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On discussions and why they don't make good questions

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

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Why was this question downvoted?

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

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Feedback on new tag: Visual Testing

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Fast mod-deletion of positively scored question

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What's the crossposting policy with SO?

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Contradiction in the site's scope definition?

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answered Feb 17 at 16:29 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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Why is this question closed as off-topic?

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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

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modified Feb 17 at 6:04 Doc Brown 171k

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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?

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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 171k

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2020: a year in moderation

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How make a question about feedback for an university exercises?

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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]

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How to make a question about Elastic Search on topic?

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modified Jan 1 at 7:13 Doc Brown 171k

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

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

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Is this question a good candidate for reopening?

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modified Dec 14 '20 at 15:13 Doc Brown 171k

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

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I would like to have several tag wiki edits reviewed

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Reopen UUID collision probability question?

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modified Nov 19 '20 at 15:43 Doc Brown 171k

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

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Question is not a duplicate: can we reopen?

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

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answered Oct 14 '20 at 0:52 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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

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answered Oct 13 '20 at 16:48 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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

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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?

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

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answered Sep 8 '20 at 23:08 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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Is this a question with answers or should I look elsewhere

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Where can I have subjective discussions about programming?

discussion faq off-topic subjective

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This question already has answers… where?

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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 171k

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How can I improve this question about software architecture?

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

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Should code smell and anti-pattern be synonomous in Software engineering stack exchange?

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answered Aug 4 '20 at 16:41 Jörg W Mittag 93.2k

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A “welcome to software engineering” comment for questionable questions

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What is spam, according to Stack Exchange and Software Engineering.SE?

discussion specific-question spam

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“You have reached your question limit” issue

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answered Jul 1 '20 at 13:06 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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Is programming history on topic?

discussion on-topic-definition faq-proposed

modified Jun 25 '20 at 14:27 Thomas Owens♦ 71.1k

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Interview questions are off-topic. What about questions that I, as the interviewer, have?

discussion on-topic-definition

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Robert Harvey's reputation history is lying?

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answered Jun 17 '20 at 22:08 Karl Bielefeldt 137k

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Suggestions to make my question about structuring a Python script more on-topic?

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modified Jun 10 '20 at 13:55 Doc Brown 171k

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21k rep but “Not enough reputation to answer or unprotect”

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Cloud computing vs. Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service

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