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Multiple closure reasons

When someone votes to close a question, and I agree that it should be closed, but for a different reason, and the question ultimately is closed, the box displayed suggests that I agreed it should be ...
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Can we have the suggested questions' titles parsed by default?

The suggested questions' titles here are not parsed: I find this a bit odd, because they are indeed parsed in other scenarios, like this: Why aren't the titles parsed when suggesting questions? ...
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Should we include a disclaimer for people to include their definitions in questions?

This has been bugging me lately. A very large amount of questions ask for proofs of certain facts which are 100% definition dependent. Since we've made a huge progress with homework as to include ...
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Display votes for individual posts on the user popup window

Getting upvotes on the main page adds an entry to list that is displayed when you hover over your user name Can we have that on meta too? I'd like to know what people vote on, but it's difficult ...
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Highlight Pending Reviews [duplicate]

I recently started reviewing posts on Math.SE. However, whenever I go to the review page, most of the time it shows that there is nothing to review. I need to keep refreshing the page and keep looking ...
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What about restricting the number of featured questions?

Jyrki said it: IMHO the bounty system worked better, when there were <10 featured questions. Absolutely, I'd like to add. There are currently 23 with bounty of 50 8 with 100 2 with 150 2 ...
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Can we have bounty filters for the featured questions?

Can we have filters for the featured questions according to their bounty? The list became a little crowded recently...
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Set First Bounty at a Lower Amount & Lower Bounty Multiple?

Inasmuch as the bounty system can help, it may less actionable and usable for new users, in view of the OPs of How to grab users' attention on an old question? and I have a question that has been ...
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rush to proof --suggested solution [duplicate]

Reading through meta I found a very long, passionate thread about the tendency of people to rush to post an answer, sometimes a very thin answer, thus pre-empting people who are more thoughtful, have ...
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Reforming closure's reputation: ideas to make closure more useful, less scary and more likely to be undone

To make a long discussion short, this is one suggestion to help reform the public image of closure at math.SE. I'd like to propose that we should be thinking of it more like a wheel clamp, and less ...
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Closing an answered question as a duplicate of an unanswered question

This request for re-open votes gives an example of a question which has been closed as a duplicate but the "duplicate" question has an answer while the original does not. Curious. I do not think that ...
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Why doesn't commenting bump questions?

According to the answer on this page, comments do not bump questions. Why is this? I understand that comments are generally considered to be secondary to answers, but they are often used for ...
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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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