What should you do if you discover that the assumption underlying your...
Say, for instance, that you asked why was P the case, P being a statement. But after doing further research you discover that P is not in fact the case. What would be the appropriate course of action...
View ArticleCan I ask about the possible design of a proprietary software given the...
I've written a question along the lines of "How does WhatsApp's View Once feature work", where I ask what the existence of such a feature implies in terms of API offered by the OS and used by...
View ArticleHow can I watch/follow a question?
I come across many interesting recently asked questions on Stack Overflow. These questions might not be yet answered or other people might be still answering it.Is there a way to watch/follow a...
View ArticleWould asking about ways to avoid mentioning a function pointer's arguments...
I'm writing this C code that involves passing around a lot of function pointers, and sometimes writing all the arguments that a function pointer takes when defining a function that takes it as a...
View ArticleShould Stack Overflow questions be as short as possible and rely upon...
If you don't know much about a subject and are looking to learn, is it generally better to write very short questions on stack overflow and then only add information when you are prompted by commenters...
View ArticleWhat happens when the same user asks the same question twice?
So as a new user, I've posted an answer to this question, and later (a few minutes after) I found that the same user who asked the first question has asked another question and that question got a...
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Why is almost every Go question downvoted?
What is the difference between Go developers and other developers that makes so many Go-tagged questions to be downvoted?Are Go-tagged questions less on topic, or do the Go language moderators have a...
View ArticleQuestion quality is dropping on Stack Overflow
I'm seeing a rapid trend towards worse and worse question quality. It gets to the point where I'm asking myself "Why did I even help this guy? He neither has the will nor the capacity to understand the...
View ArticleWould a "Helpful contribution" / "Helpful question" feature improve Stack...
In some Meta discussions, I came across criticism that Stack Overflow is flooded with noobs who ask questions but eitherDidn't do any researchGave up researching after like 1 minuteAsk very individual...
View ArticleWhich user has asked the most questions?
From my understanding, most users who stick around past asking a question have answered more questions than asked questions. It is no doubt that asking questions is an extremely effective and important...
View ArticleAre questions about the "right" way to organize your code within files on topic?
I'm writing this C code in which inheritance is emulated by means of composition, and I'm unsure whether I should give each child struct its separate .c and header files as is normally done in other OO...
View ArticleTypeScript in Stack Snippets
Lately, I have seen various questions that use TypeScript in Stack Snippets. They look like this:There is a problem with my code. Instead of doing x, it does y. Here is my code:function...
View ArticleHow long should we wait for a poster to clarify a question before closing?
Many questions in the close vote queue have comments asking for clarification, as well as close votes because they're "unclear" or "too broad" or "off-topic/questions seeking debugging help ...". The...
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Discrepancy between question header and close banner on months ago calculation
Today I was doing some moderation on is there a difference between software architecture and web development architecture? and saw that the question header shows the question was asked 5 months ago,...
View ArticleWhat should I do to this question?
I have a question that has 2 downvotes and an answer that only I upvoted. I feel that the question is not particularly useful for others. This is my only question on this site with a negative...
View ArticleQuestions about best coding practice
I recently asked a question about a coding problem to which I had several possible solutions, and I was asking which one would be considered best practice, or if any of them would be considered...
View ArticleCan the New Question wizard check for multiline code inside single backticks?
Every day I fix up numerous questions that have multi-line code blocks enclosed in single backticks rather than triple backtick code fences. Or they don't put a newline between the triple backticks and...
View ArticleWhat is wrong with this question about PowerShell and user impersonation?
How to Register-PSRepository for another user?This question is four (4) days old with no responses of any kind. Questions in this area are usually responded to quickly, within one (1) day.Is this a bad...
View ArticleCan I close my question or accept a comment answer? [duplicate]
Sometimes an answer could come from the comments under the question itself, and it may be what OP really wanted. But is there are a way to accept it, or close a question with a reason like answered in...
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Encourage adding language to the forefront of the title
OK, this is to stir up some discussion over the conclusion made inThe search engine seems to encourage adding language tags to titlesI totally agree with the argument that search engines encourage...
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