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KAnderssonTL3Regular29 Apr 2026#1

Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question with numbers attached is a different conversation.

17 instances over 4 months, 4 of which went the other way. I have listed each with a date and a link so the count can be checked rather than taken.

My question is whether the pattern is the one the rule was written for.

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d.nwosuTL229 Apr 2026 · edited#2

The arithmetic in the opening post is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

Fair. Then under the name, at a smaller size, permanently.

Second-hand, so weight it accordingly.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator29 Apr 2026#3

d.nwosu, post #2: The arithmetic in the opening post is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check. Fair. Then under the name, at a smaller size, permanently. Second-hand, so weight it accordingly. Go to post

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Staff view: this is a good request and a larger one than it looks, because the citation is currently a link rather than a relationship. Recording it properly is the work, displaying it is trivial.

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r.oyelaranTL230 Apr 2026#4

Duplicate requests: if several people request the same feature, the requests often get merged. Check whether your feature has already been suggested before posting.

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n.torrenceTL3Regular30 Apr 2026#5

Use case: explain why you think the feature would help. "I would use this to..." makes the request concrete.

That much is documented. The rest is how I have interpreted it.

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e.krastevTL230 Apr 2026#6

Seconded. It reads as careful rather than confident, which is the right register.

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s.poulsenTL3Regular30 Apr 2026#7

n.torrence, post #5: Use case: explain why you think the feature would help. "I would use this to..." makes the request concrete. That much is documented. The rest is how I have interpreted it. Go to post

I had written a reply contradicting post #3 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

Counter-request, gently: please do not add anything on hover. It does not exist on a phone and half the readers here are on one.

I have left out the parts I could not verify.

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a.petrovTL230 Apr 2026#8

Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications.

It reads as pedantry until the day it does not.

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r.marsdenTL3Regular30 Apr 2026 · edited#9

KAndersson, post #1: Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Bringing the figures rather than the impression, since a process question with numbers attached is a different conversation. 17 instances over 4 months, 4 of which went the other way. I have… Go to post

I would use that constantly. The objection is presumably that it is data the site then has to hold and protect for no benefit to anyone else.

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j.marchettiTL230 Apr 2026#10

a.petrov, post #8: Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications. It reads as pedantry until the day it does not. Go to post

Community support: if other people support your request, they can reply with "+1" or "I would use that too". Widely-requested features are prioritised.

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s.leclercTL4 Moderator30 Apr 2026#11

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Both of these are in the same family and staff would rather do one thing well than two things partly. If the range link exists, the citation relationship gets much easier to record, so the order matters.

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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator30 Apr 2026#12

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That is exactly the objection, and it is not a refusal on principle. Anything the site stores about you is something the site has to look after, and the bar for adding a new category of that is high.

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ppm_errorTL3Analytical chemist30 Apr 2026 · edited#13

j.marchetti, post #10: Community support: if other people support your request, they can reply with "+1" or "I would use that too". Widely-requested features are prioritised. Go to post

Request from the analytics side: allow a table in a post to be marked as data rather than layout, so it can be copied without the formatting. Half the tables here are worth pasting into a spreadsheet.

I would put this at better than even and not much better.

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a.pereiraTL230 Apr 2026#14

I read post #10 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.

Effort estimation: some features are trivial to implement; others are substantial work. Staff will estimate effort when assessing whether a feature is feasible.

Adding this to the thread rather than to the wiki, because I am not confident enough for the wiki.

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m.strand_rphTL3Pharmacist30 Apr 2026#15

Small request: let me filter Latest by whether I have read the topic. Unread exists as a tab and does not combine with anything else, so a busy category is either all of it or none.

The general answer and the answer for your case may diverge here.

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b.vanheckeTL230 Apr 2026#16

Modest request: remember my sort preference per category rather than globally. I want newest in announcements and most-replies in analytics, permanently.

I have no interest in any supplier named above.

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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator1 May 2026#17

m.strand_rph, post #15: Small request: let me filter Latest by whether I have read the topic. Unread exists as a tab and does not combine with anything else, so a busy category is either all of it or none. The general answer and the answer for your case may diverge here. Go to post

Acknowledging rather than arguing. The reasoning holds as far as I can follow it.

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d.eriksenTL21 May 2026#18

Everything in post #14 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

Then the honest version is a comparison of the record shapes rather than the scores. How many results, over how long, from which services. That I would use.

That is the version I would defend. It is not the version I started with.

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n.haddadTL21 May 2026#19

Adding the measurement that post #16 says would settle it.

Request with a caveat attached: a compare view for two vendor pages side by side. The caveat is that it would encourage exactly the ranking-by-number reading the pages are written to discourage.

This is the sort of thing that ought to be settled and apparently is not.

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s.kimaniTL21 May 2026#20

Post #18 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.

Alternatives: if you have thought of a way the current site might already serve your need, mention it. It helps assess whether the feature is truly missing or just not obvious.

This is the sort of thing the wiki should carry and currently does not.

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ZieglerTL3Regular1 May 2026 · edited#21

Where I part company with post #19, and it is a narrow parting.

Deprecation requests: if you think a feature should be removed or changed, that is also a request. Explain why you think it would improve the site.

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hana.satoTL4 Moderator1 May 2026#22

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Post #19 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.

That reframing is better than the original request and staff would consider it. Which is a good illustration of why these belong in public: the first version would have been declined and the third is worth building.

A single observation, in a thread that deserves better than single observations.

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diluent_watchTL2Member1 May 2026#23

ppm_error, post #13: Request from the analytics side: allow a table in a post to be marked as data rather than layout, so it can be copied without the formatting. Half the tables here are worth pasting into a spreadsheet. I would put this at better than even and not much better. Go to post

Request with the use case rather than the feature. I frequently want every topic that cites a particular maintained document. At the moment I can find the document from the topic and not the reverse.

That is what the documentation says. What happens in practice is usually close.

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z.vogelTL21 May 2026#24

Fair. Then under the name, at a smaller size, permanently.

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f.fenwickTL3Regular1 May 2026#25

Quietly grateful for the plain phrasing. Not every thread gets that.

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ar.petrovTL21 May 2026#26

Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications.

That is one dataset and I would not build a rule on it.

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r.scholtenTL2Member1 May 2026#27

d.eriksen, post #18: Everything in post #14 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have. Then the honest version is a comparison of the record shapes rather than the scores. How many results, over how long, from which services. That I would use. That is the version I would defend. It is not the version I started with. Go to post

Request that would help newcomers more than regulars: show the subcategory description on hover in the category list. The names are terse and the descriptions are good.

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g.verhoevenTL21 May 2026#28

j.mwangi, post #12: That is exactly the objection, and it is not a refusal on principle. Anything the site stores about you is something the site has to look after, and the bar for adding a new category of that is high. Go to post

Picking up post #27: that is the part I would want checked first.

Request: an export of my own posts. Not for any dramatic reason — I want to search my own history offline, and site search is optimised for finding other people's material.

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endpoint_lineTL3Regular1 May 2026#29

Then the honest version is a comparison of the record shapes rather than the scores. How many results, over how long, from which services. That I would use.

Where I would look next, rather than where I would stop.

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KLindqvistTL4 Moderator1 May 2026#30

Staff post. Actions described here are recorded in the public moderation log and may be challenged in Meta.

That is exactly the objection, and it is not a refusal on principle. Anything the site stores about you is something the site has to look after, and the bar for adding a new category of that is high.

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