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Feature of posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is not useful and it leads to incorrect answers / comments
Posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is allowed but for commenting 50 reputations are required.
A guest user (who doesn't have an account) can't accrue any ...
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Having a chat server for every site
This might seem like a stupid question but I recently found out (okay maybe not that recently) that there are unique chat servers for Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange. Why cannot we have a chat ...
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Would anyone support a feature request to give users a "no comments" option when posting a question?
Who would support this idea of a "comments off" toggle on your own questions when you post a question? Requests for clarification would be submitted, and publicly displayed after approval - ...
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Implementing uber-votes on questions
This question is essentially a variation of Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions in the spirit of GentlePurpleRain's comment here.
I reproduce the linked question and comment below:
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user1205410
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Should the Community user's reputation be displayed or hidden?
Now and then, the Community user is shown as the last user who modified a post:
Since it's a bot and not a real user, would it make sense not to show its reputation (and badges)? The concept of ...
GlorfindelMod
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Decrease the gain of reputation for popular questions or answers above certain limits [duplicate]
As I'm new on Stack Overflow I wanted to share my point of view regarding reputation score.
I think it's unfair and discouraging for newcomers that old users have billions in score on Stack Overflow.
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user1049354
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Next privilege progress bar: show marginal instead of overall progress
Currently the next privilege progress bar shows 'overall' progress. It would make more sense to show the marginal progress starting from the previously achieved privilege (i.e. reset to 0% after each ...
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I want to reward someone for writing a good answer for my question, but without starting a bounty [duplicate]
I want to reward to someone for writing a good answer for my question.
This reward system will be only for the question owner and who gave the answer.
Users only will give a reward for an answer of ...
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99 reputation yet getting "Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question" [duplicate]
Asking this here because I think this is very likely to be a general behaviour.
Some months ago I wrote an answer to a question in Software Engineering that got very bad feedback (two negative votes ...
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Should we reward parallel questions?
Former co-founder Jeff Atwood seemed to think parallel paths to a solution were a good thing. He wrote,
some duplication is desirable. There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a ...
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Include relevant site participation for privilege threshold instead of reputation alone
Currently, the privilege is decided by a minimum reputation, say 2000 for edits.
Suppose Alice has been a long-time user and keeps the site clean and organized by making quality edits, and has a rep ...
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Can users without the required reputation suggest new tags? [duplicate]
On the Stack Exchange boardgames' domain I sadly was not able to submit my response, as the game I was posting about is not so popular (#). So I just went on and put any random tag on it. I am really ...
user580199
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Why Stack Exchange is no longer a fun place for learning and sharing knowledge, and how we can change this [closed]
I have been a longtime lurker on Stack Exchange, and enjoyed using it as a reference and learning tool.
I am happy to see it grow, but I am increasingly worried about where it's going.
Prompted by ...
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Reputation Expiration and Deterioration [duplicate]
I think that making reputation temporary will increase constant participation, since the reputation will slowly decrease if they do not participate and gain more reputation. I thought of two ways to ...
user495830
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feature request: develop more ways to build reputation for new users [duplicate]
I don't have an exact solution to offer, but as a longstanding low reputation user I find it frustrating and discouraging that I have to wait for someone to upvote my questions before I can be ...
