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How to avoid "Hot Network Questions" on the sidebar
This may sound like a 'first world problem', but I am quite easily distracted by the 'Hot Network Questions' sidebar, as I find them quite amusing and some of them quite intellectual
But where the ...
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Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites
I've been a Stack Exchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on travel.SE. One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different Stack ...
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Shortcut or button for copying posted code from Stack Overflow
I might just be lazy, but do you ever find it tiresome to select all the source code from a large post on Stack Overflow to copy it?
I would like a feature, possibly a Firefox extension, but ...
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Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ...
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We should be able to close questions as duplicates of any question
Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good ...
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Using the Stack engine for the blog – a long-term idea for maintaining a healthy blogging culture
What's the current status?
Let's say this first: The Super User blog is a great idea, and we've had enormous success with it. We've had a lot of diverse contributions, inspired by our Question of the ...
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Do we need a 'reject and improve' button?
Have a look at this simple example: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/5349764/revisions. There is a approved suggested edit, and an improvement was added on by a 10k user. The interesting thing is that ...
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Flags in chat are defective by design
Yes, I know the topic has been discussed before. I know that Meta already has threads that complain about how flagging doesn't work. I wanted to give a practical example.
Today, a user came in to the ...
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Writing.SE clamours for graduation
Writing.SE has raised the issue of our desire to graduate a year ago
Here it is: we're tired of being a beta site. We believe we have been a consistently successful site, we've been around for more ...
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Please consider gathering Meta feedback before the "ship" stage
The blog post "The Loop #1: How we conduct research on the Community team" sheds a little light on how the current process for making changes on Stack Exchange works.
Today, our research ...
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
Cleaning up a bad or ambiguous tag is a very annoying and disruptive process. While there are moderator tools for renaming and merging tags, there is no tool that helps splitting a tag or removing a ...
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A proposal for tag hierarchy on Stack Exchange sites
Executive summary
Introduction of sparse hierarchy (partial inheritance relation) into the set of tags on Stack Exchange sites, in order to allow more efficient question organization/filtering/...
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Let's move some negatively scored answers from the top spot
Internally, we've been discussing how we can deal with obsolete or out-of-date answers. A few weeks ago, I requested some feedback on how to encourage edits to these types of answers, while I'm still ...
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Don't you think that it's time for some Stack Exchange shirts? [closed]
Success!!!
This is for you Jeff. We're asking and begging and pleading (and maybe even willing to pay) for some shirts!!!! We know you've got to have some hiding under your bed on top of your PING ...