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Would it be possible to have a "community accepted" feature?
Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. This one, at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said ...
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Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
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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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Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
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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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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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Propose a privilege to sit in the 500 reputation mark
As determined from earlier discussions, the retag privilege serves a lot more confusion and a lot less of its benefit due to the suggested edit system. It must be done away with. It will be done away ...
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Why not merge reputation across Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?
What's the point of having to accumulate rep separately across all these sites? There is clearly a very large overlap between the communities and if people find you trustworthy on one site, then you'...
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Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?
This might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out...
There's a certain behavior among voters on SO that, while understandable, makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive:...
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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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Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer
Often an edit to one of my questions or answers will make it a lot better. The edit can constitute more to the site than someone posting another answer or comment.
Some users make quite a lot of good ...
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Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who ...
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Self-instigated rep recalc [closed]
In a few situations, it's nice to be able to get a rep recalc "on demand." In the past, I've simply pinged Marc Gravell about this, but it would be good not to have to bother him.
As an example, this ...
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Should there be anonymous answers (and questions)?
The question by Joel on Logo got me thinking. This has been raised on UserVoice, but has been declined.
Would someone with lesser rep or a less famous name have received the same number of votes/...
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Minimum reputation for answering your own question should be higher than what is needed to ask
If we're implementing this feature, why don't we also require that users have at least 1.5 times the amount of reputation needed to ask their current question in order to answer their current question?...
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