod but I don't think it's possible. I think it could be usefull to share ...
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Flagging>Closing>Off-Topic>Migration inadequate choices
Flagging>Closing>Off-Topic>Migration has these choices:
belongs on meta.superuser.com discussion, support, and feature
requests for this site
belongs on stackoverflow.com Q&A for ...
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Exception to the minimum answer character count
Sometimes a user just needs a single command line answer. To be most efficient (The mantra of the SE community) it would make sense just to give them a single command to run rather than appending ...
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Remove upvoting on comments under a question, only allow downvoting
If you don't know an answer, why don't you simply pass-by?
No question is stupid. We are all human beings and can have different ideas at times and just because of difference, another idea can't be ...
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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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Can you add the UNIX&Linux SE to the available migration groups?
Can you add the UNIX&Linux SE to the available migration groups? It has a lot of other groups but in some cases allowing a transfer to that group might be preferable.
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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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Color valid tags differently from invalid tags
I have an interesting idea for how tags work. No, it is not the new and improved tag, or a total tag makeover. In fact, it is a small change in how tags work that I think could help out a lot of ...
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Please add a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut for the Keyboard style
Not sure if this should just be here or if I should post on Meta.Stackoverflow - please can a mod move if you think it should be there.
When writing answers, one of the items that takes me the ...
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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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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 Unix-...
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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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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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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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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 have ...
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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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Make superuser an aggregate of SO and SF Reputation
Can superuser's reputation be synchronized between the sum of SO, SF plus any SU rep? Just an idea.
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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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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 he ...
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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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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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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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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 related keep ...
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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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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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