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 add options to closing questions as off-topic when the question belongs on another SE site besides our own Meta?
Many questions asked on Phil SE seem to be better fits for other SE sites, e.g. Math, Physics, Biology, Cognitive Sciences, History, Law, Skeptics, sometimes even Sci-Fi/Fantasy or Worldbuilding. ...
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Has anyone asked for a "suggest edit" button, or is the rollback feature enough?
I would like to edit e.g. this, but it seems a bit impertinent when the asker is active, as well as general users with more reputation than me.
Would it be OK to request a "suggest edit" button for ...
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Close reason for 'blatantly off topic' / 'philosophical problem unclear'
We're getting quite some questions that are closed with a custom close reason. Over the past 90 days, we closed 234 questions, 40 (17%) with a custom reason. Looking through the list of custom close ...
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Is there some more compelling way we can invite people to search for duplicate questions?
I think newcomers miss out on a lot of good existing answers because we don't rather forcefully suggest they look for duplicates when they ask a question.
How good is the question search, and could ...
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Policing overzealous members and moderators
We should aim for meritocracy but encourage participation and discourage demeaning action (downvotes) which drives away participants.
Those voting 68.26% or more in either direction should be ...
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Should downvotes be justified? [duplicate]
This is a group of philosophy. Made by and for philosophers. Philosophy means a taste, a fondness for knowledge; a will to go out and seek knowledge.
So, if someone downvotes the question or answer ...
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no tag present for moral philosophy
I wanted to place a tag equivalent to "moral philosophy" on my question, but there was none. I used "practical-ethics", but I do not feel ethics is the same as moral philosophy. Though it is similar, ...
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Starring an Answer
Is it possible? Why not? I would like to star one for bookmarking. It is very much down below original question so it will be much easier to just star an answer.
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Is the comment privilege (i.e. needing to earn rep in order to comment) useful?
I suppose that privileges are no concern of moderators, and that therefore nobody from philosophy.se can change anything about that, but I was wondering if getting the privilege to comment that late ...
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what about a debating stackexchange?
I would love a debating site from stackexchange. If there is one already can you point it out?
That would be very addicting. A site that has subcategories, like debate philosophy, debate history, ...
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Site-specific badge conditions?
EDIT: I asked this question on the StackOverflow Meta.
I recently took a look at the badges overview and it seems to me that a lot of the gold badges are literally or nearly impossible to earn on ...
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Should questions on Zen thinking be allowed in philosophy.stackexchange?
According to many famous practitioners and writers of Zen, Zen is not strictly a philosophy in the sense of the word.
There is something extra-logical about the nature of Zen thinking.
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I request being able to give bonuses to answerers using my credits, if they have outstanding answers [closed]
It would be nice to be able to spend your credits rewarding those who go above and beyond answering questions, or to reward runners-up to the best answer. I've had some amazingly helpful people tell ...
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Resources to get started on Philosophy
I want to know if there is a possibility of having a sort of list of resources to get started on philosophy, both in general (which is what I am interested in right now) and in particular themes. I ...
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Please introduce $LaTeX$ to Philosophy SE [duplicate]
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LateX/WebteX availability?
It would really be helpful to have it in discussions concerning formal logic. Here's the most recent example I know of where it would be helpful:
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Is it useful to have a word limit on comments? [duplicate]
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Can we allow more space and possibly a larger font for comments?
I was asking myself... Very often comments to questions/answers are used to in-depth analyze claims and ...
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Can we allow more space and possibly a larger font for comments?
(Good) Philosophical arguments are essentially back and forth exchanges of long, coherent and self-sufficient arguments. Thus, I think the character limit on comments is not enough for proper ...
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Is there any way to make tags of proper names capitalized?
On StackOverflow and many of the other StackExchange sites, it makes sense to normalize tags to all lower case since there's no real distinction between, Perl and perl. (Some would argue there is a ...
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Why is there a "Philosophy" tag?
I just noticed that there are 7 questions tagged with philosophy. Is it just me, or is this a terribly ambiguous tag? Should this tag not be removed, so that all questions will have at least a ...
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Can someone who knows edit the "logic" tag wiki?
A questioner asked why reason is mapped to logic. Now I'm wondering the same thing. I think the easiest way to clear up the confusion is if someone in the know would edit the tag wiki to clear ...
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Unifying "this site is for..." descriptions?
After updating the FAQ, our 'this site is about...' description no longer matches the global SE site description (that has been with us since Area 51.) I would like to get all of them saying the same ...
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Can we change the "Subjective and Argumentative" close reason to "Not Constructive"?
Several people, both in the formative phase of this site and more recently, have expressed varying degrees of confusion, consternation, and irony over the fact that one of our close reasons is labeled ...
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Could we get certain tags to link to Wikipedia in their wiki summaries?
I notice that many, if not all of the tags that so far exist have excellent associated Wikipedia articles. Would it make sense, or is it even possible, to automatically poll information about the ...
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