Is it okay to create two user profiles, one to answer the other's questions?...
This is rather a strange situation. I recently came across this question, in which a question was asked by one user, and answered 9 minutes later by another user whom the evidence suggests is another...
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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How should I correctly handle a question divided into several posts from the...
I found four questions, all posted by this user, which deal with the same topic, and with the same title. The first question differs from the others only for the wording "Part 2", "Part 3" and "Part 4"...
View ArticleWhere is the line for yes/no questions?
As a daily visitor I should first report that the quality of questions for the tags I monitor is on a clear up-tick. So whatever's being done in the background is having a favourable result. Having...
View ArticleCan I ask design-related questions on Stack Overflow?
Is Stack Overflow for design and architecture questions or just for technical questions?
View ArticlePrevent others editing a question in the first 5 minutes
In early times of Stack Overflow, people agreed on giving an OP time to do the first edits of their question on their own, especially when someone is new and the question is less than a few minutes...
View ArticleWhy were some of my questions badly received? Should some of them be deleted?
Some of my questions were negatively received.Why Data.Text.Lazy is needed? Can't be strict chuncks of lazy structure made by a compiler optimilizer?Haskell Megaparsec Multiprocessing Error Handling...
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How broad should questions about approximate performance of library functions...
I've asked this question, which was closed as too broad. It is about the approximate performance of a library function that is commonly used in a great many environments.Someone further commented that...
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'Ask a new question' Title example/placeholder
When I go to ask a new question I get the following generic title suggestion:e.g. Is there an R function for finding the index of an element in a vector?I have several related questions and comments...
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Community-deleted/Roomba'd questions are sometimes still showing/counting in...
While participating in the burnination of downloadfile, I took a look at all remaining questions at one point, and was returned with the following result when searching using the query [downloadfile]...
View ArticleWhere do we see our deleted posts in the latest ui?
Previously, we could see our deleted posts like answers and questions in a particular place (at the bottom of our profile page). But, we find it nowhere in the latest ui. So, where are they now? Or...
View ArticleWhat is the recommended way of dealing with old (then on-topic) question with...
I posted a question about MD5 hash collision back in 2014. As far as I know questions about algorithms are on-topic on Stack Overflow, and the cryptography tag did not have the warning "CRYPTOGRAPHY...
View ArticleAre questions that boil down to errors in off-site resources on-topic?
This question asks for an explanation of a snippet of code in an off-site resource.If you take the off-site resource out of the question, the question is essentially:Q: What does this syntax mean?A:...
View ArticleIs there a formal way to ask for feedback on editing specific old questions?
I'm going through my old negatively voted questions to try to improve them, and I'd like to ask some experienced users for advice. My first approach was to add a comment to them asking for possible...
View ArticleStack Overflow question checklist
My earlier blog post on how to write a good question is pretty long, and I suspect that even when I refer people to it, often they don't bother reading it. So here's a short list of questions to check...
View ArticleHow did a question holding nothing but a link-text to an image not get...
Take a look at: not creating the file showing error file not buildThere is nothing in the question that is not a link-text (and the link points to a screenshot of the code).Why do we allow questions of...
View ArticleLet's send new users off to see the Wizard
This post is prompted in part by What can we put in a question template to help people ask better questions? where Jon Ericson and others have indicated an intention to develop a question wizard...
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...
View ArticleHow does the system update question bans? [duplicate]
I have a question ban in Stack Overflow. Read more about them in the Help Center article. "The ban will be lifted automatically by the system when it determines that your positive contributions...
View ArticleQuestion closes while answering [duplicate]
I came across this question around an hour ago. Now, I thought I could give a decent answer, so I was working on an answer for the last 30 mins or so, because the user needed help with fixing a code...
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