Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Showing progress towards badges
As a feature, show how close/far someone is to getting a badge that has more than one part. I.e. for convention, show how many posts the user has with a score above 2 in meta (if its less than 10), or ...
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Why shouldn't acceptance of an answer count towards a tag's score?
When you vote a question or an answer, the votes contribute towards the tag score.
It would seem to be that if an answer is marked as the answer, that says more about the the poster's strength in ...
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Dynamic display of comments and answers on the site
Wouldn't it be nice if AJAX be used to dynamically display the comments on and the answers to ones question?
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Shouldn't cross posting be allowed?
I read somewhere (can't find it now), that cross posting is not allowed or encouraged between SE sites. But I think this should be allowed.
Here are few examples.
If I have questions on Google Earth,...
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Change to the bounty system
I think the bounty system is flawed slightly. Currently if you don't assign the bounty to a user before the time expires half will go to the user with the most up votes. Even if you do award 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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Unable to propose tag wiki
I am trying to create a tag wiki for question-of-the-week, but every time I click on Propose Tag Wiki it just reloads the page and doesn't let me make the tag wiki.
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Buying reputation points
Is it possible to buy reputation on stack overflow? It seems that the people do answer more efficiently if bounty is offered :)
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Default or editable link target in editor
Is there any way you can specify the target of a link (to _blank forinstance) in the editor on this site? Or could we maybe have all embedded links opening in a new window?
I have got in the habit ...
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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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Drop the score requirement for proposing tag synonyms
Related to : Why am I not allowed to propose a tag synonym ?
Couple of days ago, there were certain changes done to the requirements of who can propose synonyms.
So you need a score of 10 or more ...
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Will an option to migrate to gaming be added to Super User's close dialog?
The same request as this question but for the gaming site.
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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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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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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?
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Increase reputation requirement for tag editing on SuperUser
I spent some time this evening going through the tags on SuperUser, and considering the wider audience it attracts, which are much more inexperienced the ability to edit tags gets abused quickly. This ...
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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?
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Is it possible to force users to go through the Help Center before they can ask a question?
There seems to be an increase in the number of people asking low quality or off-topic questions. When comments are made to get additional info or to get them to tell us what they have already tried, ...
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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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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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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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Create a queue for posts that will have to be reviewed later
There are many posts that should be placed in a queue to be checked later. An example is this one, but there are comments like this scattered all over the place:
Having a queue like this would ...
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Improve filtering of spam suggested edits
I've been seeing an increasing number of spam edits in the review queues, replacing the entire body of the post with filler text such as a complement (to get past spam filters), then including a link ...
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To improve the Superuser search feature by allowing partially match ("like", "contains") logic
I asked this question:
Type to navigate and open anything on screen by using keyboard ? Similar to shortcatapp.com
In the content, there is the term "shortcatapp". But when I search using that term, ...
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No "privileges" link on meta site user profile card
There's no privileges link on the user dropdown card on meta sites:
Main site:
Meta site:
/privileges on meta redirects to the main site's /privileges, so one could assume the site change is the ...
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How do I return to the main site from Meta?
The redesigned all-new top bar has a Help dropdown menu. There's a Meta item in there. That's a great thing, because now you can access Meta easily.
On Meta SuperUser it's changing into What's Meta:
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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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Make syntax highlighting possible to enable with prettify language codes
On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable ...
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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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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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What is the proper way to cite an answer from another StackExchange site?
What is the proper way to cite an answer from another StackExchange site? It is not uncommon to find an answer to a question for SuperUser on ServerFault or StackOverflow. But there doesnt seem to ...
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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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Feature for Contesting a Duplicate Designation
There needs to be a better way for users who have questions marked as duplicate to contest the designation.
As of right now, there is no formal mechanism in the system for a user to be able to ...
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Custom close reason is processed as a comment
When I click on “Close” (under a question),
I get a “Why should this question be closed?” dialog box.
If, in that box, I click on “off-topic because…”, I get a “Closing > Off-Topic” box.
If I then ...
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Add informations to "reopen" - request
So I want to add some informations to a question which take care of the "Should I use an antivirus on osx" - question.
So I have clicked the reopen-link. But I'm not able to add any information why I ...
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Mark users as otherwise "inactive" on their posts if they are so
Every once in a while I see users (mostly new ones, no offense to them) comment asking for clarification on answers or questions from users that are no longer active on Super User. They haven't "been ...
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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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Log-in problems
I think the log-in system can be improved. I am always logged in on facebook, but I use another facebook account for superuser, stackoverflow, etc.
When I want to log in, it is impossible to log in ...
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Make the edit tags button not bump a post
Four to five times a week I find my self answering a 2-3 year old question on the front page that I do not realize is a old (potentially abandoned) question that Hennes edited to do tag cleanup on (...
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How to manually move a comment conversation to a chat?
Is it possible to manually move a discussion in comments to a chat room? I just got the usual message that I should move the conversation to a chat.
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. ...
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New error message box is easy to miss
In my answer to Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address? I wanted to include a link to the IP for superuser.com to show how shared hosting and accessing by IP's did not work, ...
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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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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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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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Can we add a little more to the close option Off-Topic --> Recommendation?
I created a meta post that shows how to ask questions that may involve recommendations. I think that it would be good to add this to the closing option of Off-Topic --> recommendations. This is ...
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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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Chat privilege update [duplicate]
If I am not mistaken, you must have 75+ reputation in order to use the chat. If I try to chat with someone without the rep requirement it says that I can't. I thought it could be usful if a user that ...
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