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Show banner asking for nominations only when user has enough reputation
When visiting Tor Stack Exchange, I'm seeing the following banner:
Want to help moderate this community? We need more candidates in the ongoing election!
It's a decent idea for getting more ...
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Always preserve votes from users who are voluntarily removed
Refer here.
Summarily invalidating all votes from a user who has asked for their account to be removed is both incredibly disruptive and unnecessary. If a user asks to be removed from the site, they ...
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Why automatically upvoting all answers with 0 votes by users with a reputation >10000 is a bad idea
This came up once as an idea to improve SO:
Experienced users' answers should be shown above answers of new users. Giving all answers with no votes a free upvote on all Users with at least 10.000 ...
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Have posts start at 3 upvotes
I suggest that new posts (questions and answers) should start at +3 votes by default rather than at 0.
This is meant to have no mechanical effect on the website. It is just a psychological display ...
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Can "Reputation" be adjusted to allow for positive points being awarded to a very helpful/informative comment? [duplicate]
Sometimes the comments under either the question or the answer are the more valuable information. That is, an answer might be just satisfactory, but it's really the comments, and their additional ...
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Display reputation for low-rep candidate as "<1k"
Reputation for low-rep candidates to moderator showed as it is now (i.e. without suffix):
My request is to display reputation for such candidates as "<1k" for consistency with high-rep ones ">=...
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Downvoting an answer during review puts user below minimum reputation requirement for reviewing
Recently my account gained the privilege to review questions on Stack Overflow. While doing this, I came across a low quality answer. Following the review instructions, I downvoted the answer and left ...
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New additional Point Rating for users
Currently, the point rating (PR) is the main user success feedback. Have you ever thought about the new additional point rating (NPR) based on weights?
That would be like this:
A, B, C, D are users.
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Reputation for "correctly" triaging [closed]
Triaging is a mostly thankless job, and I feel like a little bit of a reputation boost for "correctly" triaging (where correctly triaging is triaging in accordance with the final decision) would be ...
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Change wording for banner displayed when user doesn't have enough rep to downvote
Earlier today, I was on the site of a Stack Exchange community that I have joined, but don't yet have 125 reputation, so I can't downvote. I wasn't thinking about that when I tried to downvote an ...
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Allow mods to experience the behavior of the site to user at any lower rep [duplicate]
It would often be convenient to see how the site is behaving for a user at any lower reputation (and without moderator privileges) without having to make a bunch of sockpuppets (which carry risks of ...
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Should the amount of reputation gained and lost be proportional to your actual reputation?
The amount of reputation lost and gained are fixed numbers instead of percentages. This isn't entirely fair for everyone.
For example, a down-vote subtracts 2 reputation from you. To new users, -2 ...
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Reduce reputation requirement to create existing tags
Local creation of a tag on a Stack Exchange site requires a certain number of reputation points.
What about foreign/existing tags, i.e. tags which exist on other (or many) Stack Exchange sites? I feel ...
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change the bounty system [duplicate]
I've had some unlucky bounty questions(unlucky means I didn't find the answer), but now my reputation has gone to someone his answer didn't help, in fact it sometimes went to someone who has answered ...
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Downvotes not shown in Stack Exchange iOS app
Actually, they are shown but not like the upvotes.
If you get upvoted, the number of rep. you received is shown in green on the statistics bar in the upper-right corner near the 'mailbox'. It's ...