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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Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions?
A few days ago, OpenAI, the people that brought you GPT-3 and DALL-E, launched a new product called ChatGPT. It can answer questions so accurately that it's legitimately scary. Even the most obscure ...
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"Winter Bash 2022" or "Winter Summer Bash 2022"?
The countdown for this year's Winter Bash (2022) is started.
This time on the countdown page, the image is displayed as "Winter Summer Bash 2022".
So shall we call it "Winter Bash 2022&...
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Why are approved edit suggestions worth reputation?
I'm not against it at all. I like it. I'm just curious what the rationale is/was. Of course I agree that good edits are good and that good things should be incentivized, but why with rep?
The help ...
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Green reputation badges on Summary page have black text
There has been change in style for reputation badges on Profile Summary page which makes text harder to read.
What used to be white text on green background has changed into black text on green ...
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"Asking a good question" starter sentence sounds off
This is what the popup says when you attempt to ask your first question here on Meta Stack Exchange:
Asking a good question
This is NOT Stack Overflow - Ask your question on Stack Overflow
What is ...
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What is the point of not allowing extended discussions in comments? [duplicate]
I don't understand why extended discussions in comments usually get moved to chat. Long threads are collapsed be default, so they don't require significantly more scrolling to get to other content. ...
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Where can I ask about the RJ45 specification?
Where can I ask the following?
The Cisco Field Notice: FN - 63697 was first released on 11-Nov-13, advising customers that RJ45 boots "Might Push the Mode Button and Cause an Unexpected Reset on ...
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How do Stack Exchange sites that do not require professionals work?
This is just from assumption, but the Stack Exchange websites such as Movies & TV or Anime & Manga are most likely having their questions answered by similar viewers and readers, rather than ...
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Badge for helping with UI-text translation/localization on non-English international sites
Good behaviour encouraged: help add localizations for UI text on international non-English sites.
Bronze: 1 translation contributed
Silver: I don't know (discuss!)
Gold: I don't know
I don't know ...
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How can I oblige a request by a moderator, who has deleted one of my answers and made a request at the same time
This question has been unlocked today after remained locked for a week. A moderator (@robjohn) has deleted my answer (actually it was a too long comment) and at the same time asked me to let the mod ...
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Help us identify new roles for community members
Update 2 (March 6, 23)
We made a shortlist of the most promising suggestions from the answers provided, and we then shared our findings with Philippe Beaudette, our VP of Community. After some ...
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Inbox improvements are live
The feedback up until January 3rd, 2023 has been catalogued and handed over to the product team. Any further feedback or bug reports should be posted as a new question.
TL;DR: The inbox improvements ...
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What exactly causes the reputation bubble (counter) in the top bar to reset?
Sometimes when I view my reputation changes, the reputation notification bubble in the top bar disappears and starts counting from zero again. How can I avoid this? In other words, when exactly does ...
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Who is it that suggests/starts a new Stack Exchange site in Area 51?
On Area 51’s FAQ page, it states “If your area of expertise doesn't already have a Stack Exchange site, propose it!”. I’m not entirely sure whether “expertise” means something similar to “professional”...
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Stack Gives Back to Open Source 2022
Beginning 2010, we have made annual donations to charities on behalf of moderators through the Stack Gives Back program. At the same time, in recognition of the many ways that we benefit from open ...
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Where should I ask on the SE community about a non-programming question related to google earth? [closed]
I want to ask something about Google Earth that is not related to development of any kind. Where should I ask in the SE community?
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"log in" should be "login"
From https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=https%3a%2f%2farea51.stackexchange.com%2fusers%2flogin-or-signup%2fdelegated%3freturnurl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252farea51.stackexchange.com%26type%...
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Is there a way to search for questions with a specific deleted tag?
When a tag has been deleted from questions, those questions won't show up in a search for the tag. However, the deleted tag still shows in the edit history of those questions. Is there a way to ...
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What is the purpose of the network-level Stack Exchange profile?
Upon my first exposure to the Stack Exchange Network profile (https://stackexchange.com/) I thought that it is the top level profile template in the hierarchy of profiles, i.e., the Stack Exchange ...
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Why can I not filter the Posts table in data.stackexchange by tags?
While trying to write a query on https://data.stackexchange.com/datascience/, using the Posts table, I cannot filter by tags.
For instance, if I try to extract the tags from the Posts table:
select ...
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Multipart answers?
For each question, one has the option to submit more than one answer.
Each answer has a character limit.
It's possible that to properly answer a question, one needs to go over that character limit.
Is ...
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What is the purpose of the YOUR COMMUNITIES section in the Stack Exchange site list?
I am currently a member of 8 Stack Exchange communities:
English Language & Usage
Meta Stack Exchange
Mathematics
Stack Overflow
Physics
Network Engineering
Android Enthusiasts
Gardening & ...
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The Windows Phone SE site has been archived
TL;DR
We are announcing that as of November 17, Windows Phone SE has been archived.
Why now?
The Stack Exchange network is a lot like a neighborhood. Each individual site makes up a house in that ...
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Where can I ask about a game engine's general patterns?
Note: If this is wrong Stack Exchange section to post in, I apologize. If so, where should I post the questions covering the topic below?
I am wondering if this is appropriate to ask in Stack Exchange’...
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What about sensitive details being retained in the chat and related things?
There was a question implying some sensitive information. And the user asking the question used their real name. Plenty of the comments were moved to the chat.
The user was suggested to not use their ...
