Unanswered Questions
854 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Let's make it easier to get a room
Let's make it easier for people discussing a post in comments to retire to chat, without waiting for comments to pile up until the system prompts them or a moderator acts. There are two main use ...
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When reviewing chat flags, please show two lines of context and underline the message timestamp
Not all communities and rooms are created equal. Some have higher standards than others. Thus, what can be considered offensive in one room may be very well acceptable in another. What makes them ...
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Can we get a flag history for chat's moderator attention flags?
I checked my chat profile to see whether I can find something similar to the main-site flag-history for chat-flags, but didn't find anything.
I recently had the (dis)pleasure of regularly having to ...
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Can we have meta tags for chatrooms?
We can add tags to our chatroom which is great. What isn't great is that we have no way to indicate that we mean the tags from the meta site.
I'm one of the room owners of the SO Close voters room and ...
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Stars and pins are retained when chat messages are moved!
In the chat system, stars and pins are retained when moved to another room. This is probably a bug. Here a picture:
When a room owner pins a message, they can move it to another room, and they cannot ...
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Push whois to all chat rooms, identifying room owners and local elected moderators
The Teacher's Lounge--the Network-wide chat room for elected moderators--used to have a whois bot. Its functionality was pretty simple:
nitsua60> whois meta mods
Feed> I am aware of 3 ...
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Granting users access to a private room should create a message in chat
Any moderator or room owner can grant additional access to any user. Granting room owner privileges or removing them produces a message like the following in chat:
Mad Scientist has removed Mad ...
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How do I ping the right bob?
We have two bobs at the moment. Bob (with the fox avatar) is a long time user, and bob, with the green avatar.
I'd like to ping Bob, without bothering bob with my pings. I see two ways to do this - ...
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Extend profile hiding in chat for suspended users
When a user is suspended, their account is reduced to 1 rep and all of his privileges are stripped. However, they can still join chat rooms.
This leads to various forms of possible abuse (all of ...
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Chat notification sounds sometimes re-enable themselves incorrectly
I turn off the chat notification noise on all Stack Exchange chatrooms. I want to keep this notification off on every device I use. However, the setting is not completely sticky, and it inevitably ...
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Site oneboxes are often white, invisible
Oneboxing of site links is often not visible, especially on beta sites:
Many sites, like Ask Ubuntu and Sharepoint also have predominantly white logos in oneboxes.
These images should have a ...
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Could we revisit/reconsider the lack of chat API?
It's a feature request almost as old as the network itself - here's a request for a streaming API that felt like it got off on the wrong foot, and a frustratingly cryptic answer from Jeff when asked ...
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SE chat is completely inaccessible to keyboard-only users
Keyboard-only access is an important part of accessibility. In my case, it's simply because my mouse has stopped working, but there are many people who rely on webpages being keyboard-only friendly to ...
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The Amazon is huge, but that doesn't mean the oneboxes need to be
Recently, animuson was dissatisfied with his clock. Therefore, one of our illustrious members sought out an Amazon link to a clock that would solve all of animuson's needs. And this happened:
It's ...
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Appoint chat moderators exclusively responsible for moderating chat
Currently, the way that chat moderation is set up, it relies heavily on site moderators moderating chat in addition to their main Q&A site. Moderators have some pretty powerful tools (freezing ...
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