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18 votes
7 answers
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Formatting and hyperlinks should not count towards the character limit on comments

This is a minor frustration, but I have a comment that I put italics and bold into (using asterisks.) Now I know I should just be happy that I could do it at all, but it seems to me that those should ...
8 votes
1 answer
142 views

Move the Tag Badges category to immediately after Answer Badges on the Badges page

Currently, the Badge Categories on the Help Center > Badges page are ordered in a non-alphabetic, semi-arbitrary manner, likely based on utility. Question Badges Answer Badges Participation Badges ...
4 votes
2 answers
161 views

Any plans for a Data Explorer for Area 51?

As the title says...
17 votes
1 answer
189 views

Is there a way to see deleted Area 51 proposals, to learn from what went wrong?

I asked if there was an SE site where I could ask driving questions, and I was told in a comment that someone tried to start an Area 51 proposal called "On the road", which covered what I wanted, ...
27 votes
1 answer
230 views

FAQ sidebar for per site metas

Meta Stack Exchange has a nice side bar over when you are on the main page (the one you hit when you go to the 'meta' link, not the 'questions' tab). It's great. You can see there is a 'faq' ...
4 votes
1 answer
70 views

Help Center for Area 51

Is area 51 going to have the help center? The content would be different, but I like the idea of the help center and I think we should be consistent across all of the sites.
17 votes
2 answers
232 views

Incentive for proposing and voting on tag Synonyms

Right now you can visit the tag synonyms page and see the synonyms that have been suggested but not yet approved. What incentive does the regular user have to go to that page, click on the tag, go to ...
36 votes
4 answers
868 views

Give moderators a tool to invalidate votes between users

Vote fraud happens on Stack Exchange sites, it is a natural consequence of the reputation system and one of the duties of a moderator is to deal with cases of suspected vote fraud. There are various ...
14 votes
2 answers
237 views

Give diamond moderators back the ability to merge users

The merge user interface was updated a while back according to Shog9 when this happened it broke the ability for Mods to request on the behalf of the user. Can we get that back? It's difficult for ...
2 votes
1 answer
72 views

Flag as duplicate option on Area51

When browsing Area51, I came across a proposal which was an exact duplicate of another proposal. (this and this). When I went to flag it, I saw there was no option for flagging as a duplicate. ...
11 votes
1 answer
318 views

Enable the intrinsic sitename tag blacklist on older sites

I was going through the "blacklisted user input" page on Physics, and I noticed that the standard intrinsic tag blacklist that stops users from entering the site name as a tag (e.g. ^physics$) was ...
50 votes
9 answers
1k views

Change "comment" to "critique or request clarification"

Got around to talking about comment flags with Robert Cartaino this morning... We're working on rejiggering the flagging options to make it a bit more obvious when stuff should be flagged, with the ...
13 votes
1 answer
269 views

i.sstatic.net is missing IPv6 DNS resolution

Cloudflare is about one of the easiest way to get a domain served over both IPv4 and IPv6. However the new image hosting domain doesn't have any AAAA records. Would it be too much to ask for images to ...
11 votes
1 answer
404 views

Please enable hotlinking to images hosted under sstatic.net

I have just discovered that the new i.sstatic.net domain does not allow hotlinking. I assume it was done to prevent using the images outside of the SE network, however I kindly ask you to reconsider ...
88 votes
11 answers
2k views

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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