Questions tagged [wording]
For the suggestion of improvements to the phrasing of text shown to users by the Stack Exchange engine.
365 questions
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The Stack (Overflow) Internal branding is confusing
This is really a question in 2 parts — I've seen the product formerly known as Teams referred to as both Stack Internal and Stack Overflow Internal. I'd prefer the former but… clarity would be useful, ...
15 votes
1 answer
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues: This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
30 votes
0 answers
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Change "no" to "insufficient" in predefined flag decline reason of "Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it"
As indicated in this answer, one of the standard, predefined responses available to diamond Moderators when declining a flag is: Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to ...
18 votes
0 answers
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Moderator message sidebar says it's from "Stack Overflow moderators" even on non-SO sites
I am a diamond moderator on Puzzling Stack Exchange. When I go to read a moderator message thread, the sidebar box titled "What is a moderator message?" starts: This is a private, ...
11 votes
1 answer
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The experiment opt-out help center page should probably say "Stack Exchange" instead of "Stack Overflow"
There's a page in the Help Center about how to opt out of experiments: /help/experiment-opt-out. Its title is "How do I opt out of experiments on Stack Overflow?" and it starts with the ...
5 votes
2 answers
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Remove the 'pipe delimited' from a tag merge log message which isn't pipe delimited
I just did a tag rename which ♦ moderators can do by merging an existing tag into a non-existent one. There's some confusing output in the results page; this time I'm confused by the 'pipe delimited': ...
6 votes
0 answers
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Update 'Favorite Tags' filter to reflect that the feature is now called 'Tag Watching'
On stackexchange.com, there's an overview of all recent questions in all the tags you're watching across the network. That filter is called 'Favorite Tags' but that feature has been renamed to 'Tag ...
4 votes
0 answers
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Confusing sentence in list of chat rooms: "A list of all chat rooms on The Stack Exchange Network by the community"
The "All" tab for any chat network (e.g. SE Chat) has at the top: A list of all chat rooms on <The Stack Exchange Network / Meta Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow> by the community. ...
10 votes
0 answers
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Show extent of modification on the question list
In a list of questions, we currently show something like [username] [rep] [asked|answered|modified] [when] There have been a number of requests to annotate minor edits to keep them from bumping the ...
7 votes
0 answers
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Improve the wording about the election start date in the template for Question Collection questions
There are two elections coming up early July, and here are the Question Collection questions posted on their meta sites: 2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection (Astronomy.SE) 2025 ...
-17 votes
1 answer
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"Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB
Bug: I'm getting "Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB (not over 10 MiB). Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB).
26 votes
1 answer
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Explicitly suggest searching for answers, not just asking a new question, at the bottom of the page
There appears to be a new feature adding two boxes below the question/answers on a question page. One box suggests to "Find the answer to your question by asking" while the other provides ...
4 votes
0 answers
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Change "There are no questions tagged <X>" to "The <X> tag does not exist"
If a tag doesn't exist, then attempting to search for it results in a page stating that no questions have that tag: There are no questions tagged web-hosting. View available tags for this site. That'...
10 votes
1 answer
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Settings "When you flip this switch" language problem
There is a "Settings" page available in your profile page. Some of the setting descriptions start with "When you flip this switch". Maybe "flip" means "enable" ...
14 votes
3 answers
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Inconsistency on using comments to "add more information"
If you open the comment box, the grayed-out tooltip text says Use comments to ask for clarification or add more information [emphasis mine] However, the faq says They are not for: Providing ...