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Please enable syntax highlighting for RE.SE

Based on How about finally enabling syntax highlighting for RE.SE?, I would like to request that syntax highlighting be activated for our site. (See that post for reasoning and examples.) We are not a ...
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How about finally enabling syntax highlighting for RE.SE?

I would like to once again put forward this old proposal. Let's activate syntax highlighting for RE.SE. Currently it is not enabled. There are plenty of examples of Python code for helper scripts in ...
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bounties will probably increase interaction

chasing after bounties can not only be fun but quite rewarding. More posts are coming but bounties Drive a lot of interaction. adding these would be really great.
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need-more-data tag

I'd like a 'need-more-data' tag. That would allow questions to be tagged when they have insufficient data per the community to answer the question meaningfully. By having this tag, posts tagged as ...
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New tag request: "8051"

It seems that 8051 architecture still exist and popular. Perhaps corresponding tag should be created for it?
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Weighing answers against "too broad" votes

Here is a suggestion. When users vote to close a question citing "it is too broad", the question should be put on hold only after number of "close" votes exceeds the number of votes on the question ...
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What can be done to make the Twitter account more effective?

Currently, the hashtags added by the Twitter bot is just the most popular tag from the question. In many cases, the tag may be obscure, too broad (#python) or different from common usage (#pe -> ...
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Shorter Magic Link and Onebox

The current magic link can be used by typing [reverseengineering.se] which is a pretty long name. It takes a fair bit of time to type this in comments and chat. Is it possible to alias [re.se] to ...
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Could we rename [tag:windows-api] to [tag:winapi]?

Could we rename windows-api to winapi? StackOverflow uses the latter, shorter form. It would make sense to go with an established standard here, since this is referring to the same thing anyway.
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Please merge [tag:antidebugging] into [tag:anti-debug]

As the title says: Please merge antidebugging into anti-debug. AFAIK there can be aliases to tags, so it would make sense to get rid of the questionable (spelling-wise) antidebugging and keep anti-...
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Highlighting the Tag Wikis

Now posted on MSO There have been discussions on the usefulness and visibility of Tag Wikis. Two concerns that were voiced were : Searchability Visibility I had some ideas on how to tackle this. ...
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Add anti-RE information to the faq

I totally agree with Gilles that questions about trying to make reverse engineering harder are appropriate, but shouldn't we change our faq then? It's now: Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange is for ...
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Enable syntax highlighting [duplicate]

For questions like this one which have answers given in code, it would be nice if the site had syntax highlighting available. At the very least, being able to highlight core SO lanaguages such as ...
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HTTPS\SSL authentication for users

As I suddenly figured out, there is plain HTTP used on log-in form to http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com No SSL\HTTPS implemented, and password in login form transferred in clear text. As ...
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Should we activate Mathjax?

Mathjax is a way of rendering mathematical equations using markup. I'd like it to be enabled on this site as it is on math and physics? Sometimes it's very hard to answer certain questions without the ...
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Code in questions listing

When you have code on the very top of your question, it's being showed in the questions listing. And that doesn't look good: Ulgh! Can we have a fix for this? Perhaps extracting the normal parts of ...
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Site's subdomain name

I'm not sure if this is even the right place; the whole beta launching process is very mysterious and it's not clear who's running the show. But anyway. I'd like to request that when the site is ...
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