Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Should there be a bot deletion reason?
Frequently there are answers or questions on the site which are clearly created by non-human accounts.
For example https://english.stackexchange.com/a/624403/418554
This is an "answer" to an ...
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Should there be an increasing number of close votes required to re-close a question that has been reopened?
This question was closed with three votes for "insufficient research" - although I'm unclear why, because even after doing all the "research" suggested in the answers, the correct ...
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Would it be possible for the page to remember the depth to which a person has expanded their answer textbox on a particular response?
I would find it a great convenience if the page could remember how far I had dragged open the text-box for a response I had given. When I am working with a strange (new to me) keyboard, I tend to make ...
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Can we migrate 'Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA and APA written words?' and its like to Meta?
This question (Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA and APA written words?) has 105k views and 83 upvotes. But it's been closed because it's asking for a resource. Most resource requests ...
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Is there a need for an addition to the "reasons for closing" for questions that are based on misprints or false assumptions?
I propose another reason for closing a post: “The question is based on a misprint or other error in the example, a false assumption, and or the acceptance of incorrect guidance.”
There are numerous ...
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What do you think about enabeling the MathJax web plug-in for underlining, stricken text, and changing text color?
It might be a useful feature to be able to underline different English words on english.stackexchange
The text underlining shown above was done using the MathJax plug-in.
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Not all list questions are off-topic
I believe there is a misconception that all list questions are bad or off-topic. However, they are not all bad or off-topic. It is possible to ask good list questions. In fact, there are good and ...
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Tag merge request: [expressions] tag into [phrases] tag
Previously, expression-requests tag was merged into phrase-requests tag.
Pertaining Meta post: What are [expression-requests] tag for?
In that respect, the expressions tag should be merged into the ...
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If the question is worth answering, it is worth upvoting
Just a gentle reminder to all users/contributors here...
I have said this a number of times in comment on the main, but as basic netiquette, if a question post is worth your time to do the research ...
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Can my answer ban please be lifted?
I last answered over a year ago, and I've recently returned to the site as I want to help and share my knowledge of the English language. However, I still can't answer.
I understand that some of my ...
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Feature Request: Answer/User tags
From time time to time I take a break from this site, and in one of those more-recent breaks, I 'discovered' Reddit.
After a couple of months, and one unjustified ban, I came to the realization that ...
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Can we use the link replacement tool to fix links to English-corpora.org?
Context: Due to some sort of falling out, the Corpus of Contemporary English, British National Corpus, and several others moved from corpus.byu.org to english-corpora.org and changed their collective ...
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Can we have an optional dark theme?
Inspired by a post on Economics SE, I switched my Stack Overflow theme to dark from the Settings page. This will be based on user preference and not a site wide change. Can we have a similar option on ...
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This community should include opinion and subjects which fall under creative English
Creative English and public opinion is a part of English and of communication.
If you do not allow for such communication on this site, you will soon become irrelevant and ineffective as happens to ...
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Lack of comments to explain downvotes and recommendations to delete
I'm new to Stack Exchange, so I haven't had many experiences with it yet, but something that I am finding problematic is a lack of comments to explain downvotes or recommendations to delete answers. ...
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