Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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The banner warning against Artificial Intelligence generated answers
Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
This is a policy introduction on the Meta of all Metas, and given how ChemSE has an anti-AI (as in, use AI ...
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Math/Chem formatting when asking a question
I see that many questions are poorly received when the formatting is awful (pKa, OH-, etc.). I agree this is terrible, so I came up with the following idea that I would like to share.
More often that ...
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Reputation awards for edits - aren't they disproportionate?
I have had a few qualms about the awarding of reputation after editing. Let me state 2 of my cases:
Inductive effect on stability of free radical and revision link: In this question I had made a very ...
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Improvements for the question-asking form in ChemSE
As a new user myself (just 22 days old), I feel as if the downvoting policy needs a major rejig.
I agree to the fact that downvotes must be anonymous - as if the person who is downvoting is known, ...
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Addition of the cite link revisited
Triggered by a question on academia.se about a possibly AI generated publication under review (link), and drawing inspiration from mattermodelling.se, I became curious if their ...
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suggest to improve visibilty of the resources page
observation:
Thanks to community effort, there is a page about resources learning Chemistry. Some moments ago it was possible to answer a question related to chemical nomenclature (link) with copy-...
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Anonymous one-click survey for downvotes [duplicate]
Recently, I have been receiving downvotes on some of my questions and answers without obtaining a clear understanding as to why these downvotes were made. I wanted to propose a short anonymous one-...
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First time askers modal
Stipulations
The first time askers modal has two required parts: A sentence about searching for existing answers on the site, and a list of specific actions. These have to stay in place. However, we ...
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Feature request on asking a user for the reason on downvoting a question
Wouldn't it be legit for an OP to know why his posts are getting downvoted, Wouldn't it be great if the user submits a reason when downvoting, This would both the user to improve and for the mod to ...
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How to access questions of an account deleted by a moderator?
As I tried to evade a question ban by opening another account, my account was deleted. Nevertheless, the answers/comments I received on my posts were of vital importance (to me at least). I write the ...
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Discussion on research paper
Reading research papers is challenging for an underdog like me because I often do not possess enough knowledge to fully understand the papers in one research paper on most occasions. Yet, I have to ...
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Feature request, self-flagging own comments
I would like to suggest an extension of the already functionality «flagging comments» to draw the attention of moderators. At present, it is possible to mark comments by other authors.
Based on a ...
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Is habitual down voting considered okay?
Today, I noticed two okay questions, which are quite reasonable student-level questions, and they are downvoted. I understand that there is at least one habitual downvoter who consistently downvotes ...
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Feature request for a new tag for confusing high school textbook paragraphs
More often than not, there are a lot of questions especially on the chemistry exchange telling "my textbook says so and so, but this makes no sense" like this one in particular . And for ...
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Does the discussion about new table support in main meta apply to chem SE?
A new table format supported by markdown is discussed in meta, as you might have become aware from links to this page
Inserting a table appears to be as simple as inserting e.g. the following:
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