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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?
I like the concept that you're raising, but not the implementation. I feel its a bit counterintuitive to have two types of downvotes - we've already had instances of people using Close votes as a "...
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Add a 'No Caps Lock' message/hint/check on the website
I have to agree with Oliver there. Generally, those kinds of users who post egregriously low quality stuff are also the ones who skip past the guides you put in their way. The How to Ask page is not ...
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Acknowledging comments so that they can be removed
Just flag them as no longer needed.
Assuming the commenter dosen't catch on and delete it first, a mod will.
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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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New badge for answering N questions
I don't think so. It may just end up promoting people to answer questions with more useless answers.
The current badges for answering questions, such as "Great Answer" promote quality over quantity, ...
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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?
Everything you said about questions applies equally to answers.
A few days ago I posted a one-line answer
(to this question) because I was in a hurry.
By the time I got back to it, 15 hours later, ...
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Difficulty trying to answer old unanswered questions
If you go through the list of unanswered questions and you see a question that you would consider a "bad question" because you think that it can't be answered, downvote it.
If a question can't be ...
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Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent
I feel (entirely biasedly) that this proposal seems to miss a lot of context and community culture.
First and formost, most of these sites are successful by Stack Exchange standards and have met all ...
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Change the close question text
I would support this but we need to be somewhat clear about why and when we want to push people to those sites. I actually prefer this to adding those sites to our list of migration targets because we ...
MokubaiMod
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Shouldn't there be a "Questioner Tag" so that responders should know how to frame ans. to best suit the OP?
"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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Merge tags windows-10 and win10
Done.
win10 has been merged into and synonymised with windows-10.
MokubaiMod
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Add a new off-topic close reason for questions asking for scripts
I'm not sure we should be closing these questions outright, much less have a specific close reason for them.
At the end of the day, people are unhappy about how they are phrased. These questions can ...
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Protecting or marking self answered questions to avoid "lack of research" downvotes
I don't know why the particular person downvoted you, but the post was confusing. It was unclear whether you wanted to remove 1+ spaces, or 2+ spaces. First you answered for 2+ then you decided 1+. ...
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Should we edit old, non-interesting questions?
If we don't edit the questions, the destruction of a bad tag would be delayed, and then people would keep using useless tags. That's not to say that editors should just rip through all questions with ...
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Set a rep threshold for editing closed questions?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say a restriction of this type would be a bad thing.
Keep on rejecting edits that aren't good edits, per editing guidelines, but not allowing new users to edit a ...
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Automatically embed image links
New users need at least 10 reputation in order to post images. They also need more than 10 rep to post more than 2 links.
This is mainly an anti spam measure and does not (usually) significantly ...
MokubaiMod
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Raise the minimum rep needed to create new tags
Before doing this, I like to look at what might have been lost. The following 133 tags have been created by users with < 1500 reputation at the time of creation during the past 365 days and are ...
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Restrict tag creation?
I think either a review process for new tags could be a good thing.
Alternatively could we just make entering the tag description (short & long) mandatory and put all these in the review queue.
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Please let me award a bounty to a qualified answer despite my tardiness?
There's literally nothing we can do.
There's even a grace period after the one week/168 hours, but no way to undo a 'lost' bounty or to do anything once the bounty period is over.
meta.se's got an ...
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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 ...
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Add an option to create preformatted PC Specs to questions
My two cents:
There really isn't a good list of specs that would be useful across most questions.
This might end up creating some additional clutter for little gain. For example, details like amount ...
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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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Downvoting a Closed Thread?
Why is it that a closed thread can continue to be downvoted even if
it's legitimate, just needing tweaking by the question asker?
I’m not 100 sure of the official reason, but you can also up-vote a ...
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Notify a rejected or accepted edit
You stated:
It is possible that he/she forgets about that edit and miss even the comment that sometimes are given with the rejection.
Unlikely, as the next time they submit an edit they will see a ...
DavidPostillMod
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Allow migration of suitable hardware questions to the Hardware Recommendations Stack site
Public beta's too early for migration anyway, and considering the two recommendations sites are unique in their scope and previous experience as a moderator on software recommendations I'm not sure ...
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Allow rep from ALL Stack-Exchanges sites to be considered for rep-required functions
Might it be useful to somehow consider other Stack-Exchange sub-site rep when determining restrictions?
It kind of is already. Once any of your accounts on the Stack* network reach 200 rep, the other ...
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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 ...
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Can we have "drive" as a separate tag?
drive would be a meta tag.
We don't like meta tags because they require more information in the question or in other tags for them to be useful. They are rarely useful on their own.
For example: for ...
MokubaiMod
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Can I disable the Review Icon
You can use the following custom stylesheet to hide just the red alert indicator:
.js-review-button._danger-indicator:after {
display: none
}
or hide the entire button:
.js-review-button {
...
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