Questions tagged [feature-request]
Proposals for new features on the Stack Exchange network, or requests for a change to an existing feature. On posts tagged feature-request, voting may indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposed change, in addition to the quality or usefulness of the post itself. Feature requests are not brought to the company's attention until and unless a [status-review] tag is added by a moderator or employee.
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Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted
Currently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user themselves. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think ...
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Mark a comment as the answer to a question
I have a question and have seen others to which the best and most relevant answer (at least the one that solved my particular problem) is placed in the comments to the question as opposed to the ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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Add the ability to ignore users
Stack Overflow has successfully borrowed at least one XBox feature (Achievements). I'd like to see another feature borrowed as well.
Let's say I'm playing Halo online and another player is being a ...
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Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge
With the addition of Recent Activity a while back it became much easier to know what's going on. However, sometimes when a badge is awarded, it's not immediately clear why it happened.
I suggest ...
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Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ...
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Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites
I've been a Stack Exchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on travel.SE. One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different Stack ...
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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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When will data.SE get updated data?
Zypher promised that data.SE would "soon" get live data:
How to count the number of times I earned 200 daily reputation?
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5865764#5865764
I ...
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Badge symbol in notification is of the site you're on, not where badge was earned
It's so cool that the notification reminds you of the colour of badge you've earned. But I am a little puzzled by the symbols:
Is it feasible to use the symbol from the earned site? At the moment it ...
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Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue
The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with ...
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Age close votes after 14 days, regardless of views, allowing recasting
I've been putting this off for a long time...
Close vote aging - the deactivation of votes that haven't resulted in a question being closed - is a critical part of the vote-to-close system, but has ...
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Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?
The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.
It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what ...
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Disable migration for questions older than 60 days
This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems.
The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels ...
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Add an "I don't understand" option for review audits
Background
This is somewhat specific to Stack Overflow. My concern is the "I understand" button that appears when you fail a Review Audit.
I had this experience twice recently (after never ...
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