You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Gold tag-badge users closing questions as pre-written off-topic duplicates
I often see questions which are blatantly off-topic, like, for instance, when this question (can only be viewed with enough rep, as it has been deleted) showed up.
The shown c# code had been
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Add clarifying text to the tags section of the profile
I'm confused by the tag sections in my profile, and I'm wondering if others might be as well. I noticed that my top tag was listed under my reputation:
So I clicked on the "tags" section to see ...
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Text when questions are marked as duplicate
We close questions as duplicates when the code is too similar (or pretty much identical) to a previous question by the same asker.
When marking a question as a duplicate the following text is shown:
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Synonymise [objective-c-runtime] with [objective-c]
The tag objective-c-runtime has 3 questions:
UIScrollView Category utility function for auto sizing contentSize (0 answers)
Dynamically setting unknown properties of a subclass from parent class in ...
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Link GitHub project to Code Review
I am currently writing some open source that's available in GitHub. Of course I am also getting the code reviewed here.
One of the things with GitHub is the documentation allows me to put little tags ...
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Authors 'final result' post showing the 'final result' after the answer/corrections/suggestions [duplicate]
The case: Somebody posts code for review then follows up with all the analysis and some of the answers is accepted.
The suggestion: Some kind of finalization post by the dev who is asking the ...
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How can be reviewing made more efficient?
As suggested by 200_success in a comment to this answer of mine, I'm asking this question. For me, missing tools are the biggest problem of this site. I'd bet that it repels potential reviewers and ...
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Should a warning be displayed when writing a question with no code?
On SO, if I include the words "best practice" in the title of a question, I get a message before I even submit the question warning me that the question appears subjective and may be closed.
Could we ...
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We should have a [language-design] tag
tl;dr: We need a language-design tag. For already created languages.
We have tags for interpreter and tags for compiler, so I think that a language-design, or something similar to the likes of ...
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Can we make quoted code blocks less ugly?
It is often useful to cite blocks of code, particularly when writing an answer, and you want to distinguish between code that you are proposing and code that you are discussing. However, code blocks ...
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Making a tag for a Code Review community project
Last year, two community projects were born.
One of them has been, according to some Github statistics, one of them is a lot more active than the other. Perhaps most importantly, the Rubberduck ...
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What you do when valuable info is spread equally in more than one answer?
What is the established criterion for accepting answer, when valuable information is equally spread in multiple answers?
I'm having difficult time weighting objectively which answer to accept, as in ...
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Programmatically removing “review” from titles
It looks like we all agree that titles should never contain the word "Review" or "review" inside them. What about writing a small script to remove all such occurencies? (4,369 such occurrencies to be ...
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Are WordPress articles/blogs supposed to onebox in chat?
I could have sworn I've seen WP posts oneboxed in chat (or maybe not?)... but every time I post a WordPress URL it's not oneboxing.
Seeing that pasting ...
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Should we have a [free-pascal] tag?
For a pascal, delphi, pascal-script related question: Pascal / Delphi / Pascal Script tags
What about a free-pascal tag?
Object Free Pascal (as in Free Pascal compiler), as far as I know, is given ...
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The on-hover hint of the Delete button
I have recently noticed that the on-hover hint of the Delete button (at the bottom of posts) is not informative for post owners.
The hint states "vote to delete" and does not make any sense, since, ...
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Tag request: [atl]
I am new here and thus do not have permission to create tags yet. Could we create the atl tag, which is equal to the atl-tag on Stack Overflow?
I would like to tag this question.
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Can we rename “Ask question”?
A recent "question" (will probably be deleted when you click it) made me realize: The "Ask Question" label on Code Review can be a bit misleading here.
Code Review questions are expected to contain ...
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Should we have a [calculator] tag?
Example questions:
Simple calculator
Java Calculator
Console calculator
Ruby Kata Gem: Calculator
Calculator - C++ operator-overloading
Small Python calculator
Calculator using class ...
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Should [adventure-game] and [role-playing-game] be synonymized?
We have both adventure-game (14 questions) and role-playing-game (5 questions), which don't seem to differ much in the questions being asked for both. Plus, most of these questions involve a console ...
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Selfie code-only answers as an offsite link
This question Gees - GPL Euler equation solver and its revisions were recently affected by this policy we have about how to add selfie-answers to your question
Specifically (I have bolded the ...
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Reconsider code ownership policy?
This question of mine (10k required) was put on hold with the explanation
This question does not appear to be a code review request within the scope defined in the help center. Please see the ...
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Working code vs. working program
I have a feeling that our guidances should be worded better. Take this excerpt from the Help Center:
To the best of my knowledge, does the code work?
I believe this question is incorrect, as ...
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Notification if there is a post requiring review
I always hated going to the review page, only to find nothing required reviewing. It is a time-consuming task going between questions and review.
I was thinking, if there were a notification, or at ...
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Following other users
Can we add an option to profiles, allowing you to follow someone and get an update every time they ask a question? I would like to follow some programmers, but I don't want to have to check every ...
