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Could we have ANSI control sequence parsing in code blocks?

tl;dr I don't believe it's worth implementing this. If we just search for 0m* on main, you get 304 results. Keeping in mind that those 304 results including 0m are not supposed to be coloured outputs, …
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A Quick Suggestion About Commenting

Flag those answers as not an answer, and it will be taken care of. Spam comments are harder to spot and moderate. Answers that are added by new users will be listed in the review queues (any user wit …
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Add "I am command line literate" flag to Profile or Question

When I answer a question, most of the time I try to answer it in a way that is understandable by anyone. I don't think the questioner's skill level is important, as answers are not only for the perso …
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OS Release in Questions

I'm still against the idea for the same reasons for the answers linked in Mark's comments. When should we use the versions tags? What does "version-specific" mean in "Only use version tag if the que …
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7 votes

Should it be made mandatory to add a comment when downvoting questions?

I am one of the downvoters to this post, and I'll add an answer. I'm against this because I believe the bad far outweighs the good in this case, from long debates to users getting attacked etc. If you …
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Add related posts during question reviews

When reviewing First Posts questions, it would be very helpful to add the Related section which we can see in the right side bar of a question page like this one. This can make reviewing questions sl …
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Persistance of review number on top bar even after review is complete

What @Oli explained is only valid for 10k+ users. Being at 2.2k rep, you only see suggested edits. The review process in SE all happens using AJAX. Which basically means that, each time you do an act …
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Could we improve the visibility of links

Instead of a user script, I highly recommend using an addon like Stylish. This works on Firefox, not sure if there is a similar extension for Chrome. After you install the addon, you can then manuall …
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Sort unanswered questions within my tags by date?

You are somewhat able to this at the moment with the advanced search functionality (Well you only sort by newest). If you search for intags:mine is:question isanswered:no hasaccepted:no closed:no in t …
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Query for Basic information

I think the times we need this information is way too small to justify asking from them every time. If we need that info, we can ask for them in a comment. Maybe it can be added to the Proforma Comme …
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9 votes
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Mention official Ubuntu flavors in the off-topic close reason

Currently, one of the off-topic close reason's text is the following: This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super Us …
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Merge [meta:down-votes] and [meta:downvoting]

Here on meta, we have two tags regarding downvotes down-votes and downvoting. Can we merge them into one? Currently down-votes has 8 questions and downvoting has 63 questions. In my opinion, though, w …
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Can the audit system not use fake edits?

This is by design. Audits are not to make sure you know how to fix a post. They are there to deter "robo-reviewers" who click approve without bothering to check posts to hunt for badges. Making it ver …
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Canonical questions

@user.dz's answer is all good, but I want to add (opinionated) reasons why your approach will be hard to achieve. You have a lot of meta-information in your question's body. Out of the whole text, th …
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