Unanswered Questions
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Should we burninate the [Apple] tag?
This tag is in phase 2 of the burnination process described here.
The question and comments have been cleaned to allow for on-topic discussion on this tag,
please keep it that way. If you want to ...
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Grant access to deleted singleton-answer & question also to <10K rep answerers when question is deleted by owner
Motivation
This proposal comes from the discussion that occurred on this question: How did OP delete his question which has an answer?
This answer on an other question states:
when a question ...
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Why aren't we told we can use special characters in search?
Until today, I wasn't aware of the ability to search for code with special symbols within our normal search. It's actually easy:
Instead of #include, search for code:#include.
(There appear to be ...
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Stop the [manipulation]!
manipulation currently has over 700 0 questions. Its exerpt:
Manipulation is the act of algorithmically manipulating any pieces of data
is ambiguous and not helpful, in my opinion.
Interestingly, ...
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Profile “Answers” section: Indicator if own answer has competing accepted answer
At the moment the Answers section on every user profile has two styles for the answer count:
white background, grey font: Own answer is not accepted
green background, olive font: Own answer is ...
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Show my close vote
Going through my old close votes, I noticed the following:
If I have cast an off-topic close vote, I cannot see what that vote was, as I cannot navigate to the off-topic section as I would be able to ...
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2015 Election Live Vote Monitor
Updated for the November 2015 election!
I wrote a live election activity monitor which you can use to see the current status and watch the votes live; it shows the cutoff line for the final phase as ...
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Why can't we change our close-vote reason?
This answer does a fair enough job explaining why you can't vote-to-close on a question once you've retracted a close vote. But I'm curious, why can't I change my close-vote reason without ...
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Add the 30-rep live updates privilege to the privileges page
Currently, 30 reputation is required in order to see live updates (aka realtime notifications, used for "x new questions" on tag pages, notifications of edits on posts and so on).
The fact that you ...
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Moderators can't delete spammers or puppets with attached Developer Stories
It appears that moderators cannot currently delete any accounts that have a Developer Story associated with them. We are locked out of all deletion options.
Unfortunately, this has prevented myself ...
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Let me comment my top answers in Developer Story
In the Developer Story, you can add summaries or comments to most of the entry types, even to blogs and videos. However, you can not comment on the top answers you chose to show. Often, you don't just ...
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Show recently-deleted posts instead of deleted recent-posts
Currently the "deleted recent answers" and "deleted recent questions" page only show deleted posts that have been created in the past 60 days.
If a post which had been created over 60 days ago gets ...
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Overall Percentage of Helpful Flags
When viewing your own flag history, I feel it would be valuable to show what percentage of flags have been marked as helpful.
I've implemented this as a userscript but would like to make a formal ...
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The Status Of The Split
Everything went remarkably well. This is what we've got done:
Meta SO is now a per-site child meta, just like every other meta site (but MSE)
MSE has been launched in production, and is functioning ...
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What progress has been made recently toward improving Stack Overflow search results?
Originally I was going to ask about how Stack Overflow search could be improved. Because it so rarely returns the results that I want, I don't use it much. The exceptions are (1) searching for ...
