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Nicer <kbd> style
Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags:
It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style current …
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Recommending own products
What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case.
As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering Ou …
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Actually changing things through Meta
Discussion: What do we, as a community, consider right and wrong, good and bad behavior, on and off topic, where do we see the need for change, etc.
This is about that last category of topics. … IvoFlipse ♦, shortly after a discussion on a few Meta topics regarding, among other things, changes to the FAQ:
My problem with Meta is that there's no way to end or resolve a discussion. …
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Apple.SE as off-topic migration path
Update (2013-09)
Given that this seems to come up every other month or so, here's an update. Current migration stats (2013-09-08), not counting rejected migrations, are as follows:
Web Apps (68) *
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Recommendations for the BEST?
Going through @Gareth's list of candidates for closing, I find several topics that are asking about the best X, with X being software.
We're usually pretty liberal with product recommendations if it' …
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Super User mug design
This week, slhck (pictured) and me received our SU anniversary contest prizes.
I really like most of the stuff I got. But the Super User mug design sucks.
It gets the Y U NO guy meme totally wr …
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Burninate the 'links' tag
links is used for
Hyperlinks (web sites, HTML emails, ...)
Soft links and hard links on filesystems
Library linking
Someone probably even used it for the web browser...
Therefore it is not useful …
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Is "Y" really a valid answer to "I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work"?
A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following:
declined - fl …
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Tablet Computer compatibility
It'd be nice if the SE sites were more tablet computer accessible.
easier use with large and imprecise pointing devices - I have some difficulty e.g. selecting one of my favourite tags instead of de …
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How to get the "Peer Pressure" badge
What reasonable ways are there to get the Peer Pressure badge on SU?
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower.
I'm serious here: I don't particularly want to provide false information, write …
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Meta sites should count question scores toward tag scores
For bug, feature-request and discussion, the opening post (question) is at least as important a contribution to the site as any answer. …
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Advertisement answers and company references
What is the proper way to handle
Answers that specifically mention a company's products in a way that obviously is more an advertisement than a real answer
Answers that refer to a (company's) weblog …
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Retagging questions with the answer
This is a bit related to this topic on MSO.
In a recently suggested and approved edit a tag was added to the topic, but it only became applicable through the answer. The user didn't know the tag was …
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Tag merge/synonym request: [touchpad] and [trackpad]
These two tags mean the same thing: The pointing device usually built into laptop computers.
The tags for these should be merged.
touchpad x 177
trackpad x 52
Vote on the answers below for your pr …
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Are languages too localized?
Are questions related to specific natural languages too localized?
One of the reasons questions are closed as too localized is geography as stated e.g. here, even if the question is possibly relevant …