Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit answers or opinions on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Can we resuscitate more content?
Noobs everywhere
Ok, so we have people new to programming, poor English speakers, and sometimes their intersection asking questions here. Their questions aren't always the best, but sometimes there ...
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Angular 2 is a long time ago
The angular2 tag is somewhat outdated.
I don't think it is a good idea to make a new tag for every version of Angular 2+ but most questions these days are about Angular 6 or 7. (And soon Angular 8).
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Call for volunteers: close voters
Programmers could benefit from a few more regular visitors who close questions on the front page and the Unanswered page that are clearly off-topic.
"Clearly off-topic" means:
We don't do ...
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Looking for algorithms
I have a problem I'm trying to solve and I'm looking for an algorithm to solve it. I'm sure a solution exists I just don't know what it's called to search for it.
If I describe the nature of the ...
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How do I ask a good question?
We’d love to help you. To improve your chances of getting an answer, here are some tips:
STOP!
Softwareengineering.SE is primarily about software design. We don't do code troubleshooting here, ...
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Burninate and blacklist request: [career-*] [job-*] [resume]
This is not a duplicate of this: Usefulness of [career-development] and [career-transition] tags ... it's time for them to be blacklisted. The narrowness of scope of what actually would be on topic ...
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Can we decide to get rid of [decisions]?
The decisions currently has 30 questions, no tag excerpt and is used for all kinds of decisions: design-decisions (also a vague tag), technical decisions, decision tables. Not surprisingly, since ...
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Some stats on first and second posts
One of the things that we occasionally see on P.SE (and more often at the start of a new college semester) is new users posting their homework. With single posts, we are often able to comment and ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Burninate then Blacklist the [tutorial] and [tutorials] tags
I feel that the tutorial and the tutorials tags should be blacklisted. They are for the most part called out in the FAQ as off topic, and even when they are non general knowledge and cannot be easily ...
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Custom Close Reason Updates
First: We have a fourth custom close reason added.
One of the most common close reasons that isn't accounted for by one of the current custom close reasons is for questions seeking legal advice or ...
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Why should we not delete a question about using a factory class instead of direct object construction?
This meta-question is about the following question on the main site:
Why should I use a factory class instead of direct object construction? [closed]
Currently, it has a lone delete vote. The only ...
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Should the thinking tag be removed?
Should the thinking tag be removed?
It seems vague, is used in only 13 question, and has only 1 follower. I'm thinking it should be pruned.
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Reviewing first posts from new users
I took a quick look at the review history in our first posts review queue and I've noticed some "No Action Needed" reviews that I didn't agree with. That's not a problem, I don't expect anyone to ...
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Updated /help/on-topic Page in Help Center
Following a Meta discussion and some discussions in our chat room to iron out some finer points, we have completed an update to the "What topics can I ask about here?" page of our Help Center.
Here ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Reconsider historical lock on hardware recommendations
Some of our older questions are about hardware recommendations. Well, Hardware Recommendations.SE is now live - lets clear up some confusion.
No, I'm not suggesting migrating these questions there, ...
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Reevaluate historical locks on some books
While stumbling across an update link project for Stroustrup's homepage (as I write this there are about two dozen posts that link to an old page that doesn't exist anymore), I found two book ...
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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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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Is programmers the appropriate website to ask about system design questions?
Note: This is a follow-up question to this one.
I'm planning to practice some system design questions asked during tech interviews, and I'd like to get reviews/opinions on how I'd design some systems ...
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Add a question link to the tour
What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
This question should be added to the tour of programmers.stackexchange.com IMHO.
Every programmer coming on the site tries to know ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway! completed!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Do we need to provide guidance for questions related to ethics?
I would like to edit this question/answer to provide specific guidance for asking and answering questions related to ethics on Software Engineering:
Ethics questions are on-topic, given that direct
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Tag ambiguity - "activity"
I've just noticed the tag activity which is rather infrequently used and seems to cover a variety of concepts.
About half of the questions seem to be concerning the Android user interface concept, ...
