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Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions [duplicate]
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as ...
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Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions deals with various ways of rewarding the finding of duplicates, a tough and increasingly necessary janitorial task.
Here's a concrete suggestion:
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How about a difficulty rating for questions?
It might be useful to add a drop down field "Difficulty" for questions. With a very limited set of options, say:
Beginner
Advanced
Expert
This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a ...
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Off topic questions and redirect to affiliated sites [duplicate]
When someone votes to close an off topic question, Stack Overflow shows a list of five affiliated sites that could be appropriate for that question, namely:
Meta Stack Overflow
Server Fault
Super ...
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Please charge rep for questions after threshold
There was a suggestion on uservoice - now down, that really illustrate the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking meaningless, ridiculous question after question to gain rep. We ...
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Asking days badges
A couple of months ago, I suggested a set of badges for asking questions. The responses were... mixed. The top answer can be summarized:
In practice, all this would do is encourage people to ask yet ...
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Related questions in "Ask Question" page is better than the search tool
When I search for similar questions that I am going to ask, I usually can't find anything through the search box on Stack Overflow.
But when I enter my question on the "Ask Question" page, ...
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Please don't require answer votes to be cast before question votes
So now we get 10 extra question votes. But the way this is implemented is… bizarre. After casting 30 votes, we may cast 10 more votes on questions, regardless of what we voted on before.
I generally ...
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Does SO need social networking features to improve the experience for expert users?
No, not like this:
Hear me out!
As Stack Overflow grows, it becomes increasingly ridden with extremely newbie and mediocre questions. It's just natural. The team are fighting hard to keep the crap ...
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Mark questions to receive notifications and updates? [duplicate]
Right now there isn't a great way to monitor the questions that I am interested in following. What I seem to do now is go to my recent history for questions I have commented on, and then link to the ...
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Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions
Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:
Reward existing answer
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
Why not enable one to reward ...
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Another take on canonical answers: Add a "canonical" vote
When closing a question as a duplicate, it is becoming harder and harder to search for a good original as the pool of questions and answers grows and grows.
While the new dupe closing dialog is a ...
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Community ♦ should discriminate more when bumping unanswered questions
I'm getting a lot of old questions on the front page that were bumped by the Community user. I understand that this is usually a Good Thing, to get some attention for buried questions, but should ...
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The Ability to Hide Questions
I was wondering how hard it would be to enable a 'hiding' option that let me hide certain questions that I don't want to see. That way if it was a very active question that I have no interest in, I ...
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Auto Loading of New Questions
NOTE: This has probably been asked already, but I am unable to find it. If such is the case, please post a link to that question in the comments. Here, I will try to explain how I think this problem ...
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