Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Can we get a custom "suspected AI abuse" deletion reason in review queues?
Recently we decisively decided to ban ChatGPT. It would be welcome to indicate to other users in the review queues that we suspect AI-Chatbot abuse using a template comment.
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Blacklist bare [#-edition] tags
D&D editions sometimes colloquially go by their edition number alone, and people sometimes enter just the edition for a tag. We've had to burninate the 5e tag a few times.
I'd like the following ...
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Could a "young player" tag be relevant?
Questions like this one, which seems to have been asked by a very young person, would (in my opinion) be better answered by taking this into account (assuming it is indeed a group of ~13yo). Having a ...
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Prioritize relevance over prevalence when suggesting tags
I noticed something annoying when writing a question with the edition-comparison tag: the suggested tags box prioritizes prevalence over relevance. If I type "edition" into the tag box, here ...
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Can we have an Opinion deletion reason?
Answers are supposed to provide references, or at least arguments supporting their view.
However, with some low quality posts like the one below, the issue is that someone just provides some statement ...
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Is a dark mode for this site realistically possible and desirable, and can we in any way support its introduction?
Dark mode was introduced to StackOverflow about a year ago (blog post), but as of now, it still isn't available on our site (or any other site as far as I know).
Back then, it was stated that
For now,...
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Should we make the recommendation tags throw a warning or error?
A while back there was a revamp of the ask page which introduced a lot more per site customization. Of relevance here is that we can have the page react to tags:
Tag-related error messages and ...
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Should we add a definition of a good answer to the tour?
New users often post uncomplete/chatty answers. Here's a typical comment to such an answer:
Welcome to the site! Please take the tour when you get the chance. It's important to note that we're not a ...
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Can the system tag policy be stated to askers in advance?
Whenever I do something for the first time, I read the instructions. I spend time to understand the rules and try to follow them in good faith. Yet after having spent this effort, if I am later get ...
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Can we add d10 and d4 support to the chat dice bot?
Our current chat dice bot is awesome. However it could be more awesome with 3 things.
The first and most important is support both the d4 and the d10. Currently these die rolls can be resolved using ...
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Get the SE system to enforce system tags [duplicate]
I'm new here, but I've already picked up that Standard Policy is to tag questions with the system that you're playing in, and that the vast majority of questions can be closed a "Lacking details&...
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Can we color system tags to emphasize that they're different and "more meaningful"?
So, this is kind of an "asking about a problem I don't have" feature, but I wanted to float it out there. As an answerer of unfrequented systems, I've noticed that many questions follow what's come to ...
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Could we have a shortcut "magic link" to the "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" blog post?
Mainly, just like we map [help] and [tour], I'd love to be able to map [gsbs] to the Stack Overflow blog post "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-...
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Could we get a [forum] shortlink?
We get a lot of questions that are better suited to a forum, and it's customary when closing them to provide a link to that post. Since I've started doing moderation, though, I've noticed that we don'...
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Make it possible for certain tags (like game tags) to always appear first
As I brought up in the comments of this question, it would be great if it were possible to somehow have a specified tag always be listed first on a post, or if certain special tags (in RPG.SE's case, ...
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Can I send private messages to users?
I feel there should be a message system where you can leave specific users private messages, so that users can comunicate privately, which is why the chat won't do. How come we don't have anything ...
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Why there is no notification for getting a downvote?
While a positive reputation increase (received upvote, accepted answer, association bonus...) is immediately notified, why a negative score is not notified at all? If you receive some upvotes and some ...
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MathJax (LaTeX equations) for RPG.SE and Statistics Posts
MathJax Support has been enabled for RPG.se
MathJax support has been added to RPG.se. We should probably write up a guide on Meta for using it, but in the short version is that you can use ...
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Review actions performed outside of the Review Queue should contribute towards earning badges
Based on this screenshot of the review queue history:
It doesn't appear that review efforts performed outside of the queue contribute towards a player earning the applicable badge. I know that I had ...
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Can/should we include the system tag requirement in our tour?
I may be missing something, but right now, other than by reading this meta, newcomers won't know they should be tagging their system. We have some suggestions on how to address it (Can our tag-prompt ...
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Can we get a new question close reason for this new policy? [duplicate]
Based on the most highly upvoted answer to Re-revisiting the "don't guess the system" policy, it's pretty clear that this policy is here to stay.
One of the things I hate about how the ...
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Can our badges be some symbol that's more recognizable than just featureless hexagons?
Sci-fi's stack Badge is the rebel alliance symbol, some other stacks have other cool symbols that represent their badges. As is right now, we have dice that well... don't really look like dice.
They ...
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Feature Request: Citing Tweets
I'd like to paste in a Twitter URL and get a nicely formatted quote with a link back to the original, the Twitter user, date, etc. Lately—primarily due to the convenience of reaching D&D 5e ...
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Can we get back the orange quote formatting?
I've just noticed today that the quote box is not orange, but grey instead. And it's less noticeable.
It seems dull. At these times we need to color our world with hope.
Can we get back the old ...
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Can we auto-flag no-rep users posting answers with e-mail addresses?