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10k flag handling gone and what you can do about it
With Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue (MSE), the ability for 10k users to see flags (particularly not an answer and very low quality) is gone. This means that the little blue box for notifying a ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Tag Synonyms / Merging: Estimates
Right now, we have 4 estimation tags on SESE: estimation and its unmerged synonym time-estimation (239 questions), cost-estimation (29 questions), and workload-estimation (11 questions).
I present ...
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Why was this question closed as duplicate
Clean Code comments vs class documentation was closed as a duplicate of "Comments are a code smell"
There are a couple of reasons I'm finding this difficult to understand.
First, they ...
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Is the question ok here?
I am interested in the answer to the following question:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74049/mathematical-model-for-a-webpage-layout
( Mathematical model for a webpage layout? - ...
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Flagging dialog has slightly misleading text
I flagged a post for closure (not as a duplicate). When I went again to the flagging dialog it correctly displayed that you have already raised this type of flag but this text was also displayed under ...
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Performance, website-performance, software-performance, performance-tools and job-performance tags
Currently, there are five tags containing "performance" in their title:
performance (141, 38) “Questions related to improving application performance [...]”,
software-performance (10, 4) No wiki ...
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Could those comments be moved to chat, and is this the right way to ask it?
My answer got a substantial amount of comments. The user commenting the most suggested recently to continue the discussion in chat, and this is indeed a great idea.
Would it be possible to move the ...
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Getting downvotes on the main site, despite improvement attempts
I'm still getting downvotes on a question that I thought I had improved considerably after feedback from commenters. But although the downvoters aren't commenting, they're still downvoting. The ...
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What is wrong with the given question?
I am struggling for a couple of times to put a good question for discussion. I need help to understand what is wrong with the this questions?
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What to do when the best answer doesn't solve the question
I have a peculiar situation.
I asked this question and someone answered the question well by saying that the implementation I was planning on using is more of an anti-pattern as it is not addressing ...
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FAQ index links
I just made some updates to https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1646/faq-index-for-programmers-se, adding some missing faq questions, mostly.
I think that each of the ...
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What's wrong with proving best practices through statistics?
The guidance for off-topic questions has this to say about the use of statistics:
Asking for a link to something or statistics
This is a subtler meaning of the 'favorite off-site resource' part of ...
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Tag merge / Synonym request : [coding-standards]
The following terms are all related and cover the same topic:
coding-standards x 301
Wiki: Coding standards a set of conventions and practices used in software, such as naming classes, variables, and ...
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When you can't see the trees for the forest - how can you ask a question that's not 'too broad'
I've just deleted my question that had been put on hold as 'too broad.'
I don't think that it shouldn't have been put on hold. While the comments I received helped me solve my problem, I recognize ...
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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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Do we need to ban the [free] tag?
It's not widely used but it's hugely ambiguous as to what its exact meaning is and in all cases the questions were either off-topic or better covered by existing tags that were already applied. I've ...
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What to do with the [learning] tag
I have noticed that many questions tagged as learning are closed. I counted in the first 100 questions only 34 were not closed. I think it gives the false impression that questions like "Where can I ...
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Reopen a question that was closed, then changed, and now is missing last reopen vote
I was directed here to ask about reopening my question after the revisions I made: Creating necessary documentation for maintenance staff when only Code repository contents can be relied on
This was ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Merging tags metrics measurements and code-metrics?
The tags metrics, measurement, code-metrics seem to overlap very much:
metrics is the most used with 77 questions to date. I propose to keep this one.
measurement has 9 questions which are also ...
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Does "There is a new answer" pop up too early?
I just had this scenario: a question where an impulse answer came to mind. Posted that but for sure it was not good enough. However, there's a 5-minute grace period where edits can be done without ...
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Noticing wide scale and consistently poor use of a bot to comment, down-vote, and close
There is a user on this site, who participates in chat, and posts answers and participates in discussions, but based on the speed, frequency, and consistent low quality of the user's comments, I ...
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What's that text above the viewport?
I was scrolling back up to the top of a page when I noticed this weird red text floating above the viewport in the "rubber-band-scroll" region. It says "Stack Exchange Inbox" and "Reputation and ...
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