Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
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Extra commas in 'Share a link to this question via email,,, or
I looked at a couple of questions this morning and noticed we have a few extra commas in the text below the question:
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Text from the side overlaps to the footer when I scroll to the bottom most part of the page
Take a look at this screenshot.
Then if you scroll at the bottom most part of the page you can see this. I think the text from the side overlaps to the footer of the page.
It says here that it is ...
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Can we fuzzy match the speculative, open-ended questions at source to reduce the number of such questions having to be closed or put on hold?
I'm talking about questions like:
What tool should I use for x
What language should I learn next
What is the future of technology x
What will be the next big thing in technology x
These questions ...
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Migration path to Workplace?
Workplace has been officially graduated: new site design has no "beta" anymore, and privileges are set to the level of graduated sites.
This makes it possible to add this site to our migration path, ...
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Software recommendations stackexchange
Would it be worth having the new Software Recommendation Stack Exchange site added as an option in the close option "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" dialogue?
I ...
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Change site name from 'Programmers' to 'Programming' [duplicate]
It would make 1000% more sense given the type of discussions people want to see here.
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Site style: bold text is not distinguishable from normal text
I'm trying to replicate (this was supposed to be bold) the problem here.
Browser: Firefox 17.0.6 ESR.
bold (doesn't work)
normal
italic (works)
That's how bold shows up on Unix SE:
Update: turns ...
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Migration path to Code Review please? [duplicate]
I know we don't want too many migration paths, and we definitely don't want ones that are likely to leech away our good questions, but I think of all the technology related websites, the scope of Code ...
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Can we please add Project Management as a migration path from Programmers?
I just saw Can we please add http://sqa.stackexchange.com as a migration target? and in reading Tim Post's answer, I understand why SQA, or DBA would both make for poor migration paths away from ...
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Can we please add http://sqa.stackexchange.com as a migration target?
Consider this question.
It would be a perfect candidate for the Software QA Stack Exchange site.
So can we please add http://sqa.stackexchange.com as a migration target?
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how about combining Programmers and Stack Overflow?
I am curious, why not combine this site into Stack Overflow?
Add a meta-tag so it's clear about discussion and it's an open topic for general questions not directly code problem related.
The benefit,...
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Would you like to see Programmers get a less playful/cartoonish design to attract professional questions?
All the scribbly-doodles and the cartoonish font on Programmers seems to me like a reason people might assume from the start that this site is for more chatty non-professional questions.
Would it be ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [maintainability] -> [maintenance]
Suggest to merge maintainability (35 questions, no tag wiki) into maintenance (80 questions, tag wiki quoted below), and make them synonyms.
Tag wiki for maintenance:
The activities that occur ...
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Provide a "frozen" status that closes a question until it is edited
Given the enormous amount of people who are unsatisfied with the current question closing policy, I am thinking if it wouldn't be better to have a 4-status system:
open
frozen (less demoralizing than ...
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Can we have some way to not show closed questions on the front page?
I've noticed that Programmers has a whole lot of [Closed] questions hanging around. It's better than it has been in the past (I'm seeing about 25% of the front page, as opposed to more like 40% a ...
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Negative points for erroneous voting for closing a question
I would like to suggest:
For (all people which vote for closing a question){
If (the reason for closing is not valid AND
the question comes to be closed (by the same unfare reason) AND
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Anonymous Down Votes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we force adding a comment with every down-vote?
Anonymous down voting is not constructive, and the individuals who choose to hide behind the click, most often never up ...
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It doesn't belong here doesn't allows me to select a suggestion that is not listed
I noticed that lately every time I want to click it doesn't belongs here as a flag I can't find the appropriate community I would suggest. So I find myself writing on other what I think it belongs.
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Lock your visible score
I just noticed that my P.SE score is 7337. While not as awesome as 1337, it got me to thinking that it would be nice to be able to lock your P.SE score at a certain value. Either discarding upvotes or ...
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Synonym / merge request: [team] → [teamwork]
Could we merge team with teamwork?
Went quickly through their questions, they seem to discuss exactly the same topic. And they are high on my list of cleanup candidates, merging them into a single ...
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Belated birthday celebration proposal [closed]
We're a month behind, but that's no excuse to not celebrate our first birthday. :)
Following the discussion here, it looks like we have most of a proposal in place that we can go to the community ...
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Flagging off-topic should allow you to migrate to CodeReview
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/129576/c-character-count
I wanted to flag this as "Move to CodeReview", but the only options were StackOverflow and Meta.
The ability to ...
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Blacklist [good]
We have a good tag! Only two questions so far, the second one appeared today.
Let's just get rid of it, sooner than later.
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Bold-ify first line of the About page
Can you bold-ify the first line of the about page?
I think that first line is more important than any other line (for stackoverflow ppl).
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Can we get Mathjax on Software Engineering?
