Questions tagged [asking-questions]
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Green fields, blue skies, and the white board - what is too broad?
I've been accused of having questions that are too blue sky-y or green fieldy and not white boardy enough.
What does this mean and why do those questions get closed?
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Let's help askers who are trying to circumvent question block at Stack Overflow
If a first time asker has an SO account that was recently (say, within a week) question blocked over there, how about showing them a warning like this:
Wait! You've recently been blocked at Stack ...
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Why am I getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account”?
Ok I wasn't asking a question but tried the link anyhow and it said
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See
http://goo.gl/C1Kwu to learn more.
Here are the questions ...
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Requiring registration to ask questions - did it made a difference?
In September 2012 registration requirement to ask questions has been introduced:
In the past 60 days, 76% of all questions from unregistered users have been either down-voted below 0, closed, ...
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
Over here at Programmers, a lot of askers seems to misunderstand site-specific expectations of career related questions, which frequently results in questions closure and deletions.
Propose to help ...
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'Problem' and 'help' titles in off-topic questions of new users coming from Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I recently learned that some off-topic questions seem to be posted at Programmers with sole purpose to circumvent 'problem' and 'help' title block at Stack Overflow.
Can we do something to save these ...
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Using Programmers as "learning and training area" for Stack Overflow kind questions [duplicate]
Related: Create a New Stack Overflow Instance for Beginner Users and Content (MSO).
We are getting many off-topic / implementation and coding kind questions where askers appear to be aware of Stack ...
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How to ask "how to understand some code" questions
Often we find questions along the lines of
Help me understand this C program
#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("Hello World");
}
Well, that one may be a bit simplified - but its not an ...
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Current state of the [job-market] [duplicate]
As of now, there are over 87 questions in job-market tag.
All of these questions are closed, except for this one which has historical lock. Could we do something to help askers understand the risks ...
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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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Please increase rate limit for new users asking questions to one used at Stack Overflow (1 per 90 minutes)
As September is coming, site is getting spammed by zero effort homework dumps.
Particularly passionate spammers even drop their garbage at us at highest rate allowed (today examples: 1, 2, 3, 4 - 10K ...
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Is the block against unregistered users asking questions still necessary?
Since 2012, unregistered users (users who haven't explicitly signed up for the site) have been prevented from asking questions (not answering questions) on this site. This block was implemented ...
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Where can I ask for feedback on my concept?
I thought out a software architecture for a larger application I'll be working on. Before actually starting to code, I'd like feedback on the architecture. Since this is about the needs of only my ...
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Guidelines for questions about a specific language lacking a specific feature
I have asked some questions about why a specific programming language does not have a specific feature. They seem to have unpredictable/mixed reception as they are sometimes but not always closed as ...
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The "similar question" sections overlaps the footer [closed]
When asking a question, the "similar questions" side bar scrolls down, which is cool, but if I go all the way down to the bottom of the page, then the side bar covers up the link to the wiki, the "...
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Is "how would you architect (existing Web site/application)" an appropriate question?
Several years ago I interviewed with MCS and one of the interviewers asked me how I would design Amazon.com. Is that type of question appropriate on programmers.stackexchange.com?
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How else should I have asked my question in order to not get deleted
In this question I asked, I first got downvoted twice without having any clue where my mistake was. I've never minded downvoting, but if someone wants me to ask a question the right way, or ask a ...
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How could this user (having only Programmers account) ask at Stack Overflow prior to Programmers?
Here is a thing I can't understand. We recently got a question from a new user. That user has only account at Programmers.
Their question has a piece of text that appears to be copied from markdown ...
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