Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Top new questions this week: RFC: Better chat @mentions – A prototype Status: 75% - We have a prototype to play with the UI Previous RFC: RFC: Better chat @mentions Problem Statement & Background Please see the previous RFC. Proposed solution The feedback to ... discussion feature-request chat feedback ping   asked by balpha 30 votes answered by Nick Larsen 18 votes Make it easier for moderators to see flag responses Moderators can see all the flag-handling for a site. What we get is the post link, the flag, and whether it was accepted or declined. For example: (I've clipped out the identifying information ... feature-request flags moderator-tools   asked by Monica Cellio 17 votes Show the gold badge in addition to the diamond when a moderator closes as a duplicate (tl;dr) When a moderator closes as a duplicate - if they have a gold badge in the tag(s) they're doing so -- display the gold badge in addition to the diamond I think it's fair to say that moderators ... feature-request status-review moderators dupehammer   asked by Jon Clements 16 votes answered by Patrick Hofman 13 votes Waiting 24 hours to reward an existing answer is completely illogical I'm bringing up this question again, because the previous one is four years old and the accepted answer is, well, wrong. There seems to be some disconnect between the people who want this feature and ... feature-request bounty   asked by Michael Mrozek 15 votes answered by RubberDuck 5 votes Allow 15k rep to protect highly viewed young questions As described in the protected-questions privileges: Questions should be protected when they are garnering lots of views and newbies are adding "me too!", "thanks!" and possibly even spam ... feature-request privileges protected-questions   asked by MichaelT 13 votes Scale daily review caps more effectively to bring even busy queues to 0 instead of 1000 On a number of sites*, there's enough review flow to reliably keep certain queues in the dozens or even hundreds. The only feature that currently acts to actively restore the balance in most such ... feature-request review rate-limiting limits   asked by Nathan Tuggy 12 votes answered by Patrick Hofman 3 votes Link design within the new unregistered user inbox/achievements dialogue looks weird That looks weird. The log in is hyperlinked, but sign up is not and instead, there's a big blue button saying sign up underneath it. Why not just have 2 buttons? Or hyperlink both? Something ... discussion feature-request design top-bar unregistered-users   asked by ᔕᖺᘎᕊ 12 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Move Skeptics Stack Exchange to the 'Science' section As of 25 May 2015, Skeptics Stack Exchange not is inserted in the Science section by Stack Exchange: While not being exactly a science site, this website exists to apply scientific skepticism on ... discussion feature-request stackexchange   asked by George Chalhoub 8 votes answered by Anna Lear 6 votes How to train your growing community to self-moderate? Two years ago I accepted the post of pro-tem moderators on Computer Science. At that time, and that's true for any new beta SE site, there were little to no users with enough reputation to moderate. ... discussion feature-request moderator-tools moderation community   asked by Raphael 61 votes answered by Mat's Mug 26 votes Can you answer these? How can I change the related site for a chatroom after the room is created? We have a chatroom for the Korean Language Proposal at Area51 at http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/30769/korean-language-discussion-room-commit-stage During creation it got associated with TeX ... discussion chat area51   asked by user13267 3 votes Bullet points prefer to remain hidden In spoiler tags bullet points will only become visible if you put your cursor over the spoiler, revealing the text (not the bullet points) and then scroll down (while the text is still visible) and ... bug design spoilers   asked by Aequitas 2 votes Selecting and backspacing a tag just merges its text with that of the tag before it This is something I found across all S.E. communities. Whenever I add a tag, and if I find out that the tag doesn't exist on the community yet, deleting this tag is a bit annoying. See in the ... bug tags keyboard   asked by fabrice d 4 votes

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