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

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Retract a reopen vote

This feature request on Meta Stack Exchange is open and neither resolved nor marked as by-design/won't-fix since 2013. I therefore think it's unlikely that anything will happen to it in the near futu …
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11 votes
0 answers
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Add a copy of the question title above answers in the review screen?

I am reviewing first-posts and late-answers for a few weeks now and something is annoying me: Always when there is an answer to be reviewed, I have to scroll down (if the answer is long enough) to see …
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2 votes

Format code with line numbers

You could run it through cat -n (see man cat for more info) on your computer to automatically add numbers to each line, but to my knowledge there is no way to make Stack Exchange add them automaticall …
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42 votes
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Give AskUbuntu its own "magic link": [AU] instead of [ubuntu.SE]

You know those "magic links" you can use in comments or chat? You type [se] and get Stack Exchange or [so] for Stack Overflow. In comments, there is also e.g. [edit] which links to the current questio …
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4 votes
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Option to add questions to reading list/subscribe to them?

You can star a question to mark it as favourite. You'll see them in your profile at the tab "Favourites". If anything changes, the question in the list will get highlighted and a bubble with the num …
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11 votes

Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions?

I think running an automated script over each new question to look out for keywords like windows, mint, kali, etc. is a bad idea and would result in far too many false positives. Reviewing all of them …
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2 votes
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Display review queue length in the actual review page

I would like to see how many pending reviews are left in the queue while I review. For long queues like the Close votes this makes no difference, but it would be nice to know in short queues whether I …
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6 votes
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Flag to close because the question is answered

By definiton, "unanswered" questions are questions that have no accepted answer or not any answer with a score of at least +1. So if the answer is good enough, a simple upvote also marks the question …
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24 votes
0 answers
177 views

Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?

I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here: Make a more flexible and …
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0 votes
1 answer
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Proposal to edit the Close-Reason "Not about Ubuntu" to also include questions about other *...

The reason why I am proposing this is that I saw this question which is about an android app that the user falsely expected to find in the Ubuntu-touch repository. My reaction would have been to clos …
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5 votes
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We should have an anti-spam filter at the 'Ask a question' stage

We already have an unofficial spam detection system. There's a bot called SmokeDetector which is maintained by some users that checks every new post on all sites using a great load of filters and if …
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19 votes
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Let's burninate [mint]

We also have various windows tags as well as e.g. macosx, kali or debian although we do not support questions that are specific to those foreign operating systems. Their main purpose are dual-boot que …
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8 votes

Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner

Note: This answer now also exists as separate feature request here on meta.askubuntu.com. Further updates and discussion should take place over there. If you like this answer, please make sure you als …
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-2 votes
1 answer
117 views

Moderators should be able to mark questions as answered

I know about similar requests, but after stumbling over this question (just an example; question poster answered himself using edits instead of an answer) I thought you should at least add an option i …
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-6 votes

50 Reputation on comments is too much? Add new function to suggest?

I would lower the comment reputation requirement to e.g. 20 and add comments of users below 50 to the "First Post Review" queue. It is usually the emptiest one anyway, so that should work.
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