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I haven't asked a question in ages yet i still get barred from asking any new questions
Yesterday i've asked a question that wasn't received badly. In total it has received +1 vote. I'm trying to start a new question but i can't. Instead of the question form the following text appears:
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is this question about android policy about asking by one app for password of other app better for this site or for stackoverflow?
see https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/244815/on-which-android-versions-was-it-usual-for-apps-to-ask-inside-own-window-for-p .
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On which Android versions was it usual for apps to ask, ...
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Is Software Engineering suitable for a question about unit testing? (I'm wondering about patterns for saving intermediate results of a method chain)
I'm working with big set of articles from a Website. I retrieve them by querying the database and apply to this data a set of methods.
Let's write some pseudocode to clarify this context:
List<...
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Can comments on deleted answers still be seen by the @user?
Somehow, not noticing I was reading the meta site or even reading the question properly, I mistakenly posted an answer to the wrong question:
The OP is asking a question about (is a question ...
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I think my post was mismarked as spam
I have a question about my Software Engineering Stack Exchange post: Could H correctly decide that P never halts?
This SE meta post says, a post should be marked as spam only if it promotes a product, ...
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is this the correct place to ask educational/review questions?
I have a question about my Software Engineering Stack Exchange post: Any good resources on oracle PL/SQL for review or study?
I recently posted a question here about educational resources, is ...
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Why was my question deleted which was closed within the past 48 hours
I'm reading Why and how are some questions deleted.
Questions that have been closed within the past 48 hours cannot be
deleted, so as to allow for editing and possible reopening.
My question was ...
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I would like to have several tag wiki edits reviewed
I have several tag wiki edits pending for a week, I was wondering what is the review process for them?
Here are the suggested edits:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-...
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Question is not a duplicate: can we reopen?
Over here:
Clean OOP and efficient GPU buffers: not possible without data duplication?
This isn't really a DOD question as it was marked duplicate. It's about avoiding duplication between memory ...
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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage
Right now, we have about 12 questions at -3 or lower on the homepage. This is after I closed and mod-deleted questions that are explicitly off-topic and very, very unlikely to be salvaged. It seems ...
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Can't ask question so what next? [duplicate]
Previously I asked what to do after being blocked from asking question.
It looked like they are full of rhetoric on asking good questions but nothing on how to proceed after some questions are deemed &...
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Deleting low rated question to bypass the "You have reached your limit of questions" [duplicate]
I looked at this and wondering if I can delete my negative rated questions to ask another question, since there seems to be an arbitrary limit being imposed by what ever measure that might be, so ...
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"You have reached your question limit" issue
I am not sure why I can't create new question for software engineering stack exchange. The message is "You have reached your question limit". It has been a week.
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Robert Harvey's reputation history is lying?
There were no net reputation changes that day, but it says -2. I don't know if it's appropriate to ask this, but what happened? And why is it lying?
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Can we *please* stop with the wanton deletions
Really, is this question detrimental to SE? Should it be wiped out? Closing as "opinion-based" wasn't enough?
(I didn't ask for opinions. I asked for arguments, pros and cons. How else is anyone ...
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Is this the right place for a question about hosting e-commerce improvement
I work as a developer (focused on design and frontend - some knowladge on backend / server) but I work alone providing full service for my clients. One of them has an e-commerce growing a lot! To a ...
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How do I rename a tag I created?
I would like to rename multi-file-applications to multi-file-programming. It sounds better and is not necessarily specific to applications. multi-file-applications also sounds a bit weird. How can I ...
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What is the process after a closed question was been edited to meet all the requirements but the reviewers don't react?
I asked a question.
The question was very shortly after closed by moderators without any comments. Isn't this bad practice? This also annoyed another contributor who was writing a detailed answer to ...
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Where should questions comparing different ways of doing the same thing in a given language go?
I'm perplexed about the relative merits of the three ways of getting a list of a dictionary's keys in Python. Obviously that is off topic for Stack Overflow because it is an opinion question (at least ...
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Can the 'test question' feature be disabled in the the first posts review queue
I just wrote a detailed comment to a poster only to find out it was a test question and my work was in vain. I think this is silly. I don't want to spin my wheels and put thought into a comment for ...
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Why can't I chat anywhere even though I am not suspended on software engineering?
Why can't I chat anywhere even though I am not suspended? What is the "Parent site?" The parent user is not suspended. Can someone tell me what is going on?
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I'm banned after a well-received question?
My last question was this one: To show the difference between system VMs and JVMs.
It was upvoted 3 times, though currently it's only 2. The answer is upvoted 3 times as well. The question isn't ...
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7 years old closed as off-topic question (4 years ago) being edited
I know that sometimes tags are being removed and old questions are edited.
Today a 7 years old question closed 4 years ago as off-topic received two (103 rep) updates (3917 rep) that only fixes ...
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Can moderators please provide me links to all my posts that have been deleted?
