Questions tagged [closed-questions]
Meta questions about why particular questions on the main site were closed.
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Is how to setup a dev environment using a specific tool, out of scope?
My question https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/208143/using-notepad-for-php-coding got closed as being off-topic.
Note that I'm not trying to ask for any tool recommendations or ...
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Question put on hold because asking for tool recommendation
A question I asked yesterday was put on hold because I asked if a library or framework exists that can solve my problem. Here is the question:
Looking to create a custom, graphical editor for a data ...
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Why 'What was your most difficult bug hunt' is an edge question?
I learned a lot reading 'What was your most difficult bug hunt' I'm sure it will help me and others (who I plan to narrate some of the stories to) will benefit too. can we please re open it and keep ...
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Are questions about source control off topic?
Why is this question considered off topic?
I choose to be fair and show all reasons why I dislike the current options - would've it been ontopic if I simply lied and only told I was dissatisfied with ...
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Curious why "Is writing software easier than reading [it]..." was closed
I was just getting my daily dose of programmers SE and noticed another closed "not constructive" question: Is writing software easier than reading and understanding it from scratch?
I've read through ...
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How can I improve this question and get answers I want?
Can someone tell me what's wrong with this question? How can I improve it?
I'm in the field of EEE but I'm not specializing in software
engineering. Yesterday, i had an impromptu idea to develop ...
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How to make "What to expect" question constructive?
This question was closed along with downvotes: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/199257/what-level-of-queries-should-i-expect-from-an-interviewer-regarding-my-official
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help me understand why this question was closed as off-topic? [closed]
is this javascript property defaulting pattern a code smell? is the question at, um, question.
I'm not upset or offended by the closure; no ego involved here, and I got the feedback I needed before ...
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Why was the question on benchmarking apps for concurrent key value stores closed?
I liked this question, asking how to make a benchmarking app or give information on already usable code to test map implementations.
Sure it needed a code reference but why close it?
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Are there "ex post facto" closes?
Can questions be closed for a reason that is valid TODAY but did not exist at the time the question was asked?
Here is an example.
Why close a 2 year old question?
Questions are now "routinely" ...
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Should this question be open or closed?
Should How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? be open or closed?
On the one hand, project failure is more common in software development than most ...
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Multiple indirection in closed duplicates and transitivity of duplicates
I find it hilarious that this question was closed as a duplicate of a question which is in turn a duplicate of a question closed as off-topic!
I realize questions may be closed at any time, not only ...
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Can anyone tell me why this question was closed?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/196777/documentation-examples-etc-of-implementing-googles-website-translator
The one comment I got was a link that was so generic, it might as ...
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What criterion of NARQ does this question meet?
So I would like to jump in the programmers.SE community, but for the life of me I can't actually figure out the community standards.
I had this question closed: What languages do Node.js developers ...
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Why close a 2 year old question?
Okay, I'm very confused now. A question of mine from 2 years ago with multiple upvoted answers and upvoted to ten was just closed as not constructive. I'm assuming that someone stumbled across it and ...
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What does it take for a question to be a duplicate?
I just learned that this question is a duplicate of some other question (the link to which is supplied now in the first question). Reading through both questions I cannot see how one could defer the ...
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Please reopen "Does open sourcing your work help you?" [closed]
Does open sourcing your work help you? was originally worded in a polling, discussion-inducing way ("Have you ever", "work of yours", "Is it a world of selfishness"), but is not fundamentally a ...
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The stock hardware question is a good one
What is the difference between a stock-hardware and a micro-coded machine in "A Critique of Common Lisp"? started out ranty, and people got carried away in the comments, but the underlying ...
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Why was my question on integrated systems closed, and what can I do to get it re-opened?
I asked a legitimate, specific, relevant, answerable question here:
Do integrated systems increase development time and cause inflexibility?
It was closed as "not constructive". In the "hot ...
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Why is this question closed (_and_ locked)?
"Comments are a code smell"
From the FAQ, I would expect it to fall under the "good" topic of Software Engineering, and from Good Subjective, Bad Subjective, it seems to meet almost all the ...
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I've made a question asking why OTServ - a huge MMORPG open-source community - has a problem with item cloning. Why it was closed?
Earlier I've posted this question (link) on Programmers Stack. Why was it closed and what can I do for it to be reopenned? Note: I've already made some edits taking in account the argumentation ...
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Why was my question closed
Recently, my question Looking for books on the C and POSIX standards was closed as "off topic".
I don't really agree with that, and feel misunderstood. Reading the FAQ didn't make it clear either.
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Something very strange going on in a closed question
Can someone have a look at this question? Some newbie who apparently doesn't understand the idea of abstraction came along and asked a question that, admittedly, is a bit ranty. Several people, ...
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Closed question dispute
Should I try to persuade my manager that code tidying should take priority over meeting deadlines?
I do not agree that this question should have been closed. If it was truly a duplicate, than the ...
