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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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Flair on Gmail Signature

I think what you have done is OK (and should be encouraged) but that is only my opinion, so I will instead refer you to the StackOverflow Meta discussion that has already taken place on this exact top …
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Change the design of the "Ask Question" button

While CSS can be used by people to enhance their own GIS-SE experience, I think requests such as this one make a lot of sense to try and improve the user experience of anyone who would prefer to use o …
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1 vote

Last comment time

I see Comments as being transitory and hence have never been concerned about whether they are time-stamped. To me it is the potential for ongoing improvement of every Question and Answer that makes S …
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Redirect reputation option for answers derived from other user's attempts/answers

As commented by @whuber: The feature you are looking for is called a "bounty." It is great that you are thinking about how the site works, and how it may work better. While your idea sounds a …
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Dealing with links to documents

This was asked long ago but has not been answered. To implement this would need to be a SE network-wide enhancement and much broader than the slight site customization that we can achieve internal to …
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Rewarding bounty after bounty finished when question posted before end of bounty?

Implementing an enhancement request like this is something that could only be done at the Stack Exchange network level i.e. via Meta Stack Exchange rather than here at Meta GIS Stack Exchange. I coul …
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Is there a way to add more than one link to a question when marked as Duplicate?

As far as I know the only time you will ever see more than one duplicate to a question is when it's reviewers have differing opinions as to which is more appropriate. Each reviewer is expected to choo …
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2 votes
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Refinement of migration flag

I agree with @Midavalo's answer that migration should be used sparingly, and that closing as Off-Topic with the close reason that it should be on a different site is a very workable alternative. Also …
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3 votes

Make a statement about installation-related questions in the site's scope description

To me those two questions look like they are about getting the foundations beneath PostGIS built to support it, rather than about having a problem with a relatively vanilla install of PostGIS (but ins …
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Can anyone else "accept an answer" when original user who asked a question has stopped being...

In seeking: something to bypass of inactive user for more than, say 6 months? you may want to review and vote on: Keeping special status for Accepted Answers without sticking them to top foreve …
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Should SE roll their own Blogging software?

The platform used for community blogs (like that of GIS SE) is under the control of Meta SE, where there has been discussion as Can Community Blogs be redeemed? However, there have been no posts to t …
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1 vote
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When/If mathematical library will be embedded into GIS Stack Exchange?

In the absence of "a lot of evidence that a majority of posts on the site would benefit from Tex/LaTeX support", and/or user votes, I think there is little chance of this being implemented by the SE d …
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4 votes

Change title font to prevent confusion between the number zero and letter o (0o)

This was raised by @AndreSilva in their answer to GIS's updated site theme is live! @Catija (Stack Exchange staff member) commented there that: This isn't a display problem, it's how Georgia rend …
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3 votes
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Could we inherit the stackoverflow "dark mode" here on GIS.SE?

This is not something that we can do from GIS SE. It would need to come from the SE developers. This has been discussed at Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites where this answer from @Glorfindel said …
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3 votes
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Syntax highlighting for openlayers-3 tag

I've just visited https://gis.stackexchange.com/tags/openlayers-3/info and set its Code Language to lang-js (as below). It does not seem to allow setting of more than one language and in any event …
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