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Open letter to students with homework problems

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Community Promotion Ads - 2017

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Why does Software Engineering SE look different?

discussion sponsored-sites

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What is “not constructive”?

discussion close-reasons specific-question

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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]

discussion community-ads

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About that “Good Subjective Bad Subjective” blog post and Programmers

support subjective site-definition bad-questions low-quality-posts

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no 'edit' option for Q&A at Programmers meta

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Suggestions for questions begging for a “Let Me Google That For You” link

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What's the point of 'Unanswered' link?

discussion support

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“Most common “Y2K-style” bugs today” … Keep or Delete?

discussion off-topic scope

answered Jul 15 at 19:02 GlenH7♦ 34.1k

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Why questions about “the correct way” are too broad

discussion featured scope best-practice

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Why has my question been considered off topic and deleted?

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Is flagging one comment as not needed anymore enough?

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My question was simultaneously answered, put on hold, and finally deleted. Why, and how can I improve my question?

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Abuses of closing and deleting posts suppress normal participations: call for moderation on abuses from privilleged users

discussion complaint abuse

modified Jun 27 at 13:47 Tim 1,694

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Why there's not quick acess to our favorite questions?

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Discuss this ${blog}

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Tag Synonyms / Merging: Estimates

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What can be done about the misuse of the “primarily opinion-based” close vote?

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Question closed for duplicate - while the reason why I though the duplicate was not a duplicate is removed?

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Tag Clean up: The [static] tag could do with some attention

discussion tags clean-up

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First off-topic close reason text should be updated for new Stack Overflow phrasing

feature-request status-completed close-reasons off-topic

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How else should I have asked my question in order to not get deleted

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How can I ask this question better? [duplicate]

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Have the mods started censoring close votes?

support moderators

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What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow

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Why was my valid edit rejected?

discussion tags moderation editing

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Why was this question directly closed as primarily opinion based and directly removed? [duplicate]

discussion closed-questions close-reasons deleted-questions

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How to deal with cross-site duplicate closed posts

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answered May 19 at 13:09 Doc Brown 140k

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Historical lock (or deletion) for these questions?

discussion

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We are no longer accepting questions from this account

discussion support moderation moderators suspensions

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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]

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Would “Has <programming practice> ever gone badly wrong” questions be on topic here?

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The real borderline for “Opinion based” in Software Engineering

discussion close-reasons subjective opinion-based

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Example of incorrect close voting

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Should we request a question wizard for questions on Software Engineering?

discussion feature-request

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Am I overreacting when ordered to stop violating rules I didn't violate?

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Why the question got deleted?

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How to ask about “How to write specification for a web application?”

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How could I make this question more “clear”?

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Questions linked by meta questions shouldn't be permanently deleted

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Where to ask about IT terminology?

discussion site-rec

modified Apr 12 at 11:30 Bart van Ingen Schenau 52.1k

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Where can I ask Career-Development questions on the Stack Exchange about Programming? (without getting closed!)

support site-rec

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Can this question be salvaged?

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Arguing with answers VS expressing ideas

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Broaden allowed questions : Asking for recommendations

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Broaden Allowed Questions : Project/Team Management

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How do I know if something is opinion based?

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