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14 questions linked to/from How do you prevent "Here code. You fix." questions?
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Are code troubleshooting questions really what we want to encourage? [closed]
In an effort to more fully understand the gestalt of Stack Overflow, I offer this question for perusal:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7513258/i-want-a-dialog-box-in-case-of-error#question
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How did this "all code" question get around the quality filter?
This question was posted with just a block of code. Entire body text of question below:
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class Result
{
public static void main (String[] args)
for(int i=0;i<...
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Why can't I post this to Stack Overflow? It's giving me an error [closed]
Error Message:
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
Please add some context to explain the code sections (or check that you have not incorrectly formatted all of your question as code).
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How can we chat in the Android room?
I have a question that no-one is able to answer. I have struggled a lot with it. I need to talk to someone online so that I can discuss my problem. I think the Android room on SO chat would be the ...
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Discourage code dumps
Lately, I've seen a lot of "this is my code, please find the bug" questions, i.e., people just dump their complete class file instead of creating a minimal working example.
When I see this, I usually ...
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Long-term goal: Automated Stack Overflow sandbox site for beginners?
First, this a long-term idea and I'm hoping we brainstorm (this isn't all-or-none). And please think about the overall idea, not a single implementation roadblock.
It seems that a lot of problems are ...
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How to deal with too much, unorganized code given current close reasons? [closed]
It's not uncommon, especially when dealing with questions by new users - that questions include hundreds of lines of code, 99% of them completely unrelated to the question. Something like "Here is my ...
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Reducing 'what have you tried' comments [duplicate]
I've seen a few posts discussing "what have you tried" comments here, but I thought I'd throw a suggestion out there after recently noticing quite a few of these comments on SO.
If the user has less ...
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Please expand the "you only posted code" filter to consider backticks
It recently became more difficult to post questions from newer users that are composed mostly of code.
It looks like you can simply use backticks to format text as code to bypass this restriction. ...
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Pure code question evading the “Here code. You fix.” filter
A question on SO (10k-only link) that recently got some attention due to a meta post consisted entirely of python code, no additional text was present in the question body. This should theoretically ...
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Why did both the unformatted code and code dump filters fail on this question?
The question: Where i did the error? (Php + soap with ws-*)
The first revision is a code dump, but formatted ... oddly, with newlines inserted at strategic places. It's as if the user was trying to ...
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Bug in code dump rejector
The system rejects code dumps without context from low-rep users by comparing the ratio of context (non-code-formatted text) to code (text which is wrapped in <pre>). (See also this feature ...
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Code dump and run [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Discourage code dumps
Maybe it's just in the iPhone tag where I tend to hang out, but I'm seeing an increasing number of people asking "questions" that are a very large block ...
