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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It's always difficult to find the yellow brick road when dealing with any group of humans! ;-) Most users are decent and nearly all mean well. You're such an example as otherwise you wouldn't be ask …

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- …

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 …

... 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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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' …

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 …