Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
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Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative Phase II
Back in 2012, we launched the Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative (STCI). It was very successful in identifying tags to create, merge, remove, and blacklist. However, it has been about 3 years since ...
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Why was my question closed or down voted?
Help! My question was closed (or down voted). Why? And what can I do about it?
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What technology to take up next
Recommend a software library, tool, book, research paper,...
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3 votes for closing/reopening experiment: the results
I'm sure you remember this experiment, which changed the required number of close/reopen votes from 5 to 3. Before getting to the meat of the analysis, I should point out that the change worked almost ...
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How to discourage crowd-pleasing non-answers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3st-Hai1y54
A lot of good and fairly specific questions on P.SE end up getting answers that are witty, abstract, agreeable and popular -- but have no substance, and don'...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Every day we get opinionated questions asked here. People seem to think that this is the place to ask them. New users point to the old open questions that have fallen through the cracks of time as ...
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To people who vote to reopen everything - *why*?
I've noticed in the reopen queue history and 10k close page that there are at least some people who will cast a reopen vote on nearly anything they see.
I've gotta ask... why do you do this?
A bit ...
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Provide 10k users more close votes
Please provide 10k+ users more close votes.
Why?
Putting questions on-hold in a timely fashion is critical in providing useful feedback to new users. It's rare for salvageable questions to be put on-...
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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?
I won't belabor the research by repeating it here. It's been described in exhaustive detail at this post.
The executive summary:
Closing, editing and reopening all become more effective.
Can we ...
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Why do 'some examples' and 'list of things' questions get closed?
A common form of question that is often asked is the "what are some examples of..." While this is hinted at in the help center
Please make sure that your question is not too broad, or strongly ...
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Not programming related
I just landed on Area51, and checked programmers.stackexchange description.
So are we being unfair to close question which are related to career and indirectly related to software? Those are ...
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Recent Trouble With Popularity
A few recent questions seem to exhibit issues explained in The Trouble With Popularity article:
we discovered that these posts... truly start to drown out everything else on the site... it's too ...
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What questions recently closed can be salvaged?
When people ask about Programmers.SE being too negative, closing too many things, or needing to be more inclusive - the best way to approach this is probably to look at the questions that have been ...
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What is needed to really fix a question (an Atwood transform)
You've found a poor question that you really think has some merit to it. What things are needed to successfully do this transformation of making a poor question into a good one?
The Atwood transform ...
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The system supports questions with multiple answers poorly (and is becoming worse at it)
TL;DR Can the system do something to help us more efficiently handle quality of the content in questions with multiple answers?
Recently I've seen notes from Stack Exchange staff about how it would ...
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How can this question be fixed?
In looking at various questions that are specifically mentioning a tool (as they are often tool questions that should have been asked on Stack Overflow years ago instead of here), I've come across ...
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