I've rethought my question about a homework assignment—why can't I get it...
I asked a question related to a course I was taking. I followed all the Stack Overflow rules, and I got a useful answer. But it's coming to the end of the [grading period here], and my professor has...
View ArticleDifferences between asking questions on SO in general and in a specific...
Is there a difference from the point of view of visibility and on-topic rules between asking questions through "main" SO screen and using Collective-themed tag(s) and asking the same question in that...
View ArticleHow may I improve my questions to get unbanned on stackoverflow? [closed]
I asked 9 questions on stackoverflow in total and 6 questions has -1 votes, 1 question has -2 votes, and 2 questions has 0 votes. I got question banned and some of the questions were auto deleted and I...
View ArticleHow may I improve my questions to get unbanned on Stack Overflow?
I asked nine questions on Stack Overflow in total and six questions has -1 votes, 1 question has -2 votes, and two questions has 0 votes.I got question banned and some of the questions were auto...
View ArticleAddressing questions caused by a common tutorial, but dealing with different...
In the last year or so, I've been seeing lots of questions that are related to many different aspects, but have a common factor: a certain YouTube tutorial[see below note].Problem is, that tutorial...
View ArticleHelp fixing some of my questions in order to (hopefully) lift the question ban
I have asked 10 questions in total on Stack Overflow. Of those, 7 are negatively-scored, 2 have scores of 0, and 1 has a positive score. I am now hitting a question ban, and I see that what I should do...
View ArticleAre "Can someone help me understand what this code is doing?" questions ever...
I often see questions when somebody notices an as-yet-unknown feature or syntax in somebody else's code and posts a question about it.Sometimes the author of such code really diminished its...
View ArticleHow should we respond to unclear questions? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How can I take a string in an integer input field?The post asks about data type conversion. However, when I added an answer, I got a negative mark for...
View ArticleIs there something to do with active tags which are mainly collecting...
Just came across yocto (https://www.yoctoproject.org/), then after a few clicks bitbake, and the more generic openembedded and embedded-linux.Even when these topics are going heavy-weight, they seem to...
View ArticleIf I find the answer to a question I'm writing, should I still post it?...
I'm currently writing a question and I've come across a similar question with a suitable answer. Should I still post my question that might get marked as a duplicate?
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Did the Stack Overflow UI get worse after joining "teams"? [closed]
After years of using SO, I got used to the following interface (screenshot from Cross Validated):However recently I started using "SO teams" and the user interface got less intuitive. In particular,...
View ArticleRefuse questions containing the words "don't work" or "doesn't work"?
It occurs to me, after years of prompting individual questioners to explain what "doesn't work" is supposed to mean when they complain that something is wrong, that our question submission code, which...
View ArticleQuestions in the gray area between "code" and "design"
In my review work, I - rarely, but sometimes - see questions such as this one:Keep a div spaced exactly X amount of pixels away from anotherwhen I saw this, I realized "I have no idea whether this is...
View ArticleIs it okay to downvote answers to bad questions?
I'm referring to this, (screenshot for <10K) question in particular, where the question was clearly not of the best quality, but my answer to it addressed the issues with it. Is it okay to downvote...
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The Ask Wizard (2022) has graduated
Update: This feature launched on 2022-10-25.TL:DR: Back in March, we announced an experiment of the Ask Wizard, and in June we shared the results. Later this month, we are graduating the experiment and...
View ArticleWhy don't questions get that much upvote love?
I'm often noticing that some questions get 0 or 1 upvote and 4 or 5 answers, with some answers scoring 3 or more upvotes.In that case, why don't the answerers themselves upvote the question?If it's not...
View ArticleUsing upvotes to fight bad questions
I've seen several discussions on how to stop the flood of bad questions and thereby improve signal to noise. Currently we can close them but it's seems at least on some popular tags that it's hard to...
View ArticleAre library installation problems on topic for Stack Overflow?
I would appreciate help understanding why this question about TensorFlow module installation on Mac Silicon is marked as "not about programming or software development".Is it because the question is...
View ArticleReject question titles with no English letters in them, warn about titles...
There was yet again a question posted in a wrong language (now deleted, i.e. 10k+). Since there are other checks already in place, perhaps it would be worthwhile to require that a question title on...
View ArticleQuestions on Visual Studio Code [duplicate]
There are currently over 2,000 questions on Visual Studio Code, a code editing application made by Microsoft. The tag description is:Visual Studio Code is a source code and text editor for Linux, OS...
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