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What is the correct way to ask help finding an old SE Q&A I can't find anymore? [duplicate]
I am an active member of Sci-Fi and Fantasy SE and I found myself in this situation several times:
I see a question (sometimes answered) that piques my interest.
I read it, mark it down in my memory ...
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Don't cut off question titles on the search result page
Feature request: Don't cut off question titles on the search result page. Example:
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The question view count displayed in a search result page is inaccurate [duplicate]
Example from android stackexchange: 7 views in search:
vs. 168 views:
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How can I update a question (from someone else) with keywords so you can find it better?
I sometimes have the problem that I cannot find an existing answer in Stack Exchange. So I would really like to "improve" a question by adding keywords to make it easier to find.
Is there ...
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How can I find a question on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I have read a question a few years back, and it has been answered: 'What would be the last artificial light after apocalypse'
I couldn't find it with tags, and I'm not sure on which site it was asked ...
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Searching for questions by users with at least x reputation [duplicate]
Is it possible to search for questions written by users with at least x points in reputation?
My motivation for asking is to find questions that are relatively well written and are probably not about ...
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Should we search in answers too, to avoid asking a question about that same matter? [duplicate]
Can asking a question that has an answer in another question result in being duplicate?
For example, imagine someone wants to ask if the recipe in this website is really original or not.
He tries to ...
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How can I find an answer to a difficult-to-formulate question?
In rare cases I want to search something on the Internet and I am pretty sure that the answer is there, but I am not able to formulate my search to get there (although I am an experienced searcher).
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How to find questions I didn't answer?
May be it is trivial, however I try to write query which find questions without my answers, and I fail (so question can already have other peoples answers but not my). This is what I try so far:
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Is there a way to search content I've touched?
I believe I've finally discovered the answer to the question was ... 42 ... or something like that. The only problem is that, many months after the question was asked, I now need to find the question....
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How can I find all my questions (all stackexchange sites)?
I'm active on many stackexchange sites, and I've asked a question recently. I know the topic of the question, but not the exact tile, and more specifically, I forgot on which site I had been asking (...
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Is there a way to search questions only or answers only?
Is there a way to limit a search to questions only or answers only?
Sometimes I am looking for specific questions, checking for duplicate questions or just simply searching for a problem, not a ...
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What to do to make a question easier to find?
If I want to improve a question by making it easier to find in either SE search or Google, how would I do that?
The motivation behind this is that there can be multiple very different sounding ...
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Is there a way to search for uncommented, unanswered and unclosed questions?
I am trying to look for ignored questions and try to answer them or give them attention. I need a way to search for unclosed, unanswered, and uncommented questions. Is there a way to go about doing ...
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Is there a way to find unresolved questions on a specific tag? [duplicate]
Is there a way to find unresolved questions, questions that have answers but none have been accepted by the OP of question on a specific tag?
I can see the option to find ones that are 'unanswered' ...
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Find post by date
I have a funny problem. I can not find a certain post on http://stackoverflow.com, but I remember the approximate date of creating this post.
Is it possible to find the post, knowing only the date is ...
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Getting questions with >N views despite searching for questions with ≤N views
Trying to search for questions with at most n views, I'm getting questions with more views than asked for. For example, I tried to search for views:1..5 on CrossValidated, but I'm getting results ...
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Search for questions with at most n views
We can search for views:N and get questions with at least N views. How would I search for questions with at most N views?
I'd like to know how usual or unusual it is that nobody clicks on my ...
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Difference between "Ask question" suggestions & search [duplicate]
I am getting to different results when searching using the search & Ask question suggestions ("Questions that may already have your answer")
Because each search is provided to help finding the ...
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Is there a way to set an auto-filter? If not, I'd like to request one
I noticed tonight in Programmers that the first two pages of newest top questions (and a substantial proportion of the actives) are all negative, and many are on hold for being way off-topic or ...
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Stackoverflow question on queforum [duplicate]
I have a few questions on stackoverlow. 1 of them is unanswered so i searched for similar things to find a solution. During my google search i found this. It is exactly my stackoverflow question (the ...
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How do I browse through my account history? [duplicate]
How do I browse through my account history on Stack Overflow? I have signed in with a Stack Exchange account. I want to revisit a recent question I visited, but I forgot the title.
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Effect of question votes [duplicate]
What are the actual effects of voting on questions? All the documentation I could find just says that voting "moves things up" and "gives people reputation". I get the second part, and I get how ...
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Filter questions by reputaion [duplicate]
Is it possible to filter questions by reputation of the author?
Just Something like [favtag] [rep<5] to show all the newcommer questions.
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A method to search questions on more than one criteria (not tag) [duplicate]
Quick basic question.
Is there a method to search questions on more than one criteria?
example, oldest, unanswered, with zero answers (as opposed to >0 answers, but no accepted answer)?
