Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.
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Which Stack Exchange to ask Google Help Communities questions?
We read
The Google Help Communities are a place for Google users to ask questions or provide feedback about Google products and services, discuss products and services with other Google users and ...
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Edit stuck in limbo - what do I do?
I edited my question (How do I resolve Wix form 'Could submit due to temporary issue' error?) to reverse changes someone had made (and seemed unhelpful).
The review of my edit has been pending ...
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Integrate GPT-4 or future large language models or other AI? [duplicate]
At some point, large language models will generate answers that are better than human answers.
There seems to be consensus that GPT-3 and ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) are not good enough for that
But it will ...
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Badge: socratic 103/100 [duplicate]
In an SE section, Physics, I did get a 103/100 in the Socratic badge and, yet, I did not get the badge. What is the reason of that?
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Where could I ask questions about the name and availability of a job in a given country?
I have a question regarding the availability and name of a specific job in a given country as I'm planning to move there in the future. While I do have a friend who lives there, they are unable to ...
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Is the Stack Exchange community going to fight against AI use with anti-cheating systems? [closed]
Some sites have started to tell moderators to ban users using AI to generate content and reputation.
Will the community begin a machine-learning battle against the use of AI in Stack Exchange to help ...
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How exactly do people (accidentally) end up here on MSE?
On a daily basis, MSE gets a few (sometimes more than a few) off-topic questions that are posted here by accident. This is when a user intends to post the question on a specific site on the network ...
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Examples of ChatGPT being right and wrong on Stack Exchange?
Some sites have prohibited the use of ChatGPT on their site, with the rationale that it produces "mostly wrong answers". I've not seen examples myself of answers of ChatGPT being flat out ...
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Principles of internal control for companies [closed]
I need a complete document for a company in which these four principles are mentioned clearly. For my company, properly documented, not general.
The principle of transparency
The principle of four-...
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Shouldn't the ChatGPT policy be more explicit about what is and is not allowed? [duplicate]
The announcement of ChatGPT's ban only talks about the potential incorrect answers the AI could add to the site if allowed.
However, I can think of more uses for the AI than answers. You focused on ...
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Should any flag on an eventually-deleted post be marked as helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
Should we have it be that if a post is deleted, any flag on that post is marked helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
In other words, say I flag an answer, and the flag is declined by a ...
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Can AI replace Stackoverflow in the future? [migrated]
I tried ChatGPT for the first time.
I asked it to help me run this code which downloads images from a server using threads.
As a programming novice, I didn't get an answer on Stackoverflow, but ...
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Why was the question was not deleted? [migrated]
I flagged this question Are there any agency developer support to build a Xero app for my customers as Very low quality.
In my personal opinion, it is the best-fitting flag, because the author asked ...
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Will original answers but translated by AI receive the same treatment as answers spontaneously generated by AI?
As announced on Stack Overflow Meta, the use of content generated by ChatGPT is temporarily banned.
It was stated in Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
Stack Overflow is a community built on trust. ...
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Guidance for new users about where to ask WordPress questions
Is suggesting to ask for a site recommendation in Meta SE the best guidance for "lost souls" that posted a question about WordPress in the wrong site?
Despite WordPress questions - Where to ...
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List - or perhaps matrix - of questions, answers, their rank, etc. on any Stack Exchange, weighted by rank and votes
I think it'd be interesting to have a sorted or weighted list of questions and answers on, for my interests anyway, Stack Overflow, Unix & Linux, Super User (Stack Exchange site), etc. so a matrix ...
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system
This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here.
From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
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Why can't we input a community for the "Belongs on another site in the SE network"? [duplicate]
The This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network flag only allows to choose from a limited list of SE sites, which may not be relevant.
Example: a Stack Overflow user asking for ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
Having incentive systems to participate in online communities (like Stack Overflow) is not a new concept. Basically every Q&A site or forum has had some type of points or karma system, and they ...
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Where can we find a site charter/purpose that tells us the types of question on/off topic?
There's a question currently posted at What unexpected things can happen if a user runs commands expecting a text file on input lacking a file-final newline? that's closed as it's been deemed ...
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How I can share my knowledge related to development here on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Help me out if anybody knows about it because I am not even able to comment on someone's post even though I have the solution for someone's bug, etc.
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How far do we need to go with unattributed images? [duplicate]
The CC licensing requires attribution for any content that isn't your own, including images. People often post unattributed clarifying images copied from somewhere else. It is clear from the post that ...
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Preparing a better question: large data file (JSON from a SVG) on Pastebin.com to be run through JavaScript, AWK, and sed:
I have a task that will benefit from writing a good question on Stack Exchange - in that I think the results will be instructive in general. Of course.
There is a large SVG file already on Pastebin....
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Sign up button on Talent redirects to home page [closed]
I am on Stack Overflow Talent, and I have two questions.
I tried to log in first, and it took me to the login page, but it seemed I am not a registered user, so then I tried to click on the Sign-up ...
