Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Show more details about a Moderator candidate during elections
THE SUGGESTION: For Elections, allow the user to view a specific candidate and see things such as...
How many of my own questions has this candidate answered ?
How have I rated this candidate's ...
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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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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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Tag order on the user profile page
As a feature, can the tags be ordered first by score, then alphabetically? As it is, it is hard to find a particular tag.
It would also be nice to be able to just sort alphabetically.
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When reviewing, can we remove these dreadful "Congratulations, this was only a test" questions
Every so often, we review some questions, close questions, reopen questions etc, some of which do take a bit of time, thought and consideration, to suddenly be told
"Congratulations, this was a test!...
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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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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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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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Are pictures in comments possible?
I added a comment to a question, and instead of an image popping up, this did:
![http://i.imgur.com/DXSVh.png][1]
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Require users that plan to edit flood over a certain rate / amount to get permission
TL;DR: Users shouldn't flood edits without a consensus. Read my post but skip the optional stuff... :)
Every now and then, we get an edit flood at our front page. This sometimes happens without any ...
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Can the "migrated from StackOverflow" notice expire, please?
There are questions that were migrated from other sites, e.g. Stack Overflow.
These questions have a migration notice, e.g. Remove audio from video file with FFmpeg
(Sorry, I didn't know where to ...
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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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Highlighting questions with accepted answers as [solved]
I've seen this elsewhere and personally think it's a very useful feature. When questions have an answer marked as accepted, [solved] gets added onto the end of the page title. This then appears in ...
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Is there an easy way to see your starred questions?
There are some questions I tend to need to reference quite often.
Is there a way for me to see my starred questions, without clicking on my username and viewing my list of starred questions?
(this ...
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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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Add 'Fault' to the Meta required tag list
Is it possible to add something like 'Fault' or 'Failure' or 'Crash' to the list of tags that you have to pick one of in order to post to Meta? For example, with yesterday's data centre down-ness ("...
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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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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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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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auto show vote count on homepage
Is there any way to automatically show the vote count ex. 5 up votes and 3 down votes = 2 up votes when viewing the list of questions on SuperUser?
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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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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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"closed as exact duplicate by" - suggestion
When a question is closed by a moderator as a duplicate, I believe that a reference should be made within the area below that states where the original Q/A resides.
closed as exact duplicate by ...
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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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'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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How do I quickly know what types questions I can ask on a given StackExchange website?
I had a question about NFC and I wasn't sure what SE site would be appropriate to ask it on. I knew that information was documented somewhere but it took me a few minutes to find it.
"Asks Different'...
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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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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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A new Q&A site to discuss ethical issues of the day?
I'm looking for a site that allows people to create and answer questions reguarding legal & ethical issues. For example, the tape-recording of classrooms...
Although the only Stack Exchange ...
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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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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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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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Increasing number of flags
Would it be possible to keep the same formula that gives more flags before 500 and just carry it forward?
I don't think that anyone on SU will hit 100 flags (the current ceiling I think).
EDIT: See ...
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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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Force tag wiki creation when a tag is created
I think it would be a good idea to force people to actually describe the tag that they are creating when they create it. This would lead to consistent usage of the tag, and make it more helpful to ...
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New tag request - 'newbie-friendly'
I realise this is unlikely to be added by the newcomer themselves, but sometimes the simplest "LMGTFY" questions are from people new to a given platform/OS; they haven't yet really figured ...
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Can we have "drive" as a separate tag?
Recently, I have found myself asking questions about drives in general, such as flash drives or SD cards. I want to use the drive tag, but whenever I try to use it, it's automatically changed to hard-...
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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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Automatic change of formatting while we answer [closed]
Whenever I give answers to the questions, my original format of the answer is not maintained. It is changed to all continuous statements all line by lines. So it becomes very clumsy for the reader, ...
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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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Effect of downvote on reputation
Should downvotes result into bigger reputation loss than -2 ? I believe that compared to +10 for an upvote, -2 is negligible and it would be fair to increase it.
Also, since the community is ...
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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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Can we have tags for "Report Builder" and "Reporting Services"?
I have posted a question about SQL Server, its Management Studio and its Report builder in Super User a few minutes ago and provided that Super User is the right board for that question, which ...
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Mention Software Recommendations SE on on-topic help page
What topics can I ask about here? says:
If you have a question about [computers] and it is not about […] asking for a product […] recommendation, […] then you’re in the right place to ask your ...
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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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Should the Vote to Close option be altered?
This question and my comment there made me think, and it seems to me that to completely avoid any sense of a "pack mentality" that could be applied to when votes are cast to close a question, the ...
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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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Make the use of an OS tag compulsory for all questions
EDIT: You are all quite right. This is not a good idea.
If I had a penny for every time I have left a comment on a question asking the OP to state which OS they are using I would be one rich geek. ...
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Mention that the commented user is online when asked to move discussion to chat
I have a suggestion
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to
automatically move this discussion to chat?
In this part why can't we mention that the commented user is ...
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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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