We consistently get spam of the type:
$HoityToityName has made my $verb better because he cast spell for me. E-mail example@yahoo.com to have $noun [enlarged | made better].
... Except it takes a ...
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Can we have a post notice for system-recommendation questions?
RPG has long allowed system-recommendation questions under fairly tight tight rules, and every time they pop up the mods are posting a general comment like the following:
Just a note folks, ...
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Migration flags should be more general than “questions about video games”
Recently, I tried to flag https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/31792/how-does-one-keep-up-a-poker-face as “Definitely off topic: Probably Board-Gaming related (maybe not even that)”. Unfortunately, ...
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Theme of mobile site needs a bit of polish
I really like the theme of desktop site:
The mobile site, on the other hand. Well, it is clean, and exceptionally generic shade of blue and gray:
Would it be possible to, perhaps, just fix the color ...
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Should we be able to retract answer downvotes after a question is reopened? [duplicate]
in this question, the querent didn't originally attach a system, and someone answered before the question was closed.
I downvoted the answer because we didn't have the appropriate information.
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Spam user report
I am reporting this spammer: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/61952/tonyzega
Their about me is just spam for their product. Please do delete the user, and do not support that company that it is ...
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Is it possible to change a vote on an answer from the question being edited?
I down-voted This Answer, as at the time I felt that it didn't actually answer the question as it was asked.
Now that the question has been edited, this answer is a valid answer and not deserving of ...
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Can our tag-prompt nudge toward including system?
We get questions every day that need to be put on hold while we wait for a new querent to specify what game/edition they're playing. As of this writing I've seen three so far today--they get quickly ...
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Could we have a separate close reason for missing system tag?
A lot of the times we close a question for being unclear, it's because it's missing a system tag. I would guess that's the case for over half of our closed-as-unclear questions. With this in mind, ...
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Can we add a "please tag your system" on-hold message? [duplicate]
This question has a common problem where a new user is unfamiliar with the requirement to tag questions with the correct rules system (e.g. dnd-5e). The question was put on hold, but with the generic "...
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Escape key doesn't clear direct reply bubble while suspended
(not sure if bug or not)
I recently had a 30 minute suspension. You can still be replied to while suspended, which pops up a little orange bubble-counter.
Under normal use, you can press escape ...
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Could we have a [tour] short link in comments?
In comments,
[help] expands to the text help center (with a link),
[chat] expands to the text Role-playing Games Chat (with a ...
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Is it possible to create a tag referral?
A recently added tag was created with the UK English spelling flavour. Many US English speakers may have trouble finding or be hesitant to use this tag. Is it possible to create a tag that refers to ...
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Why does the list of reasons to close a question include neither astroturfing nor spam?
I think it would be useful to distinguish between well-intentioned but off-topic questions and those meant to promote a service or advertise a particular product. Is there a way to give advertising ...
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Is sharing a link via Google+ in the cards?
We can tweet links for site promotion, facebook them, our email seeking outside experts. Will posting to Google+ be in our toolkits any time soon?
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Can we make the dice bot more accessible?
I've recently learned that d4, 8, 10, 12, and 20 interface well with screen readers, but that the d6 reads as "bullets." Presumably, that's the interpretation given to pips.
Can we change the d6 to ...
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Allow the community to attach the game-rec post notice or tie it directly to the tag
So we have a post notice now for game-rec questions. That's great, there's just one problem.
Only 3 people on this site are capable of applying it.
This request is for one of two things, either:
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Can we get an annual survey?
I just took the 2019 Developer Survey for Stack Overflow, and I was thinking it would be cool to get similar information for the RPG.se community.
Some potential questions:
What RPGs have you played ...
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Stack Devs: Please let us show longer answers in the Tour page
The tour page presents a sample of the kinds of Q&A we might see on this site. Moderators can pick what shows up there from a very limited list of questions, with a preview of how it will show up ...
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I've noticed that new users tend to accept questions within only a few hours; should we update the tour?
As the title says: I've noticed over the past month or so that a lot of new users tend to accept questions after only a couple of hours.
I know that it isn't mandatory for users to wait 24h to ...
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Can the main theme picture of the site be changed?
I haven't been on this website for a while but i could say i've been here for about a year and i noticed the picture of the Dragon fighting some people. I've been looking at it for a year and it kinda ...
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Should we give a reason why we are downvoting an answer [duplicate]
I was wondering if we should have a small dialog box which is opened when you wish to downvote a question or answer, I feel that if people put in the reasoning for the downvote the community will have ...
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Notification of edits on questions you answered
Is there a way to get notified when a question you have answered gets edited? Edits sometimes change the wording or meaning of the main question and a previously posted answer can seem badly worded or ...
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Removing downvotes?
So this question is currently being looked at for various reasons, but I note the following (I assume Mod) comment:
Hey, guys, voting to close and downvoting don't have to go hand-in-hand. VTC as ...
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Downvoting first questions - can we be more welcoming?
I feel as though I've seen a lot of new-member questions that are (not that surprisingly) less than amazing, and therefore get close votes. I think that's pretty logical, and usually the close votes ...
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Can we make the locked question default messages more clear?
In a recently locked post it came to my attention that the comment proceeding the Locked banner was unclear in a way.
This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. ...
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