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28 questions linked to/from What happened to the "You're Just Lazy" close vote reason?
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How to handle debug-my-code-for-me questions [duplicate]
I see questions like this occasionally, where it amounts to little more than a bunch of code. Usually there are some end-user details, like, when I click this button, it doesn't do what it's supposed ...
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So "how do I do this" with no effort shown is on topic now? [duplicate]
Saw this question.
The new close reasons do not include "no research effort shown or attempt at solution made", so I just downvoted and left.
Is this by design?
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Closure for questions asking for code [duplicate]
It seems I've fallen out of touch with closure options for "give me the codez" style questions; however, from the close dialog under off-topic because... I recall there being options such as:
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Should Stack Exchange in general be awarding "A"s for Effort?
This just came up again:
homework is not acceptable if the asker has made no effort whatsoever
I'm developing a bit of an involuntary twitch that manifests itself when I encounter the word "effort"...
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Exit strategies for "chameleon questions"
I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for this, so I'm inventing my own.
(tl;dr: I call them "chameleon questions" because they change every time you submit or edit an answer. If ...
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"What have you tried" epidemic
Statistics
The usage of "what you tried" (WHYT) is growing (v2)
In Q1 of 2012 - 0.0134 such comments per question (~1.33%)
In Q2 of 2012 - 0.0167 such comments per question (~1.66%)
In Q3 of ...
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Improving "demonstrate a minimal understanding" close reason [closed]
Note: the eventual outcome of this discussion involved dropping this particular off-topic reason, along with other changes. See: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216585/recent-changes-to-close-...
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Responding to your "too localized" concerns
As part of our closing overhaul, we've moved, reorganized, and renamed a number of close reasons, including too localized. While that change was informed both by widespread misuse of the reason and ...
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Are code questions without an attempt now on topic [closed]
Background
The close reasons have recently been changed, this includes the removal of the old close reason:
Questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem
being solved. Tell ...
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Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?
The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.
It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what ...
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Why do high rep users answer bad questions?
Look at this question (10K only) that was just asked a little while ago. Two people with >8000 and one with >63k answered the question. With that much rep, they must know that what-should-I-learn-next ...
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What is a better name for Unclear What You're Asking?
Especially with "minimal understanding" and "show what you've tried" and such taken away, people are floundering looking for a close reason for questions they believe to be awful, lazy, and of no ...
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Are you doing yourself out of a job by answering some of the questions on Stack Overflow?
The quality of questions on Stack Overflow seem to have gone down hill dramatically in the last six months. There seem to be far more general questions along the lines of why doesn't my code work.
A ...
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What is the best way to deal with "rep-whoring"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do high rep users answer bad questions?
Most (all) of us were so-called "rep-whores" in our early days. And that's fine IMHO, because as a new user:
You aren't familiar ...
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Why aren't the rules for minimum research effort being enforced consistently? [closed]
Recently, a guideline to demonstrate a "minimal understanding of the problem being solved" was made mandatory on Stack Overflow:
"Questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem ...
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Reopen "minimal understanding" questions?
What should we do with questions which were closed for "minimal understanding" reason? Most of them are just questions which show lack of effort (and/or understanding) and are perfectly answerable.
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Debug-me questions solvable with a stack-trace or debugger
Consider a question that
Is about some Java code
That fails because it throws a NullPointerException
That the user wants help debugging
And the user includes a short excerpt of code that has the ...
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Debug this code for me questions
So, I've been spending considerable more time on SO recently than I normally have, and one thing that I've noticed is quite a few people saying stuff like "There's a Null Pointer Error in this block ...
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Are questions about syntax errors too localized? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should syntax error questions be closed as too localized after being answered?
Should questions where a problem arose from a typo be closed?
Are questions solved by fixing a ...
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What to do with debug questions now?
This thread: Debug this code for me questions suggests to close as "too localized", but that is not available any more. So, what to do with users posting one question after another about the same ...
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Question where no research has been conducted at all [duplicate]
I'm sure we have all seen questions like this one.
A one - two line question which shows a clear lack of even Googling the question.
These are often easily identified by the phase Is it possible? ...
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Your last flag was declined - but post closed
I flagged the following post as off-topic. Which was declined. But I find now that the post is "closed as unclear what you're asking". Am I to understand that by picking the wrong flag I get ...
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How to correctly close questions that are too basic?
In the php tag, we receive a lot of questions that are either too basic or lacks a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. See this question for example. For some of these questions, where ...
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Using old off-topic close reasons under "other"
Should people be copying old close reasons to use for close votes? For example, take the following question (the first close vote was after the introduction of the new reasons): Bootstrap 2.0 Not ...
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Abuse of "minimal understanding" close reason
The full reason text is
Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why they didn't work, and the expected results. ...
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How do I flag a question as being "Too Localized"?
When I flag a question I see options but I can't find the option that would close it as being too localized. Where is that option?
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Since "Too localized" is gone, what reason should be used when closing debug-my-code questions?
In Closing changes: on hold, unclear, too broad, opinion-based, off-topic reasons, bye-bye to Too Localized the staffs says this:
Today, TL is used helpfully on code dump questions on SO, but the ...
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Better way to flag questions for "I want something for free"
while using SO and similar communities I often have seen questions like "I need something and here are my requirements, so please do it for me" or similar.
While reviewing First Posts I have found ...
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