While I realize that it might not be used as often as it is on Math.SE, it would be nice to be able to use inline Latex every now and then to illustrate an algorithm or a math function. Would this be ...
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Can my question about RapidXML be migrated to Stack Overflow?
Could someone please reopen then migrate {RapidXML} Cannot open XML files unless in main to Stack Overflow?
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More information on why threads were closed
Sometimes a see questions that to me seem to fit the faq but have been closed (this for example). Could there be some way of giving more information or more specific details of why a question is ...
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Why not force a comment when down-voting an answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we force adding a comment with every down-vote?
Why not let the site force the user to enter a comment (of min. 20 chars. or so) when demoting an answer?
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Offtopic posts - Can they be moved rather than closed?
I have noticed several very active threads that have been closed as off topic or not constructive (here is just one example). Given the vote count these posts are obviously interesting and popular. I ...
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Blacklist [career] and [jobs] [duplicate]
So pursuant to the monumental task we have to clean up the career and jobs tags, we've taken to putting the following notice in the tag wiki excerpts:
Do not use this tag. Click "learn more" for ...
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Background image makes the text into jpeg artifacts when used with citrix terminal client
Not sure if it's due to the background image, but i see the text on few stackexchange sites as a low-quality jpeg, when viewed with citrix terminal client. This is likely due to the usage of ...
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Users should receive a warning before they're banned from asking questions
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account.
My Programmers account was banned recently from asking questions with only two questions raised, one get downvote to -1, and the other ...
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Cross Site Questions
I think we should allow for a question to be listed on multiple sites, if it meets the charter of both sites. There would be a feature similar to the "migrate" feature except it will be a "share with ...
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Share on Hacker News/ Slashdot
Could we possibly add a button to share on HN/Slashdot? I find that I rarely share articles on Facebook/Twitter because not all my friends are programmers and instead go straight and share the URL on ...
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Can we have Circles?
Ok, not exactly circles like G+, but I would like to be able to create a list of users who I think give especially good answers or ask interesting questions.
So the idea is that I can go to this user'...
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Should we have a migration route to IT Security?
A couple of questions have been flagged today as more appropriate on IT Security. I thought I'd do a check on what had been migrated there by moderators and came up with the following list:
https://...
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Add a button/link for canceling a question edit (discarding change)
When editing my own question, sometimes I want to discard the change. This can be done by navigating away, but ideally there should be a place within the browseable area (e.g. a button or link near ...
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Could there be an option to ask questions anonymously?
I've often wanted to ask some questions or post comments and answers here but refrained because I didn't want my current employer to find them.
I understand that we don't want to have too many ...
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Hard to read fonts and bad choice of colors
I just entered this site from stackoverflow. First thing I notice is bad choice of colors, and that fonts are hard to read. Is there a way to customize these? or perhaps you changing it?
Edit --
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Why is it only 5 reputation points for an up vote on a question?
I would have thought that it should be the same as it is for answers. A good question is just as important as a good answer.
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Badge progress display like the Percentage Till privilages display
Can we have a Progress percentage or indicator that shows how much of a remaining __ till the badge. Like we have the percentage reputation displayed till privilege in the privileges tab.
It seems ...
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Cross website tags
I have a suggestion.
It'd be really nice if we had a way to see if the tag exists on other sites or not from the wiki page of the tag.
For example, if I'm currently viewing the "Ruby" tag, I would ...
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A site for life-outside-work issues dedicated to programmers
Is there a SO related site dedicated to issues faced by programmers for life outside work?e.g:
Health/Relationships? if not, maybe create one..
Most of the popular forums dealing with these kind of ...
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Ability to review questions being transferred from SO before they appear
A significant proportion of questions being transferred here from SO are being closed pretty rapidly upon arrival.
Would it be possible to have them transfer to a holding area where they can be ...
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Suggestion: Top referrers for popular questions
Every once in a while there seems to be a question which starts bringing in tons of traffic from an external link. For example, I've noticed that the question Why do programmers write applications ...
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Cancelled votes should not count as votes for lock-in.
I'm sure you're familiar with the process: When you vote on a question or answer, you're given a brief period in which to cancel your vote (as if you never voted) or reverse your vote, but then your ...
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How can I create a poll as part of a question in stackexchange?
Is there any obvious way to create a poll in stackexchange? Seems like a cool feature to have particularly in programmers.stackexchange.
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Duplicate Questions
I can understand the desire to close duplicate questions. However, as the site grows I suspect that there will be a lot of new users that can offer valuable responses to old questions. I worry that ...
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Can we tag answers?
Can we tag answers with tags, not just the questions? Especially on this site where multiple answers may be good, and none are necessarily best, just most popular, it might be worthwhile to tag the ...
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Ever thought of adding a Poll-of-the-Day option to SE?
I was wondering if the SE team had considered adding a Poll option to their framework.
A lot of the questions here are similiar to a poll and it would be nice to total results and view summaries. ...
