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Tagged with status-review feature-request
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Please make the links in "Related" and "Hot Network Questions" only touchable when clicked on the text
In the "Related" questions and "Hot Network Questions" under a question post even if you accidentally click on the white background you will go to that question page.
Please change ...
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Allow moderators to customize the first paragraph under "Get answers to practical, detailed questions" on the tour page
Currently, the first paragraph of the tour under the heading "Get answers to practical, detailed questions" says:
Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include details ...
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Allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag
Per staff request, I'm posting this as a standalone feature request:
Please allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag, such as when they accidentally/prematurely decline a flag they ...
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Allow us to flag reviews
Please allow us to flag reviews in the review queues. Possible use cases/Flag options for this could include:
Incorrect reviews/Suspected robo-reviewing
User persistently spamming queues with ...
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Reconsider adding Markdown support for footnotes
A 2009 feature request to add support for Markdown footnotes was declined in 2014.
The reason(s) for declining appear to no longer be valid:
We want to avoid creating proprietary additions to ...
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Reconsider allowing flags on historically locked posts
This is revisiting a feature request from 2013 and 2015, which was declined.
A historical lock is used to retain very good or extremely useful posts that are not on-topic for a site. These questions ...
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Extend asterisk next to close/delete vote to flags
We recently got an asterisk (*) next to the close and delete vote to indicate you've already voted on that question/answer:
Why is there an asterisk next to the close vote total? E.g. Close (1*)
Make ...
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Please clearly indicate to users that they can only reply to a mod message once (unless their message is replied to)
When a mod message is sent to a user, they are only allowed one reply unless the mods respond to their reply. I’d imagine that many users who have received a mod message may not know this, and may ...
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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Make the background of code blocks darker (or a different color)
When we use code blocks, created for example by the "Code Sample" button ({}), the background is so light:
Example: hsl(0,0%,96.5%)
But when we use backticks (`) to create inline code the ...
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Change the attach-pictures icon to something more appropriate?
We spend a lot of time explaining to newbies that the "attach photo" button is the mountain-landscape icon.
Aren't we overdue to replace that icon with something more self-evident, like a ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
On questions like this one that have a tendency to be answered by low-rep users who don't cite any sources, mods can add the following post-notice:
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed ...
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Auto suspend the user network-wide if their accounts have been destroyed on a certain number (e.g. 3) of sites
Possibly related; might be an extension or alternative to: A user should just be destroyed network-wide automatically if it has no upvoted content and is destroyed on two independent sites by mods ...
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Allow us to use the [-] symbol to exclude results in other operators, not just tags
I can use - before a tag to mean "not that tag". For example, I can search for "not python" on SO. However, this doesn't seem to work for other operators. For example, using -user:...
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Split translatable strings related to review suspension tool
There're many string related to review suspension tool that contain exact substrings. E.g:
Being suspended can be a frustrating experience, but correct reviews help us maintain quality content on the ...
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Wrap long source strings to prevent horizontal scrolling in Traducir
If the source English string is long enough to fit into screen horizontally then either you need to scroll the page or copy source into the edit box to see it entirely. See the GIF to clarification:
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New flag for ChatGPT answers
Answers generated using ChatGPT are banned on many Stack Exchange sites regardless of being credited or not. This is mainly because they aren't particularly accurate or useful, and are often ...
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Post disassociation requests should also apply to the author's messages in chat rooms generated from comments on the post
A while ago I made a question, and later decided to be disassociated from that question. However doing so does not completely disassociate your account from this question.
If a comment thread gets ...
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Drop Posts.FavoriteCount from SEDE
Related: What happened to FavoriteCount? - my educated guess is that a NULL value indicates a question has never been favorited or bookmarked, and 0 that it was. Since the values are so different from ...
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How to find the meta place of each site with a screen reader
I do know the basic question of where to find the Meta of each site has already been asked and answered, but I am still having difficulty finding it. I use a screen reader, and, until I read the ...
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Please remove comment notifications from the inbox if the comment was deleted as rude/abusive
I recently got inbox notifications of rude/abusive troll comments from a post I followed. The comments were already deleted by the time I viewed the post from the inbox notification, but they are ...
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Change the default tag [bookmarks] to [saves] on per-site metas
As we all now know, Bookmarks have evolved into Saves.
However, the list of default tags on per-site metas (tags that get added to per-site metas whenever a new site is created, and always continue to ...
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Remove [openid] as a default tag on per-site metas
OpenID support has been mostly removed for a while now, and is set to be completely removed at the end of October this year.
However, the tag openid is still one of the default tags that get added to ...
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Remove "Wiki Answer" lock option on answers because it's misleading
Currently, moderators can put a "Wiki Answer" lock on both questions and answers. Its description is:
Lock this post to encourage users to edit existing answers. Remember to remove ...
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Update the help center page on site analytics to reflect that traffic sources are not tracked for users with performance cookies disabled
Effective May 13, 2022 (or earlier), the Google Analytics cookie will be recategorized as a performance cookie and will no longer be saved for users who opt out of performance cookies (or all cookies),...
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Make notification and reputation counts bigger again
The top bar's recent problems were mostly fixed, however there's still one thing that bugs me:
The number is smaller than before, and harder to read. Compare with how it used to be before the changes:...
