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OP edits question to a completely new question instead of providing MCVE

So the OP posted a XSLT question that wasn't really a bad question but did not have enough information to actually answer it. Because of this, I posted a comment asking for some example input and...

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Am I allowed to edit questions so that they become entirely new questions?...

Am I allowed to edit questions so that they become entirely new questions? In theory, it lets you achieve two thingsYou have a chance to salvage an unsalvageable question (for example, a downvoted...

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How can I solve being banned because of improperly formulated questions, but...

I have added many questions here and they got answered. My recent question has been downvoted and as result of that, I am banned from posting questions. I have deleted that last "dirty" question, but I...

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How do I improve the upvote/downvote balance of my question? [duplicate]

It's not that a person downvoting your question is under any obligation to explain themselves to you in the comments. Often, I have no idea what may be the problem. It's different from closing in that...

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"Mostly code" is rejected but "mostly screenshots" goes through

According to its author, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72928402/referenceerror-jsondata-is-not-defined was at first rejected for containing mostly code. The author then replaced the code with a...

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When asking, Is it preferable to use "I" even when there is a "we" and the...

I sometimes see question posts where the asker refers to a "we" instead of "I", where the "we" is their company or some other unknown group of people they are speaking on behalf of.I think this...

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Why this user can find Stack Overflow can be VERY frustrating

I'll probably get criticized for this too, but way too often instead of getting help on Stack Overflow, I get edited unnecessarily such as changing some bullet points to remove the bullets or changing...

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What should we do with questions from users that didn't even try to learn the...

Today I saw this question about Rust (now deleted, screenshot attached for <10k). The problem in the question is that the variable is declared incorrectly (like C/C++Type name; instead of Rust's let...

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Influx of users including the content of their post twice in their question

As the title says, I've noticed an influx of users recently where they've posted a question where the content of the post is duplicated. If this was a one-off I'd think it were a user error, but these...

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Quality filter preventing including links to jsfiddle tricked by using backticks

I recently came across a question that had backticks enclosing the entire content, as you can see in this screenshot:The jsfiddle URL at the end is not a proper link, nor is it rendered as inline code,...

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What should I do with a question that has a workaround, but no direct answer?

I have an open question that is unsolved, but I have come up with an alternate approach that avoids the original problem. I posted my workaround as an edit to my question, because I think it might be...

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Spam Questions with toll-free tech support numbers of known companies...

From time to time I see obvious spam messages that consist of repeated string like Toll-free support number for XYZ - 1-866-xxx-xxxx.What is not obvious to me is the actual purpose of such posts. Are...

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Duplicate question + duplicate question = new question?

Sometimes I see two compound questions that are only loosely connected to each other. Each one is trivial and can be found with Google, and can also be found on SO and is a clear duplicate. And the...

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How do you process questions that are particularly salient with good answers...

I'm curious as to how folks handle questions with good answers that get closed.Recently, I was looking for where to find the downloadable Javadoc for a specific instance of Java, the other day (many...

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What to do with edits to questions "To verify @'s answer that this is not...

I have answered a question as "It's not possible" having a two of tags that I'm gold tag badge holder and provided the link to the official doc about the related feature.The OP replied to the answer "I...

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If I have another question to ask, and it's almost identical to another...

I asked this question: Which should I use, ListView.builder or Column?Which should I use, ListView.builder or Column?But, now, I want to ask:Which should I use, ListView.builder, ListView or...

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Is it possible to access deleted questions?

I was just writing a question about another post, and as just I finished my question and wanted to add a link to the other question. However, when I tried to access it, I found out that that question...

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Show OP engagement history statistics on questions [duplicate]

MotivationIt is a frequent occurrence on SO that OPs do not engage with the responses they get. They do not vote, do not accept and do not comment on any of the sometimes multiple answers they receive....

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Why does the URL for questions on Teams not include the title slug?

I just noticed that the URL for questions on Teams doesn't include the title slug, unlike on the public Q&A platform, e.g.: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/{TEAM_SLUG}/questions/{QUESTION_ID}.I...

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A lot of poorly formatted C code lately [duplicate]

Lately I have seen a lot of strangely formatted code:Instead of this:// some// codewe see this:`// some// code`because the asker puts two extra back ticks around his code block.Has anything changed in...

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