Unanswered Questions
499 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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Add quote markup to comments
Comments have a very restricted markup ability. Currently supported text markups available are
Italic text
Bold text
code
One of the very common things people do in comments that is not supported is ...
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Supporting your candidate for moderator & being nice
Elections are one of the backbones of the Stack Exchange network. It gives the community a huge voice in determining the handful of people to who will volunteer to have their role on the site ...
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Remove the "thanks for flagging" popup after the user has raised a number of flags
Currently, whenever anyone flags a comment, they get this popup:
or, more recently:
I personally find this really annoying, especially since I flag a great many comments a day (on the order of ...
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Allow rejected editors to be @replied to
Within the canonical answer on how-do-comment-replies-work it is clear that post editors can be replied to.
Notifications apply to the author, users with active bounties,
commenters (associated ...
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Add a "remove in 60 days" comment flag
The current modus operandi to clean up comment threads that are extremely chatty, obsolete, or consist of pointless discussion is to flag them for moderator attention.
This works; however, it would ...
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Comment (or answer) notifications in the global inbox should include the author's username
I would like to see who left a comment in my global inbox like this:
And also for answers:
(Except, of course, I would like the actual commentor's name, not "The Person Who Left The Comment".)
Could ...
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Please make the revision histories of comments visible to their authors
When one posts a comment, one is able to edit it during a brief grace period. Moderators can edit any comment at any time.
A comment that has been edited will have a little pencil symbol:
Moderators ...
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It's time to revert removing @name from comments
Yes, I am aware of:
Eeeeek - what happened to my @ salutation?
Don't remove the @ part of my comment
Alert users as to why their @lert is being removed from comments
But now that several years ...
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Touch friendly comments
I have a Windows 8 tablet with a touch screen (Surface pro) using IE10, I do not like to use the mouse a lot since it is touch, SE sites are not really touch friendly and the mobile version looks ugly ...
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Add a [conduct] "magic link" – similar to [help] and [tour] – to link to the Code of Conduct in comments
I like the [help] and [tour] shortcuts to concisely direct people to a specific section of the help in whatever site I’m commenting on.
Can a [conduct] or similar magic link to create a proper link to ...
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Can we have an "edit question" magic link for answer comments?
Yet another request for a magic link. In the following situations:
I answer a question, the asker replies to me in a comment, and I want to reply to them asking them to edit certain information into ...
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Deleting comments under posts in the mod queue should be easier
Ever since mods gained the ability to undelete comments, deleting them has become easier as the confirmation dialog was removed.
However, this is not the case in the mod queue — I still get a ...
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For moderators, please add the "undelete" button to all deleted comments
Well, we're not exactly on the same page as a team on undeletions.
In dealing with the comments on this post — I noticed that a comment (with broader context) containing some trigger keyword was ...
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Why is there no autocomplete for pinging editors?
I hope this example shows why autocomplete would be useful beyond the comfort of the commenter:
I recently had an issue where someone edited a post (which I'm not the author of) only to add one extra ...
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