Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Extracting a professional account from my existing contributions: Is it supported and wanted?
This question is about something I expected to have been asked before, but I could not find anything, neither on physics.SE nor on general meta. Apologies if I have missed something. I started ...
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Instead of just down-voting a new post, can't the same person care to explain why? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: How to exactly evaluate the Magnetic Field associated with the given Electric Field in a lossy medium?
My question here is that instead of just ...
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Badly formatted questions and answers
There are several questions like this one, which have basic formatting issues. I'm not talking about formulas, which are not in MathJax, but rather
no punctuation (not the case in the linked question)...
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Is there any way to know how many users are currently online at a given time? [duplicate]
Usually I find that maximum traffic occurs on this site around (8:00 pm to 4:00 am, as per Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+05:30)), but I don't have any concrete data related to it. So
Is there a way ...
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Is there any way to retract my suggested edit?
I often suggest tag edits in which I add the homework-and-exercises tag to homework like questions. In some cases, these questions are closed as off topic even before my edit is reviewed. So, in that ...
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Stop killing suggested edits in the name of “conflicted with a subsequent edit”
I saw this and thought to edit it by adding a blockquote, do some MathJax formatting and editing tags. And so I devoted 7 minutes (on a mobile device), trying to make StackExchange a better place. And ...
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Why aren't my questions marked as hot?
I've asked a several questions (for example, one about gravity waves (3k views) in the two last days With more than 2k views. So not too long ago. There is another question (I don't want with say who ...
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New flag suggestion [closed]
More often than not the correct answer here is "Have you considered learning philosophy or art instead?"
Now this is kind of blunt but i stress that it correct answer most of the time.
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A request to the existing users on the issue of new users
I'm myself is not an old user but not a new user too. The Physics SE is a little different from other sites and even other Stackexchange sites, new users who come over here generally asks about a ...
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Anonymous comment feature to explain anonymous downvote? [duplicate]
Recently my questions were downvoted, though the reason for such is unknown to me (also it's not quite a big deal for me) but I believe that if the downvoter had given me some suggestions for ...
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Shouldn't there be a “follow” option on profile page of users? [duplicate]
Sorry if I had given a wrong suggestion! But I think that Physics Stack Exchange is also a Q/A social media platform, so it would help us to trust the answers of the highly followed users. The follow ...
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How can answerers learn, if the downvotes on their answers are not justified?
I am not going to link the specific answer that prompted me to write this post because I want to make a general point.
I am aware of the policy of not forcing users to comment when they downvote, as ...
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Is it possible to see deleted answers?
I saw a thought-provoking answer to my question: How many worlds are there during branching in the many worlds interpretation?
Is there anyway for me to re-see the answer before it was deleted?
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Is the new activity indicators in PSE main page really useful/necessary?
I currently use both physics.SE and math.SE, and one difference I noticed was the new activity counters and notifications on PSE, which were absent in its math counterpart. Now, in my experience so ...
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Is the duplicate policy hindering the site?
In a couple of recent situations I have found myself at odds with the duplicate question policy of the site. The most recent case was this question Proof of Ohm's Law [duplicate] that was marked as a ...
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Why can't we downvote comments? [duplicate]
Comments by other users cannot be deleted or downvoted by users such as me. Why don't we enable the feature of downvoting comments and many downvotes causing deletion? Please don't get me wrong. But I ...
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Why “Leave Open” votes don't cancel the “Close” votes?
Once the question has been closed, one can cast re-open votes and a question requires exactly as many re-open votes as close votes in order for it to be re-opened. Given the homogeneity of time, I ...
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Suggesting a tag: “crackpot_theory” (you get the idea)
Re Is there any reliable place where i can put my theory of universe (it explained/predicted the behavior of almost everything i came across) and my comment to it. Lots of similar things have been ...
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what do I do if I started a bounty on accident
I started a bounty and I did not mean to can I do anything to undo it.
if there is not I request that there is a way to retract the bounty on the same day.
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A “Requires Expertise” Notice?
The Problem
I was going to write a question here asking what the appropriate response is to incorrect upvoted answers, but I realized that I'm far from the first person to ask this, e.g.
How should ...
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Notification to the user whose comment is deleted
I strongly believe that a user, whose comment is deleted by a moderator should be notified about it.
Many moderators ask the user to remove their comments however some just remove them without ...
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Why can't I suggest “Chemistry Stack Exchange” as another site when flagging a question as off-topic? [duplicate]
I've recently noticed that when I flag something as off-topic by suggesting it to another site(in order to get better answers for that question) I only see the options of Physics Meta Stack Exchange ...
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Why don't we have the physics MathJax extension enabled? Should we?
As a recent question points out, it would be nice if the site's MathJax environment included something similar to the physics LaTeX package.
Fortunately, the list of third-party extensions for ...
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On Bra & ket notation
I was asking a QM question recently, and wanted to use the bra & ket notation; however, the MathJax does not support the necessary packages, as far as I can tell.
Is it possible to add the ...
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Should a comment be left when the question has a drastic edit after answers have been provided?
In this post is an example where the editing by the OP has made a drastic difference and makes nonsense of the answer provided before the edit.
