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Add a "provide explanation to the answer" note in Help Center or FAQ
Yesterday I came across this answer. It's code-only, and I commented that it would be better to provide some explanation to this answer. But the answerer commented the explanation, not added it to the ...
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Return delay between answering to 3 minutes for users with <125 rep
This is a formal proposal and request that the rate-limiting be changed, so that users with less than 125 reputation do not need to wait 30 minutes between posting answers.
For most of the lifetime of ...
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Force users to accept answers by restricting them from asking if they don't [duplicate]
Can we have a limit on users posting questions and then not accepting answers for those? As this becomes challenging for the person answering and people who face similar issues simply ignore answers ...
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Can we hide the tail end of overly long answers?
The Problem
Many questions have answers which are of high quality, but which are also extremely long (compared to how short they could be).
Some examples (see the accepted answer):
What is the copy-...
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Improvement request for Stack Snippets when misclicking preview area
While I was answering a question from Stack Overflow, I put some code in the Stack Snippets area. Sometimes, when I want to change back the code that I have typed, I wrongly click on the sentence edit ...
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User (well, answerer) security on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Earlier on I was perusing python questions, when I stumbled over a question - now deleted, asking something along the lines:
How can I access this website with Selenium? Why is the page blank when I ...
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Suggestion for bookmark answers in addition to questions [duplicate]
I saw someone has answered a question similar to mine:
Bookmarking the question is always better than bookmarking an individual answer.
(from: Cody Gray's answer)
But my suggestion has somehow ...
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When tied for votes, show accepted answer at top [duplicate]
Accepted answers are no longer at the top, but should be when tied. At time of writing, that doesn't seem to be the case (1). Please favor accepted answer in a tie.
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"How to answer" help page doesn't mention anything about commentary in answers
Today I encountered an answer that was prefaced with a questionnaire to the OP. Something like "I'm not sure I understand what you mean..." and a few questions asking to clarify the question....
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Improve the NAA/VLQ flagging mechanism
Currently, while one stumbles upon a NAA (Not An Answer), or VLQ (Very Low Quality) post, they can flag it accordingly.
The problem is these flags cover a broad spectrum of answers, ranging from ...
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Mark question as complete
On many SO and SE-specific sites, there are many questions that have been resolved by comments but not an actual "answer". When looking through the "Unanswered questions" filter, ...
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Copied answers: plagiarism check before uploading an answer and credit to the original answerer [duplicate]
There have been instances where I have come across a couple of answers that have been exactly copied from another user's answer including code, to similar type of question. I don't think there is ...
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Auto +1 question and answer on copy of code block?
There are a lot of good answers that don't really get the number of upvotes they should. People often come in, copy some code, and leave.
Chances are, if they're copying code from an answer, it was ...
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Show answers that I previously upvoted at the top of the answers list
Months ago, I searched for an answer and found it on Stack Overflow. I upvoted an answer way down the answers list.
Recently, I searched for the same thing. I wasted time looking through the answers ...
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Fresh Question Shielding -- now with no effect on users with less than 5 answers
Based on the support for @HolyBlackCat's preferred rule modification to my previous meta question, I'd like to crystalize the level of community support for my feature request in the name of progress. ...
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