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 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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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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Permanent banner for game-recommendation tag
On every question (correctly) tagged with game-recommendation, somebody comes along and leaves a comment reminding answer's how to address the question properly. To make this more permanent than the ...
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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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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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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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Handling new users with bad answers
When I see answers like this - low-rep users with uncommented downvotes, I try to address them with a comment. It's my way of trying to gentle the slap in the face from the downvote. A downvote ...
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Add tag warnings for [rules-as-written] and [dungeons-and-dragons]
Back in Should we add a [rules-as-written] tag warning, and what should it say? we came to a general agremeent on a couple of tag warnings for the site.
This post is a feature request directed to ...
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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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Can we require comments on downvotes?
Perhaps I'm the only one noticing this, but I've seen several Questions and Answers around here that have been downvoted for no apparent reason. What's worse, is that no reason for the downvote is ...
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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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Tell us more about those repercussions of bounties that aren't mentioned anywhere
A while ago I posted my first bounty, on this question: What are the key considerations to creating compelling environments?
There were two different things I didn't know about bounties that, if I'd ...
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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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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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Retaining lonely system tags
Apparently there is a dev(?)-accessible switch on a per-site basis that disables the script that cleans out tags that have only been used once in 6 months. Arqade recently turned this off because they ...
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Can we keep Sketchy? [closed]
In light of this I'd like to make a featured request.
Please allow RPG.SE to keep the sketchy theme.
When I first came to this site I didn't notice the sketchy theme, I thought it was part of the ...
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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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Why are Questions marked as ON HOLD allowed to have an answer chosen?
If the community has marked a Question as On Hold (for whatever reason), it seems odd that the Stack system can allow the Querent to choose an answer.
Basically, if the question isn't stack ready yet,...
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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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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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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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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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Make main site search stand out more
Considering I've been on StackExchange for some time, I figure I should know where the search bar is by now. However, I had a bit of a mental lapse when I came here today to look for a particular ...
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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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Could our spam filter be made extraordinarily paranoid about answers with emails in them?
RPG.SE has been receiving spellcaster spam for years (such as in this 10k only example). I understand that there's some machine learning behind our spam flags, but this stuff seems to regularly fall ...
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Can there be a bracketed locked after locked questions like with on hold and closed questions?
While a question that's on hold or closed is indicated in brackets in the general list of questions, a question that's locked isn't. (For example, at the time of this writing, this question.)
Is ...
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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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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 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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Our Editing Help doesn't mention paragraph breaks
I just took a look at our Editing Help and noticed it makes no mention of the fact you need two line breaks for a paragraph break.
^ Like this. This seems to be the thing that most commonly trips up ...
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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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How about an "ask a question about this" button?
OK, so there are ubiquitous little twitter and facebook buttons anywhere. It would seem like it would be a nice fit for SE to have a little [?] button people could use to link to a relevant SE, ...
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Should/can we change the Duplicate notification?
Currently, the duplicate notification says
This question already has an answer here:
and links to the "original" question. I find this, at least, misleading, considering we close questions as ...
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Do we always need to have 'accepted' answers?
Roleplaying is a hobby where the players and gamemasters collectively define the game they are playing, and although there are rulebooks, the style and rules in effect are primarily determined by the ...
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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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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 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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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 have a RTFM equivalent in the Vote to Close options?
Often enough we get really low-quality questions that are obvious that the asker has not read the rules at all (vs. asking for clarification). What does "+6 to hit, Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4)" mean ...
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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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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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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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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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Why is our help center so awful?
Ok, so theoretically, if I want to learn how to participate in the site I can do so by going to the help center, right? Wrong.
There are a vast number of meta.rpg posts (e.g. How do we handle a ...
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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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Please modify the front page algorithm to demote closed questions
Lets face it, our question volume isn't all that high. This means that questions tend to hang around on the front page for a while, either good or bad. In particular I've noticed that closed ...
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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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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 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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Close votes and Edited Questions
I've seen the case where people vote to close based on the format of the question, and suggest improvements. Then the person edits- but perhaps one more vote is needed to close, and someone votes ...
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