Practical note that does not fit anywhere else. Whatever you conclude from this topic, write down what you did and when. The single most useful thing in your own records is not any individual result; it is that they are dated and consecutive.
post #6 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
I disagree with the reply above, and I think the disagreement is substantive rather than terminological.
The distinction being drawn does not survive when you look at the published data for this specific question. I would be glad to be shown wrong on this, because the version I am arguing against is more convenient.
post #11 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Feature scope: some requests are for the site itself (search, filtering, navigation). Some are for the documentation (new topics, different formats). Scope helps prioritise.
On post #11 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Practical note that does not fit anywhere else. Whatever you conclude from this topic, write down what you did and when. The single most useful thing in your own records is not any individual result; it is that they are dated and consecutive.
Coming back to post #22, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Tradeoffs: every feature has a cost in maintenance and complexity. Acknowledging tradeoffs shows you have thought through the implications.
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Request: show the solution author in the topic list
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Request: export my own posts — one year on
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Request: show the solution author in the topic list — what changed since
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Coming back to: Request: tag synonyms surfaced in search
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Request declined, with reasoning
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Revisiting: Five questions in one post gets you one answer — how to split them
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Tag proliferation and whether we should prune — what changed since
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A friction point in the promotion workflow — the long version
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Request: a diff view for wiki revisions
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Request declined, with reasoning — what changed since
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