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What is dividing-line between appropriate and inappropriate open-ended questions
This is one topic that continues to confuse me. It's been discussed before, e.g. Subjective / open-ended questions, and What are the guidelines for accepting or closing "Open Ended Questions"...
Score of 14
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Tag top users layout broken?
Have a look at one of the tag top-users page, e.g.:
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/c++/topusers
the alignment is off, the vertical layout of badges is a bad idea wasting a lot of space, and it ...
Score of -10
1 answer
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Can this open-ended question be salvaged by changing a sentence making the post less meta and more on-topic?
I was reading Opinion(s) on development with AI. While reading, the post was deleted. It had a sentence that read:
My experience then was that it was good for boilerplate and then I would code as ...
Score of 14
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What's the meaning of the secret message in the newest Developer Survey email?
I just got received a nag reminder email about the 2026 developer survey, subject line "Your chance to weigh in on all things tech in our annual survey".
That email contains this hidden ...
Score of 3
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Please notify me if someone replies to my reply on an open-ended question
If someone posts a comment on an answer of mine, I receive an inbox notification very soon afterwards. But if someone posts a reply to an open-ended reply of mine, it seems I receive no notification, ...
Score of -6
0 answers
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How would I increase focus on this closed question
Yesterday, I asked this:
What do I replace the XUL/XHTML broadcast+observers pattern with?
this is a question not about a specific program, but about a mechanism. It was closed for lack of focus. (It ...
Score of -20
1 answer
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Is there a reward for "downvoting" questions? [duplicate]
I have what I feel like is a fairly decent reputation on SO, collected for over a decade. I've had streaks of using SO every day for a few years. I changed my role recently, and my participation on SO ...
Score of 10
1 answer
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Score of -6
3 answers
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Support line wrapping in code listings
When listing code in questions or answers, one often uses lines which are longer than the rendered gray-rectangle box is wide. The result is a box with a horizontal scrollbar:
int foo(int ...
Score of 24
4 answers
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Is "it just started working again" an answer?
I sporadically see self-answers (like this one from earlier today) posted which read in the spirit of:
I'm not sure (what I did | if I did anything differently), but it just started working again.
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Score of 24
1 answer
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Recommendation spam-seeds on open ended questions
With the rise of open ended questions, spammers seem to have found a new tactic. After having a few of their tool-related spam posts deleted, they ask an "Advice" question about the same. &...
Score of 2
1 answer
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What is the difference between handling spam flags for serial posting?
I suspected one user's serial posting as spam and raised 5 spam flags. 1 of them is marked helpful while 4 of them is declined.
This is the answer that is marked as helpful, which I leave my ...
Score of 32
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Please bring back the "Show NN more comments" at the end of comments on answers
Answers on Stack Overflow questions no longer show a "Show NN more comments" link at the bottom. This is confusing. Please add it back to fix usability.
When I open a question on Stack ...
Score of 49
13 answers
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Survey Survey why not?
Feedback here suggests that many users will not or already decided to not complete and submit this year's survey. It'd be a pity if voices of those were not heard (or only scattered around in comments)...
Score of -4
2 answers
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How is a question about the "less" program off-topic on Stack Overflow?
The question is How to prevent less --quit-if-one-screen --no-init +G from filling the screen with empty lines when the file is shorter than the screen?
It is about less, and as a programmer, I use it ...