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Question is About Finding a Development Tool For A Specific Purpose
Asking for software recommendations is on topic at Software Recommendations. However, if you decide to post the question on that site, the required information for posting a question has a much higher threshold. From the ground rules and What is required for a question to contain “enough ...
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In the entire history of Stack Exchange, I've only ever seen two posts that have been permanently purged. One was the "boat programming" one. The other was a very contentious "how do compilers work" question. Both questions were asked on Stack Overflow; neither should have been purged IMHO.
AFAIK it is SE's policy to keep deleted records forever (my ...
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Questions about Scrum, or any other development methodology or process, are very much on-topic here. Generally, if your question is about a software-intensive project, it's on-topic here.
You can browse through some related tags to see what kinds of questions have been asked here about things like project management, development processes and life cycle ...
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First, the all-time stats:
Closed Closed then Edited Closed then Reopened Closed then Edited then Reopened
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34567 4388 1174 545
So, slightly over 3%, jumping to 12% for edited questions. For the past 365 days, we see:...
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There's an automated process that runs daily and checks and reverses serial votes (either up or down). It will most probably reverse the downvotes the next time it runs, 9 downvotes in a very short time is certainly an abnormal pattern. In the highly unlikely case that the votes haven't been reversed in 24h, give me a shout in chat so I can ask a SE employee ...
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I had the same thing happen to me. This is because of arstechnica.com.
When they do a piece on some recent Stack Exchange discussions, they include some links. Those links will use the id of the featured user as the "share-id".
Your answer has been featured in What to do with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain? If you check the links, the ...
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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 questions as duplicates.
When someone else proposes a possible duplicate, the original poster (and only that person) sees a banner at the top of the post:
If the ...
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I'd like (and have asked for) mods on both sites to chime in, but this isn't looking like a good idea at this point.
Stats are pretty clear, 52% of all moderator initiated migrations from PSE to The Workplace (as obtained on The Workplace) have been rejected. That's moderator initiated, which often entails a bit of collaboration and sanity checking with ...
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You weren't banned. Your account has an automatic block for asking new questions due to your other questions being down voted, closed, and/or deleted. You should read this post on Meta Stack Overflow to learn more about the block and how to overcome it. At this time, you can still post answers, and posting high quality answers is one method to overcome the ...
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I'm with Tim on this.
We haven't had a good record when it's come to migrations to The Workplace and opening it up to more people is only going to make it worse.
Part of the problem is that the questions that could be sent really aren't good questions full stop. This is actually a problem with most sites on the network. People see the topic and think "that'...
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from https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic
software tools commonly used by programmers
Stackoverflow is the place to ask about IDEs.
EDIT: can you point where you have been told that this was off-topic on SO?
about this question:
It wasn't closed because it was about IDEs. It was closed because you asked for a software recommendation. These are off-...
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The FAQs got turned into the help center some time ago. The equivalent pages for the most part are on topic and don't ask.
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5. in a pinch you can escape the point . to preserve the numbering
Markdown source:
>5\. in a pinch you can escape the point `.` to preserve the numbering
Now you don't need to escape the point anymore to start a numbered list at an arbitrary number.
Markdown source:
>5. Now [you don't need to escape the point anymore](https://meta....
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I'm working on something related to this right now, so it's worthwhile to pull the data. More on that in a bit, but first...
1380 questions asked here in the last 30 days, from
1219 distinct accounts, of which
1100 have/had accounts on Stack Overflow
184 of whom hit some kind of block on Stack Overflow during the past 60 days (this includes not just the ...
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I've fixed this.
The question was originally migrated here from Stack Overflow in November 2011. It was closed today (3 September 2014) by 5 members of the community as being "primarily opinion based", which I agree with. However, when I was cleaning up other rejected migrations that were not adding value, I got over-zealous and accidentally deleted this ...
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Seeing vote counts is one of the perks of the Established User privilege, that's awarded at 1000 rep.
Once you earn the privilege, it'll work the same as on Stack Overflow.
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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.
I only showed up right before this question got deleted, so I might have missed a few things, but I read the full question and the comments, and I agree with ...
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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 subject of the site. With thousands of proposals vying for attention, supporters can sometimes get a bit overzealous in blanketing sites with their "soft spam" ...
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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 what we consider a good question here. In order to have a question that is answerable, one needs to fully describe the environment in which one is working. ...
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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 tool.
However, flow charts or activity diagrams are used as a documentation tool. Process-level questions on how diagrams fit into the system development life ...
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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.
Robert Harvey is a moderator. That doesn't mean he gets to make the rules, it means the community trusts him to interpret the rules sensibly and take action ...
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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 blog post that not only describes his personal philosophy about the use of comments in detail (and I am inclined to heed his advice since he was on the C# ...
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Post deletion is "soft;" deleted questions and answers can be restored. Users with more than 10K reputation can vote to undelete questions and users with more than 20K reputation can also vote to undelete answers. Except when those posts were deleted by a moderator, in which case they can only be undeleted by a moderator.
If you've deleted one of your ...
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Downvote the ones you don't like.
You can't flag them as "Not an Answer" because they really are answers, just not very good ones. They're not spam and they're not offensive, so you can't flag them as that. To flag them with a custom explanation, you'd have to be compelling enough to convince a mod that the answers are actively harming the site, and I don'...
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All the changes are now live, you can find more details on MSO
The first step was the brand new about page (see our about page), and the next one was the changes in how duplicates work. Right now Stack Exchange is looking for feedback on revamping the close reasons, on the main Meta.
I will be updating this answer as more changes and requests for feedback ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
