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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Where is the any key. . .
... and other observations.
We, as a community, are asked to be nicer so how about the SE Employees help us become nicer by providing a question wizard for new users on the SE network???
No, not askin …
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Malicious/Dead link removal Policy, Process, Product requested
As per this AU meta question we've seen links to external sites turn malicious over the years.
So could we have:
A Policy that this will not be allowed any more on the entire SE network?
A Proces …
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answer
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Isn't it time to make the standard system-wide comments more welcoming?
First of all: Please stop thinking:
Stack OverFlow
Super User
Ask Ubuntu
Unix & Linux
...
and start thinking:
Cooking
Veganism & Vegetarianism
English Language & Usage
Worldbuilding
Travel
Home I …
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Add "Please" and "I'm sorry" to standard/canned/pro forma/flag answers
The "standard" comments on all of the "flag" and "close" answers are a tiny bit harsh for first-time users. Couldn't we make them a bit more gentle?
E.g.:
This question has been asked before and al …
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1
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Change starring system in chat?
Here a proposal to a new starring system:
I understand that all of the SE devs are in the US and that they're culturally biased to voting being anonymous.
Starring is not voting: it's in a chat; it' …
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1
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Be nice: How to optimise interaction between Trolls and Unicorns
TL;DR version:
For the sake of argument below, a user showing negative behaviour on this site is called a "Troll" and a user exhibiting positive behaviour a "Unicorn".
I've been pondering about cre …
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Proposal to Change Procedure to Flag Duplicate Answers
This is a proposal on changing this procedure... We'll see where it gets. ;-)
Instead of adding a comment mentioning it's a duplicate, answer the question by referring the user to the duplicate answ …
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Shouldn't Stack Exchange build a Question Wizard? (for beginning users)
Proposal to have all users under 30 reputation follow a question wizard.
Some people just don't use google and they ask questions that have been asked before or they ask unclear question, or off-topi …
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1
answer
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Isn't it time to review the algorithm for letting good answers flow to the top?
I'm pretty sure that back in 2008 when Stack Overflow was created it made perfect sense to have an answer be "accepted" as that was the way forums were (and some still are) run: you ask the OP to chan …
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Accepted
Filtering SPAM on AskUbuntu
If it's just one piece of spam, with very few few people on-line it can takes about 15 minutes before it's finally taken down, but on busy days, it takes about a minute and when we man the spam statio …
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Accepted
feature request : Reasons for down-votes
This has been asked many, many, many times before.
This is very unlikely to ever change as the Stack Exchange network is built in the USA: the programmers, designers and owners of the SE network canno …
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Sorting out SOLVED for good
Good catch! I'm going through them now and closing some of them as "Problem went away all by its own"... (expect the close queue to grow by a whatever my max/day Close Votes are)
On the other hand: …
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Why is there no spell checking in title and edit summary?
Because the title is
<input id="title" name="title" type="text" maxlength="300" tabindex="100" placeholder="What's your bug, feature request, or meta-discussion topic? Be specific." class="ask-title- …
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Are social announcements not related to Ubuntu or the site on-topic on Meta?
I'm not a moderator, so I'll just be stating a personal and subjective opinion:
The Prime Directive is:
Meta Ask Ubuntu is the part of the site where users discuss the workings and policies of As …
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Accepted
Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes
All >20K users have access to moderation tools and can vote to delete questions (or if really bad I think -3 or -5 we can immediately delete them)
In this case, read all the comments as it's being han …