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Interesting tab
The interesting tab was designed to solve problems for busy sites like StackOverflow. There are no other sites sufficiently busy that they require it.
Reference
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Prevent ambiguous tags
If the tags keep coming back we can ask to get them blacklisted.
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Nuke accounts or ban addresses that edit my honeypot answer
I've previously written about being edit spammed by a link spammer. A kind-hearted mod ;) took pity on me and locked the question. The lock has expired and now I'm being spammed again.
Please nuke an …
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Answer to own questions
Anyone can ask and answer questions. Self answering is generally encouraged to the point that there is a box to tick when asking a question that allows you to add an answer before the question is post …
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Please reinstate "must know what you are talking about" close reason
Sadly, I don't think this is going to fly as it will hurt people's feelings which goes against company policy.
Your best bet it to roll your own by choosing Close -> A community-specific reason -> Oth …
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Follow thread of conversation in which you are not participating
You can click on the star below the voting tabs. This will make it a favourite and you will get notifications in your SE inbox when answers are added to the question etc.
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Why are closed or migrated questions listed in the "related" box?
Being closed or migrated doesn't mean the question has no value. Relevant answers may have been provided before (or whilst) the community decided that the question should be closed or migrated.
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Expand migrate-options
I can't find it now ( I have no mSO fu) but I'm sure I read somewhere that the number would not be expanded for practicality reasons.
The power of 10k+Mod tools brings you the 90 day migration statis …
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Bad rejection: Moderators should probably err on the side of inclusion, not on the side of r...
And then, I would also suggest there be someway to notify and discuss
the various issues back and forth.
This (meta) is the place to do that.
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Accepted
RSS/Atom feed for search terms
This isn't available and I don't think it's going to be made available.
Searches are too performance intensive to be RSS feeds.
If you can't express your search as a set of tags (we support a …
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Please add feature to make a question visible at more than one site
DON'T CROSS POST
Either a question is on topic for a site and it gets answers or it's off topic and it gets closed or migrated to a suitable site.
Cross posting just causes more work especially if …
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Answering your own question: officially encouraged and unofficially despised?
The question that you link to, fundamentally isn't a question, it lacks a question mark. Nowhere does it ask a question - it's a statement of (an apparently incorrect) fact, which you go on to correct …
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1
answer
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I am being spammed
One of my answers has become the target for a spam bot. Twice today, once yesterday and several more times in the recent past an Anonymous user has suggested an edit which is basically a set of spam l …
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How to deal with questioners that don't accept your appropriate answer?
Provide an answer that is a solution to the OPs problem. I personally prefer to provide an answer which gives broad direction rather than a detailed how to as I think it is valuable for people to lear …
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Edit without bumping
The purpose of bumping changes to the front page is to allow for early peer review. Marking something as a trivial edit has been discussed over on mSO before and always declined.
References
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