Questions tagged [privileges]
Privileges are abilities you earn with increased reputation to do and see more on the site. Use this tag for questions about privilege levels and privilege notifications.
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Rename the "Vote up [comments]" privilege to make it more distinct from the "vote up [posts]" privilege and more consistent with other privileges
There is apparently a new privilege for upvoting comments on every site. Now distinct from the privilege to upvote posts. No doubt this is related to Stack Overflow Experiment: Safely expanding voting ...
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19 votes
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Got a notification that I earned the "vote up privilege" while I have 60k+ rep
I got a notification that I earned the "vote up privilege". I think it's a bug since I'm have 60k+ rep on that site. More examples.
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8 votes
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Editing a question with the plus character (+) in the tag incorrectly triggers a "new tag" error for <300 rep users
On Arqade, a user asked about the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4. I replaced the existing [tony-hawks-pro-skater] tag with [tony-hawks-pro-skater-3+4]. Later, the OP (who has <300 rep) ...
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27 votes
0 answers
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"Hang on, you can't upvote just yet" dialog should link to the site's help center instead of Stack Overflow's help center
If you have less than 15 reputation and try to use the upvote button, you'll see a dialog titled "Hang on, you can't upvote just yet." with some handy information. There's a link "What'...
GlorfindelMod
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20 votes
1 answer
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Let sites and room owners grant and constrain talk-in-chat privileges for users who don't have enough rep
This feature-request is posted in light of thoughts I've been having about ways to make chat more open to people, which I think will make room for people who are looking for the kind of avenue for ...
starballMod
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3 votes
0 answers
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Hovering over points on site analytics shows numbers in wrong position
On the site analytics pages for Stack Overflow and Arqade (requires 25,000 reputation), when I hover my mouse over a data point on the graph, the popup with the number for that day gets positioned ...
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58 votes
2 answers
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To prevent mass profile spam editing "About me" and "Links" should be locked behind a privilege
Combating profile spam is one of those whack-a-mole kinda tasks. Accounts are (too?) easy to make and spam be added to them. As explained here they are not that easy to detect from within SE, but they ...
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1 answer
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Rep doesn't come back immediately after a suspension ends [duplicate]
Rep doesn't come back immediately after a suspension ends. Example (rep=1 on meta but suspension ended already):
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33 votes
1 answer
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Would it be possible to delay (red-)flagging privileges?
On smaller sites, it's relatively easy for trolls to do the following things before anyone notices: create a sock puppet account or four, post some bogus questions and answers, accept the answers, ...
GlorfindelMod
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-21 votes
2 answers
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Differences in treatment of established vs. new users [closed]
There seems to be a difference in how established vs. new users are treated on certain SE sites; for instance while doing any of these: Downvoting and undoing edits; only to put the same edits in ...
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11 votes
2 answers
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Should downvoting without the 125 rep requirement remove an existing upvote?
If you have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted the upvote is removed and a downvote is added. If you don't have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted then you get a ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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How does downvote feedback work? [duplicate]
If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say: Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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4 votes
0 answers
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Give the edit posts privilege to users with a history of good suggested edits [duplicate]
Currently, the only way to unilaterally edit posts is to have 2,000 rep (1,000 on beta sites). Many users, for one reason or another, have experience editing but don't post very often, and hence take ...
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6 votes
5 answers
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Allow high-rep community members to help review No Longer Needed comment flags
TL;DR Please, allow very-high rep users (50,000 rep on "full" rep levels, 10,000 rep on "beta" rep levels, and 5,000 rep on "private beta" rep levels) to help review No ...
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-2 votes
1 answer
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What will happen if a user who initially have the bounty privilege but lost it during the duration of the bounty? [duplicate]
There's nothing in particular about this, just that I'm curious. Let's suppose a scenario: A user gains reputation, and got the "offer a bounty" privilege (awarded upon reaching 75 rep ...
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