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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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New Badge feature

There's already reputation badges. IMO this would take too much settings and configuration. if anything, the first one about a month could be bronze, 10 rep every day for a year could be silver. if …
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Show how complicated an answer is

Ask Ubuntu and Stack Exchange is not a school, and there is no valid, usable mechanism to actually control the level of knowledge necessary to understand an answer or post. Attempting to build such a …
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Users under 500 rep need to leave a comment as to why they downvoted?

Quoted from Gilles's answer on Down voting consequences ahead of this question being marked as a dupe When you downvote, a pop-up appears suggesting that you leave a comment. Mandating a comment …
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Reward for flags?

Ambiguous original post is ambiguous - this section makes the assumption that "+1" means rep. Just like voting in Meta doesn't get you rep, you shouldn't be given rewards for flagging things for …
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Can we get a tag for the 'at' command for Ubuntu?

We don't need a tag for every software or utility tool. The nearest tag is schedule, I believe. It should likely be coupled with command-line for the at program and related questions. The schedule t …
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Required info for wireless-tagged questions

Disallowing wireless questions without stating "output of " [command list] is a bad idea because we will have a lot of questions which are for wireless things but do not need the output as identified …
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The checkmark is too large compared to the voting buttons

TL;DR: I disagree with the OP, and believe the current UI works for this site (that is, the Green Answer Accepted checkbox circle is fine); therefore, we do not need to be having everything alignin …
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remove one question every 20 minutes limit

Until such time as you gain 125 reputation from the site (and therefore have your New User Limits removed here on Ask Ubuntu) you cannot post more than 1 question every 40 minutes on the site and its …
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Can we have an integrated filter to detect AI generated content?

There is currently no foolproof filtering system that can detect AI content. The best you can do is flag something as suspected AI content and then moderators can review to determine if it is AI. One …
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#TheGreatIncredibleHashTag in the chat rooms

No. This isn't twitter. Why do we need this for the thousands and thousands of messages, and why do we need to burden SE's network and DB with another several hundred gigs of additional indexing?
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Please make the "Ask Question" button on AskUbuntu more prominent

I don't think its necessary. While some people may not be able to see the button, 95% of the people out there are able to see it (supported by how many new questions we get in any given time period g …
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Feature Request: Allow commenting on awarded bounties

Clarification of the problem: Your misinterpretation of what a bounty is, and should be used for. A bounty is designed to draw attention to a question, in the hopes of getting an answer so that if …
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Should we get reputation points for passing review tests?

No, there are no reputation rewards for passing review tests, nor should there be. The ability to review things in the queues is a privilege, it should not be giving you additional capabilities or re …
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No tag for ubuntu on askubuntu.com?

status-declined If you are posting on Ask Ubuntu, it's implied you're using Ubuntu or an official variant of Ubuntu. That's why we don't have an ubuntu tag - it's superfluous. Use the version tag t …
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Should Elementary OS be added to the flag text "This is not about an official Ubuntu flavor."?

status-declined We have a very limited amount of space for statements in close reasons - if we could fit other OSes there we probably would but we are out of space in that reason's length to do that r …
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