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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 is SE removing links and community ads about a legal fund campaign?
The announcement said, that “staff will actively remove links”, but it doesn’t say that users are not allowed to create such links. There are no references to any existing FAQ, CoC or other rules.
I …
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3
answers
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Is “Stacker” a common term for Stack Overflow members?
In the official Stack Overflow blog post What a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community the Director of Public Q&A at Stack Overflow, Ms. Sara Chipps described herself …
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answer
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Which of 2 similar old questions close as duplicate?
The perfectly written FAQ How should duplicate questions be handled?
doesn't describe the case if you have 2 old questions, which one should be considered as original and which as duplicate.
I previo …
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What are the next steps we as a community should take?
My answer is an extension of laur34 “ idea to start a hashtag on Twitter”.
I suggest to use the #SOstopBeingStupid hashtag on Twitter, because the way how the current management is treating the commu …
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Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again)
I propose a combination of other suggestions from this discussion
( most close are voretaq7's answer and
Jeff Atwood's comment
Keep current the 200 daily reputation cap (for the reasons discussed here …
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Questions sometimes have a "possible duplicate of" comment but no close vote?
I can confirm that when I retracted the close vote, "possible duplicate" comment What should we do when someone makes lots of unnecessary edits? wasn't removed.
I have to delete it manually.
I think …
3
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How can I refer and link to other posts in my post?
I recommend to always include title of the question in the reference:
For an answer
as mentioned in [<username> answer in <question title>](<the answer url>).
Exception is when you reference to …
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Changes to the duplicate auto comment, making a difference to how duplicate flags are perceived
When I read the question initially, I thought that you missed
<sarcasm>Well done SE, good job</sarcasm>.
Such comments are considered noise in Stack Overflow.
If the new automated wording enc …
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Discussion overflow
I wasn't aware about this question and put my suggestion as a separate question https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/180767/new-stackexchange-discussion-site-for-not-constructive-questions
As a summary …
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Specific questions that can't be closed as duplicates because duplicates now have to have an...
See
Visual studio Intellitest execution through command line
and
Intellitest command line invocation
They're same question with the same answer.
People do not want to upvote because it is not the an …
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Should I delete my answers?
You should not delete answers, if you believe that they are correct. People often read the answers 4 years later and your post could still be useful.
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Comment upvote, undo, and then re-upvote: why not?
On touch devices( mobiles and tablets) it’s too easy to accidentally press some button (e.g. upvote of comment), so unrestricted ability to undo any click must be implemented in any modern site.
I rea …
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On what "day of the month" is Stack Exchange Data Explorer updated?
You can get the datetime of the last data update to use in your query
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Does a Rep Cap discourage participation?
There are suggestions to have reputation league for recent content only: see
Should we have a new "Trending Users" reputation league that is weighted towards recent content? and New League Biased To …
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What is the correct way to reply to community wiki FAQ questions with an accepted answer?
Or is it better to start a new discussion question? …