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I have a question, but it may not fit best on Software Engineering. Where else can I ask it?
The following sites may be of interest to members of the Software Engineering community.
Code Review
Computational Science
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Data ...
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I think my post was mismarked as spam
You posted the question exclusively to promote a paper that you wrote and solicit reviews. Promoting your paper is no different than promoting your software product or a service. Treating this as spam ...
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How is user without gold tag badge closing questions as duplicates with no other votes?
It's not single-handed: notice the presence of Community in the close voter list.
Last year a feature was introduced to Stack Exchange to allow question askers to single-handedly close their ...
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Stack Exchange is in violation of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license agreement
That's not how things work.
You already own the copyright for all your posts. You do not need any particular notices for this.
You have granted Stack Exchange an irrevocable license under the CC-BY-SA ...
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Why were all of my points stripped on the basis of asking this question?
Your post was deleted for spam, probably because it reads like you are trying to promote your own publication and not ask good-faith, on-topic questions. Posts that are deleted for spam come with a ...
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Why do programmers reduce MI problem to (4-point) Diamond rather than with (3-point) Joint?
It's hard to tell if you're trying to ask why your question got deleted, or trying to re-ask the question that got deleted, but I'm going to assume the former because that's what this meta site is for....
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Why was our Coffee.SE community ad deleted from the community ad choices for 2015?
No problem, I restored the ad (actually, I see another copy has already been posted).
Typically I will remove ads and comments soliciting users for proposals unless they are directly related to the ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Software Engineering
I've been working on reviewing these and I've noticed that I've picked the "related, but not a dupe" option far more than saying that questions are duplicates. I think part of that is the nature of ...
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Are questions about flowcharts appropriate on Software Engineering?
Questions about flow charts in general are not on topic here. We can't tell you whether your flow chart is correct, and we won't review or rate your flow chart. We can't help with using any drawing ...
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Why the question got deleted?
Thank you for pointing out that the question was deleted without a visible reason. Usually, questions are first closed with a reason before they are deleted. In the meanwhile, this has been rectified.
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Is flagging one comment as not needed anymore enough?
If your assessment is that all of the comments are worthless, flag the entire post and ask for a comment cleanup.
I'm not sure that's the case here, though. In particular, Eric Lippert links to a ...
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Sudden spike in number of old late answers up for review
This is a network-wide change. See this Meta.SE question and this answer to it:
Queue growth
Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and
accurately) cleared. A queue such ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Why's this question on-topic?
There is no rule that a question cannot be on topic in two places.
That being said, the question you linked was not really asking for a review of existing code but rather a design decision about how ...
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May I ask this question? Would it be well received?
I'm having a hard time understanding what you are asking. In particular, what's that last line doing there? And why the comparison between editors and various 3D graphics tools? (BTW, there's a big ...
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Why was my answer removed even though I have provided disclaimer speaking about my involvement in this work?
I just took a look. It looks like gnat voted to delete, but the post was also flagged as spam and, after receiving sufficient number of flags, was deleted. I would agree with this deletion, based on ...
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Is it safe to continue using [programmers.se] as a magic link?
I don't think we'll ever break it, but you know what they say about saying "never"... :)
If that shortcut ever intentionally ceases to exist, we'll fix the comments to avoid breaking links. In the ...
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Are questions regarding to Software performance testing off-topic?
The topic of software performance testing is on-topic - it's part of "quality assurance and testing". However, please consult our guidance on questions about where to start to avoid your question ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Is it acceptable to edit an answer that's already accepted
Sure it is acceptable, especially if it is just "a bit of correction and rewording". The goal of this site is to produce excellent questions & answers, and doing improvements to both at any time ...
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Please delete a post for me
I've thought better of my question; can I delete it?
If your question has good answers, though, it's not fair to have those answers removed along with your question: other users put effort into ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Why have I reached question limit? My questions were not downvoted
You can't ask because you have a number of deleted, down-voted questions which are also taken into account when the system calculates whether you can post or not.
If you go to your profile and click ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]
I merged modelling into modeling, since that makes sense. I'm hesitant to do anything with model since it can refer to a model in the sense of a model of a system that you make when modeling, a model ...
Thomas OwensMod
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We are no longer accepting questions from this account
Although you don't have any deleted recent questions, you do have 7 deleted questions out of 10 questions asked. Your net score on questions is also negative.
Your questions are:
https://...
Thomas OwensMod
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"You have reached your question limit" issue
If you click on the "the Help Center" link, you will be brought to this page, which describes why questions are no longer being accepted from your account.
Looking at your profile, it looks ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage
Thomas, I think you are barking the wrong tree. We have a problem on our site, and that problem lies clearly in our community:
It has become almost impossible to ask a question without getting one or ...
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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)
Testing approaches are an essential part of software engineering and are therefore on topic here on Software Engineering (and probably also on Software Quality Assurance & Testing ).
But questions ...
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Asking about the programming industry, and does it fit my personality is acceptable?
No - career advice is not on-topic here and it will get closed. This kind of question is very unique to you and not generally helpful to the broader community of software developers. I'm not sure how ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Does deleting a closed question remove a question ban?
Since this applies to all StackExchange sites, it's covered on Meta StackExchange in this FAQ Q&A. This is the part that answers your question:
Before you do anything else, fix your existing ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible