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The answer box should not be at the bottom
The answer box is at the bottom of all answers. If someone has to answer a question he/she has to browse through all the previously written answers.
If someone is interested to see others' answers ...
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Option allow users to suggest a question is bumped without having to edit it
On Stack Overflow we see a lot of "answers" to old questions that are of the form:
Have you got a solution for this yet?
Usually where the question has no other answers.
This, of course, has the ...
ChrisFMod
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Send 'on hold' question to Reopen queue when OP edits it the first time
From What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?
Closed questions that receive edits within the first 5 days of closure are automatically put into a review queue to be ...
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Questions marked as duplicate refer to the duplicate, but the other way around does not occur
Sometimes when a question is marked as a duplicate it has already 'developed' into an interesting Q&A link.
An example is Could dark matter be wrong? on the Astronomy website which is marked as ...
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Why does SE force me to permanently lose my reputation for asking a 'bad' question? [duplicate]
This has happened with me many times across the SE network.
For example, someone has downvoted another of my questions for no apparent reason, affecting my 'rep'.
However, SE strongly discourages me ...
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What should be the default title case for non-technical questions?
As an example, this question is titled using sentence case. I've been going to lots of different meta sites (especially this one), and I think the needle bent on my oh-me-oh-my-my-ocd-oh-meter.
Can ...
user50049
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Why is the 'question record' not shown in the profile? [duplicate]
There are multiple users out there who don't understand why they haven't been awarded with the "curious" Badge.
Like this user who had to recieve an explaination of how the index is calculated.
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Feature Request: prevent downvote AND close vote [duplicate]
I'm wondering if it's a good idea to allow casting close votes AND down votes.
Usually, when a user casts a close vote, they will also cast a downvote. This obviously doesn't happen all the time, ...
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Why is not there a feature to follow questions? [duplicate]
On Quora, there is a feature to follow questions asked, either privately or publicly, so whenever one or more new answers are added, followers get notified. As far as I know, there is no feature like ...
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Old answers being downvoted because the solution doesn't apply anymore
Our field is pretty dynamic and things are constantly in change. What the "right way" was to fix a problem in 2009 is completely wrong today. For example, a recipe to install Ruby on Mac OS X from ...
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Noindex questions without answers
This is mostly a follow-up/bump of noindex and nofollow "bad" questions?, but I have a slightly different proposal.
It's been pointed out by some people * that questions without answers get ...
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Special status for questions with self-answers
I would like others' opinion on removing the up/down vote for the question on a question with a self-answer. We should leave the up/downvote for the answer though, and also automatically mark it as ...
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What are the various SE site bounce rates, where researching and phrasing a question provides the answer so the question doesn't need to be submitted?
Stack Exchange has an excellent draft mechanism (ever seen the faint "draft saved" at the bottom-right of the input box?) that restores what you've said if something happens as you type your question ...
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Disallow entire questions from being entirely bold, italic, ALL CAPS or linked
I recently came across this low-quality post on Stack Overflow (Revision history link). The entire thing was made from a single link:
This gave me an idea for some heuristics which would block ...
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Suggestion to improve the "unanswered" questions page
When viewing the My Tags page of the Unanswered section, I would ideally like to have in front of me a list of questions that I could contribute to in descending order of upvotes.
However, I find ...
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