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Icons of the badge counts
Based on the idea from the math site where they use different shapes for bronze, silver, and gold badges, what about having different prompts for ours? Gold could be a (root shell) #, but I'm not sure ...
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Abusers of closing votes
Pattern of Abuse. Or maybe just a pattern of reviewing?
So as one of the top candidates in the potential review abuse department, I will put in my two cents. I think the pattern you are seeing may ...
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Abusers of closing votes
Since I've been named as a possible abuser of close votes (and since voting-to-close is fresh in my head), I'm happy to speak to my votes. I am not shy about voting my opinion on Questions and Answers,...
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Remove condition of having minimum 15 reputation for upvotes
I applaud your desire to upvote those that have helped you. Sadly SPAM and other nefarious activities are a sad fact of the modern internet. So these limits are in place. But it turns out your idea ...
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Icons of the badge counts
I was bored so I re-made the badges' design proposed by Jeff Schaller. My take on it is according to the aviation.SE, which has the biggest badges that I managed to find on SE (increased here by a ...
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Can automatic deletion of "low-quality" posts be turned off?
Sorry, but this is a network-wide feature, not something that can be configured for each site. That said, this statement is really problematic:
Regardless of whether a post is truly low-quality or ...
terdonMod
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Feature request: Watch other person's question for answers/updates
It won't show up in your SE "mailbox", but there is an RSS feed for every question: the link is at the bottom of the page:
Subscribing will allow you to monitor updates to the page.
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Many times I "forget" to give (deserved) upvotes, because I would have to scroll up again
Keyboard shortcuts are already available. Enable them in your preferences:
The help ?:
Voting v:
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Mark accepted answers on side panel
There is actually a style that applies the color (answered-accepted), but then another one overrides it; I can't tell if this is intentional or not. This is what it looks like with the color coming ...
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Abusers of closing votes
Glad you put it.
I came to U&L (and whole stackexchange site) to learn, and I learn more than I answer question.
understanding U&L
The difficult mission of U&L is to mix plain english ...
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Can those who voted to close a post voluntarily give up reviewing reopening the same post?
No.
And, again, no.
Neither are a good idea.
To clarify, and head off the inevitable complaints about the brevity of my answer, the people that originially voted to close are in fact the most ...
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Yearly Revisit of List of Sites to Migrate
The main sites we would probably want new paths to are superuser (SU), serverfault (SF), and askubuntu (AU). I'd be fine with SU for when we get Windows questions; I think it's fairly rare, but I don'...
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Retracting an edit suggestion
I have rejected your edit so no harm done. In my opinion, this is not something that happens often enough to merit a feature. Next time, just pop into the main site's chat room and ask someone there ...
terdonMod
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add a new close reason : homework?
I would think not. We don't want to discourage people from asking for help with their homework, per se.
Users that are seeking help with their homework should be welcomed to the SE sites, rather we ...
slmMod
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Order users by country? Feature Request
There's no option currently on the site for that, but there are a bunch of Data Explorer queries that might work depending on what you're trying to do. It's a little tricky because the "Location" ...
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I would be happy to pay real money for succesful solution to my question
Not as far as I know, no. That's not what SE is about. There are many sites out there that help you hire programmers, we just do Q&A.
There have been similar proposals on the main meta which ...
terdonMod
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Give me an EASY way to see my daily vote count
I think Caleb's answer is on the right track, but it has a fatal flaw: I want an easy way to know how many votes I have left before voting, not after.
It does give me an idea: include the current ...
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How does one relinquish his/her right to close questions without review?
You don't like it because the normal vote-to-close behavior tricks you into thinking your opinion is worth less than it really is.
But it is a trick. Your opinion is worth a lot.
Finding ...
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Limit number of open questions per person
Having spent quite some time on this site and its review queues, I don't think there is need to worry, and that the "influx" of question dumpers is well within limits.
Not accepting answers is not a ...
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there should be some indicator to a Q&A if it's used in another question.
I think you're looking for the "linked" box in the sidebar:
Any time a question, one of its answers, or a comment links to another post, both posts will show links to each other in that box
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Make Link Colors Brighter and/or add Dotted Underline
Suggestion: Make links brighter, add dotted underline
My suggestion is to make all links a brighter blue or a different brighter color and/or add dotted underline to all links to make it very clear ...
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How to create a side by side code box?
In the answer you linked, I would format it as:
infile
1 2 3 4
a b c d
# $ @ %
outfile
1 a #
2 b $
3 c @
4 d %
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How features are integrated in between Stack Exchange forums?
According to How do I enable dark mode on other sites in the network?, it is not yet available outside of Stack Overflow:
Dark mode is currently in beta and only available on Stack Overflow. You ...
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Ask "Do you really want to resurrect this question?", and let the mods vote whenever someone answers a question that's older than 6 months
I would go even further than NotTheDr01ds and say that the person asking the question is only tangentially relevant. If the question can stand on its own and doesn't need clarification, then the job ...
terdonMod
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Low quality posts from high rep users
Whenever you are in the Low Quality Review Queue, you are evaluating the quality of the post, not of the user. If the post needs improvements and you can improve it, please do so. If only the author ...
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Low quality posts from high rep users
They show up there purely due to their length (being too short). His answers are often just code with no explanations, so they often fall into this category, and I regularly have to approve them as OK ...
slmMod
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inform about edits after downvotes
it would be nice to be informed of edits to a post which one has downvoted
I had a similar thought, and chased it down through various Metas, eventually landing at Stack Apps: Get a list of posts you'...
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Can the suggestion box be disabled?
I rather like that the suggestion box works this way. It's happened to me that a search for keywords found nothing, but the title matcher found something relevant. Even if it finds nothing relevant, ...
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Is it possible to require comment activity before letting people vote to close as unclear?
This is sort of interesting because it's something I've gradually changed my mind about. Several times in the past, I've argued in chat that I think the first close vote should require a comment.
I ...
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