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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

20 votes
5 answers
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Change or retract a vote to close

This may have been discussed on MSO but I don't go there any more, so I wouldn't see it and don't believe we should have to search elsewhere for answers relevant to this SF. It happened again today b …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
11 votes
3 answers
127 views

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 dup …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
9 votes
2 answers
110 views

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 disco …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
6 votes
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Adding a User Rep/Question Threshold ala Slashdot?

Are you seriously suggesting that good questions only come from those with greater than some arbitrary rep? What about answers? Do good answers also only come from those with X rep? I can only assume …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
6 votes

How about providing question templates for typical questions?

While on the surface this sounds like a good idea the reality is that we would need about a gazillion different templates, which becomes so cumbersome and difficult to work with that it would surprise …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
5 votes

Hiding closed questions?

I believe it would be nice for users to have the option of hiding closed questions and perhaps an automatically added "closed" tag would be the simplest solution. Another option I would like to see e …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
4 votes

Why can't people upvote their own questions?

Would you also downvote your own questions? Quite frankly I find the very idea absurd. I'm quite sure none of us are really in a position to judge fairly whether our own questions are crap or gold. L …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
4 votes

Random idea: add tags of any question asked to user's 'favourites'?

I don't think it's a stupid idea but perhaps one that has more against it than for it. I believe most users deliberately select tags they are interested in, which is quite separate from the ones used …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
4 votes
3 answers
83 views

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 …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes

Quotas on downvoting

We each have 25 votes per day. I do believe that qualifies as a quota. I've just been going over some of your answers and so far haven't actually seen a problem in the voting. e.g. This answer got a c …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes

serverfault doesn't has a PM?

My take on this is that anyone who cares to be contacted has numerous ways to provide contact information for others to find. e.g. Email address or other details on their linked web site. Anyone not m …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
74 views

Password questions

Noticing yet another password question this morning, albeit an old one, made me think that perhaps it would be worthwhile having the system place an automatic protection lock on all questions that hav …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes

Obfuscating domain names

I quite like this idea but feel it would be better if the obfuscation (what was the person smoking when that word was invented?) was handled by the parser automatically, rather than needing separate m …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes

Bad kerning in Firefox on ServerFault Blog

Two points: I didn't know (or had totally forgotten) there is a blog. You're right about it looking crappy in FF on XP. The letters look like they're being just a little too friendly with each other …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
2 votes

Nominate Questions or Answers to the "Hall of Fame".

I could almost go along with this rather pointless idea but only if the question is Community Wiki. Such a listing would attract an artificially high number of visitors and would therefore attract an …
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