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Should retagging not move questions to the top of the active list?
Retagging questions currently moves them to the top of the active questions list. (I'm not sure, but I think this move may be a result of the retag function having been merged with the edit ...
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Where did the “Retag” button go?
Is it me, or did this site used to have a "Re-Tag" button under every question?
If it did, I personally found it useful. Why has it disappeared?
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Discussion questions on meta - where do you discuss?
This a meta-meta question. When a question on meta is tagged discussion, I take it to mean that the point is to discuss, with maybe not a final goal of having one "answer", although with that ...
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Take back a flag?
I recently flagged a question (this one) as really bad (because it was). However, I also left a comment for the original poster letting them know that it was really vague and not a good fit. The ...
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Badges for answering X and asking Y number of questions
There are badges for achieving a certain amount of activity for: voting, visiting, editing, reviewing, and flagging. But there is no activity level badge for answering x number of questions, or for ...
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Are ergonomics questions appropriate on UX?
I have a number of questions about ergonomics related to computer/laptop use, including what title an ergonomics expert has, because maybe what I actually want is a consultant - my interest is ...
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Is “website-design” a useful tag?
Our most common tag is website-design. Without reading the tag's wiki, it seems like most questions on this site are about "web-design," which means that many users may begin typing "web" and then ...
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UI Bug when viewing my suggested edit
Because I'm mildly compulsive, I was looking at the review status of my recent edit. I expanded the information about the reviewers by clicking the (more) link and then clicked (less) to un-expand ...
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How to encourage questions
Firstly, I am suggesting this only for UX.se, so please don't migrate it to the Stack Overflow meta.
Right now UX.se has become almost exclusively about computer related UX and mostly leaves out the ...
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Respond to someone reviewing my suggested edit
I recently made a revision to this question.
It was a substantial revision because the OP had posted an answer to the question that should have been an edit to the question. I flagged that answer ...
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What is a “rant”?
I noticed a question today that had a large image that, in my mind, was effectively a rant:
It seems like images like this add no value to the question itself, but I'm curious what the rest of the ...
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How can I vote on a proposed tag synonym?
On the tag synonyms page, I can see potential synonyms listed, and I see "pending(0)" in the right column, but I don't know how to vote on a proposed synonym. Can someone please explain?
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Is the current tag-synonym design hard to use?
I don't think the current site design makes it very clear which direction tag synonyms point. (If you are encountering the same issue, I've posted a solution. It took me a while to figure it out.)
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Which way do tag synonyms point?
Below, when I say "main tag" I mean the tag that you want the other tag to redirect to (generally the tag with more votes). I'll call the tag re-directs to the main tag the "sub-tag."
When the ...
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If one tag is a subcategory of another, should it be tagged as a synonym?
For example, I proposed behavioral-psychology (with only one post tagged) as a synonym of the much more common psychology (87 posts), but now I'm not so certain I should have because there's also the ...
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Tidying up tag synonyms
I've been looking at some of the lesser used tags and proposing tag synonyms. I've found several in tags that I don't have five upvotes for yet, but that look like they might be good synonyms. If ...
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Why aren't duplicate questions automatically merged? Or at least linked both directions?
When a question is closed as a duplicate, it automatically includes a link to the question that it was a duplicate of. In cases where it's closed before it has been answered, this approach makes ...
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Why do we punish users for returning to answer their own questions?
I posted a question a couple of months ago that got several answers. At the time, I clicked to "accept" the one that seemed best to me, and when I did I got a +2 bonus to my reputation.
In the time ...
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User leaderboard filter bug
So, I just discovered that the quarter and month filters (currently year selected in the image) both do the same thing aka filter by month. If you hover over the labels, it will tell you the range and ...
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Can we broaden the area between “too narrow” and “too subjective”?
I asked a question earlier today that I was half-expecting to be closed, largely because I wanted to test out whether it would be. That is was closed within only two hours indicates something highly ...
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I don't get it. What is the difference between these two questions?
I've been contributing for while but I'm still coming to grips with the nuances involved with accepting a question or trashing it.
I didn't post a response to this question - Good UX for a page - ...
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Why are we so uptight?
I see many questions which are downvoted and locked immediately, most of them from fairly new users. How about we give them a chance to re-frame the question or remove it themselves, rather than ...
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Approve edits to answer by questioner?
I approved an edit to an answer that was made not by the user who gave the answer but by the user who asked the question and accepted the answer.
Was this the correct action, or should I have ...
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Why Is 20 rep required to chat?
Why
why you have to have 20 reputation points to be able to chat online? Is it because you have to be well known??
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Who made the webdesign of User Experience?
My impression about the webdesign of User Experience is brilliant. The header section with the great logo and the intense blue background meeting the beige Ask Question button. The design of tags all ...
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why did Doc Brown's delightful April Fools' post disappear?
