Questions tagged [closed-questions]
Meta questions about why particular questions on the main site were closed.
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Why has my question been closed?
I would like to know why my question has been closed nearly instantaneously?
What is a good product planning tool?
I read the FAQ prior to asking, and it does not seem to contradict any of the ...
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Can this question be reopened? [closed]
This question was closed for being an exact duplicate, but I modified it extensively so that it now discusses a particular condition to wrapping third party code.
In its previous condition the ...
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How can I edit a question that solicits debate, arguments, etc. when that's the nature of the question?
MY SE account was banned and I want to improve question to possibly get unbanned. Among these links which casued the ban was this question. The question, by nature, is debatable, and thus was closed. ...
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I can't post due to one closed question
I registered on this site because I want to learn from the experienced programmers.
So I look many interesting questions and answer. Then I ask my first question, some days later this was closed as a ...
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Is there a better way to ask this question so that it doesn't violate the Programmers StackExchange rules?
There are many abstract concepts programmers encounter and remember before needing a reference manual or Google, and few other disciplines require this same level of abstract thought.
I can't help be ...
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Should literature about productivity question be closed?
I have a question "How long can a programmer concentrate in a day" that was being closed for being off-topic.
In that question, I asked about the existence ( or lack of) of scientific study on then ...
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Questions that are constructive but still tend to attract debate
According to the FAQ, non-constructive questions are those that "will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." What happens when a good question is asked which is useful to ...
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When should a question be closed, but not deleted?
I asked this question a while back. Today I was awarded the 1000 views badge. I looked at the question and noticed a delete vote.
I understand that a question like this isn't really suited for stack ...
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Why was this question closed as non constructive for no apparent reason?
This question was closed as non constructive with no comments or feedback of why it is considered of low quality.
IMHO, I believe the question is reasonable and answerable from anyone with good ...
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What can we do about extremely low quality questions from unregistered users?
The problem
Tons of extremely low quality questions from unregistered accounts. A few recent examples:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/162691/question-on-pl-sql-evaluate-the-...
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Why did the community vote to reopen this question?
What are the differences between QA engineers and software engineers?
I just don't think that this is constructive; and I feel like there's a small rant embedded in the question.
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Why was my question on Free/Open Software closed?
I asked a question about the overlap between Free Software (as defined by the FSF) and Open Source Software (as defined by the OSI).
Note that this question was not subjective. I was not asking about ...
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Should I give more information to this question? How to improve
I just asked this question with regards to using cognitive enhancing drugs to assist with your coding job.
It wasn't as good of a question as I thought it would be, considering I left out specific ...
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Why was my question on file comparison tools closed?
I recently asked a question and it was closed and I cannot go back to view the answers in it.
Just curious as to why it was closed, it was on topic.
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The coding for charity Q. Any hope of ever being on-topic?
A recent question was posted about coding for charity and finding organizations that help coordinate those activities.
Currently, it's closed as off-topic. An attempt has been made (by me) to make ...
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Provide a "frozen" status that closes a question until it is edited
Given the enormous amount of people who are unsatisfied with the current question closing policy, I am thinking if it wouldn't be better to have a 4-status system:
open
frozen (less demoralizing than ...
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Negative points for erroneous voting for closing a question
I would like to suggest:
For (all people which vote for closing a question){
If (the reason for closing is not valid AND
the question comes to be closed (by the same unfare reason) AND
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How do I get closed questions out of my RSS feed?
I'd rather not have to deal with closed questions.
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If you hate the question so much, why bring it back?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/150266/is-c-too-hard
You keep editing it to bring back the question, yet insisted it be closed.
You won't let me delete it.
Ridiculous.
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Why is this ("is just publishing on github enough") question offtopic? Where should I ask it?
I asked the question, but instead of answers/comments got only downvotes and close votes. I though programmers.SE is just right place for this question because of, being not technical (so SO is not ...
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Reopening "When programmers talk about "data structures", what are they referring to?"
Software terminology is on-topic here, however my question When programmers talk about "data structures", what are they referring to? got closed as "not a real question"
The question was asked ...
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Suggestions on how to improve my "not constructive" question?
My question Worst practices in C++, common mistakes was closed for being "not constructive".
Actually, my sole intent was to get answers that "generally involve facts, references, or specific ...
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What can we do to help users understand our site better?
As of right now, the close/migrated question rate for the past month or so is around 43% (see notes below)
The majority of the closures are valid based on our site standards, however the fact users ...
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Answers to this question involved facts, and yet it was closed as 'Not Constructive'. Why?
Answers to this question involved facts, and yet it was closed as 'Not Constructive'. Why?
A single language to learn to develop desktop and mobile phone applications?
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Require a link to the question it is a duplicate of
When people vote to close a question, and more importantly when it is closed, a link to the duplicate question should be displayed in all cases.
This should one, reduce the number of claims of "exact ...
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Question tagged training was closed as off topic
Why was this question closed as off-topic?
It was tagged training and when you look at the definition of the tag training:
You may use this tag when your question revolves around for example:
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What should I do if I think a good question got closed as a duplicate to a worse question?
