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Users with 10 reputation points hop the fence of protected questions while one with less than 15 can't even upvote an answer
Users with 10 reputation points hop the fence of protected questions while one with less than 15 can't even upvote an answer
"Questions should be protected when they are attracting poor answers ...
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Add option "ask a new question" to page not found
The page "Page not found [newline] This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation." list various options how to continue but fails to list the option to ask the same ...
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Is the algorithm which reviews questions when one clicks "review your question" customizable on a per-site basis?
Since at least a few years ago (I cannot locate the announcement of this feature's introduction) most SE sites require at least two clicks to post a question -- first, one clicks the "Review your ...
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Special checkbox to indicate questions people have while wresting with problems related to COVID response [duplicate]
I propose a special checkbox: "I'm a researcher/programmer/scientist/engineer/professional doing some work towards COVID response". Available on any site in the SE network.
This could be a problem ...
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How can one avoid the 40 min compulsory break in between two questions? [duplicate]
If someone has an account on Stack Overflow and also on Mathematics Stack Exchange and Physics Stack Exchange and if that person asks a question on Stack Overflow at 11am, they will have to wait until ...
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Pre-fill question-box with text for new users (A/B study proposal)
Problem statement
Many new users are unaware of how to formulate a good question, particularly for the technical sites like Stack Overflow, Super User (OK, all of SE). This leads to many new ...
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Highlight the part of a question that leads with "My question is"
If a question contains "My question is ..." the paragraph should automatically be given a different visual cue. For example, giving it a nice blue or green background.
Askers often put a lot of ...
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Help tooltips for new users asking their very first question
There are review tools for first posts but, I am talking about Ask Question screen tool-tips that will be shown when you are posting your very first question in a SX site...
It may consist of 3 tool-...
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Code comparison when asking
What if <Code Sample>s and formatted code will compare with existing questions' <Code Sample>s and formatted code and let the user (who asks) to know if there are similar question?
For ...
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Change "What's your Programming question, Be Specific" to "What would someone search for if they had your issue?"
I've seen a lot of issues recently where users put in a half-baked title, like:
What is the difference between these two lines of code? (About 1 Million Results)
Since I believe in organic titles, ...
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Keep the body input field expanded in the android app
In the android app all the submit question fields shrink to one line each when the keyboard is showing. Pressing back to close the keyboard makes the body field expand so that it takes up the ...
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When do you block new inexperienced users from asking questions?
Rationale:
This is intended to address an issue with new users that have no reputation. If they are inexperienced, they are very unlikely to gain any reputation very quickly. This results in them ...
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Add a timer to the rate-limiting messages for asking questions [duplicate]
I'm getting this message:
You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period
Could you add a timer, so that I know how much time I have to wait?
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Change "You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period" to non-positive scoring questions only [duplicate]
I'm getting this message:
You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period
I understand we don't want users flooding the stack. However, when these 6 questions are good, then why not allow the ...
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Enabling asking non-questions on meta [duplicate]
Sometimes I simply want to notify moderators/administers of problems (e.g. synonym suggestion), and I think there should be "non-question" check-box when asking a question, and instead of accepting ...
