Questions tagged [related-questions]
When viewing a question, the "Related Questions" block is shown on the right side of the page and provides a system-generated list of questions similar to the current one.
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Related questions in "Ask Question" page is better than the search tool
When I search for similar questions that I am going to ask, I usually can't find anything through the search box on Stack Overflow.
But when I enter my question on the "Ask Question" page, ...
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Would it be feasible to tie the tags of a new question to the Related Questions list?
Duplicate questions are still rampant on SOFU, despite the Related Questions list.
Feature Request
I propose that in order to display more relevant questions in the list, the tags given for the new ...
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How are "related" questions selected?
For almost every question there's a list of "related" questions on the right.
How are those questions selected? Is it based solely on tags? Can I do anything if I see a question on the list that is ...
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Related questions with over 99 score display incorrectly
The score for the 4 questions are 111, 1218, 261 and 5 respectively, but they display 2 digits per line. This is an obvious bug in design.
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Linked and Related sections contain duplicate links to questions
The Linked and Related sections sometimes contain a link to same same question.
See for example this question, where one of the Linked questions is same as the first of the Related questions.
I ...
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Automatically track referenced questions
It would be nice if SO automatically parsed all the internal links in posts and comments and tracked them centrally.
That way regardless of tagging we would be able to track bi-directional relations ...
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Should there be a way to link questions?
Currently, we can edit a question to put in a link to related items, we can add a comment and we can suggest a duplicate when voting to close, however, I think it would be beneficial if there were a ...
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Tags: Adding tags before title of the question
As of now, the user has to enter a title, question, and then the tags. When the user enters the title and tabs out, we see a list of similar questions. However, I could be asking a question related to ...
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The same question should not be under both Linked and Related
Here is a recent example of this from one of my questions on English SE:
The Related questions should be filtered to remove any questions that already appear under Linked. This will avoid confusing ...
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Issues with question suggestion and search algorithm differences
This question was closed as a duplicate, and the asker said that the suggested question didn't show up in the Related Questions when he asked. So of course I had to try this myself.
I copy/pasted the ...
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Do related linked questions really need to be linked twice?
If a related question is also linked in the OP, need it really be linked twice in the sidebar under both "Linked" and "Related"?
I would have thought just displaying under 'linked' would suffice, as ...
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Difference in score between Linked and Related questions - is it caching, or a bug?
I was browsing this discussion (URL Shorteners cleanup) and noticed in the related posts lists the following difference in the score on a linked question (Let Me Flag That For You - URL Shortener ...
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Why doesn't the Related question list show that questions are closed?
I saw a question on Meta that was obviously going to be a duplicate:
Difference Between SO and Programmers [closed]
And indeed, looking at the "Related" questions list for that question showed a ...
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Related questions vote column too narrow
Did anyone else notice the vote column is too narrow for 4-digits (1000+ votes)?
Seems like a very minor issue, but I thought I'd just point it out.
If we don't want to widen it (and still have the ...
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Show "related" questions before question submission
The questions shown when asking a question are only based on the title, but it seems that the "related" sidebar, only shown after submission, often catches much more relevant questions. This isn't ...
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The list of related questions is shown empty
At the moment, any question that I check returns empty list of related questions. I see just a header called "Related" but no questions shown below that.
I have checked this on multiples ...
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Some small changes to related questions.
We have just rolled out on meta some small cosmetic changes to the related questions in the right sidebar:
We have added the vote score to hopefully make the list more useful and also break it up ...
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Why are there links to answers in the related questions list?
On two three of the four newest Meta questions, there are posts in the "related" section without a title:
I was curious to see what that was, and the link was a link to an answer. Clicking the link ...
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Related questions box show deleted questions
Is this a bug or a cache related effect? (Or both?)
Maybe it's only me?
Example: On the Related panel of this link there is currently a "Make it funner" related question that's no longer available.
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Showing meta questions in the same manner as linked and related questions
In the right column there are linked and related questions. I'm suggesting to add a third section: "Meta".
If a question on the main site is linked to by a question on meta, that meta question should ...
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Detecting similarity between questions : How?
When I type a new question in SO, it displays the list of similar questions almost instantly? I imagine there must be some kind of distance computation between the asked question and the questions in ...
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Let me see all questions / answers that point to a question
When I am looking at a question and wish to explore the subject more, it is useful to look at all questions and answers that point to the given question (or one of it’s answers).
Please list them ...
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Prevent questions closed as "off topic" or "not a real question" from showing up in the "Related" links
I was trying to find a duplicate for a recent post, so I checked one of the "Related" links, which landed me on another post that wasn't quite what I was looking for. So from there, once again I check ...
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Indication of accepted answer in the related and linked posts section
I see that "related" and "linked" posts section (on the right side) shows score/vote count adjacent to each post's title. To be consistent with vote count display in other areas of the site, I suggest ...
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Why does the Related question list not always show up?
I've been noticing quite often lately that the list of Related questions to the right of the screen doesn't always show up, or it takes a while (say, fifteen minutes or more) to do so. Here's an ...