Where is, ...
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Effectiveness of suggested answers?
Does anybody have some data on how effective the suggested answers are in preventing people from asking duplicate questions?
While some people make an effort to search, some people will click the "...
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How can I search for a question that I commented on? [duplicate]
If I deleted my browser's history, is there any way to find a question that I commented on?
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Different results for lowest score depending on filter setting [duplicate]
I was doing something which many stackoverflow users at some point were curious about by searching for a really low scored question.
While doing that, I was taken aback by the fact that the search ...
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Why do so many of my carefully researched MSO questions turn out to be duplicates?
I seem to have a hard time finding good answers for my meta questions. I usually have an issue I'm curious about on SO, so I search MSO using appropriate keywords to see if there are any similar ...
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How can I limit search results by the number of tags?
Is there a way to search for questions that only have a specific number of tags? Something like [alpha] tags:1 would be helpful for filtering by tag rather than using [alpha] -[beta] -[chi] -[delta] -[...
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Sorting questions by difficulty [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How about a difficulty rating for questions?
How about being able to sort questions by the OPs ranking? That way I could for example find easy questions to answer or difficult ...
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How can I view questions with 0 answers, that haven't been upvoted, and that are tagged with my favorite tags?
I believe this is impossible, currently, but I often find myself wanting to look at questions that abide a pretty specific set of criteria. It would be useful to have some kind of a tool that lets you ...
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How to browse Stack Overflow to pass the time [closed]
This might only reflect my poor knowledge of programming but it seems like a lot of the questions will never be relevant to me since they are extremely specific.
I love SO and I am basically looking ...
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Possible to make own questions searchable? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I search my own questions?
Not sure this has been asked before (can't find anything on it), but I often find myself looking for a question I asked some time ago and ...
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Is there a way to view all questions you haven't accepted answers for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Search for questions that I have asked and not accepted any answers to
Is there a way to view all questions you haven't accepted answers for? Or do you have to look through ...
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How to get your own questions with specific tag?
I remember asking one specific question that was answered correctly. But now I can not find it.
So, how do I list all my questions with specific tag?
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Find all of my unaccepted questions across all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I view all my unaccepted questions across SE?
I would like to find all of the questions I have posted on the Stack Exchange network that do not yet have an accepted ...
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How to find all questions that were duplicates of another question? [duplicate]
I am interested to see a list of all questions that were closed because being a dup of another question.
I strongly want to research a particular question and reading all the answers inside the dups ...
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New questions are not shown automatically
At home i like the new feature that new questions are displayed asynchronously. A link with the number of new questions is shown at the top. If i click it, the new questions will be loaded. They are ...
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See popular question of a day
I found myself learning a lot from questions/answers posted in the site, so I thought, is it possible to see the most popular/highly-voted questions/answers of the day/month?
To be more clear, here's ...
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Remove from results button?
I'm sure everyone has noticed Google's relatively recent "remove from search results" feature, which allows you to hide results from useless domains.
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I wonder if it would be useful to have a ...
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Votes 'range' filter in viewing questions
I find that I am able to answer questions, in general, within a certain 'voted' range. The higher a question is voted in my areas of expertise, the more profound and therefore the less likely I have ...
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Any way to search through your questions to find ones that have not been marked as answered? [duplicate]
Basically, sometimes I forget to mark a question as answered, or I haven't had a chance to go and test the answer to see if it works for me.... so it ends up getting buried. Any way to easily search ...
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This code/query/regex/binding doesn't work! & Friends
My currently biggest issue with SO is that way too many (most?) questions are useless, that is not to say that they are horribly bad and I am even happy to answer them as long as they are unambiguous ...
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Suggested questions as user types in the search box
Would be awesome to suggest questions to the user as the user enters their search terms in the search field.
I think the technology behind suggesting questions based on a question title can/should ...
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Please Provide a Search in Question-text only
Please provide a way to search only in Question-text. I don't mean in one specific question, like the inquestion: search-option, but across all questions -- excluding the answers.
Say I'm trying to ...
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Search for question in questions list that I've answered [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unable to filter search with “user:me”
Sometimes i show question that have been asked previously means exactly duplicate. Now I've answered the previously asked ...
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TextBox to search our own questions and answers instead of playing around with the URL?
I was about to ask for a way to search within my own questions and answers when I found these interesting question and answer: How can I search within my own questions?
That said, it seems we have to ...
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Anyone else interested in being able to put all one's questions on a single screen?
I frequently find myself in the situation that I'm sure someone on SO has helped me solve a particular problem at some time in the past, but I'm not sure when. For such situations, it would be very ...
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How to prevent an endless deluge of questions about “that” and “which”
I know we have already asked about this problem twice, but English.SE has now had its third question about the difference between that and which (first, second). The “Ask Question” page is supposed to ...
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