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Allow an edit to notify downvoters: "I think I've fixed the issue now - please check"
To me, a downvote usually indicates a problem with an answer. When I downvote it's to mark the answer as having a problem, not the person. If the answer is fixed, I want to remove that downvote - but ...
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Any way to send a personal message to another user?
There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting ...
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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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Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where ...
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Allow downvoting comments
Answers and questions allow both upvoting and downvoting - comments, however, only allow upvoting.
I think it would be useful to allow downvoting of comments for two reasons:
First, if you ...
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Don't remove the @ part of my comment
Recently I posted a comment on Stack Overflow on an answer by (say) Felix. He replied to the comment, and when replying to him I started my comment with "@Felix". Stack Overflow stripped that ...
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LaTeX on Stack Overflow? [closed]
MathOverflow has an awesome engine where you can embed LaTeX in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going on Stack Overflow?
I think it’d be appropriate as I at least ...
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Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam
This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as ...
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Tab for questions that are labeled with favorite tags
Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our favorite tags, showing recent first? I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.
It'd be like the ...
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The title word filter is one of the worst ideas ever implemented on SO
There are numerous (1, 2, 3) questions concerning this problem. I realize this is a borderline duplicate, but I'll re-iterate the futility of this particular filter and why it should be outright ...
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Reset votes on migrated questions
All votes should be reset when a question is migrated. That's votes on the question, in both directions, as well as votes on any answer.
At the moment, downvotes are cleared from the question. Yes, it ...
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Mark answer as favorite/star [duplicate]
Often times I am not interested in the question so much as I am the answer. Unfortunately, the only site option for bookmarking an optimal answer is to bookmark the question. This leaves you having to ...
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BLOCK QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS
RECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT THIS QUESTION WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER — BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF ...
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Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers
It would be great to have the option to fold code snippets, entire questions and answer posts on a user basis and allow defining some generic foldable regions within the question/answer editor.
Non ...
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Introduce a "general reference" close reason
There is a certain amount of questions that are absolutely trivial in nature: How to format a date, how to concatenate a string, et cetera. Questions that could be solved by taking a look into the ...