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VLQ review queue, option for “this should be a comment”
I was reviewing an item in the Low Quality queue (which I sadly cannot link to) that was most definitely not an answer and should have been a comment, because it was asking for clarification from the ...
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Insufficient “How to ask”
As a newbie coming to CR and asking the very first question you can see
There's nothing about broken code there and many new questions seem to get closed quickly because of it.
Moreover, it names ...
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Tag for code that loads code dynamically at runtime
I think we could use a tag for questions about loading code at runtime. Ideally, it would apply to all programming languages. Some examples of questions that such a tag could apply to:
Bash
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Blacklist “syntax error” in title
Could this be done so that we get fewer off-topic questions? I recommend pointing them to Stack Overflow.
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New reject reasons for suggested edits
I thought about pre-defined reject reasons for suggested edits, and here are two I think might be helpful:
Edit changes code of question
As discussed in this meta post, editing the code of a ...
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Viewing the source code
When doing a CR, it's important to be able to quickly find methods/classes/whatever in the source. Currently, it's just terrible as you get a couple of small scrolling views and the search takes way ...
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What exactly does it mean for code to be “Working Code”?
Why is it that Code Review's definition of "working code" is so misaligned with so many people's expectations?
@rolfl
Well, we've had a lot of discussion about broken code on meta, but we don't ...
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Request for placeholder text in the question textarea
After seeing a few off-topic questions today, I thought it might help to add placeholder text to the question texarea.
The question page currently looks like this:
"How To Ask" is easy to miss or ...
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Pre-creating tags [crypto++] and [cryptopp] for email notifications
I have subject matter expertise in the Crypto++ library. I'd like to set up email notifications for the library.
I noticed the site does not have tags for the library. Is it OK to set up tags in ...
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VBScript Code Highlighting
Would it be possible to use the same Syntax Highlighter that Wikipedia uses for VBScript
If it is possible we could probably use it for all flavors of VB (vb6,vbscript, vba, etc.)
Right now we have ...
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Mentioning and linking to other users in posts
I do this kind of thing all the time:
In addition to moving these declarations closer to where you use them as @lokiastari said, the initializations are pointless because you overwrite them ...
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Versioning code and visualizing diffs in code review
Based on the rules for editing code under review, I would like to recommend this feature.
The goal of code review is to improve my submitted code, and for others to learn from the improved code - I ...
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Stop mentioning major concerns in title
On the Ask a Question page, users are currently faced with this:
state the purpose of your code, and mention any major concerns.
I have recently started commenting on many questions with this ...
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Over-editing my own answer
It looks that I have just over-edited my own (first!) answer and got a comment:
Please try to keep the edits down to a minimal now. Thanks!
I was wondering what has just happened, searched a bit ...
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Edited questions can no longer be edited?
I understand that preventing edits on deleted answers can help defeat FGITW (Fastest Gun In The West) problems on other sites (or here?), but it seems deleted questions cannot be edited either.
This ...
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Rewording close reason “Explanation of code”
Inspired by this question: Custom Close Reason Post-Mortem.
Can we alter
Questions must involve real code that you own or maintain. Questions seeking an explanation of someone else's code are ...
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Do we need to update the link in the “own or maintain” close reason?
This is the close reason I'm talking about:
Currently, the "you own or maintain" link points to this meta question, but we've recently made a slight modification to the policy, per this meta ...
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Do we need a [payment-system] tag?
We currently have 26 credit card questions questions and 47 payment questions. I'm not sure how much overlap there is between the two. At least some of the credit card questions could be tagged with ...
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How many follow up questions can one ask?
Is there any limit to the number of follow up questions one can ask for a certain problem?
In a scenario where user posts questions according to guidelines, then assuming this goes on for about 20 to ...
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Redirect from featured questions, when there are no featured questions
Today I visited CR for the first time in a while to do a CR on my lunch break. Hit my favoured language (C#) and was greeted by this:
Instead of pointing us to a different tab, wouldn't it be ...
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Synonymization proposal for version-specific language tags
I was checking out the tags today, and I think we could clean up a couple tags. For all three suggestions, I think a synonym should suffice. I was unable to propose them, as version-specific tags can ...
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Can we require questions to have at least one language tag?
We are getting a low amount of questions every day which are not tagged with a language. I believe we can could prevent this if we make adding a language required.
Is there a possibility to add this ...
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Request for [codingbat] tag
It would good to have a codingbat tag for questions that related to solving code puzzles coming from codingbat. Can we have a tag for codingbat as we have on Stack Overflow?
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Time for an [encryption] tag?
So, we have a ceasar-cipher tag, but not the more general encryption tag. A quick search shows over 200 questions that should potentially have such a tag.
What do you think? Is it a good tag? I can ...
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Provide links to official style guides when writing questions
The answers to many questions tagged python on CodeReview start with or otherwise include references to PEP-0008, the official Python Style Guide. Many reviews include comments on use of whitespace ...
