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

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enabling auto reload for askubuntu main questions page

This question on MSO should give you some information on browser tools to do this.
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newest question tab

I think you want: https://askubuntu.com/questions?sort=newest to show them all or https://askubuntu.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest to show unanswered only.
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Comment-Syntax for askubuntu / stackexchange ?

Comments only have a bit of formatting allowed because the purpose of the site is to have good answers, not necessarily comments. If you're leaving a comment to your existing answer, just edit it to …
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Preformatted print AskUbuntu thread to printer or (even better) to PDF

http://www.stackprinter.com/ is a great tool for this.
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New starters to Ask Ubuntu

This is covered in the faq: https://askubuntu.com/faq#howtoask https://askubuntu.com/questions/how-to-ask These are both linked in the same page you ask a question (look on the right, by the form …
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Can we have a list of most viewed questions?

If you're looking for awesomeness sometimes it's not just about views: https://askubuntu.com/questions/greatest-hits
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Warn on mention of /usr/bin

I went through each one, a bunch were closed/duped answers which I flagged for removal, that only leaves a few. If you feel strongly about it you can submit a fix to the answers to use /usr/local inst …
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How to enable receiving Email Notification for responses to my questions

This is available on your user page, click on your name at the top of the page (not on meta but on askubuntu itself, otherwise you'll sub to questions here, which you probably don't want):
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Per tag sidebar links?

I've noticed that on this page on stackapp there's a handy sidebar with links under "Get Started" I was wondering if it was possible to get on Ubuntu SE with individual tags, so that for example when …
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Twitter question intro too long and wordy

I want to start tweeting the good questions and answers, when I did one the tweet text came out like this: Stack Exchange Ubuntu Q: Unity crashes when I move the cursor over it. http://t.co/AnkE8R …
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Allow formatting in tag wiki headers.

According to this answer this appears intentional to keep the pages cleaner. (Thanks for the pointer moberley)
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Twitter question intro too long and wordy

Perhaps something like: Unity crashes when I move the cursor over it - askubuntu.com http://t.co/AnkE8RL or askubuntu.com - Unity crashes when I move the cursor over it - http://t.co/AnkE8RL …
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Ping people via email to get their attention

I've been thinking about this too. To be honest I think you'll be wasting your time. Other than the very hard/impossible questions which we'll always have had a bunch of us trudge through the unanswe …
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Is there a plan to create a new category for Natty questions

11.04 and triaging duplicates outta do the trick.
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Bounty chronology, possible or N/A?

There's now a Bounty tab in your user page: Example: https://askubuntu.com/users/235/jorge-castro?tab=bounties
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