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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 support, it's probably a discussion.
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Why people do not answer my questions?
I had a look at your questions
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6070198/
How I pass multiple parameters to a soap method using nusoap?
SOAP returning "Internal Server Error"
You haven't added …
18
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Auto-ban questions that use pastebin?
I agree with you that the code should always be present in the question so that a user can read the question and understand it in it's entirety without visiting external sites. However, This could be …
7
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Where does giving thorough answers end, and reputation-whoring begin?
Personally, it took me a couple of tries to understand your answer. My first reaction was 'what result?`. This may have made perfect sense to you when you wrote this, but you have to remember that you …
12
votes
Why are some ads on Stack Overflow not written in English?
That's not advertising (not strictly anyway). Those are job listings from Careers. Since careers can be used by anyone, some people would post in their native language. I suppose it acts as a first le …
5
votes
Tramping on the same question for better or more relevant answers?
If the question is dated or vague, you should create a new question and make sure you mention why your question is different from the original question.
14
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Anonymous users editing questions as if they are the author - what should we do?
I see a lot of edits like this as well. Unless it's some kind of improvement like adding a link to a keyword or something like that I reject the edit.
Some of the suggests are actually new users who …
12
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Accepted
On the (bad) habit of commenting instead of answering
I've done this a couple of times. I don't do this to avoid rep or anything like that. It's simply because I don't have the time to craft a well formulated answer. If I'm going to post in the answer se …
12
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Down Vote "code only" answers?
I wouldn't downvote it. But neither would I really upvote it. There's nothing to 'punish' or inherently wrong there, so you don't have to to downvote.
11
votes
3
answers
181
views
What can we do about questions asking for plugin/script recommendations?
What's the general SO stance on questions that ask for script recommendations? Be it jquery plugin recommendations, like this one, or those that involve other programming languages or criteria. I thin …
15
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Accepted
What else can we automatically remove from questions?
tks
thanks in advance
??????
plz help
I specially find the multiple question marks annoying.
EDIT
Wow, I'm off the site for an hour and this happens! :)
Just to be clear, I'm talking about th …
4
votes
is it spamming to link to relevant sections in your own blogspot?
If you look closer, you'll see that while his blogposts may be related to the question there are 2 problems with these.
SO is meant to be a resource. It's generally preferred that the answers be on …
7
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Accepted
Favouriting a Question should increase reputation
because the question itself is interesting, could be for any number of other reasons including but not limited to
I flagged something in the question and I want to see what the outcome is
Some kind of discussion …
5
votes
Help us test the advantages of using a CDN
From Colombo, Sri Lanka
sstatic: 250ms latency, 810ms total
CDN: 205ms latency, 710ms total
5
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Accepted
User with unwarranted badges
I've noticed this kind of activity before, talked about it in this question. This user most likely had his accounts merged. So although he lost the rep from the other accounts, the badges would hang a …
3
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Accepted
Edit question to fit an answer if there are no appropriate answers at all
I don't think you need to change the form of the whole question to accept an answer. You could simply add a note to your question and accept an answer. The answer you accepted has to the be the one th …