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Once a question starts getting downvoted, is it doomed?

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How bad are "Shopping for Patterns"-type questions?

answered Sep 16 at 16:08 Tim Hutchison 153

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Is Software Engineering suitable for a question about unit testing? (I'm wondering about patterns for saving intermediate results of a method chain)

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answered Aug 31 at 6:29 Doc Brown 177k

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Contradiction in the site's scope definition?

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modified Aug 28 at 7:45 Doc Brown 177k

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Can comments on deleted answers still be seen by the @user?

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answered Aug 21 at 6:30 apaderno 3,914

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How is asking, "Is there formal terminology for storage of key value pairs?" an opinion based question?

discussion closed-questions close-reasons down-votes opinion-based

modified Aug 5 at 8:02 Doc Brown 177k

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I think my post was mismarked as spam

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modified Jul 27 at 12:49 Doc Brown 177k

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Would a question about when to use (and not use) subdomains be on topic?

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modified Jul 10 at 16:42 amon 116k

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3-vote close - how's it going?

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modified Jun 29 at 20:30 CatijaStaffMod 101

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

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modified Jun 17 at 5:18 Doc Brown 177k

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

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modified Jun 14 at 9:24 Thomas OwensMod 72.9k

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Community Promotion Ads — 2020

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2013 Community Moderator Election Results

discussion election

modified Jun 7 at 14:06 Adam LearStaffMod 31.3k

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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?

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modified Jun 4 at 21:25 Doc Brown 177k

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

discussion faq migration scope site-rec

modified May 25 at 18:30 gnat 21.7k

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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 OwensMod 72.9k

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Question about designing a schema - on topic?

discussion design

modified May 11 at 21:13 Doc Brown 177k

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

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answered Apr 30 at 14:06 amon 116k

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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

discussion off-topic licensing

modified Apr 12 at 21:55 Doc Brown 177k

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Why was this question downvoted?

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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 OwensMod 72.9k

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Feedback on new tag: Visual Testing

discussion tags

modified Feb 28 at 16:04 Greg Burghardt 24.3k

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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 177k

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Why is this question closed as off-topic?

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modified Feb 17 at 13:59 Doc Brown 177k

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

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modified Feb 17 at 12:47 Stelios Adamantidis 137

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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 177k

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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 177k

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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 177k

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2020: a year in moderation

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modified Jan 21 at 11:38 JNatStaffMod 101

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How make a question about feedback for an university exercises?

discussion feature-request

answered Jan 8 at 22:13 Thomas OwensMod 72.9k

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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]

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modified Jan 2 at 17:19 Thomas OwensMod 72.9k

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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 177k

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

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modified Dec 29 '20 at 22:39 Doc Brown 177k

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

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answered Dec 25 '20 at 11:13 zjk 101

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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 177k

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

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answered Dec 6 '20 at 23:28 amon 116k

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I would like to have several tag wiki edits reviewed

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modified Dec 2 '20 at 14:10 Glorfindel 3,085

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Reopen UUID collision probability question?

discussion reopen-request

modified Nov 19 '20 at 15:43 Doc Brown 177k

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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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answered Oct 26 '20 at 13:09 Doc Brown 177k

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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 OwensMod 72.9k

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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 OwensMod 72.9k

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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?

discussion comments chat

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

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