This has happened to me again after edits by moderators ...
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Adding option to get notification when a “followed” question is answered [duplicate]
I have read this question about the feature request for adding an option to get a notification when a "followed" question gets answers posted to them.
The top answer seemed to indicate that such a ...
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How can we improve the participation of subject experts and enthusiastic physics students in chat?
I don't use the main site much, but I have been a regular participant on Physics SE's main chat: The h Bar, for the past two years. Lately, I have been noticing a drastic drop in the number of subject ...
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No red error bar in the review queue
When I'm on the review queues, sometimes I can't edit the post for various reasons. (I have a maxed out edit queue, or someone else's edit is pending).
When this happens on the normal site, a red bar ...
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Understanding down votes on answers
I recently received two down votes in one day on an answer that was submitted more than a year ago (accepted answer), unfortunately without any comments. At the same time as the down votes, the ...
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Feature: Subscribing to Questions
It happens to me very often that I see an interesting question that I'd like to know the answer to. I'll favorite it but then never get notified if there is a change. It would be very nice to have a "...
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My question is deleted, I am not allowed to ask more questions. Are these really good practices? [closed]
I asked this question which I later learned was apparently preposterous and was heavily downvoted.
I was still positive that some one will one day come across my question who will be generous and ...
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Possibility to retract flag on comments [closed]
I have noticed that even if I mistakenly flag a comment, I cannot be able to retract the flag afterward... I think it will be a good feature to add the possibility to retract flags on comments.
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Bad behaviour from mod
Recently I was struggling with a problem so I asked for help from two people. 1st from Blue . I talked to him before and he is nice dude ready to help. Then I saw semiclassical who is also cool and ...
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Why won't you spend your reputation (on bounties)?
Is it because your total reputation is in front of your name and the size of that number is a sort of prestige?
In another discussion when someone expressed frustration that over reputation gain ...
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Tag with no tag wiki description which should be merged
I just discovered there is a floating (no tag wiki description) elementary-particles tag, which description is included in the particle-physics tag. Should not these be merged?
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How to kill the duck
There is a duck on the homepage. It is a bright colour and does not scroll with the page, hence it is a hideous eyesore and needs to be removed from my sight.
I clicked on it, hoping a close option ...
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Should we curate a “bogus science” wiki or similar?
A recent answer and subsequent comment discussion revealed there are possibly many bogus science sources on the web that are apparently invading the SE network. I understand that downvoting plays a ...
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We should reassign [tag:non-linear-dynamics] to [tag:complex-systems]
I propose we make the tag non-linear-dynamics a synonym of complex-systems.
Currently, non-linear-dynamics is set as a synonym of non-linear-systems, but I'd like to argue that the most common usage ...
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Ch-ch-ch-changing the site logo to cut out the weird arrow thing
Apparently, Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming to the site navigation and theming.
Given that that's the case (and that therefore there are designer work-hours already scheduled to attend to our site design)...
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Should we keep a list of wrong top/accepted answers?
Sometimes a wrong answer is the accepted answer, sometimes a wrong answer is the most voted answer, sometimes a wrong answer is both at once. Should we make a list of those? The purpose would be that ...
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A place for helpful comment templates?
I often find the need to have a comment template saved for future use, say when indicating to an asker that they need to write equations in MathJax instead of attaching them as images (with links to ...
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How to address high volume of low quality questions?
I've noticed that there are an awful lot of people who come here, create new accounts to ask their homework questions, get downvoted and closed then leave.
Obviously, we have flags, we can attempt to ...
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Chat option on Android app
The app is not showing direct option for chat. I have to open browser to get to chat. When I tap chat option, window comes to open it with app or with browser; when I tap for app, it opens browser.
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Giving newbies time to think
Maybe it’s just me, however, there are some questions where there exist much better answers somewhere which are not the accepted one. I understand that for an answer to be accepted, it just need to "...
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Any trick to mark answers as favorites, not just questions?
We can mark questions as favourites, but usually I would rather want to mark an answer as a favourite. Afaik this is not possible.
In my profile I could check my upvotes, but there I seem to have ...
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Please add a link to the Meta MSE MathJax tutorial to the editing help
If you're asking a question and you click the help button, it will send you to the Editing Help page, which has a LaTeX section that looks like this:
This is a perfect place to have a link to the ...
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Why Can't “Bounties” be Awarded To a Question?
I understand that bounties are mostly used to attract better answers but one of the reasons to award a bounty to an answer, as recognized by the PSE, is to reward an existing beautiful answer. I ...
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Is it possible to expand the list of migration sites for off-topic posts?
Recently, it seems that we've been getting several questions that would be more appropriate for Cross Validated. This question is only the most recent example.
Right now, the only choices for off-...
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KaTeX instead of Mathjax
Mathjax is slow enough that for math-heavy questions or answers my Safari 10 can barely keep up on a 3 years old mac (I am giving these details for precision sake: this is not a bug report but a ...
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Should close notices be more specific?
Recently I've asked an off-topic question: How to plot forcing oscillation with damping correctly?. The close notice has only one line of instruction:
This question does not appear to be about ...
