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Is it wrong to lie when asking a question?
I asked What metric to imperial conversions should I know for traveling to the US? on Travel Stack Exchange.
But I'm not really going on holiday. Was it okay to ask this, considering I'm making up ...
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OP has edited his question and completely changed it
This question was asked today. The OP posted a lengthy assignment and asked for clarification on his course. I indicated that I thought this was off topic and voted to close. Later, I found the OP has ...
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What should we do to questions asked by user and not responded
I can see that many people ask question and then when they recieve some response they never come back. What should we do to such questions? Should we put time frame to ask user to respond to post or ...
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Close questions based on moral objections?
Sparked by this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5571561/bypass-school-firewall-with-a-proxy
Which should have been moved to a different SE site (ServerFault or SuperUser), but seemed ...
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Comment links be greater than Question links? It's just not fair!
Look at the comment I posted below! If you hover over the link you'll see a nice title text with the title of the question. But but. With this link link text or this one: New reason to close question: ...
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Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again?
Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again? In my specific example here, I have two answers, each with one upvote, neither of which seem to get the point of the question (if ...
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Are we allowed to ask questions about programming ethics on SO?
Are we allowed to ask things like "Is it okay to do [this] without informing users of this behavior?"? I'm not referring to anything regarding the legality of a practice, but whether its just ...
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Dealing with questions of nefarious intent
How should we treat questions that are, or have seeds of, evil or malicious purposes and actions, such as writing spambots and malware?
Should they be answered like regular "everybody keeps their ...
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Suggesting project ideas using Stackoverflow?
I have an idea for a fairly simple OS X utility I want, but I don't currently know enough about OS X development to make it myself.
Someone on Stack Overflow could write it in an hour or two.
What ...
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