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Reduce voting threshold from 5 to 3 votes for close/reopen
Yes, please change the threshold on close/reopen votes.
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Is cs.stackexchange.com fair to new users?
Is it fair? I don't know. Fairness is notoriously subjective. What's fair to one person, is often unfair to another. Since you mention you're new to the community, it might be helpful to first ...
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Another self-deleted question
If the answer was recent and is deleted, try following the “deleted recent answers” link at the bottom of the “Answers” tab in your profile. The URL is ...
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Users deleting questions after obtaining answers
I consider deleting one's question after receiving an answer to be an abuse of the system. If you're aware that this has happened and the question is appropriate here, you can raise a custom flag for ...
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Stackexchange promotes cheating
I think the title is misleading. SE doesn't promote cheating; true is that it doesn't (and can't) prevent it.
There is no tech solution to this human problem.
Here are two simple ways everybody can ...
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Warn when some tags are used
As D.W. points out, something like this was already implemented on StackOverflow! Hence, this feature only has to be turned on.
I propose that this feature is turned on on all the language-specific ...
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Catch 22: It is not fair that some people get question blocked for 6 months and get no votes on their new question thus creating another 6 month wait
Before I get to your question of whether the question ban system is fair and should be changed, let me first explain a bit of how getting out of a question ban works in the current system. The full ...
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Stackexchange promotes cheating
I suspect it's very unlikely that Stack Exchange is going to change the behavior of the software for just this site. Realistically, the revenue from our site is nowhere near large enough to make it a ...
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Reduce voting threshold from 5 to 3 votes for close/reopen
It's been quite a while since you escalated this request to the Community Team — sorry for the long wait!
You now officially only need 3 close votes to close a question on Computer Science SE!
After ...
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Integration of an interactive graph editor
Congratulations Joey that you work at the company that created the awesome yEd - Graph Editor (I use the Java-based desktop application, not the browser-based one). While I do see benefit in educating ...
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MathJax on Meta
We're not really sure why it wasn't turned on for Meta - it should have been enabled here when it was enabled on main. It's enabled now. :)
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I don’t think a user who answers an OP’s question should have his points reduced when the OP’s user account is removed
You do not directly lose reputation because you answered a question and the asker's account gets deleted. You only lose reputation in two cases: if the account that cast an upvote or an accept vote on ...
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Recently deleted questions invisible
This has come up before, so I'm not going to repeat what I wrote the last times:
Self-deleted questions
Another self-deleted question
There hasn't been any change in the Stack Exchange software. ...
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Anyway to mark my answers as "mis-interpreted question"?
I can suggest two ways to handle the case where you misinterpreted the question:
Delete your answer. Enough said, no further action needed.
Delete your answer. Post a new question, that asks the ...
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Is there a feature that will notify me about particular questions that I may be able to answer?
You can:
create custom filters;
watch tags, configured at https://cs.stackexchange.com/users/tag-notifications/$userid;
create a fancy search and bookmark it;
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Add question "difficulty"
I don't want to disrupt your suggestion, but I can make the following offer in the meantime:
If you see a good question that you think is of high difficulty and has a good answer that hasn't received ...
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Is this site the most appropriate to ask questions about distributed algorithms?
Algorithms are generally on-topic; implementing them is a gray area since programming questions are offtopic.
This question would certainly be welcome on our site.
Note that we have a tag [...
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Reduce voting threshold from 5 to 3 votes for close/reopen
I suggest keeping the close vote requirement (stuff gets closed quickly anyway) but lowering the open vote requirement since there is usually less interest in questions that have been closed, and this ...
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Users deleting questions after obtaining answers
A similar feature has been requested on the main Meta: My work has been deleted - how can we discourage that? and People deleting their own questions once they have an answer, but the system hasn't ...
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I want to be able to formulate a question about X3C-algorithm; while being question banned. And wait until the ban is over
Apparently you can create a post here. So open a new post here. write your text. You have the same formatting possibility as on the main site. You can view your formatted post here without actually ...
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Reduce voting threshold from 5 to 3 votes for close/reopen
No, please do not change the threshold on close/reopen votes.
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Will the close/reopen vote threshold be reduced from 5 to 3?
No. Not unless we specifically ask for it.
If you would like to see the close/open threshold reduced to 3, it is my understanding that Stack Exchange is willing to try it out here if there is a ...
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Voting arrow colors are extremely low contrast
Yep, there's hope! We're revisiting themes throughout our network. Color-only solutions like this are bound to run into this type of issue, so we'll try our hardest to maintain an acceptable color ...
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