Questions tagged [closed-questions]
Meta questions about why particular questions on the main site were closed.
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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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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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Answer to a specific question and a very broad question
I was composing an answer to Can I distribute a GPL executable (not a library) in a closed-source application? when I discovered it has been closed as a duplicate of Can I use GPL, LGPL, MPL licensed ...
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Why is this question locked?
This question shows up in the 10k delete review list because it has a delete vote cast:
How do I explain a “Hello World” program for beginners? [closed]
The question is a classic example of How do I ...
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I believe my question was closed unjustly
I asked a language design / theoretical question and it was closed as "unclear what I'm asking".
The problem is not that it's unclear -- it's just a bit theoretical and language design-specific. ...
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Why was my Magento development question closed?
I asked a question here, because I didn't get any suitable answer from this question. It got 5200 + views with good answer, but mine was closed without any answer. Why did this happen? How could I ...
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Does closing a question before an answer is received change the behavior of a user on future questions?
One of those ideas that got bantered around - does closing a question have any evidence at modifying a user's future behavior if it happens before they get an answer?
We often see people ask a ...
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Does asking a question perceived as too broad warrant a down-vote / close-vote, without discussion?
We'll this recently happened to me, and now I'm out for social justification, so to speak...I'm quite an avid user of StackOverflow, so I do realize that the use of the voting mechanism had been ...
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Why is "Is it possible to..." a poorly worded question?
A lot of questions try to cast a net into sea of possible designs with the wording "is it possible to...".
These questions often get closed for one reason or another. What steps should I take to try ...
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Why was my career related question considered off-topic? [duplicate]
Here is the link to the question that was considered off-topic: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/277933/69485
I read the answer to another question on here (meta.programmers....
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Question closed because of "asking for advice on what to do"
My question got closed as off-topic with the reason that it's "asking for advice on what to do":
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/274551/what-are-the-possible-repercussions-of-...
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Why was my question asking who is developing Wakelang closed?
My question Who is developing Wake? (10k link) was closed as unclear what I'm asking. In addition, one user posted a comment on my question saying, "recommended reading: Why we're not customer support ...
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Misleading "protected" message on closed question shown to users who are not logged in or have less than 10 on-site rep
Should I choose Doctrine 2 or Propel 1.5/1.6, and why?
Is this the intended behavior?
I was searching for the "answer" button because I read that I need at least 10 reputation because the question ...
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Why was my question migrated?
I asked this question a few days ago. Shortly after I placed a bounty on it (due to low attention), it was migrated to Stack Overflow, with no comment or anything (and, weirdly enough, the bounty was ...
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How is this question off-topic?
I posted a question about the terminology for 3-byte integers (since we have terms for 4 bits, 1 byte, 2 bytes, and 4 bytes).
It was fine for a long time until it was finally closed as subjective. I ...
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Where and how to improve questions?
This bit came up in chat the other day:
more discussion needs to happen on meta regarding question x and how to make it better
A quick search can find it, but I'm not going to link it to bring up ...
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Questions related to "deliberate practice" are all marked duplicate, locked, or closed
There exists an excellent question:
How to Deliberately Practice Software Engineering?
This question is marked a duplicate of the following questions:
Continuous Professional development – the best ...
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How can I get my question reopened as someone answered in the comments?
I posted the following question on programmers.stackexchange.com : Is there any language-agnostic specification for "String Natural Sorting Order"
I posted it on programmers.stackexchange....
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Is the line between a discussion based question and a definitive answer question fuzzy? [duplicate]
I know StackExchange has a pretty strict policy about discussion based questions, as I recently discovered. It got me thinking, how does the StackExchange community define opinion-based or bad ...
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What's the reopen rate for closed questions on Programmers?
Inspired by "How often are closed questions re-opened?" on MSO, I wanted to find out how often questions on Programmers get re-opened.
One of the answers there provided two queries to get fairly ...
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"You have asked terrible questions, please get away or ask better question"
Above statement has just been filed when I tried to post a new question (or maybe a bit cleaner wording, but the idea is the same nonetheles):
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-...
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What is wrong with this question ABOUT programing?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/241503/jira-full-blown-solution-for-the-single-developer
what is wrong with this question, in gods name, can someone tell me what the problem ...
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Most top rated questions could've been closed
My first and only question on this site has been closed. I've a fair amount of rep on SO and I know how things work here. Before asking it I have read the FAQ and the What topics can I ask about here? ...
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Asked design pattern question that was put on hold as off-topic - why?
Here the link to the question:
ExtensionPoints design and architecture with examples
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Examples of inappropriately closed questions
This is a follow up to BartMan's question, which is now locked. We shouldn't be dismissive of the over-moderation concerns of potential new users. You asked for 10 examples of inappropriately closed ...
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This question will get auto deleted - is it a winning choice?
My belief is that if a question is really too broad, too bad, too much opinionable. The fact will prove it in a very short time.