I noticed Why do we need private variables? got closed as a duplicate of Do ALL your variables need to be declared private?, but I thought the first question and its answers were much better than the ...
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My question was closed. Is there a way to ask something similar that does fit Q&A?
I asked this question about Observer pattern, so I could get some help with my talk that I have to hold. I understand the problematic part that its teasing a debate, but I tried really hard to phrase ...
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Are questions asking if something is normal for programmers on-topic?
I've seen a few of these and often up-vote them because I've had the same questions and am interested in the answers, however these questions frequently get closed as not constructive, and one is ...
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Issues of possible innovation via new programming languages, removal=censorship? [closed]
If someone raises new ideas of innovation , to improve usability or productivity, especially in a category of programming languages where it is pretty badly needed (and problems haven't been solved ...
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Lock the top-voted questions that are closed
Due to a huge amount of feedback received on Meta Stack Overflow regarding the deletion of massively-upvoted but off-topic/not-constructive questions, questions locked for historical reasons have ...
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Can we reopen the question about what technology is the best fit for small, browser-based games?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/139000/1130
The question is asking what language to use for small, in-browser games, such as tower-defense games, RPGs, and multi-user dungeons. The ...
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Closed questions: What is wrong? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Career Development Questions - Moving rather than closing?
As I write this post, out of 48 questions on the main page, there are are 27 that are closed. Is the FAQ is not ...
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Career Development Questions - Moving rather than closing? [duplicate]
I was surprised to see that the top five questions on programmers.SE this morning were closed as off topic. As is often the case, they were all career development questions.
Since there seems to be ...
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Should we be concerned that @StackProgrammer tweets refer to closed/deleted questions?
Like 634 others, I follow @StackProgrammer on Twitter to read and retweet hot questions. However, it's been nagging at me recently that I perceived "a lot" of these tweets -- tweets ostensibly meant ...
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What can we do about incorrectly pedantic moderation?
I've just seen a question closed by a moderator because "Career advice is explicitly off-topic, per the FAQ" (link), which is simply incorrect: the FAQ makes clear that career advice specific to ...
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Delete some questions instead of just closing them
There are the FAQ's, plenty of closed questions (heads on top of spears), and comments about what types of questions are appropriate, but since so many questions of the same type are closed, should ...
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Is it too hard for the community to re-open questions here?
I have posted a question on meta asking to lower standards for re-opening questions on smaller SE sites, and wish to provide a link here because the question was generated from the frustration I feel ...
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Can mods give us a chance to edit upvoted questions that were asked back when they were on-topic before closing/deleting them?
I get upset when I look for a particular question of mine to link to another question, only to find that it's been closed and I probably shouldn't be sending people to it. It's even worse if the ...
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What can I do the question "Is taking frequent breaks really that beneficial when programming?" to make it on-topic?
The question Is taking frequent breaks really that beneficial when programming? got closed as off-topic today.
I feel this is a valid question for software developers, and that the answers provide ...
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Will this edit to “Burned out on programming and given up?” make it on-topic? [closed]
The question Burned out on programming and given up? is currently flagged for deletion.
Would it be considered on-topic if the personal wall-of-text... er.. information was removed, and it is turned ...
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What needs to be done "What is the most productive way to handle development-related failures?" to salvage it? [closed]
The question What is the most productive way to handle development-related failures? is currently flagged for deletion.
Dealing with project failures or your code being rejected seems like something ...
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What's all this about heroic edits?
I've heard there's a way to get questions reopened by doing something called a heroic edit.
What is it, how can I do it properly, and how does it help?
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Voting on questions that might fall in the "All Careers" circle of FAQ
Can we stop closing good questions simply because they could be applied to more than just programmers, if the answer is something that would be unique to developers, or if the question itself is ...
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How did this general question not get closed?
This question seems to suffer from all the same pitfalls as questions I see closed regularly:
Dealing with management that does not see value in improvements that are not immediately visible to the ...
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Why is the question regarding mentoring closed?
I am referring to this question:What you should do if your junior did not adopt your suggestion? .
I was asked to take this question to Parenting SE or Professional Matters SE, because the question ...
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How can a good question be closed for being Off topic?
I was referring to a question here:
How to correct a junior, but encourage him to think for himself?
This was closed as off topic!
If you see it received 38 reps and there were great ...
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Should the 'good question' criteria be revised, or, has flagging become over-zealous?
First off, let me say I love the community moderation system. I think it's tops.
But I feel like too many questions that could elicit interesting answers (specifically, interesting as a programmer) ...
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Had a question I remembered asking a few months ago that had an answer and both are gone
Now that's really annoying, I'm on the SE network all the time, why can't I get some sort of notification that some code snippet that I'd like to have gone back to is likely to disappear forever?
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If you realize you answered a duplicate question, should you move your answer?
I just answered a question and then another SE user pointed out it was a duplicate. Not only was the question asking about almost the same topic, but question body was literally copy/pasted. Usually, ...
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