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USING THIS TAG IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ASKING ON STACK OVERFLOW. YOU ARE ON META STACK EXCHANGE, WHERE MOST PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC. Questions specific to stackoverflow.com should be asked on meta.stackoverflow.com; such questions will be closed here. This is for questions about the Stack Overflow site that still relate to the SE network as a whole. Questions about Stack Overflow (the company) should be tagged [company] instead.

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Why do we let hostile users dictate the perception of Stack Overflow?

I admit, my answer was obviously a lot more over the top than I had intended. I should have simply voted to close and left a comment instead. However, at the most fundamental level, we're not talking …
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Links being changed to cppreference.com

When the original reference is to cplusplus.com, then YES. That site is notorious for being inaccurate and generally bad in a very large number of ways, at least amongst those of us who have had the m …
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4 votes

Do developers of languages use Stack Overflow?

There are lots of people here who write their own languages- I have. You expect to see a large uptick in activity recently because LLVM has made it feasible for people to create their own languages. …
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Can we have a Stack Overflow specific blog?

In light of the BlogOverflow announcement, I'm going to have to say that I agree with this. If the SO community wants to open a blog like SuperUser, then that's already taken- but the SO blog isn't ac …
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catch -> try-catch tag synonym is wrong [closed]

The catch -> try-catch synonym is wrong. Specifically, Catch is also a C++ unit testing framework. A question that wants to be tagged Catch, as in, the unit testing framework, really does not want to …
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Proposing questions for the C++-faq tag

As far as I'm aware, it's a community thing. Just post it and if people object then we'll take it down. There's no ceremony required. Except asking Uncle FAQ.
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Duplicate Question Titles

The ban on duplicate question titles is bad. In some circumstances, for example if your environment is giving you an unfortunate error, the error is simply not specific enough to be more specific in …
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Consistency on 'Definitive Booklist' questions?

As far as I'm aware, it's because the C++ community is an organised gang of thugs, and when the question was closed, we beat everybody involved until they saw sense, whereas the C people don't seem to …
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My post does not meet your quality standards. Can you tell me why?

It is the most immensely irritating crap ever. Nobody would use a compiler that just said "Error!" whenever anything went wrong. I certainly lost my inclination to post questions here. An automatic fi …
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Should we kill off [*-faq] tags?

The c++-faq tag won't go down easily though. Damn right. The long and short is that many people have tried to bring down the C++ FAQ, I dunno about the others, and all have failed, and for good …
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