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Misleading link description in the Summary tab for viewing all upvotes and downvotes cast
In the Summary tab on the Activity page, for example, on English Language & Usage, my total upvote count is 1084 and my total downvote count is 305, which makes a total of 1389 votes. This ...
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When implementing a major design / workflow change, offer an opt-in beta testing option before release
As we've seen recently with both the updated user profile and homepage designs, it's difficult sometimes to gauge the impact that this will have on users' experience just from screenshots or a video ...
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Child protection: adding recognition filters to block obvious offensive content related to pornography
We've had yet another unsuitable post on Worldbuilding.
The title was innocent enough:
I'm think of making steam punk/fansty hybrid do you have any
suggestions
The body of the question contained ...
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Notify users when moderator-only tags are changed on their post, even if the edit is tag-only
Currently a user is not notified for minor edits to their question, including tag-only edits. Can we make an exception to this rule when the edit involves moderator-only tags, such as the status-...
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Add an explanation of how to resolve the "needs citation" post notice
Moderators can add "post notices" as a banner at the top of the post; there are some custom notices for certain sites, three moderator-added notices that exist network-wide, and additional ...
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Please make the canned feedback options in the new first questions/answers queues configurable per site
Earlier today, two new queues were rolled out to each site as part of the new review queue workflows: A 'First Questions' and 'First Answers' queue that will replace the old 'First Posts' queue. These ...
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Notify new users of close votes, explain what that means, and recommend next steps
tl;dr:
New users aren't notified of close votes, and probably wouldn't know how to check for them
When a question is closed:
New users don't know what this means (it's valuable feedback!)
Limited ...
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Make cookie preferences configurable in profile
As shown in e.g. Could the cookie banner please be made less intrusive? and multiple answers to We’re adding more user controls for cookie consent the current cookie banner design is less than ideal.
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Don't add new lines when quoting some text
Current behavior: When selecting some text and clicking on the "quote" icon, > are added as well as new lines.
For example:
CRISPR gene editing is a genetic engineering technique in ...
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Request for a possibility to adjust the spacing between lines
Update: The line-height in code blocks is almost back to what it was before (it was 1.3 but is now 1.30769231) and the spacing between lines in regular text is now at 1.5 (it was 1.3 before the change)...
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Flag window redux: proposed syntax
There's been some consternation about the new flagging, but I wanted to focus on the syntax for a moment. I think the current shift doesn't really fix anything and it seems to fall into the same trap ...
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If someone is tabbing around the site, offer to turn on keyboard shortcuts
Turning on keyboard shortcuts... isn't the simplest thing to do. You have to either previously know about them, or happen to stumble upon them buried deep in your settings.
This isn't really helpful ...
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Let diamond moderators (or even regular users) search for unregistered users
Unregistered users don't show up as searchable in a site's user list, but diamond moderators may need to look them up from time to time on account of their interactions with the site. Regular users ...
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When deleting as a sock don't move all accept votes to the Community user
Let's say I have user A with a sock puppet, B. B asks a question, A answers (somewhat poorly) but get accepted by B.
Then a diamond moderator comes along and verifies that B is a sock puppet and ...
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Either fix edit preview display to render bare links to more than five sites just like the post renderer, or convert all links
This is probably easier to show than tell...
On the recent question Is asking for user stories off-topic on meta sites?, I see the following:
As you can see, the first five links render properly, ...
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Make hot questions list in stackexchange.com responsive
I have https://stackexchange.com/questions bookmarked on my phone but unlike the rest of SE it isn’t responsive. Conscious choice or just overlooked?
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Custom close reason stats should link to the question(s)
I'm reviewing recent custom close reasons in the 10k tools (/tools/question-close-stats) and there are some I'd like to take issue with...
The problem is, the reasons are listed with no link to ...
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Warn new users to edit important information into the question upon their first attempt to comment on a question of theirs
2024/09: It's been more than 8 years since this post, and more than 10 years since this post.
The latter has been tagged as status-completed. According to Slate, something has been done to alleviate ...
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Make VLQ and NAA flags equivalent to a negative review in the LQ queue (if the flagger can access that queue)
Reason
It is my understanding that casting a very low quality or not an answer flag on an answer that already has received such flag only affects the flag statistics and the number of positive ...
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People don't read the tag excerpts because we don't swat them into their faces
You are a user asking a question, and the system is helpful, so it shows you this:
(the 5 of them were suggested when I finished writing this post, I used only one, tag-wiki-excerpt)
Seeing the ...
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Allow Chinese names with less than 3 characters on Chinese Stack Exchange
...and possibly elsewhere on the network, but I really think it should at least be allowed on Chinese Language.
I and many others are not able to use our names on Chinese Stack Exchange without ...
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Trackbacks from SE to the arXiv.org?
Is it possible to implement trackbacks from SE sites to the arXiv.org?
Example: Here is a list of trackbacks to the arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2658 from various blogs. My feature-request is that if a ...
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Filter "Hot Network Questions" by excluding sites
I was going to make a filter for the "Hot Network Questions" by excluding some sites from it. I noticed this answer which talks about "negative filtering" but does not explain how ...
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