You have an idea for a new feature on the site, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Allow the community to accept answers to abandoned questions
Often, someone asks a question, gets one or more good answers, and then leaves without ever accepting one. I would suggest that after a certain amount of time has passed that users of sufficiently ...
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Enable reputation tooltip for close voters
It already works for comments, that the reputation is shown as a tooltip when you hover over the user link of the commentator.
It can't be be a big deal to enable it for users that voted to close a ...
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Badge for making answers CW
I'd like to propose badges for using the community wiki feature. Two ideas:
Bronze badge: made first CW answer.
Silver badge: made answer with at least $n$ upvotes CW.
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Is there a way to follow answerers? [duplicate]
Is there a way to follow answerers ? For example at present we have facility to follow tags like say "elementary number theory" . similarly is there a way to follow answerers .
Why I am asking this ...
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Open links in new tab
Feature request: When clicking on a link in a question or answer, the target should be opened in a new tab.
Motivation: I'd say that between $\frac{3}{8}$ and $\frac{4}{19}$ of the times I click ...
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Display image description as tooltip
Could a tooltip with the image description
![enter image description here][1]
be displayed when hovering over an image?
This would make additional use, next to ...
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Rescaling images after posting
Sometimes my images nicely fit into the rest of the body of the question. Most of the time they are too large. Is it possible to rescale them after posting?
If not can we have that?
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Can we have some kind of mark for users or at least for specific questions in which the user don't want a complete answer?
I've read this answer.
There will be some students who highly desire to learn problem solving techniques and others who simply want an answer. Likewise there will be some experts who truly care ...
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Retracting flags
I flagged the first version of this answer for obvious reasons.
After the edit, the flag is of no use.
Is it possible to retract it? If not, this is a feature request.
Assuming moderators would ...
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Require only one reviewer to approve edit
I endorse requiring two reviewers to reject an edit by a user under 2K, but why shouldn't a user who could make that very same edit be able to approve it unilaterally?
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Question lists build on favourite tag list [duplicate]
What I would like is to have lists of questions that only lists the questions that have one or more of my favourite tags attached, so that I can have a quick view of newest or featured questions in ...
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A feature request:gender in a member's profile page
It's a hassle to write he/she, him/her, his/her when you refer to a member whose gender is unknown.
So I suggest gender be added to the profile page of a member.
EDIT(Aug. 19, 2003)
Since some ...
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Ban or delay close votes from users who answered a question
Where a user has answered a question, I propose that either
that user cannot vote to close the question
or
the user's close vote ability is suspended on that question for one week
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A feature request:Blocking the removal of a comment which was already quoted
It happens sometimes that a user removes his comment(s).
I think it is okay when nobody replied to them.
However, when other people already replied to them, their time writing the replies was spent ...
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I don't want this person
There are some people that I don't want to use this web site with. I don't want to see their questions, answers, comments and I don't want to let them comment or answer my questions. This doesn't have ...
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1answer
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On question titles
Today I saw an $odd$ $looking$ italicised word in a question title. It turned out that the OP was using double dollars as opposed to the usual stars. So I edited their title. In doing so I discovered ...
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Why there is no timer for upvoting?
As far as I know, you can't upvote two comments in less than 5 seconds. Why don't we have such a system for up/down-voting questions? For example once you vote you can't vote again for 10 or 15 ...
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More shortcuts while editing! Wanted: \$(\$) enter math here \$(\$)-Shortcut
By chance I realized that there are shortcuts in the Question/Answer fields. To my disappointment some useful ones are missing:
ctrl+$X_1$
$ enter math here $
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Title formatting of LaTeX in StackExchange hot questions list
There is the StackExchange menu at the top left on every site in our network. It opens a popup box with Hot Questions, ...
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Flagging Archaeological Edits
The Archaeologist Badge requires one to have edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months. Now, I have no objection to people trying for this badge, but it can be slightly frustrating when someone ...
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Anonymizing questions/answers
If a question is not very popular and one wants to delete it, one may do so. But, after it gets a certain number of upvotes (or possibly some other criteria are met), the owner may no longer choose to ...
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Why is obvious spam put on hold?
This user (among others) has been posting a lot of questions lately which contain nothing but spam. I'm not sure about the reason for the posts, but I would guess it has to do with search engine ...
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how to do mathematical symbols [duplicate]
I am new to Mathematical Stack exchange and am wondering how to add mathematical and logical symbols to my post.
I looked in the faq but there is not even a faq answer about it.
I would like that ...
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Questions without accepted answers and left for months as such flummoxes people.
I found that many newcomers , come , ask question, for which they get a number of answers . But they don't care about accepting an answer . My doubt is , is there not even a single answer that is ...
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M.SE on Public Computers [duplicate]
I use Math.SE from public computers quite often. However, I have few misgivings while logging in my Gmail accout (which I have to log in as I use that id from Math.SE) in public computers. Could we ...
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Can the standard list of reasons for closing a question be extended?