Yesterday I came across the amazing and delightful post by Doc E Brown regarding his "chrononaut transporter machine". But today the post is gone. Vanished. Poof. Gone to the big 404 graveyard.
Here ...
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Badges — single vs multi-time awards
There are badges like Analytical ("Visited every section of the FAQ") which can be awarded to a person only once. Yet there are those that can be obtained multiple times, like Nice question ("Question ...
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How do I add mockups and/or visuals to my questions?
When discussing UX, I find that it is helpful to have visual aid to help clarify the discussion. However I find that many of the discussions contain only bare text with hardly a visual in sight.
So ...
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Why does the order of voting affect score?
I just noticed that if you get say 30 upvotes in a day, and hence reach your 200 point cap, and then get a downvote, your score for the day becomes 198.
If however you get 10 upvotes, a downvote, and ...
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Update FAQ to state that tool recommendation questions are out of scope
Over the past four months there has been a lot of discussion about the Tool category. The general consensus seems to be that in most cases, these questions are out of scope. That is the direction ...
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Do we close off topic “Community Wiki” questions?
I'm doing some cleaning in the archives this weekend and I found the question What are some great web-based prototyping tools? which is a community wiki question. However tool request questions have ...
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What if I disagree with the closing of another person's question?
This question was recently closed because it was thought to be a duplicate of "Do users understand the browser back button?". In my comment I explained why I disagree: there are situations where a ...
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Podcast dedicated to UX
Does anybody want to have a UX Stackexchange podcast? I think it'd be really cool, because UX is really, a living breathing field, and there'd be enough to talk about weekly (or at worst monthly), I'd ...
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Can't re-post deleted question
I've posted a question.
I immediately deleted it because I realized that I forgot to publish a test page mentionned in the question.
Now the problem is fixed and I'm trying to ask the question ...
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Move to Graphics Design instead of close?
Recently, this question was closed on UX. I think that that is a pity, even though it does not belong on UX. The question IMHO shows real effort. Would this question be welcome on Graphics Design ...
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101 points but not allowed to answer?
I tried to give an answer to What to call "Cancel" when "Cancel" is already the default action?. I have 101 points because of my association bonus. But I didn't find the «Answer» ...
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Why has the generalist badge not been awarded yet
The Generalist badge states: Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
However it has not been awarded yet, and there should be a few people who have met this criterion. I ...
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Why has the image upload option been changed for the UX stack exchange site.
The new interface doesnt seem to upload images half of the time and in the rare times it works, i seem to need to try several times to get it to work..
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Should “Why does x company do…”or “Is there a reason why x does y” questions be removed?
There are many questions (including one of my own) that fall into the category of "Why did
X company do Y?" Should these questions be removed for not being constructive? Examples: iOS multitasking ...
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Are questions asking for research on topic?
If I have a question that is along the lines of "A versus B, is there publicly available research available" is this on topic for this site?
I do not want blog posts or opinion, but I'm not sure if ...
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Why was this question closed?
I asked this question ages ago and I received some answers as well. I just want to understand why it was closed as not a real question. it is clearly a question about how a search page is designed and ...
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Are “Why did ________ do ________?” questions answerable?
Recently I've been seeing a lot of questions asking why a particular vendor or organization chose a particular design (for example, this, this or this).
These questions can certainly be interesting, ...
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Should questions with a tag in the title be edited to remove tag?
I noticed two recent questions had their title prefixed by what is really a tag:
E-commerce - Is it user-friendly to not provide the option to filter by price?
E-commerce - Where should I display ...
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What's the best way to use official UX style guides in answers?
A lot of questions seem to be of the form "What's the best way / another way to provide functionality X on platform Y?". See, for example, Alternative for circles page indicator for many pages?
My ...
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Advice on answering industrial design and “rabbit-hole” questions
There have been a number of questions tagged "physical" in recent weeks. As interesting as the questions are about physical objects and how people use/abuse them, I couldn't help but wish for an ...
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Bug in the search engine — Why does the search engine fail to find the page?
There is a bug in your search engine. I was looking for the page ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33966/name-or-data-on-this-error-alert-phenomenon.
With the words “name alert”, it was not found. ...
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Why do links use very similar colours for :visited, :hover and regular links?
When scanning the main page, I find it a little difficult to differentiate between visited links and regular links. I can see the difference but it always catches me off guard as visited links seem to ...
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Form buttons and pagination do not have a hover state?
I noticed that the form buttons like 'Post Your Question' do not have a hover state and neither does the pagination links.
Is this purposeful?
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Are questions about UI in languages other than English on-topic?
Are questions about User Interface messages or menu items involving languages other than English on-topic ?
Also, are questions about problems with translating/converting a UI from English to other ...
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Edit “Icon for X” questions not too localized to visual metaphor requests and reopen?
13 months ago the community decided to put an end to “Icon for X” questions. This was a good call then, but I feel the need to bring the subject up for revision again, it's been 13 months and all. I ...
