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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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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 …
4
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Accepted
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 …
11
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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 …
6
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Accepted
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 …
5
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Accepted
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 …
19
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Accepted
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 …
8
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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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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.
0
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What to do with answers that should be comments, but get deleted?
Yes - giving normal LQ-reviewers the power to convert answers to comments is useful!
I agree that we should save good but wrongly posted comments of new users and convert more of them instead of dele …
0
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What to do with answers that should be comments, but get deleted?
Okay - not more power for 2k users, but the reflagging option sounds good!
I agree that we should save good but wrongly posted comments of new users and convert more of them instead of delete them.
I …
0
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What to do with answers that should be comments, but get deleted?
No - we do not need any changes! Just go on and delete them.
I totally disagree with the questioner's view and see no need to change anything. Answers that should have been comments should get delete …