A recent question was put on hold for closure because "... As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking". Since the question was obviously clear enough, the OP, or other ...
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Feature request - but it woudn't be a feature, it'd be a blessing - editing panel and preview side-by-side - fighting lag on large answers!
I've only done a few questions here but already it's grinding on me. Why can't we have the writing-answer panel and the preview panel side by side, rather than below, this means for big answers I ...
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Have You Tried Your Favorite Search-Engine?
I have noticed that quite a few questions asked on SE are answerable through reading wikipedia or performing a basic google search.
I performed the following google search in response to Exhibit A:
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Proposal: “(self-study)” as a tag
Users often post homework questions to MSE without tagging them with "(homework)." If I suspect a post is such, I treat it with skepticism. I will either ask if it is indeed homework or not answer it ...
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Hide comments to view the question
Is it possible to have a button hide comments (or something like that) in order to see the question when we write the answer?
When you write the answer it's often useful to see the question to have ...
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Is there a save draft feature when asking a question?
I may be mistaken, but last time I tried to ask a question, I was unable to finish it so I had to discard it, so does anyone know if there is a save draft feature?
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1answer
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Would A Word Cloud Based On Tags Be Helpful?
It would be nice to see what tags are most popular and how popular they are relative to other tags without reading "this tag has 2000 usages". Perhaps a word cloud of tags (already numbered) cloud be ...
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1answer
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Star Ranking System?
Some really good answers get lost in the shuffle. Perhaps a "answer of the season" would be a convenient way to bring excellent answers a wider audience. Obviously the nomination process would have to ...
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Revise vote down definition to consider appropriateness of answer
This website serves an excellent purpose of supplying answers to those who couldn't find them elsewhere, and I think it's very effective at that... BUT sometimes I find that users miss the point of ...
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Allow closing as duplicate for new questions
One of the changes to the closure system in the recent revamp was that to close something as a duplicate, the suggested duplicate needs to have an upvoted answer.
I suppose that's a good thing when ...
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Should we require a tag that which specifies difficulty of a question?
It's usually hard for me to find questions to answer here because 99% of them are above my level (calculus 1). Should we make a set of tags specifying difficulty to go along with the question? For ...
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'Bug' (?), feature request regarding closing reasons and announcement
As most of you probably know, the reason displayed when a question is closed is the one who got the majority of votes, when it is the case that one reason was picked more than all the others.
In this ...
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Proposal for a new Help Center section: Tagging
It is glad to have a new section called Help Center nowadays, as it can only be edited by diamond (♦) moderators, we can set up credible rules or regulations in here.
But the Help Center still lack ...
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Migrating to MathOverflow
Should not Math.SE implement a close option with migration to MathOverflow?
Would I be encouraged to ask a question there, that is at the appropriate level, despite having asked it here, where it is ...
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Badge proposal: asleep at the wheel
I think it would be kind of cool to have a badge for gaining at least a certain amount of reputation between the end of a 24-hour period of no activity and the next activity. That is, if I were active ...
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Getting out of the META
I noticed that there is not a very straightforward button or tab to click that allows one to leave the meta site and enter the main site and visa versa.
This type of functionality would make using ...
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Extensions to Math.SE
I have been thinking for a while about off-topic questions on Math.SE and feel that it would be a good idea to add sites to the Math.SE page to handle the following types of questions:
Educational ...
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Revision without disruption: “this is a significant revision” checkbox [duplicate]
A post of mine was recently locked, and one of the possible reasons for this is, according to one commenter, was the large number of revisions, which caused the post to be bumped each time.
In view ...
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MathOverflow question links should be auto-converted to the question title
SE software automatically converts short links to questions on the same site to title-based links. For example, the bare URL http://math.stackexchange.com/q/426771 ...
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What is the Math SE logo?
I don't know what the Math Stack Exchange logo is and was wondering if we (the users) could post ideas on a new one and have users vote for the best one... Is that a possibility or no?
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Why votes should stay fixed?
Questions and answers can be edited. Why votes should stay fixed after some time?
I find that the main importance for votes is to give information to the future reader about the question and the ...
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Why do I need to wait 24 hours to award a bounty on an existing answer
Suppose I am reading math.SE and I see that someone has written a truly amazing answer. I feel generous and decide that I should give them some reputation. The bounty system allows and encourages me ...
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Update meta.MO links
This meta (and possibly the main site) had quite a lot of links to the meta.MO site, which is now replaced by a modern SE site. The previous meta was moved to http://tea.mathoverflow.net.
Is it ...
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Minimum for bounty inappropriate for rewarding existing answer
There are actually two issues:
I think it would be great to be able to award a bounty in any amount for an existing answer (to be awarded immediately, never actually going on the list of open ...
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Place to ask for feedback on questions
I am pretty new here. Sometimes I ask a question and it's pretty successful, but sometimes I get barely any upvotes and no answers. The problem is, I'm not sure what I'm doing right when it works and ...
