You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Is it possible to make a post “sticky”?
From time to time things with a higher than normal level of importance and/or time sensitivity get posted here. e.g. The election and FAQ discussion. On a BBS such things would be made sticky to ...
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Is it hard to figure out why some questions are highlighted?
Or am I an idiot? The highlighted questions were the only thing I had trouble immediately figuring out on the SF GUI. For ages I thought they were questions I had viewed, then no, maybe answered? ...
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Vote: Do we want code highlighting?
Currently, code highlighting is turned off (see balpha's comment here). It is possible to turn it on, if we want so.
I think this would be nice to have, maybe on a per-tag basis, but turning it on is ...
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Syntax highlighting based on tag
Right now the code blocks on SF don't support syntax highlighting. Instead we get boring, grey, hard to read code.
I spent some time today on the Unix & Linux SE, which does offer syntax ...
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Automatically ask for certain information on Apache vhost questions
Pretty much every time someone asks a question regarding Apache virtual hosts, the very first thing someone asks is "Can you post the output of apache2ctl -S/httpd -S?"
It would be awesome if SF ...
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Add support for user specific banners [migrated]
I think it would be good to support displaying banners based on a user's properties: banners only displayed to users with a certain privilege or reputation
For example it would be nice if you could ...
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Editing - possible race condition [migrated]
A scenario that has occurred a few times is that someone edits an answer while the same answer is already being edited (e.g. by the original author). In this case, it appears that whichever edit is ...
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Answering - a race
Question: Answerers may be under time pressure to answer first, reducing the quality of initial answers. How can this be mitigated?
While the primary objective of this site may be to provide a ...
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Voting - an imbalance [migrated]
Question: How can difficult answers be justly rewarded, as typically, they do not earn nearly as many points as easy answers.
In order to cast a (merited) up vote, I think the following are ...
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Voting - a dichotomy [migrated]
Question: How can users be motivated to vote more?
Please do not consider the following a ‘personal’ belief – but rather an observation of human nature (likely nothing revolutionary at that).
My ...
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certificate and certificates tag merge request
Can someone please merge the tag certificates to the tag certificate?
There is likely many more tags that differ merely by plurality indication.
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ad-lds and active-directory-lds tag merge request
Can someone please merge the ad-lds and active-directory-lds tags please?
ad-lds is the preferred tag to remain.
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frs and ntfrs tag merge request
Can someone please merge frs and ntfrs tags? They both refer to the same component. I.e. NT file replication service.
frs would be the preferred tag to remain.
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DFSR and DFS-R tag merge request
Can someone please merge these tags? People use both terms to ask/answer questions on DFS Replication.
Thanks
M
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Let priviledged users add an Icon on Tag
Let's take the exemple of the tag named "dell". A nice thing would be to allow users, with a minimum number of reputation, for instance 500 rep, to assign icon on tag.
If I had the right to, I could ...
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Edit without bumping
I frequently come across old questions/answers with small errors/mistakes (Spelling, formatting, moved link etc.) but I'm always hesitant since they get bumped to the front page for no real reason ...
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Is there a way to DELETE a flag you submit?
Sometimes, I make a mistake and flag something, however, I have second thoughts and would really like to DELETE my flag.
Is there a mechanism to do this? If not, wouldn't this be a good thing ...
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How about providing question templates for typical questions?
It kinda gets old, asking for the same things over and over again, to help someone out.
Example:
User asks about a kvm/qemu networking issue. Some even go as far as providing the output of ifconfig, ...
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Feature Request: Cancel Button for Answers
There have been a few situations where I began to answer a question and realized that my answer was more of a comment. I copied that info into the comment feature and posted that way. However, when ...
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Suggestion for Unanswered Questions: Tab for listing oldest
This should be very easy to implement... I think there should be an option for listing questions by oldest. There is, of course, the 'newest' listing option. Why not just make an 'oldest' beside it? ...
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Bad rejection: Moderators should probably err on the side of inclusion, not on the side of rejection
A few days ago, I came across a question on serverfault with an answer I thought good, but could be improved.
And indeed, the software asked me to improve the question. So I did. I clarified and gave ...
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Can we add “rapidssl” to the list of banned words please?
I'm sick of deleting the spam we get from their millions of 'resellers'.
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tag merge: utf-8 and utf8
Suggest we merge utf8 into the correct tag utf-8, and make former a synonym of utf-8.
Maybe there's a more general fix you could make in the StackExchange code - when creating a new tag, save the ...
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Expand migrate-options
Lately we've been having a lot of questions that would be better suited over at AskDifferent or Unix & Linux. However, there is no option to migrate them there in the off-topic section, so we just ...
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Tag suggestions
Maybe I'm a little off, but I'd love to see a Proliant badge tag. There are quite a few HP ProLiant questions that surface on the site. At this point, I think I've had nearly as many ProLiant upvotes ...
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Anti-spam mod feature request
Could a dev please think about creating a mod page that shows a list of top users who have 'http' in their answers please. I think this would help us find those who just link to their own pages and ...