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Asking for any/"best" program for X vs. asking how to do X with specific program, and the "X/Y Problem"
I can find myself struggling to write a question about doing Y with any of the usual GNU/*nix tools like awk, sed, tr, .. perl (not sure that's GNU/*nix..), or perhaps others I do not know of.
I saw ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange site for open-ended programming questions? [duplicate]
By open-ended, I mean we cannot expect to be able to read two responses (answers) to the question and determine which of the two is a more elegant, or better, solution than the other answer.
For ...
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Guidance for "me too"ers
On Web Applications SE we have a lot of short questions that get lots of views and "a lot" of "me too" or alike answers and comments.
Here is one example:
After posting I can'...
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Did Stack Exchange's traffic go down since ChatGPT?
I was wondering whether the traffic of Stack Exchange sites went down since the open access to ChatGPT. There is so much gossip in terms of "Will programmers be unnecessary with ChatGPT? Will ...
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Posting information about the conduct of moderators [duplicate]
Is it forbidden to post factually correct information about the way moderators do their job when it may make it appear that they have done something wrong? Is there an official statement about that?
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Where is the GitHub link in the Data Exchange Explorer located? [duplicate]
I went closely over the SEDE's fields, but couldn't find where the GitHub link is saved for a user:
I ran this query on my own profile but couldn't find my GitHub account.
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Which Stack Exchange site supports questions on web design?
Starting off, HTML is not a programming language. CSS is not a programming language. However, it seems that it's being considered a programming language because it is typically done on an editor on a ...
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Do we need to have FAQ questions on Meta Web Applications about how Stack Exchange works (not specific to Web Applications)? [duplicate]
I see a bunch of newly posted FAQ questions on Meta Web Applications SE about how Stack Exchange works (not specific to Web Applications):
Unlock badges for special achievements
Improve posts by ...
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The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume) [migrated]
I commented on I can run playbook on user but not on crontab
My comment: "See Run Ansible playbooks in cron"
The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I ...
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How do I get the highest posters for a certain tag in a specific country?
I would like to get the user IDs, user names, the number of posts, and the total score for a certain tag for each user in a specific country (sorted in descending order by score).
For example, in the ...
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How can I get the total number of posts for a user that have a certain tag in them?
User abbood (myself) has eight posts (in total) that have the tag cocoapods; six questions and two answers.
I thought that this query should simply get all eight:
SELECT Count(*)
FROM posts p
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Why isn't the summation of a user's score equal to their reputation? [duplicate]
I was going over the database schema documentation and was trying to understand how the Post scoring system works. I was expecting this query:
select sum(p.score)
from posts p
where p.OwnerUserId = ...
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?
As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta.
Why there's so few people eligible for this?
Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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Can we reconsider the minimum age for diamond moderators?
In December 2020, a new policy was released, establishing that diamond moderators on the network must be at least 18 years old to take on the position. This was a drastic change from the previous ...
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Where do Neovim-questions belong? On Stack Overflow or on Vi / Vim Stack Exchange?
There is a Vi / Vim Stack Exchange. Both on that and on Stack Overflow there is a neovim-tag. It has more questions on Stack Overflow than on the Vi / Vim Exchange.
With all the traction Neovim is ...
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Incompatibilities with Pale Moon [duplicate]
I am running the Pale Moon web browser and several incompatibilities are happening.
I cannot deactivate the cookies panel. No matter if I click the "Accept all cookies" or the "...
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Is there a Stack Exchange site for web application administrators?
I asked this question on the "Web Applications" site:
When using Microsoft Migration Manager to convert from Google Workspace, are the Sharing settings converted?
I was told that Web ...
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The future role of Stack Exchange vs. emerging AIs [closed]
This post is intended as a discussion on the existence of and future use of the different Stack Exchange communities, including but not exclusively Stack Overflow.
With the emergence and popularity of ...
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Where can I ask about improving an inefficient script using awk, bash, sed (32 lines so far)?
I have a 32-line bash script with calls to sed and awk. I started writing it only to show the intended output for a question for Unix & Linux or Stack Overflow (as far as I know). The question ...
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Why didn't CS50 (a Beta SE site) graduate?
I hope this doesn't open Pandora's Box regarding public beta site graduation. I read several posts on the topic and realize it has generated a lot of discussion. Let's break up with "Graduation&...
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Please welcome Valued Associate #1426 - Sasha!
Today I have the pleasure of introducing Sasha, Stack Exchange’s newest community manager. Sasha’s diverse academic and professional experience shows her passion for continuous learning and for ...
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What is the proper way to emphasize the central sentence of a question (if there is any)?
It's quite common for authors, in the post body, to emphasize a sentence which is 'central' to their question. It's often similar to the title, and for well-written questions with some introduction, ...
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Is it allowed on SE to include AI (ChatGPT) generated output in the question post? [duplicate]
My initial understanding is that Stack Exchange currently bans ChatGPT generated answers.
But is it allowed to include text that ChatGPT has generated as part of a question?
As an example:
Suppose I ...
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How has the SE network management changed since Sept 2019?
In Sept 2019 a number of moderators and high rep users were disappointed, to say the least, with the management of the SE network. I ultimately stepped down from moderating and stopped participating ...
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