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Merge the [anonymous] and [anonymous-visitors] tags
anonymous and anonymous-visitors seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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Is it possible to find out which questions were affected? "removed +30 User was removed (learn more)" [duplicate]
I'd thought for a while that someone was periodically downvoting my answers, normally right after posting, but smart enough not to get caught immediately. I'd presumed it was a sock puppet account.
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Using GPT-3 or similar tools to mass-produce low-quality answers
Consider this answer to this question:
The couple in question is James Morley and his wife, Liu Xiaobo.
hope this helped.
That's the kind of thing that GPT-3 or a similar AI would misinterpret out ...
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Stack Exchange iOS app removed from the AppStore. Is there an IPA file?
After the Stack Overflow app was removed from the App Store a long time ago, I recently realized that the Stack Exchange iOS app was removed too and I could't reinstall it on my new iPhone.
It seems ...
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What is a proper way to simplify an accepted but long answer for my own question?
Consider I have a question which got a big comprehensive answer, which fully clarified the question to me. But it's not just a comprehensive explanation: none of other shorter answers I saw actually ...
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Feedback request: Proposed new flagging and moderation workflow for plagiarism
UPDATE
We've built and will be releasing a plagiarism flag on 22 March 2023 (on SO only). For more info, see this MSO post - Plagiarism flag and moderator tooling launching to Stack Overflow
A while ...
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Is there a Stack Exchange site for environment questions?
I'm aware of Earth Science which is clearly related, but the scope seems restricted to scientific questions. As far as I understand it wouldn't fit for for practical questions (e.g., about how to ...
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Is there an appropriate SE site about intersection between technology and rural culture?
My current question is about rural technology, to be specific, this question is more about history and cultural tradition.
My question falls more into the topic covered by this book.
In which site I ...
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Minor edits on meta site
Early today I posted this question. Very shortly afterwards, the question was edited, with a large number of minor, totally unneeded edits made:
None of them make the question any easier to ...
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Is there a stack site for Cloud computing (in general)?
At the risk of this being a duplicate - and I have seen this question - Where can I ask questions on cloud computing? - I'm struggling to identify the right stack to post a question on.
Unlike in the ...
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Yet another suggestion for questions bumped by retagging
There have been countless questions on the topic of question bumping to the main page for tag edits. I won't review or rehash any of that. Here are two suggestions I did not spot as having been made ...
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Is there any internal research on the randomness of moderator elections?
Moderator election seems like a useful tool. I am wondering, though, what percentage of users are taking the elections seriously.
Users are incentivised to participate in the elections, since they get ...
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Confusion around the purpose of the community user
I recently posted a meta question on Stack Overflow (How does the Community bot know a question needs clarification?) about the Community user, asking how a bot could identify a question as being ...
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Where should I ask my question related to English grammar?
I am foreigner and my English is very poor.
But I have to learn English in Stack Exchange.
I have posted a question related to English grammar in English Language & Usage: Is the Grammar wrong
If ...
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We talk a lot about offensive usernames
Today we had the following question posted:
What is SE policy regarding potentially offensive screen names?
The specific user mentioned had already been taken care of, but the question is asking about ...
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What is SE policy regarding potentially offensive screen names?
A user has chosen a screen name that could be construed as deeply offensive. Actually, aside from the possibility that it is intended as a joke (ie tongue-in-cheek), it can't be regarded as other than ...
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Did Prosus acquire just Stack Overflow or the whole Stack Exchange Network?
I'm asking you guys since I can't find relevant info. Google says that the parent company of Stack Exchange Network is Prosus. Wikipedia says that Prosus only owns Stack Overflow. This is confusing. ...
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What site would be more appropriate to ask this?
Currently I have a question and I don't know where to post the question. My question is about code, but about the "theoretical" part of the code. That is, to understand my question it is not ...
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Is there a way to filter posts created with the Ask Wizard in the Data Explorer?
Stack Overflow recently re-debuted the Ask Wizard for use by new users.
Using the Data Explorer, is there any (current or planned) way to query posts that were created using this tool?
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What should we do with suggested edits that change an image to be embedded inline by uploading a new copy?
I occasionally see suggested edits only changing the image from a link to inline.
I have rejected a couple as "This edit causes harm", but now I just click "No Improvement".
The ...
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Is topic-hostile downvoting a thing, and are SE algorithms designed to catch it?
I am well aware that there are endless topics regarding hostile downvoting and how it should be dealt with. I have read a bunch of these threads, but one thing I have never seen raised is persistent ...
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Should items in the Linked question appear again in the Related question list directly below? Could they be removed somehow? [duplicate]
The Politics SE question How much of Hu Jintao's being escorted out was seen by Chinese at home? Was it live? Did they see it close up as seen internationally? includes a linked question which now ...
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A 7-days suspension without warning [duplicate]
Consider:
I got a 7-day suspension. Is it normal since the music Stack Exchange site policy is first: warn and then suspend?
Let me share the message from the mods:
To briefly sum up: I called a ...
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What would be the appropriate community to ask questions about prompt engineering? (Like for GPT-3 or Stable Diffusion.)
What would be the appropriate community to ask questions in relation to engineering/ designing/ writing a prompt for deep learning models, such as DALL-E, GPT-3 or Stable Diffusion?
These prompts, ...
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What does negative score on a post mean? [duplicate]
I am sorry, but I find it utterly unproductive, meaningless for anyone to simply anonymously downvote, not just comments or answers, but also the very question in the post that someone is reaching out ...
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