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"NodeJS as an avenue towards learning JavaScript" closure
NodeJS as an avenue towards learning JavaScript
This is a question that only someone who knows both JavaScript and Node fairly in-depth could answer properly. I would call that "specific expertise" ...
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Should "How do SaaS companies provide data liberation services" have been closed?
How do SaaS companies provide data liberation services?
This is a question that is pertinent to everyone developing SaaS applications today. There is no one right answer, but there are many right ...
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How to better fit the "on-topic" format
I'm not asking as a result of bitterness, I'd just really like to know what I am doing wrong per the spec.
I have only two questions on programmers SE, both of which got closed. By contrast, I am an ...
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What happens to a bounty when a question is closed?
So I recently posted an answer to this question. At the time I posted it, it had a 50 rep bounty on it. I knew it was a "shopping" question, but decided to post anyway.
Now, it's been closed by a ...
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Closed as not constructive?
Can someone explain why my question was not constructive?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/187264/how-do-i-take-my-web-dev-learning-to-the-next-level
The only answer given (...
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Can closed questions be automatically tagged as 'closed'?
Mainly so I can add 'closed' as an ignored topic in my prefs and hide them from the page. It's very frustrating to see tons of closed questions all over the place.
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Is this question inappropriate for Programmers? Can we reopen it?
This question, which was just closed, seems appropriate to me. My reasons:
the asker is trying to learn about functional programming
when reading an article about FP, the asker wasn't able to ...
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I clearly got the wrong idea about what this site is about.
I have just signed up to this site in order to ask a specific programming question I thought would be unsuitable to ask on Stackoverlflow.
My question was quickly closed down, here is a link to my ...
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Programmer's Rights Q: On topic, off-topic, salvageable?
This question on main was recently opened & closed.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/185784/is-it-reasonable-to-expect-all-the-items-on-the-programmers-bill-of-rights
This ...
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Closed question
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/184912/is-node-js-a-suitable-server-platform-for-financial-applications
Please tell me why this isn't a good question for the site? As it ...
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Is there a market for "which language to learn, which book to read" questions?
With all the discussions about how to handle "which language should I learn" or "which book now" questions, and the consensus being to close these questions, I wonder if there's room for a new SE ...
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Are we too strict? Where should off-topic questions go?
This question on networking at conferences was not closed, but this one I just posted was closed.
First, what is a better forum for that closed question?
Second, I'm assuming that the first one ...
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Closing of the document indexing question
A little while ago I posed the following question - lightweight document indexing to handle less than 250k potential records. Badly.
The question was immediately leaped upon and labeled as soliciting ...
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Why is the question about "Manual Debugging" closed?
The question "How to effectively do manual debugging?" has been closed. Why?
The close reasons stated are:
"it's ambiguous", but it seems clear to me what's being asked (the answers seem to indicate ...
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Question closed as a duplicate of a question that has since been deleted
This:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40296/what-is-the-best-java-programming-book-out-there-for-starters
Was closed as a duplicate. The question it was allegedly a duplicate ...
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Questions are being closed too readily?
I asked a question on Programmers, and received 7 upvotes, but got the following comments, if you could spare a look:
And then the question got closed for being not a real question. But then a user ...
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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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I am finding that questions which are in context are being close due to "off-topic"
I'm becoming frustrated at questions being closed due to being "off-topic" where they are clearly on topic. Two recent questions have been closed
Please recommend a patterns book for iOS development: ...
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How many times can a question be closed and reopened?
I'm happy that the community decided to reopen a question I asked on P.SE that had previously been closed, but I notice now that there are starting to be close votes again. Will there be a pitched ...
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Sorry for Posting Yet Another Why Was this Question Closed Post?
I really do not understand how a practical and very real question regarding use of one of the commonest text editors used by programmers be off topic on a programmers Q&A forum?
Battling Emacs ...
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Does the FAQ represent reality of this site?
I am having trouble getting to grips with Programmers despite having had good success on SO. My questions here keep getting closed. By my reading of the FAQ, my questions are good and on topic but I'm ...
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Advice on making this closed question on Github vs. Bitbucket productive?
My question here was almost immediately closed. I can see why. However I feel like there is still a well-formed question lurking in here somewhere, and it seems like if I could get to it this would be ...
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How to ask this question, so it is not downvoted or closed
Posted this question a few days ago:
Has the syntax of any programming language been usability tested?
Despite getting some really interesting answers it was closed based on the scope being too ...
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Why was this question closed?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/177448/about-to-graduate-from-good-school-without-any-progamming-skills
This question apparently received 5 close votes without a single ...
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Why this question got closed as a duplicate?
My question about maintaining poorly written code base got closed as being duplicate of another question. Those two questions are definitely not a duplicate as I'm looking for an answer to very ...
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I don't understand the issue with this question
As suggested in the contact us page, I am posting this question here.
I posed a question originally on Stack Overflow. I thought the question was appropriate for posting there, but it was ruled to be ...
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