Unanswered Questions
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Enabling updates to punctuation in Question titles
Update on March 20, 2025
These changes have now been made.
There is a standing request for customization of punctuation in Question titles on Puzzling SE. Partial customization is possible with the ...
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Could we have syntax highlighting?
It happens quite often for mathematical or logical puzzles to be solved creating some programs or scripts, maybe to find the best solution to the task. By the way I actually got a bit disappointed ...
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Do we want to push for the ability to search for content in spoilers?
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It is currently impossible to search for text inside of a spoiler. This is status-bydesign
because people might find spoilers in search by accident (which defeats the purpose ...
bobbleMod
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Add a visual indication in the question list that a question is locked
When a question is a duplicate, or on hold, you can see a sign, e.g. [on hold], next to the title in the list of questions, so that you don't waste your time ...
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Isn't "not detailed enough" a valid reason for answer deletion?
Each time that I see a low quality post in the review queue, and have clicked "Recommend Deletion" for an answer, I am baffled by the options I am given to explain why.
First of all, the vast ...
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Should we hide tags, or allow hidden tags?
There have been a few puzzles lately that have intentionally omitted tags because the existence of the tag would spoil the puzzle. It makes me curious as to whether the tag system works for this site.
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Several tags are special instances of another tag
This meta post from a couple of months ago asks what to do when one tag is a subset of another. The specific example there was hat-puzzle as a subset of logic-puzzle. The result was that hat-puzzle ...
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Could We Add a Customized Confirmation Screen for Question Posters below a Certain Reputation Threshold?
Disclaimer: I am still new here, and haven't fully assimilated the PSE culture. Nor do I know how difficult it is (permission-wise or coding-wise) to make custom changes to one of the SE subsites....
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Color of own messages in chat rooms using Puzzling's theme is too similar to others' messages
I chat on several rooms throughout the network. Most rooms I chat on for most sites show one's own messages in a very different color from others' messages, such as blue on non-designed sites and ...
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"How to Format" box has bullet points that look like clickable drop-down arrows
The triangle bullet points in the How to Format box look like clickable drop-down icons (at least to me). Should they be changed to round bullet points to avoid confusion?
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FAQ: Practical questions?
Today, I decided to click the "new on puzzling" banner and then on the first question just out of curiosity: What questions should I avoid asking? That page contains the following text:
You should ...
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Can we notify / warn answerers of ongoing contest questions
This puzzle https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/128822/specific-triangle-sides-in-a-grid is from the current USAMTS Round 2 https://www.usamts.org/contest/problems/ , deadline December 2, ...
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Spoiler blocks do not function in inbox notification
It is very easy to get spoiled on an answer via the inbox. Example (don't click if you don't want to be spoiled on this question)
As you can see in the spoilered image, all the words after "...
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Enabling Code Snippets
Note: This was already discussed here, but with this question I want to reopen the discussion in hope of more attention and stronger agreement.
Currently JavaScript/HTML/CSS code snippets are disabled ...
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Order of appearance of tags (and tag shown on the title bar)
Referring to the last puzzle I created (The Secret Club) I first decided to put a generic enigmatic-puzzle tag, because I didn't want to give away too much. Then I added the lateral-thinking one, just ...
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