Need help improving/rephrasing a question on Docker and certificates
I got -3 on a question and need help understanding why. As far I understand, I provided all the steps required to replicate the issue. I pointed out where the problem gets me stuck, as well as where...
View ArticleProbationary period for Questions to be Answered to encourage better...
An idea that was formed from some discussion:More effective closing / downvoting of junk questions to help with the signal-noise ratio?How about a waiting period for Questions to be Answered:You have...
View ArticleStop redirecting everyone with a follow-up question to discussions [duplicate]
Currently, as part of a Commenting experiment, users who click that they have a follow-up question are sent to discussions.This is generally wrong. Most of the time follow-up questions that that button...
View ArticleWhy were my posting privileges removed? [duplicate]
I came to stackoverflow back in 2012/13 and had posted about 6 questions until 2017 October. After over 7 long years I returned and posted just 2 questions that were not aligning with stackoverflow...
View ArticleHow to convert a question posted by mistake as a Discussion to a Question?
I made a mistake by posting a "question" as "discussion" yesterday.However, when I tried converting the discussion post into a question post, I couldn't find that function.Once I post it as a...
View ArticleWhy was my question closed? Reason is incorrect, I think
How to generate a random array from the values of another array, the sum of whose values are within a pre-determined range?This question is seeking recommendations for software libraries, tutorials,...
View ArticleHow to filter out a specific user in search?
Tags can be filtered out as Questions filter "not" keyword does with not.Is there a similar, or any other way to do that for user id search, i.e., filtering out those questions asked by someone? For...
View ArticleBug report: tags not remembered by question filters
I am not interested in questions that are not in my watched tags, but currently the tags are the only thing not remembered by question filters.Repro steps:Go to https://stackoverflow.com/questionsIn...
View ArticleAre Code Dump +"What Happens?" questions closable?
If a user posts a question, that simply provides code and asks "What happens?" are these questions considered to be good enough to not be closed, such as for being unclear or not focused?The length of...
View ArticlePopular JS-related question asks contradictory things in title and body
Consider this question:How to check for an undefined or null variable in JavaScript?The title seems pretty straightforward, but the body of the question asks for a less verbose form for the following...
View ArticleThe workflow for salvaging a question
I ask a poorly received question, which then gets deleted by the Community bot. I later decide I could have asked the question in a better way, so I edit the question and request undeletion via a mod...
View ArticleIs requiring users to include code *in the question* for debugging questions...
I promoted this question out of Staging Ground, because the question was clear and well-stated, and they included a GitHub repository link that included a minimal but functional reproducing case, along...
View ArticleWhat is the problem with my question? How can I improve it? [closed]
What is the problem with my question How can I unit test the thread-safety of method? that it has been closed?How can I improve it?At some point it reached 4 downvotes with 0 comments from the downvoters.
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Why is the total number of questions on Stack Overflow shrinking lately?
On February 3, 2025 there were 24,248,034 questions on SOOn March 3, 2025 there were 24,254,223 questions on SOOn April 3, 2025 there were 24,241,364 questions on SOOn April 21, 2025 there were...
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Why did my question have to be deleted?
This is a follow up to a previous meta-question I posted.That meta-question was too broad was closed.Now I see that my main question was deleted as if it was a post that should be removed and also not...
View ArticleRequest to undelete questions to improve and lift ban [closed]
I recently received a question ban on my Stack Overflow account. I understand that my previous questions may have been off-topic or not up to the site's standards.I would like to improve those posts,...
View ArticleSuggesting to delete downvoted question and create it again
It's easier for a low-quality new question to get downvotes than to be restored, especially for niche tags.Most voters don't follow the questions they downvoted, with the result that an edit that makes...
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