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64 questions linked to/from Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
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How do I write a good title?
A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves. What goes into a good title?
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What do icons on the tags mean?
What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the "rg" before the sql-server tag as pictured below?
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A way to "downvote" a suggested edit and affect both the edit suggester and reviewers
I find a lot of suggested edits pretty poor. For me, it feels like that more than a half of the suggested edits doesn't properly address all issues in the post. The trigger of today was this ...
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Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted
I just deleted What Stack Overflow is Not, a collection of various explanations for things that Stack Overflow doesn't do, wasn't meant to do, or shouldn't be used to do. Several people put a fair bit ...
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Can we prevent titles with an unnecessary tag in them?
So we have lots of questions that are titled like this:
c++ : Failing the template function lookup
Specifically, questions that have one of their tags in front of their title.
Thankfully, these silly ...
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Titles should be stand-alone summaries of questions *without* depending on tags
Titles should be completely independent of tags. A good title tells an expert whether they want to read the full question all by itself.
I know this has come up multiple times before, before, but in ...
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Change "What's your Programming question, Be Specific" to "What would someone search for if they had your issue?"
I've seen a lot of issues recently where users put in a half-baked title, like:
What is the difference between these two lines of code? (About 1 Million Results)
Since I believe in organic titles, ...
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How do I search for questions with (or without) specific tags?
How do I search for questions with specific tags?
How do I search for questions that have specific tags?
How do I search for questions that contain specific text, as well as specific tags?
Are there ...
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What do "watched tags" and "ignored tags" do?
What are watched tags and ignored tags? How do they work?
What are tag subscriptions?
What are interesting tags?
On Stack Overflow, the content of the main page question list appears to be influenced ...
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How can I get answers fast?
How do I ask a question so that it can get a quick response? I see some of the questions are very old and still not answered, but some others get a very quick response.
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What's the best of Stack?
Continuing with my series of questions to you - I've got one that's a bit lighter this week. We spent last week firing up our magic wand and changing things. This time, let's celebrate what exists.
I ...
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Display title of question rather than its URL when posting internal links in comments [duplicate]
Ok, this is a really simple one and will be well worth doing IMHO.
When you put a link in a comment you get something like this:
Pretty similar (if not dupe) to
stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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"That's not what the comments are for"
I have been informed in the comments at carry over user entered carriage returns from message box and sent in email, that I shouldn't use the comments to inform posters about why I made the edits I ...
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Why are "related questions" suddenly appearing above the answer input (instead of in the right sidebar) for unanswered questions?
(outdated context): I was seeing this on all network sites.
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Did something with A/B testing related questions within the answers list (testing has concluded) go out of control?
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