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42 questions linked to/from Help us identify micro-privileges for top users
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
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Thank you everyone for the feedback you have provided. At this time, we will work through the feedback we have received to help us determine where to take our research on reputation next.
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What privilege should 30k users get?
The last time we lifted the level cap was in 2015. In 2014, we added a unilateral close-as-duplicate power for gold tag badge holders, but no new reputation level. So we've been thinking about giving ...
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Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns
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We have done a bunch of work following your feedback - just look at all those status-completed tags on the different answers here!
The top suggestion was to do something about the badge ...
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We're standardizing the sidebar width at 300px on all sites
Update: this change is now live across the network. You'll still see some narrow 220px ads because it's going to take us a good while to update all of the old ads, but if you see any other style ...
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Help us identify new roles for community members
Update 2 (March 6, 23)
We made a shortlist of the most promising suggestions from the answers provided, and we then shared our findings with Philippe Beaudette, our VP of Community. After some ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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Help us improve the user profile and settings
Update: Findings are shared here.
You might know the user profile and settings. It’s what appears after you click on your profile picture.
Maybe you come here to track your Q&A activity or to ...
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Markdown footnotes?
Would you like them?
You could have Markdown to have a popup appear to insert the footnote's text [*].
EDIT: you can use a symbol and then <sub></sub>, but that won't give you a link ...
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How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?
What circumstances can cause a question or answer to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?
How can a post be deleted?
When can't I delete my own post?
Can I still see my post even after it's ...
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Display lost/negative reputation in topbar achievements
When you get reputation, you get a +X green spot on your reputation feed telling you that you gained reputation and if you drop down the menu, you get more detail.
How about we make it that when you ...
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Please remind me when I am wielding the dupe hammer
We've already had people ask if they can decline the ability that comes with a gold tag badge to insta-close-as-dupe questions in their tags. I did this by accident today myself.
On reflection, I ...
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Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?
Given that the Stack Overflow trilogy is to be a resource for googlers, I usually try to go back over my questions/answers and improve them in whatever way that I can. However, I feel this may be ...
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Allow all reviewers to see deleted posts they reviewed
So moderators just got the ability to provide custom reasons when they ban users from review. Often, these bans are due to specific very bad reviews, like approving spam or non-answers. It will be ...
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Opt in "mentor" privilege at 7.5k
I am suggesting a Mentor privilege at 7.5k. It would be on a per-user per-site opt in basis.
At some reputation level (perhaps 7.5k) there could be an opt in "mentor" privilege.
If someone opts in ...
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Make the "past names" list public info for 30 days after changing your name
So this new feature just got rolled out...
There's a new numerical field in user profiles called "past names" which when clicked will display a dialog listing previous usernames and when ...
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