User Mad Scientist - Meta Stack Exchange

1274 votes

13 answers

19k views

Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted

asked Mar 15, 2012 at 11:50

325 votes

5 answers

5k views

Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

asked Jun 5, 2023 at 14:33

250 votes

7 answers

7k views

Why is SE gutting the CM team?

asked Jan 13, 2020 at 18:08

194 votes

1 answer

10k views

Why is the Google Analytics cookie defined as "strictly necessary" and saved without consent?

asked Jan 6, 2022 at 10:42

167 votes

4 answers

2k views

Add escalation system to chat flags

asked Nov 18, 2011 at 13:51

155 votes

3 answers

3k views

Should spam posts be edited?

asked Oct 22, 2011 at 12:56

149 votes

2 answers

3k views

Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism

asked Mar 31, 2014 at 9:00

145 votes

4 answers

3k views

Ads on SE sites are excessively animated, irrelevant, dubious and resource-intensive

asked Jun 15, 2019 at 12:51

138 votes

5 answers

1k views

Don't delete comments with link to duplicate if they are modified

asked Jul 27, 2012 at 16:45

135 votes

4 answers

2k views

Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta

asked Aug 20, 2019 at 16:13

135 votes

2 answers

11k views

Is SE allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

asked Sep 2, 2019 at 21:26

134 votes

7 answers

2k views

SE is breaking the reputation privilege system

asked Jul 23, 2023 at 12:50

129 votes

2 answers

3k views

Off-site avatar images are a privacy risk

asked Jun 2, 2019 at 10:47

125 votes

4 answers

994 views

Add explicit support for citing scientific literature

asked Dec 18, 2011 at 12:29

123 votes

3 answers

1k views

Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review

asked Feb 16, 2012 at 16:29

121 votes

3 answers

952 views

Allow users to hide connections between accounts

asked Sep 19, 2013 at 21:11

116 votes

4 answers

780 views

Beta sites should be in the Data Explorer

asked Jul 11, 2013 at 20:19

115 votes

4 answers

1k views

Auto-delete/destroy 1 rep user when their post is deleted as spam

asked Jan 28, 2013 at 11:47

110 votes

1 answer

723 views

Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging

asked Oct 17, 2011 at 8:22

106 votes

5 answers

3k views

Don't let questions stick to the top of the hot questions list forever [duplicate]

asked Jul 20, 2011 at 8:11

104 votes

1 answer

2k views

Stop tracking users without their consent

asked Apr 8, 2022 at 19:56

99 votes

1 answer

2k views

Yet another inappropriate, scammy and NSFW ad

asked Oct 15, 2019 at 19:16

97 votes

0 answers

696 views

Will SE shut down the free API for good? [duplicate]

asked Jun 9, 2023 at 15:13

89 votes

1 answer

530 views

Make locking posts more granular

asked Mar 6, 2012 at 12:23

83 votes

3 answers

573 views

Don't hide the "closed", "duplicate", or "migrated" state of questions on user question lists

asked Jan 24, 2022 at 23:30

82 votes

1 answer

587 views

Regular users should be able to vote to undelete moderator-deleted posts

asked Jun 1, 2014 at 9:29

76 votes

1 answer

652 views

Fix the misleading parts of the new policy on AI-authored content and feature it

asked Jun 4, 2023 at 8:41

75 votes

4 answers

971 views

Add a "number of active users" statistic

asked Aug 20, 2011 at 15:54

74 votes

2 answers

2k views

Are interstitial ads, video ads and autoplay audio ads coming to SE?

asked Sep 19, 2019 at 19:58

73 votes

1 answer

426 views

Explicitly mention who decided the fate of a flag

asked Jan 3, 2015 at 23:29

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284 Questions

Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted

Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press

Why is SE gutting the CM team?

Why is the Google Analytics cookie defined as "strictly necessary" and saved without consent?

Add escalation system to chat flags

Should spam posts be edited?

Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism

Ads on SE sites are excessively animated, irrelevant, dubious and resource-intensive

Don't delete comments with link to duplicate if they are modified

Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta

Is SE allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

SE is breaking the reputation privilege system

Off-site avatar images are a privacy risk

Add explicit support for citing scientific literature

Allow non-bumping minor edits, but review them on /review

Allow users to hide connections between accounts

Beta sites should be in the Data Explorer

Auto-delete/destroy 1 rep user when their post is deleted as spam

Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging

Don't let questions stick to the top of the hot questions list forever [duplicate]

Stop tracking users without their consent

Yet another inappropriate, scammy and NSFW ad

Will SE shut down the free API for good? [duplicate]

Make locking posts more granular

Don't hide the "closed", "duplicate", or "migrated" state of questions on user question lists

Regular users should be able to vote to undelete moderator-deleted posts

Fix the misleading parts of the new policy on AI-authored content and feature it

Add a "number of active users" statistic

Are interstitial ads, video ads and autoplay audio ads coming to SE?

Explicitly mention who decided the fate of a flag