Unanswered Questions
1,705 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Display a message to the OP the first time they receive a downvote
Here's the feature request: When a new user receives a downvote on a question they asked for the first time, the system should display a message, only visible to that user, similar to the existing ...
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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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"Discussion moved to chat" prevents me from re-finding the question from my "All activity" page
Yesterday I had a useful discussion, and when I today wanted to go there again, I could not find the discussion anymore, because a mod moved it to the chat system. I had to google the question that ...
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Collapsible Code Markup
Background
When answering questions on SO I generally like to ensure that my code is runnable by including sample data, so someone can copy, paste, and run it, seeing exactly what I'd proposed.
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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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Oops! Something Bad Happened! - Allow Refresh (F5) to redirect to/reload the non-error page
I just got an Oops! Something Bad Happened! error, while opening this question. This question works now, it was only a temporary problem.
However, when this happens, you get redirected to this URL. ...
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Better support for sample data and perhaps table schemas in SQL questions
I've been around SO since almost the beginning, and in that time I've answered a LOT of SQL related questions. One point of pain in this area has always been posting sample data or query results. We'...
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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 ...
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Include "Don't post images of code" in the guide
I was trying the wizard mode of asking a question, and when I came to the "Show some code"-section it said "Don’t paste an entire file", and "Don't paste just one line".
My suggestion is to also add "...
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Could: "Possible duplicate of.." be given prominence for answering users?
Scenario:
User 1 asks a question
User 2 votes to close as duplicate
User 3 ignores the comment/dupe link and answers
Other than the link in the comments, users that answer are not directed in any ...
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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:
searching for ...
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Auto-convert disputed flags when they prove to be correct
Having participated in clearing the Triage queues recently, I've found more and more that some of my flags end up being disputed. My first thought was that, just as people can disagree about votes on ...
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Daily votes cap for trusted users is just nonsense and doesn't improve anything
Again I am asking to remove the daily vote cap for up-/down votes and close votes for trusted users (let's say +10k) of the site.
Besides the vague "we like to prevent you from exhaustion" ...
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Increase suggested edit approval votes to three if there is a disapproval vote
I've noticed in the course of my reviews, that a lot of trivial edits are making it through the approve queue because of the new "only 2 votes required" rule that was put into place.
I'd like to ...
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