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Answered questions styling
Could answered questions be restyled with a solid colour fill like the other sites please? It is hard to tell from a glance which questions have a marked answered. thanks.
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Ban Well-Known URL Shortner Links
Title says it all. Can we ban the well-known URL shortners from links in the site. I'd prefer in general text too, but that might to too far in some cases.
Say these 14 (as stolen from a blog):
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Why are closed or migrated questions listed in the “related” box?
Looking at the downvoted question Unable to browse hosted site on server you can see on the right side the "Related" box. At the second item you find coolest web site ? name.
Isn't it a stupid thing ...
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Why do the links to chat rooms show up randomly?
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point the links on the sidebar to The Comms Room and Vote to Close went away. I wondered about their disappearance, but didn't bother to post a question ...
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a “migrated” message and basically a surprise transfer to new site upon selection.
As I go through the messages in a given stackexchange, I notice messages that are marked as "migrated". The migrated site is not identified. And sure enough you select a migrated, you are thrown to ...
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Migrate question from ServerFault to Unix & Linux
When flagging a question on SF and selecting It doesn't belong here followed by Off topic, there are options to migrate to meta, StackOverflow, SuperUsers and Webmasters but not to Unix&Linux. ...
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Change style of Links
There's already a question for this, I tried to "bump" it with a comment, but it didn't show up on the Active Page.
Can we setup a different style for links on the Server Fault page to make the link ...
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Does Kyle's name on the ServerFault blog about page make sense?
See below image from the Server Fault blog about page, but it kind of seems like a mistake that Kyle's name appears here (no offense Kyle, love your work and your blog posts/insight)..
Edit
It is ...
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Prevent editing a closed question from it being bumped to front page.
Visting ServerFault this morning there were a large number of old questions (posted 2009) that have been edited and therefore bumped to the front page. While I find this highly irritaing as it is, two ...
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Ways to improve the quality of questions concerning some tags (tag-triggered suggestions?)
I'm quite new here, but I often find myself desiring there was a way to suggest people asking questions to include information probably relevant because of the tags they've used - something like ...
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Share favorites between sites
Would it be possible to import favorites tags over between sites? For example, I have sql-server favorited on SO, Server Fault, and Code Review, and I had to add it seperately at each site.
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Does Server Fault plan to support IPv6?
IPv6 is an up-and-coming topic on Server Fault, especially since IPv4 address space exhaustion finally occurred for some parts of the world.
Yet I can't help noticing that serverfault.com has no AAAA ...
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Inappropriate font sizes
From time to time I see questions or answers in which the poster has used something other than regular font size. This can look absolutely appalling. e.g. Stop an already running cron job
Can the CSS ...
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Ampersand is mangled beyond recognition
An ampersand & when displayed in a question title is, I believe, un-recognisable!
Obviously they don't get used in question titles very often, or I'm sure I would have noticed this before.
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Why doesn't Serverfault have “Review” like Stackoverflow?
I've seen that Stackoverflow has a new feature which is "Reviews" to see rookies questions like mines.
Why doesn't Serverfault have that same link? Or is it a matter of privileges?
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Random idea: add tags of any question asked to user's 'favourites'?
I've a suggestion/idea for a feature that might come in useful, and would appreciate other's feedback.
I've marked a few tags as favourite and see that questions tagged with those are highlighted ...
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Highlighting inside code blocks?
I often find myself wanting to draw attention to a particular part of the contents of a code block. The italic and bold formatting is interpreted literally, so those don't work:
_italic_ *bold*
I ...
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Can we have a place for “definitive” questions
There are a number of questions and topics that are now regularly closed as dupes of some generally accepted definitive question. As an example, new licensing question get closed pretty quickly as ...
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Option to flag a user, not just their posts
When I see what looks like spam by a new user I go check out their other answers. Very often they all promote the same product or service. In the early days I would only flag one such answer but ...
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Can we have a “Migrate to WordPress StackExchange” option?
This question got me to thinking about the need.
This search shows a non trivial amount of chatter about WordPress. A very rough estimate of questions that are specific to WordPress and not just ...
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Why doesn't Server Fault to a better job of finding interesting questions?
I've always wondered why Server Fault (and I guess all SE sites) don't do a better job of showing questions that are interesting to me.
The site already knows a lot about me like:
Tags I find ...
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how to subscribe to questions on server fault which I did not asked [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Follow thread of conversation in which you are not participating
There are some good discussions many a times I come across on serverfault and like on other forums I can ...
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Follow thread of conversation in which you are not participating
I receive emails from serverfault with the open questions which I occasionally open and try to answer.
Sometimes there is a question to which I don't have an answer, but I'd like to follow the ...
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Can the links to useful chat rooms be made permanent?
As of now (11pm Pacific Time), a temporary/test/silly/whatever-it-is chat room called "Room for coredump and Jacob" has taken over from "Vote to Close" on the right sidebar.
Ok, since "useful" ...
