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4 votes

Prevent bumping an old question when editing

This has been requested many times. As far as I can tell, there are a few reason why it still hasn't been implemented: Even high-rep users make mistakes Bumping a question makes them visible to oth …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
6 votes

What about using a "poor-english" tag?

There's a general policy that outlaws "meta tags". These are tags that don't describe the content specifically. E.g. questions-that-contain-an-assumption, big-list, beginner. These are all unwelcome. …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
17 votes
1 answer
116 views

Detecting the language a question is written in

It would be great if the system could detect the language of a question, and pop up a little notice: Please note that this site is in English only Your question will be flagged for moderator attentio …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
8 votes
0 answers
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Is oneboxing for Google+ posts coming to the chat?

Oneboxing is one of the brilliantly useful features of our chat system. Could we also have oneboxing for Google+ posts and profiles? I'm told it's the future.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
3 votes
Accepted

why captchas + login?

So, first of all: There's no need to create an account. The system, and the users, are perfectly happy with you just posting 'anonymously'. Do you get Spam from people, who do a regular login? …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
5 votes

Should we create a wish-list tag?

No It's out of the scope of the FAQ, and the Bug Tracker of the app in question is, and probably will be for some time, the correct place to put wishlist bugs. The problem with wishlist bugs is that …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
6 votes

How can we make citing AskUbuntu easier?

Math Overflow has a cite button on answers, generating something like this: \bib{MO63167}{misc}{ title={Decomposing a discrete signal into a sum of rectangle functions}, author={Gabriel ( …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
12 votes
Accepted

How to defend against negative incorrect votes

We ultimately leave it to the community to counter unreasonable downvotes with upvotes. The best you can do is improve your posts, but there is no mechanism to demand that users explain themselves whe …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
48 votes
1 answer
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Can we have highlighted code blocks in the chat rooms?

At the moment, code posted to the chat rooms only differs in the font that's used. It would be nice if, like in comments, the code was highlighted by a different background colour. The way it is now, …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
1 vote
Accepted

Tag Synonym Request: [processes] -> [process]?

Great suggestion. Pluralisations should always be synonyms yes. I've created and approved it.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
8 votes

Is there an askubuntu button I can put on my site?

There aren't any official ones. In case they're any use, I made these for you: You probably want to change it, so here's the SVG Version of it.
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