The following question however had already got many interesting ...
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How should questions not written in English be handled?
I just saw a question asked in what appears to me to be Italian. I can't answer it without running it through a translation program.
How should a question like this be handled?
Should it be closed? ...
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Can questions be improved by asking for the historical record?
I am a member of History SE whose "day job" has suddenly forced me to look hard at programming.
I have had (approved) edits on questions like this and this. The gist of these questions were "Why is ...
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Are now all questions about teaching programming to be considered off topic?
I noticed that this question, "Teaching kids to program - how to teach syntax?" was closed a few days ago on the the grounds: "Questions seeking career or education advice are off topic on Programmers"...
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How many questions do we get from users recently blocked at SO, how many of these are closed / deleted?
Recent efforts in SO close vote queue make me think that quite a lot of users started hitting the question ban there.
There is long known "tradition" of attempts to circumvent such bans by posting at ...
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On the troubles of naming and terminology
Difficulty with naming has a bit of a history with programming.
There are two hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off by one errors.
It has been repeatedly revisited on meta ...
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How to re-word or 'fix' my question so it can be answered
My question here: Strategies to troubleshoot an error that only happens on a specific device was closed due to being too broad. I don't quite understand why it's too broad, but that's fine, if it's a ...
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If I was a homework cheater, [duplicate]
...if I was a homework cheater, I would applaud an approach like that...
I'm for deletion if not improved in a reasonable timeframe.
But minutes after closure is, I think, too speedy.
I tend to give ...
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Should there be a time limit before someone can vote to close?
I'm looking at this question. And not five minutes after it was posted there's an "I'm voting to close" Comment.
Should we allow questions a grace period because what someone might see as irrelevant ...
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I got banned from Programmer but for a mistake
I had just 100 of reputation and I gave 50 points for a bounty. I din't know I could experience a ban because of that.
Now I read the following message if I try to post a question.
"Sorry, we are no ...
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Question closed, how to fix it?
Following specification vs. following language standards
The way I see it, this question follows The Six Subjective Question Guidelines:
It inspires answers that explain "why". Options are given, so ...
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I have a tiny problem
I have a huge tiny problem! The problem is that I cannot post a question on this site which does not automatically get put on hold!
My problem began when I tried to ask which tool I should use to ...
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Why do certification questions keep getting closed?
Whenever I look at certification questions on the front page or in tags, they seem to be closed.
Why is this?
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What is this site's definitions of development methodologies?
I have a question that was put on hold a little while ago. Not the end of the world, it was a question about agile development and that's not strictly a programmer topic. But when I looked at the on ...
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How could this question be worded to avoid being stamped on?
I asked a question last night which I believe was worthwhile and could have received some interesting responses, but sadly it was swiftly stamped on by the community. I'm doing my best to figure out ...
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Is there any recourse for a user who is being harassed by another user?
If I feel like a certain user is harassing me, editing my answers, downvoting my answers, closing my questions, making offensive and condescending comments, or anything like that; what can I do? I ...
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Was this question closed for the right reason?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/223192/will-i-get-acceptable-performance-for-learning-c-python-if-i-use-a-vm-as-my-lear
I've always considered "opinion-based" questions as ...
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Can you please review the modifications for this question?
I modified the original Building a distributed system on Amazon Web Services after the comments mentioned about Why do interview questions make poor Programmers.SE questions?
The question now is more ...
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Why is this terminology question considered as “opinion based”?
I recently asked What is the name of the functional argument in fold which is now marked off-topic because it might be opinion based. I do not understand what makes this opinion based. This question ...
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How to improve the document / refactoring question
Question in review:
Is it Typical for Large Software Companies to Not Document or Refactor Code?
Thunderforge asked in chat
I recently had my question put on hold and I'd like to know how I can ...
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Is quality of a question determined solely by the question itself or the content it generates?
This question is prompted by some of the discussion in How can we avoid turning off potential participants who see the wall of Closed questions? Specifically, what MichaelT wrote to JensG and the ...
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How can we avoid turning off potential participants who see the wall of Closed questions?
The home page of P.SE is often littered with inappropriate questions that have been appropriately closed. This is an important part of any .SE site.
However, it can be intimidating or off-putting for ...
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Are career questions OK if both the question and answers contain generally applicable information? [duplicate]
I asked a question about joining a startup as a grad, specifically about the scenario where there wouldn't be any more senior programmers working above the grads: https://softwareengineering....
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My question was closed as a duplicate of a vaguely related question without good answers
Best practices for sharing tiny snippets of code across projects was closed 6 months after being posted. It was marked as a duplicate to How to promote code reuse and documentation?
I'm a heavy user ...
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Closing a two year old question as a duplicate of a one year old question?
I just noticed that Is there a measure of code rot?, which was created in February 2011 was closed two weeks ago as a duplicate of How can I quantify the amount of technical debt that exists in a ...
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