Can moderators please provide me links to all my posts that have been deleted? I am constantly looking for some posts but realize they have been deleted and how cheerful it is. For example, I am ...
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Introduction of the new tag: "TTS"
I am somehow concerned about missing tags in Software Engineering, on Stackoverflow, several terms can be found quite easily, whilst they are missing on Software Engineering, e.g. TTS.
Is it possible ...
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Can you help me in finding a way to phrase or a community where I can have an answer to the following question?
We are often building and testing new file formats. We are looking for
a list of features and standard figure of merits of a file format for
comparison and evaluation. For instance, writing and ...
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Is flagging one comment as not needed anymore enough?
Here's an example of a question that's a bit older. The last edit of the question has been 3 years ago. At this point it seems clear that the comments there are not going to be used to improve the ...
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My question was simultaneously answered, put on hold, and finally deleted. Why, and how can I improve my question?
Regarding this question:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/393863/how-to-intelligently-discover-and-track-meaningful-changes-in-html-with-a-c-qt
I laughed, because the answers/...
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Have the mods started censoring close votes?
For the question, Best way to deal with non-developers in a scrum team, I voted to close the question as it's nothing to do with software engineering and belongs (if it belongs anywhere) on the ...
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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 to deal with cross-site duplicate closed posts
Stackoverflow is not accepting any post from my account due to some low quality auto/self deleted posts with negative net scores. Response of the site is as follows,
You have reached your question ...
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We are no longer accepting questions from this account
When I try to post a question in software engineering site of SO, it gives me below message and I cannot post any.
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the
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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]
Please merge tag modelling (20 questions) into modeling (138), and make them synonyms.
Neither of tags has wiki, but questions in both appear to be about the same topic and per my reading of Grammar ...
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Why the question got deleted?
I have a question about my Software Engineering Stack Exchange post: OAuth2 separate Authorization Validation Server trust
Why the question got deleted? And why no reason was specified/can be ...
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Why have I reached question limit? My questions were not downvoted
I can't ask questions at https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com anymore.
Why? I don't see my questions downvoted:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/45576/porton?tab=...
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Please delete a post for me
I recently made this post, but:
its answers are unrelated to my question,
I was not allowed to edit my question,
I was not allowed to delete my post,
I received a number of rather unfriendly remarks.
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Is this the right place to ask about algorithm / data structure related questions?
For example, I want to compare linked list and array by calculating their big O notations; can I post it here on Software Engineering as a discussion?
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I have been banned to ask questions
I have been banned to ask questions for no apparent reason: I only have 5 questions there and all of them have upvotes and answers, none of the questions are flagged to be closed either.
Can anyone ...
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What is wrong with this question
I asked following question on enquiring about the approach I should adopt while writing tests for controllers in REST api application? Within few hours it was downvoted three times but none of the ...
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Can I ask about the design model of an open source project in software engineering?
I found a repo of an open source project on github (if you like to know, it is https://github.com/openstack/python-openstacksdk ).
I want to contribute to it, but I don't know the project's design ...
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Why do people not understand a question for "scientifically" standards is not meaning "examples"?
I have a question about my Software Engineering Stack Exchange post: Are there descriptive examples of the architecture of standard content management systems, that provide full user rights handling?
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Requesting "It took a generation" tag
In Douglas Crockford's "The Better Parts" lecture, there was a drum being beaten again and again:
It took a generation for us to realize that high-level languages were a good idea.
It took a ...
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Why was my legacy question closed and locked?
Are there any studies on the Efficiency/Effectiveness of Agile vs Waterfall
I asked this question 6 years ago and It finally got some good information then the answer was deleted and the post locked ...
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Rejected edit accidentally - Can we revoke the rejection we made?
I was reviewing the edits suggested by @InnovaITveSolutions to this question how-to-prevent-dependency-injection-from-killing-object-oriented-programming and accidentally voted to reject it. (...
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What's so terrible about this naming question?
What's the name of the antipattern opposite to “reinventing the wheel”? [on hold]
Many people tried suggestions of various derivatives - consequences, special cases, but none for the thing provided, ...
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reference-request tag is missing [duplicate]
Why there is no reference-request tag?
I want to ask where can I read about a certain topic.
Are questions like this offtopic?
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Is it acceptable to edit an answer that's already accepted
My answer has the highest score (79 at time of posting) and has been accepted by the questioner. (Thanks!)
I'm a little unhappy with it though, and a couple of commenters have made valid points that ...
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Where to ask a question about what language/framework to use for coding a math game? [duplicate]
I am wanting to write a little math training game that can run in the browser where users can do exercises with, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, in a range from 0 - 100.
The ...
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Are questions about flowcharts appropriate on Software Engineering?
Are questions about flowcharts appropriate on Software Engineering?
On what Stack Exchange site should one post a question about asking feedback regarding a flowchart about software?
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Find specific question
I compared 2 different malloc versions and asked about malloc and free where a test first resulted in that one malloc was faster than the other and then a comment or answer was that if you allocate or ...
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