Unanswered Questions
250 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Show tag excerpt when editing tags on a question
I frequently edit questions by new users in my regular tag perl. When it's about the question text I do not look at all the tags before editing. But while I'm at it, I also want to make sure the ...
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Removing link shorteners from posts!
According to Blacklist the use of common link shorteners in posts, SO no longer allows most short links. (Note that some of the blacklisted domains are not technically link shorteners.)
As someone ...
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Notification on reopening downvoted question
Very often I downvote bad question that later on gets closed. Since, it is site policy that bad question should be edited and improved rather than deleted, it would be nice to receive notification ...
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Can we have a link to question when editing from review?
When editing from review, like when improving an edit, there is actually no way to get back to the question. Sometimes I feel the need when improving an edit to check back on the suggested edit, or ...
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Rejected flag about user making useless formatting edits
I flagged an editor who keeps adding random bold/italics/quotation/code formatting to posts, most of the time out of the blue.
There seems to be a clear consensus among the community and moderators ...
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The "How to Edit" section should also clarify what not to do
I recently edited an answer by adding some additional code I found helpful to solving the problem. I thought my edit fell under the "clarify meaning without changing it." After my edit was rejected, ...
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This post has been edited 2 times since you began. Your edit can only be saved if it is more thorough than the currently saved edit
From the review queue I often (more than 100 times so far) "accept and edit" or "reject and edit". But today, for the first time, I've seen a strange orange banner. And on top of that, I've seen it ...
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"This answer is now being edited by [user]" label when a post is being edited
It happens a lot that the same question is being edited by multiple users, causing it to be sometimes overwritten or having almost the same edit by two different users.
I want to suggest having ...
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"Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment." when submitting an edit with an edit comment
When editing this question by replacing the supplied images of the formula with identical mathjax formulas I tried to supply a reason as shown in the image with "use mathjax instead of images&...
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Updates to deleted answers should not bump a question
After asking this question: Post modified but nothing has changed
I found out that if a user updates a deleted answer, it bumps the question as it updates the last modified time.
For users under 10k ...
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Reviewing edits - test loads very slow
Like many Stack Overflow users I once a while review some edits when I have some time to kill.
Sometimes there are tests to test whether I am paying attention during the reviewing and when successful ...
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See entire preview while editing a question
Most editing doesn't take a tremendous amount of time especially when it's in a tag you are familiar with. New users typically don't use backticks properly or will leave logcat and other error ...
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Needless bulk tag edits
I hate to complain about someone's edits, but I'm becoming frustrated by this user making mass bulk edits that only add the flex tag.
On one hand, I can appreciate adding visibility to a technology, ...
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Attempting to modify my answer produces a new second answer
Just wrote an answer, reconsidered the name and thus edited it again. Effectively, that edit came out as a separate answer which I have deleted.
Clarification dupe flag: The difference to the ...
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Question editor auto closes when another edit is submitted while editing
Over the last several days I was bitten enough times to be sure that the following is actually happening, is not a coincidence, and started happening only recently:
I start editing a question.
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