Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Top new questions this week: Choose to see reduced ads or not I understand a lot of people really dislike ads and are happy to have the reduced ads privilege at 200 reputation. Personally I've really come to appreciate SO, and in support I don't mind seeing ads ... discussion advertising   asked by SilentRevolution 60 votes answered by Bret Copeland 63 votes Test the new mobile chat! Remember 2010, when smartphones looked like this?             Back then, we created a mobile version of chat, so that people could use the bare ... discussion chat mobile-web announcements   asked by balpha 43 votes answered by fredley 6 votes Warn new users to edit important information into the question upon their first attempt to comment on a question of theirs Especially on technical sites, as even sporadic users will have noticed, new users very often don't include important information into the question they're posting. This usually leads the first user ... feature-request comments   asked by kos 32 votes answered by Kate Gregory -1 votes Suggested edits that change code should jump out and punch reviewers in the face (aka mark edited code blocks differently) If you see the following suggested edit (http://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/11026733), it will look like there is only one word change, and someone seeing is can quickly take the decision ... feature-request review suggested-edits   asked by TaReQ MahMooD 17 votes answered by DavidPostill 4 votes A centrallised (multi-site) community-controlled globbing blacklist Moderator from Ask Ubuntu here. Anybody else sick and tired of spam? We've had a lot this morning. We've been through dozens of spam waves over the years but also several rounds of "improvements" to ... feature-request spam   asked by Oli 15 votes answered by Tim Post 13 votes New timeline enables anyone to see any deleted post without checking their privileges Take for example this question here on MSE. It is deleted. Users with less than 10k reputation, or without a diamond, or not the author of the question (who happens to be me) only see a friendly "Page ... bug status-completed privileges timeline   asked by Shadow Wizard 14 votes answered by Sklivvz 14 votes Display site description for migration targets on the moderator "belongs on another site" dialog When I want to migrate a question, I get this dialog: Unfortunately there no description of the site or its scope at all, only its name. Something like this, for example, would be a lot better: ... feature-request migration moderator-tools   asked by Carpetsmoker 14 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Opt in "mentor" privilege at 7.5k I am suggesting a Mentor privilege at 7.5k. It would be on a per-user per-site opt in basis. At some reputation level (perhaps 7.5k) there could be an opt in "mentor" privilege. If someone opts in ... discussion feature-request reputation chat privileges   asked by Tim 36 votes answered by Jon Ericson 54 votes Marking your own question obsolete Some sites have a topic matter such that questions could become irrelevant or irreproducible. Example scenarios: Server Fault: "Never mind, we decided to reinstall the OS on the faulty server, and ... discussion feature-request asking-questions close-reasons   asked by 200_success 8 votes answered by psubsee2003 8 votes Can you answer these? Since when do we get to reply to deleted messages in chat? I just noticed I can reply to a deleted message in chat, while this wasn't possible before, i.e. the reply function used to disappear when the message was deleted. Evidence can be found here, here ... bug chat reply   asked by Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. 5 votes Add notice contents to the timeline Bounties are listed in the timeline now, but not the bounty message. Bounty messages are posted as notices, and moderators can post other notices too. I've had to remove a bounty from a question ... feature-request bounty timeline post-notice   asked by Martijn Pieters 11 votes "your post was converted to a comment" has link to "deleted" page One of my answers has "your post was converted to a comment; see the help center " However the link redirects to the page http://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers "Why and how are some ... bug comments help-center   asked by Michael Freidgeim 2 votes

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