Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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How should Academia SE treat Pre-University contributors' questions?
First off, as a pre-university contributor, let me just say that the users of academia stack exchange are some of the kindest and most intelligent people ever. My posts have always been met with ...
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Where is appropriate to ask about O1 experience and process of people who are in academia and science?
would you help me and direct me to right forum about O1 visa. I know that minimum requirements are 100 citations but I would like to gather experience and impressions of members who went through the ...
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Can we improve advice to those asking questions?
Quite a few questions asked generate comments that the OP doesn't answer. Let me suggest adding a bit to the Help Center advice on asking questions to say that responding to such comments will likely ...
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Can we hint to OPs that their question might be overly long?
Maybe it's just me, but I have the feeling that there is an increase in very long, very, very detailed posts, often not even formatted but wall-of-text style. I often stop reading midway through ...
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Should we create a tag for ChatGPT-related questions?
At the moment, there are 81 posts with the phrase "chatGPT". Although it is generally not a favourite topic around here (but still will probably only become more relevant), I would say it is ...
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Make list of saved questions accessible during "Duplicate" dialogue
The new feature of organizing saved questions into customizable folders came online a few days ago, and I think it is great. I started a folder of "duplicate targets" for questions that are ...
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Rename [errors-erratum] to [errata] with respective synonyms
Currently we have a tag errors-erratum with erratum being the sole synonym. I see no reason to have tag with such a convoluted name and not use the synonym system for this. I thus propose to: Rename ...
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modification date / date asked
I pay attention to the active question queue. Posts there are marked with the modification date, which is always essentially "now" since this is the active question queue. I would rather see ...
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Should there be a mandatory explanation for why a question should be reopened if there were no changes made to the question after closing?
Quite often, questions in the "reopen" review queue have no explanation at all as to why they should be reopened. Sometimes, it is possible to find a comment along the lines of "voting ...
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Implement "umbrella" question-collections for similar questions?
This questions has brought up something that I have thought of before: There are recurring questions tackling the same general question, in this case: How to include (whatever) papers in a CV? A ...
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How to get the notification when someone edits their answer?
Yesterday I posted a post here. I saw that @Buffy edited his answer but I did not receive the notification about the edited answer. Is there any way to get the notification in the inbox when an answer ...
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Moderator-only tags, such as "canonical-question"
Some (perhaps many) questions get asked over and over and we have an informal concept of a canonical-question. I've been trying to think of a way for people to find those more easily. I'm terrible at ...
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Customize the information window for the first-time askers
It happens quite often that new posters are confused about the scope of this site, for instance mistaking it for a "you can ask about every possible study topic here" site, or a "here's ...
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Closing questions that are not questions: what to pick?
It happens regularly that a user complains about something but does not have a question. When voting to close, would it make sense to have the option "not a question", or otherwise at least ...
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Do we want a canonical question on "what to do if accused of misconduct"?
There are a number of questions on Academia.SE from students who have just been accused of cheating, or of some other form of misconduct. While the specifics of the allegations and circumstances ...
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