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Question closed for being “opinion-based” but I only asked for the name of a principle

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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?

modified Jun 14 at 9:24 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Community Promotion Ads — 2020

discussion community-ads

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Once a question starts getting downvoted, is it doomed?

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2013 Community Moderator Election Results

discussion election

modified Jun 7 at 14:06 Adam Lear♦ 31.1k

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Now that 3 close votes has been proven and implemented on Stack Overflow, can we have the same on Software Engineering, please?

feature-request status-planned closed-questions vote-to-reopen

modified Jun 4 at 21:25 Doc Brown 174k

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3-vote close - how's it going?

discussion featured vote-to-close vote-to-reopen

answered Jun 4 at 19:32 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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

discussion faq migration scope site-rec

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How can the OP improve this question further to get it reopened?

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answered May 14 at 11:45 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Question about designing a schema - on topic?

discussion design

modified May 11 at 21:13 Doc Brown 174k

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is this the correct place to ask educational/review questions?

discussion support

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On discussions and why they don't make good questions

discussion close-reasons faq-proposed

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I think it's time we just make all licensing questions off-topic

discussion off-topic licensing

modified Apr 12 at 21:55 Doc Brown 174k

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Why was this question downvoted?

discussion

modified Apr 10 at 16:38 JensB 149

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Why Is One Question Closed for Legal Advice and the Other Upvoted?

discussion scope

answered Apr 5 at 18:53 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Feedback on new tag: Visual Testing

discussion tags

modified Feb 28 at 16:04 Greg Burghardt 23.7k

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Fast mod-deletion of positively scored question

discussion moderation

modified Feb 25 at 4:24 gnat 21.7k

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What's the crossposting policy with SO?

discussion cross-posting

modified Feb 19 at 6:06 Doc Brown 174k

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Contradiction in the site's scope definition?

discussion

answered Feb 17 at 16:29 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Why is this question closed as off-topic?

discussion scope

modified Feb 17 at 13:59 Doc Brown 174k

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Last chance for this question - can someone explain what is wrong with my first question?

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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage

support questions down-votes

modified Feb 17 at 6:04 Doc Brown 174k

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Can I ask for feedback on a list of ideas and thoughts, and the pros and cons I could think of, about designing a chess game?

discussion on-topic-definition design off-topic

modified Feb 9 at 14:37 Doc Brown 174k

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Can you give an example of a question that is welcome on SE, but is off-topic on SO?

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modified Feb 8 at 21:03 Doc Brown 174k

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2020: a year in moderation

discussion moderation statistics

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How make a question about feedback for an university exercises?

discussion feature-request

answered Jan 8 at 22:13 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]

feature-request status-completed syntax-highlighting

modified Jan 2 at 17:19 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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How to make a question about Elastic Search on topic?

discussion

modified Jan 1 at 7:13 Doc Brown 174k

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Question about “What does XYZ Cloud Technologies, Inc. offer that Big Tech clouds don't?”

discussion

modified Dec 29 '20 at 22:39 Doc Brown 174k

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Why was my question deleted which was closed within the past 48 hours

support bug

answered Dec 25 '20 at 11:13 zjk 101

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Is this question a good candidate for reopening?

discussion closed-questions

modified Dec 14 '20 at 15:13 Doc Brown 174k

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Is it allowed to ask questions about interview design questions? [duplicate]

discussion

answered Dec 6 '20 at 23:28 amon 112k

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I would like to have several tag wiki edits reviewed

support tags suggested-edits tag-wikis

modified Dec 2 '20 at 14:10 Glorfindel 3,065

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Reopen UUID collision probability question?

discussion reopen-request

modified Nov 19 '20 at 15:43 Doc Brown 174k

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Unclear question is clarified in comment, later comment is deleted and contradictory clarification added to question

discussion questions editing comments answers

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Question is not a duplicate: can we reopen?

support closed-questions

answered Oct 26 '20 at 13:09 Doc Brown 174k

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How to get at least a couple of examples of a topic on which “whole books have been written”?

discussion close-reasons list-questions

answered Oct 14 '20 at 0:52 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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What is actually on-topic for this site, if anything?

discussion specific-question

answered Oct 13 '20 at 16:48 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Can't ask question so what next? [duplicate]

discussion support

modified Sep 18 '20 at 2:12 jimjim 825

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Could those comments be moved to chat, and is this the right way to ask it?

discussion comments chat

asked Sep 17 '20 at 9:02 Arseni Mourzenko 132k

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Deleting low rated question to bypass the “You have reached your limit of questions” [duplicate]

support

answered Sep 8 '20 at 23:08 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Is this a question with answers or should I look elsewhere

discussion questions

answered Sep 4 '20 at 16:06 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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Where can I have subjective discussions about programming?

discussion faq off-topic subjective

modified Sep 2 '20 at 11:22 Doc Brown 174k

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This question already has answers… where?

bug duplicate-questions

answered Aug 27 '20 at 15:50 Thomas Owens♦ 71.7k

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How to ask for a list of usable criteria

discussion specific-question scope

modified Aug 22 '20 at 8:39 Doc Brown 174k

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How can I improve this question about software architecture?

discussion asking-questions

answered Aug 8 '20 at 7:14 Doc Brown 174k

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Should there be a redirect from se.stackexchange.com?

feature-request status-deferred stackexchange

modified Aug 5 '20 at 20:26 Jon Chan♦ 101

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