New tag-based “Random Question” link like the “Random article” link on Wikipedia
Quite recently, I read that one good way to learn something new is to hit the “Random article” link in Wikipedia.I thought that for people who want to learn something new in IT, a great addition would...
View ArticleStack Overflow needs an entrance exam
Every day, we see hundreds of questions asked that are of such low-quality one might wonder why Stack Overflow even allows to post it. We keep closing and downvoting them, but the problem doesn't end....
View ArticleSort featured questions by highest bounty
Can we have an option to sort featured question using their bounty?For example, sort highest to lowest bounty value?
View ArticleIs it ok to ask Moderators to delete off-topic questions?
I flagged an old question which I believe to be off-topic asking for it to be deleted. Since this is not something that I can perform myself I deemed it to be a valid reason for moderator flag. If I...
View ArticleShould questions where OP replaces their question with vandalism be flagged?...
The user asking a question later replaced their question with vandalism. Should I flag the question such that the user can be educated on how to behave better?
View ArticleHow could I have written this question to avoid the immediate downvote and...
Within minutes of posting my question it was downvoted and a vote was cast to close the question. The downvoter has left no feedback to explain their actions so I'm asking here what I could do to...
View ArticleIf someone offers a bounty on another question, would they get notified of...
Or the bounty offerer has to manually visit to see if comments are posted?
View ArticleHow can I improve questions marked as duplicate? [closed]
I am currently question banned, and thus are editing and revising all of my questions. But, a fair number of them are duplicates. How can I edit them to improve them and eventually relieve the question...
View ArticleHow to handle questions about fundamental language knowledge
Note, this is not the same asReviewing some awful questions is just a waste of time, can we have a "no comment" close reason for these?Can we please have the "Lacks Minimal Understanding" close reason...
View ArticleIs it okay to downvote questions asking if some code could work but not...
Should we downvote questions asking if a specific feature the OP wants to try works, when the OP hasn't tried the posted code?I sometimes see questions where the OP is posting some snippet of code and...
View ArticleHow can I improve my "permanently" bad questions? [duplicate]
I have a lot of questions on SO that have either no votes or a tasty sum of downvotes. I know there are a lot of questions concerning downvotes and how to improve questions, but I'll take it a step...
View ArticleWhy is this question not moderated, even though it doesn't follow site...
I’ve found a question that has many upvotes but it doesn’t fit Stack Overflow guidelines, so why hasn’t it been moderated?How do you disable browser autocomplete on web form field / input tags?The...
View ArticleStack Overflow fails to promote well-researched, well-written, but difficult...
TLDR;The question promotion algorithm favours questions that are hastily asked first and then actively followed up, but neglects questions that are meticulously written and as a result received little...
View ArticleIs formatting that is designed solely to call attention to a question or...
I strongly agree with the answers in, "Is using 'header' markdown okay in answers?" I use headings quite frequently in my answers, but generally only an H4, and only when there are multiple "sections"...
View ArticleWhere could I ask the question "What is the cheapest stock you could buy on...
This question is potentially related to coding since you could use the exchange API in any supported programming language to find out the answer.So is it acceptable to ask this question on Stack...
View ArticleHow long after a question is posted is it acceptable to reply?
For example, if I see something that's helpful that I would like to follow up with a question, but the post is a year old. How long ago is too long? Does this matter, or is it frowned on? EDIT - I am...
View ArticleVandalizing own question due to bounty preventing deletion [duplicate]
In a question, the OP vandalized their own question, because they realized the question is invalid after they launched a bounty on the question.This invalidated one or more existing answers. I'm very...
View ArticleLooking for suggestions on how to improve my Entity Relationship question
I recently asked the following question:How can I display multi-valued attributes belonging to a multi-valued composite attribute in an ER diagram (relational database)?However, it was closed as...
View ArticleIs Kubernetes deployment and administration off-topic on Stack Overflow?...
Is Kubernetes (K8s) deployment and administration of that off-topic on Stack Overflow?If the answer is yes, please say where we can ask about it.Many questions in Stack Overflow exist for K8s...
View ArticleExtract solution from question and post it as answer [duplicate]
I keep running into questions where the OP found the solution to their problem either with the help of some comments, or based on an answer, and they decided to edit the solution into the problem.I'm...
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