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28 questions linked to/from (4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
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Why are we getting so many off topic 'debug this for me' questions? what can we do about it?
Yes, this is a duplicate of Using Programmers as "learning and training area" for Stack Overflow kind questions intended to re-ask the question more clearly and without the tangents of ...
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Can you people here stop being so rude? [duplicate]
This is a site where people who are clueless ask question for help. WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE HERE SO MEAN? why do you close questions and downvote them instead of answering?
be nice to others! even if you ...
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Is this site failing? And should it go away? [duplicate]
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At the time I write this, 12 of the 15 questions on the questions front page have net downvotes. That is an extreme statistical outlier on stackexchange. Other sites tend to have between 1 and ...
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Is there any point in this site still existing?
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them ...
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Programmers Stack Exchange question downvoting, what to do?
I've taken a shine to the Programmers Stack Exchange lately, but one thing I've noticed is it seems to have what I think anybody looking at the questions list would classify as excessive down voting ...
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If the scope is wrong, which of these questions belong here?
Over in Is this site failing? And should it go away? I posted this list and haven't gotten a satisfactory response yet.
If the site's scope is at issue, then some percentage of these questions should ...
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Absurd downvoting
I posted a question after having thought about the concept for a week or so. I posted the relevant research I had done and the sample code I used for trying out the concept. The question was long and ...
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Putting soft questions on hold unproductive? [duplicate]
I understand you want questions that can be answered definitively, that's the point of a stack. But given how many sappy personal advice questions you're getting, maybe it's time to create a support ...
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A lot of front page down votes [duplicate]
Looking at the most recent questions when I click the questions link I notice (at the time of this writing) 7/15 are down voted and 8/15 aren't. I'm not here every day to see if this is a trend but ...
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Show a banner to new users linking them to the help center
Some time back Doc asked How can we encourage people to read the FAQ before asking their first question? which is a really good question and a fairly consistent challenge to get people to ask ...
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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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Can the more clear description of the sites scope on the 'Sign Up' page be repeated in at least the 'Ask Question' page?
Plenty of discussion on the issue of the site's scope, here's my suggestion in this Q&A as an official feature request.
Before a user joins programmers.se they are welcomed with what I feel is a ...
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Priorizing of feature requests
Having read this question about a reasonable feature request and seen that it was closed as a dupe of a question from 2013 (and 2011 by another user), I wonder what is the best way
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