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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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Why do I need 15 reputation to mark an answer correct and 50 to add a comment?

Welcome to Super User! First of all, let's distinguish between two things: Upvoting an answer, and Accepting an answer. Since the question you linked to was not asked by you, you cannot (with any am …
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When reviewing, can we remove these dreadful "Congratulations, this was only a test" questions

This is the review audit feature. It was added in response to people (or scripts) mindlessly clicking "No change needed" or "Close ..." or whatever (just to get badges, for example). You could easily …
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When reviewing, can we remove these dreadful "Congratulations, this was only a test" questions

After thinking about this some more, I think it might be a good idea to reduce the frequency of review audits by 80% or so, for users who have a gold review badge. If you've earned a gold review badge …
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Shouldn't there be a "Questioner Tag" so that responders should know how to frame ans. to be...

"questioner tags" like, say, newbie or software-engineer or neuroscience-researcher are not very useful for the following reasons: Just because you add a tag to a question, doesn't mean that you are …
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How do I return to the main site from Meta?

Use your web browser's built-in features. From my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar: (RA = Root Access chat)
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Different Categories of Windows

If you ask a question and you know that it applies to multiple OS versions, just put all the tags there: windows-7, windows-8, windows-vista, etc. If you aren't sure which OS versions it applies to, …
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Warn when Approving Edits for Questions On-Hold

From my edit to this answer: If a question is on hold and the suggested edit does not completely resolve the reason for the question being put on hold, you should Reject the edit. This is a guidelin …
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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?

I like your idea, but I would build out the process as follows: Add a new downvote mechanic with a shaded arrow called conditional downvote with the hover text of this question can be improved to be …
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Can the "migrated from StackOverflow" notice expire, please?

This has been asked before more than once on Meta StackExchange. The proposals for this on SE Meta gained extremely little notice or traction. This would be considered a "core site function", because …
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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? Your meta-question (quoted above) is based upon the assumption that the question you asked on the main site meets our criteria for what …
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Effect of downvote on reputation

Your idea is based on a false premise. The key is that the metric of reputation conflates, by design, answer-writing ability and technical knowledge. By extension, your statement that "we can expect h …
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