Linked Questions
21 questions linked to/from "Belongs on" comments
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Posting a comment about flagging a post [duplicate]
I apologize if this question has already been asked but I've searched high and low and not found an answer. Commonly, on SO and many other Stack Exchange sites, when I see a post flagged as a ...
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Thanks a lot for this post ... and other first time user curiosities
I have been looking at the endless stream of first answers users post on the Stack Overflow.
As it stands over 500 answers are posted a day on Stack Overflow, that are the first answer by users.
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Should moderators delete obsolete and resolved comment threads?
These types of comment discussions are pretty common:
@AuthorX: In your post, I think you meant "you're", not "your". - user1234 35 mins ago
Oh, thanks. It's fixed now. - AuthorX 30 minutes ...
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Are all the "+1" comments really necessary?
Am I the only one that finds all the "+1" comments annoying?
An example comment might look something like "+1 nice answer".
These sorts of comments, without any kind of explanation or exposition, ...
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Is there something we can do against "Ask this on xyz.SE" comments?
TL;DR: Can we do something against comments of the "ask on $othersite" kind?
Every once in a while – probably at least a couple of times a week – we get questions on Super User that were cross-posted ...
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Closing questions while being friendlier to newbies
The SO community is very aggressive about closing duplicate and off-topic questions. This is a good thing overall, but I feel like the experience for new users who ask dup or off-topic questions is ...
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When the OP votes to close their own question as "belongs on ...", immediately migrate the question
Because migration is different than actually closing a question, I think that the rules for close reasons that would result in migrations ought to be changed. Specifically, if a user votes to close ...
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How to discourage people encouraging reposting?
I'm mostly on Programmers.SE. All too not-uncommonly we get a question that is multiply posted - once on Stack Overflow, and once on P.SE. It is almost standard practice to check to see if there is ...
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Show comment when voting to migrate
When newbies ask a question that belongs to a different site, the question gets unceremoniously migrated to a site the OP may not know about at all. They usually don't have an account there, and many ...
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What should I do when I feel some other Stack Exchange site would be a better location for someone else's question?
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What should I do when I feel some other Stack Exchange site would be a better location for someone else's question?
How can I do that so that the original poster doesn't mis-interpret my ...
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Off-topic questions being moved to Super User [closed]
Recently, I have noticed several topics being moved from Stack Overflow to Super User that are off-topic.
According to the FAQ:
and it is not about …
videogames or consoles
websites or ...
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Is there a problem with creating an account on the new site after the question has been moved?
I've seen a number of questions (like this one) that have been moved between sites where the user is greyed out. As far as I can work out this means that there's no matching account on the new site.
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Automatically redirect questions to appropriate sites
As a new member on SO, I am somewhat disappointed in the way questions "belonging" on other SE sites are addressed. For a brand new user, getting a comment telling them bluntly to go somewhere else to ...
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If many comments are deleted by flagging, then show them as deleted for some time?
I do not know if many comments are actually flagged and deleted. But if many are deleted due to flagging, then what about showing those using some strikethrough and an explanatory tooltip for (say) ...
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Require migrated questions to be accepted by the destination site's moderators
Based on feedback from sites which have unsuitable questions handed to them from other sites (for example: Please stop using Programmers.SE as your toilet bowl):
Would it be possible to require that ...
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