Users having a silver tag badge can be given close powers and editing priveleges regardless of their reputation. This would ve very honest because silver tag badge is awarded for 400 points and 80 answers, which means that this user could earn 4k rep for answers in this tag. It would be useful f...

Works on my machine, even with JavaScript disabled. Not that it matters.

We examined this issue and decided that on most sites, the restriction is doing more harm than good. The restriction has therefore simply been removed on all sites except Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Ask Ubuntu and Super User. We may revisit this list if we notice, or the moderators inform us of...

I feel there has been a recent rise in people closing questions they don't like using the "off topic" closure reason. I saw an example today where the closure reason was: This question appears to be off-topic because this isn't a code-writing service (emphasis mine) It received four other...

I think forcing answers is a bad idea. Anyone can vote how they want, pretty much. If they choose to downvote, it's not abuse. They are encouraged to comment, but not required to do so, because you can't force them to post a constructive comment, and these discussions often lead to heated argumen...

I disagree with this proposal. I have nothing constructive to add, but I am just posting an answer because I am required to in order to down-vote, since there are already too many down-votes on the proposal. The above is essentially the type of answer that this proposal would attract to questi...