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Infinite loop: list of questions "related" to "removed" question contains the removed question itself
This question, titled How did ancient China invent such wonders as fear systems and calendar before ancient Europe? has been removed and the 404 it leads to contains a list of some similar questions ...
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Why not put the tags entry at the top in the "Ask Question" interface? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Would it be feasible to tie the tags of a new question to the Related Questions list?
If Tags were an indented text box under the Title entry area, the tags could help filter ...
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Show Google results along with related questions
A significant number of downvotes are given to questions whose askers didn't first check Google. This seems to be closely related to downvotes from asking a question with duplicates in the "Related ...
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It's easier to ask a new question than find an old one. Does that mean search is broken?
Search is broken.
Well ok: It's frustrating.
I see other people doing it and think "jeez, that's lazy" then after trying a bunch of search terms without much joy, figure, well the quickest way is ...
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The "Related" section in the right sidebar is now completely missing for new questions
This is related to Stack Exchange is intermittently failing at random areas and, possibly, The list of related questions is shown empty, although the latter one involved all questions and there was at ...
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Related Questions Include Closed Questions
When I follow the Related Questions section, I often come across closed questions. I would think that closed questions wouldn't be shown, since they aren't relevant.
Shouldn't closed questions be ...
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Pagination doesn't work for certain API routes/functions
Trying to fetch a list of linked questions from the API fails if there are more than 100 results(Or whatever is set by page_size).
This API call to the first page:
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Related questions in the sidebar which are closed as dupe of the question you're currently looking at results in poor UX for anonyomous users
On AskUbuntu, there is this question. In the sidebar, under "Linked questions", there is a link to this question, which has been closed as duplicate and merged with the first question.
For anonymous, ...
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Revisit Putting Tags box under Title box on Asking Question Form
There was a request over four years ago to have the Related Questions ("Questions that may already have your answer") key off of the tags and not just the title. It was requested in that post that to ...
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Refresh "Questions that may already have your answer" after adding tags based on these tags
It happens often for me that, after submitting the answer, I look at the "Related" list on the sidebar and see questions that talk about the same question but have a title that's largely difference in ...
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Can we have a full list of related questions?
When viewing a question, there is a list on the right that displays related questions. However, I suspect they do not display the full list of related questions since the size of the list seems to be ...
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Vote counts >= 100 for linked questions do not wrap properly [duplicate]
On some SE sites, the vote counts for linked and related questions get wrapped. I cannot remember seeing it before.
Not affected are Stack Overflow and Server Fault. Affected are:
Askubuntu:
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Show in linked/related questions sidebar whether a question has answers or not
Currently, in the linked/related sidebar, without opening the question the user can only distinguish whether the question has an accepted answer (green icon) or not (grey icon).
I often eagerly open ...
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How does SO get the related questions when I ask question?
When I complete my title of question, the related questions are listed below. I am confused how can SO select the questions, there are no key words or someting like that.
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Similar question search works better than actual search [duplicate]
I wanted to open a question titled "What's the best SQLite Cocoa library?". The suggestions told me that the question might be closed for being subjective, but also suggested some similar questions. ...
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Related Questions not entirely related/useful
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90573/error-on-stack-exchange-data-explorer was posted (and quickly marked as a dupe and deleted so 10k only) and was a dupe of StackExchange Data Explorer bug ...
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Do you find that when you go to ask a question, you end up answering one?
I would say more often than not, the "Related Questions" box that comes up after typing in a question title ends up with two things happening for me:
I find the answer to my question, despite having ...
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Add icon on "Related" question list that shows answered status
When you're viewing a question, there's a list of "Related" questions on the right. I propose that a small icon be added to the titles that indicates if they're currently answered or not. I often use ...
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Unrelated popular content constantly in related links
This is specifically about the apparent frequency of the appearance of high-vote answers in "related links" that don't seem to be related. The examples below will use SO but this applies anywhere.
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Show related questions when reviewing
I just started to use the new review process for First Posts.
Could we have the list of related questions shown when we review a question, as it helps to see duplicate questions?
I was reviewing close ...
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If these two questions are related, then so are Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman
Exhibit A:
Profile copying does not correctly copy empty age field
I just copied my profile from SO to meta. I had not given a date of birth in SO but I had entered date for meta.
After ...
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Would a "Related network questions" list be possible and worthwhile?
The scopes of many sites overlap, e.g.:
English Language Learners and English Language and Usage;
AskUbuntu and Unix and Linux;
Math, MathOverflow, Cross Validated, and Mathematica; and
any language ...
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Titles with MathJax break in the related questions
Titles with MathJax break in the related questions.
It doesn't matter whether I'm logged in or not.
It happens on Google Chrome and on Firefox.
Screenshots from physics.SE and mathematics.SE:
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Show related questions immediately after posting
See: Why does the Related question list not always show up?
The answer there states that it is an expensive query to run, so it's not done immediately. I remember reading somewhere else that due to ...
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Don't show links to duplicate questions if I cannot see them
I was browsing a Stack Exchange site where I am not a member - so I was browsing anonymously. I found an interesting question, read it, and then wanted to do further research. I checked out the right ...
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