How 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 ArticleStrange Hidden Word In Question
I was going to clean up this question earlier, but I found something odd: The question begins with "Dear," but when you edit the question it's not there. I forwent editing to not hide a potential...
View ArticleWhat are the company's expectations with regard to deceptively simple...
I ran across How to find a string from a ZIP file using Python today. With all the changes in SO's mission emphasis (now much, much more on "welcoming" than in the past), I find myself unsure about how...
View ArticleIs it possible to improve a bad question to aid in a question ban?
I have this question. As of the writing of this question, it has a score of -2. I've edited it a few times to try and bring up the score, to try and get out of my question ban. It seems that it's just...
View ArticleIs there a sandbox section for Stack Overflow questions?
Worldbuilding has a Sandbox section mostly for newbies who are not experienced enough to directly ask on the main site.I have tried myself and it was a nice experience. As a lousy "world builder"...
View ArticleTimings Between Posting Questions [duplicate]
As your reputation increases, does the wait time between posting questions (90 minutes) change? If not, could this be implemented?
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Can't enter a sensible question title [duplicate]
When tried to submit my question, this website rejected the question several times because "Title cannot contain "no GitHub's Code button on Android"". I don't know what is wrong with the title. See...
View ArticleQuestion Limit Reached: Can a Particularly Bad Question be Erased Entirely?...
Having asked a bunch of questions, and as most of them rate as fairly ordinary, not a great boost of question rep abounding at this time. There happens to be a shocker on SO from way back (7-8 yrs),...
View ArticleRequest for 1-question release from my question ban [duplicate]
I request for my question ban to be lifted for one question, as a form of 'trial' period. I know this is supposed to come every 6 months, but it's definitely been more than 6 months since I last got...
View ArticleQuestion Limit Reached: Can Very Old, Bad Questions be Erased Entirely?...
I have asked a bunch of questions, and as most of them rate as fairly ordinary, not a great boost of question rep abounding at this time. There happens to be a shocker on Stack Overflow from way back...
View ArticleCan we close questions that put most code in an image? [duplicate]
Sometimes I just see questions that post code in an image like this. As we know, code in images is not very helpful to other visitors. Honestly, even the question is valid and we can help OP to extract...
View ArticleMark question as complete
On many SO and SE-specific sites, there are many questions that have been resolved by comments but not an actual "answer". When looking through the "Unanswered questions" filter, this is what the...
View ArticleShould we edit a question to transcribe code from an image to text?
Context: "How to call a method from a class referenced as a string?"More general context: how do we educate occasional users, or new users, to the best practices to follow when posting a question on...
View ArticleWhat to do if a poster adds a username in the title for directing it to a...
How to handle a situation where a new user to the site posts a question, wants to direct that question to a specific user (the highest-ranked user for that specific tag), and so the poster adds the...
View ArticleWhat to do if a poster adds a username in the title for directing their...
How to handle a situation where a new user to the site posts a question, wants to direct that question to a specific user (the highest-ranked user for that specific tag), and so the poster adds the...
View ArticleWhere can I ask questions that don't fit or are off-topic for Stack Overflow?
Thank you for your confidence in our abilities! But have you looked at the Stack Overflow Help Center?Even though we get a lot of IT/network/computer/technical questions here, Stack Overflow is meant...
View ArticleShould we peer review questions before publishing them?
We currently have a review queue for first posts as well as for low quality posts.We currently also have a problem with the signal-to-noise ratio of new questions, and the current system seems...
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Filter by Bounty queues up regular questions as well
In SO's Bountied question tab, the default values are selected or checked:Filter by —> Has bountySorted by —> Bounty ending soonTagged with —>no values (however, python tagged in this...
View ArticleSame question (as on SO) got answered on another website [duplicate]
I saw this question on the main site today as I was also trying to solve the same problem. I also found that the OP asked the same question on another website, which was answered there.This also solved...
View ArticleHow can we handle a question where the problem in the title is different from...
This is the post. The title has usually been "How do I calculate square root in Python?", but the body is actually about a problem that's specific to division in Python 2 (namely that 1/2 is 0, not...
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