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Moderators should be able to manually ban users from suggesting edits
We regularly get flagged about specific users who are submitting a series of really bad edits. Normally, enough rejected edits for these users would trigger a timed edit ban by the system. However, as ...
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Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam
This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as ...
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Link up the excellent search engine that gives “Questions that may already have an answer” with the search box
The search engine that works behind the scenes to generate the "Questions that may already have your answer" is staggeringly amazing; even this first draft at a not very good title brings up exactly ...
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Stack Overflow mentioned on NPR's “Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me” and NY Times
Wow — stackoverflow.com was cited by "Wait, Wait" as a reference this weekend. NY Times picked it up, too:
It was a big week in science. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider say they may have ...
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Allow all reviewers to see deleted posts they reviewed
So moderators just got the ability to provide custom reasons when they ban users from review. Often, these bans are due to specific very bad reviews, like approving spam or non-answers. It will be ...
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Keeping the top bar logged in
It is my understanding that one of the central purposes of the new top bar was to unite the sites so that there is a feeling of staying within the same master site (Stack Exchange) as you browse the ...
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Visualisation of Stack Overflow Tag relationships
Inspired by a previous meta question on tag trending, my 'sunday afternoon' project was to plot the relationship between the most popular tags on Stack Overflow. The result is quite pretty:
You can ...
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Can we get rid of the disclosure triangles that don't disclose anything on the edit screen?
I can't count the number of times I've tried to click one of these triangles:
Could we change them to something more... non-clickable? Like these little things: ● ● ● ●?
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A question should not be deleted by the user deletion algorithm if it has upvoted answers
As I found out earlier today, users who are deleted have their negatively-scored questions deleted, even if those questions have upvoted answers.
This goes against established convention, for two ...
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The cardiologist can't tell if my heart is beating!
I have found a... strange, to say the least, error on Stack Overflow. I was just browsing normally and I decided to open the error console, and I saw this:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ...
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Stack Exchange Blogs Compromised and Passwords Reset
Some of our WordPress instances were exploited yesterday at 11 AM UTC. We noticed that the compromise had taken place today and took the blogs offline as soon as we noticed. We have since restored the ...
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Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users
I just tried to find a recent answer I wrote (or comment, can't remember), but I couldn't. I assume the question was deleted. Can the deleted:1 operator be enabled to 10k users? We can see deleted ...
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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question ...
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Can some metadata about deleted posts be included in Data.SE?
I like to use Data.SE to view usage stats for some of the sites, however deleted posts are not included on Data.SE and I think this skews the numbers quite a bit, particularly on sites with a lot of ...
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Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere.
The short story
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Don't automatically dismiss spam / offensive flags when a post is deleted by the owner
We just had an incident with a user trolling the site using what appears to be multiple accounts. A few hours ago, they did something similar, but moderators were never made aware of it.
They ...
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Nailing it up on your Community Bulletin Board
Community Bulletin was redesigned on June 23, 2014
More info on Redesigned community bulletin.
As some of you may have noticed, there's a new feature on Stack Exchange:
The Community ...
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Add bounty remarks to a question's revision history
A question's revision history has shown bounty events for quite some time now. Since then, Stack Exchange has also added support for bounty remarks.
I would like to request that bounty remarks be ...
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Flag users who approve an edit that ends up rejected for vandalism
If an edit is rejected as vandalism, I think it would be useful to have some sort of flag or notification raised if anyone voted to approve it.
(To put a fine point on it: review bans!)
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The Twitter bot should not Tweet posts that have flags on them
While reviewing the flags on a Programmers post I found this:
You can clearly see that the post was flagged 5 minutes before the post was Tweeted. While in this case the post remains open, it might ...
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Tag scores are not updated and the issue is getting worse
Tag scores update is supposed to happen at 03:00 UTC every day. Tag scores are updated by a scheduled job that is time consuming and often times out (see for example the answers for Tag info not ...
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Can the system leave a deletion reason when it deletes a question?
A user asked why they were question banned; it turned out it (in part) it was because of deleted questions.
One of the deleted questions was deleted by the Community user. I'm aware it will delete ...
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Houston, we have a porblem
Since it's forbidden to use the word "problem" in titles, and there's not even a way for experienced users to add it (or mods) we all know users just get around that filter by typing various ...
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Tool for peer-reviewed no-bump mass retagging
Cleaning up a bad or ambiguous tag is a very annoying and disruptive process. While there are moderator tools for renaming and merging tags, there is no tool that helps splitting a tag or removing a ...
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Explicitly mention who decided the fate of a flag
It used to be that only moderators acted on flags. But now many flags are handled by the community in review queues, and moderators never even see those flags.
The feedback users get from flags can ...
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Ability to retract reopen/delete votes
It seems that now we can retract close votes but we cannot retract reopen votes or delete votes.
I am trying to retract my reopen vote here but it does not allow me to. Can we have that ability?
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Does Stack Overflow track how many times a new question is *almost* created?
There have been many times when I've gone to type up a new question, clicking the ask question button and start to fill out the form.
But almost half of those times I've successfully found an answer ...
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Regular users should be able to undelete moderator-deleted posts
When a moderator deletes a post, nobody except a diamond moderator can undelete that post. There is a pretty good reason for this behaviour, as before this was implemented it happened rather regularly ...
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Read-only mode status message, Request to add links to official status pages
When the site is in read-only mode, I get a message like this:
This site is currently in read-only mode.
Would it be possible to update that message to provide links to these resources on SE's ...
