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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.

29 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
16 votes
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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
8 votes

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.
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
8 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
6 votes
1 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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
5 votes

Why not get reputation when your question is marked a favorite by somebody?

The word "Favorite" imply that user likes it, but all people, answering this question, are using favorites as bookmarks. So the current name is confusing and BOOKMARK will be a better name. There is a …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
4 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
3 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
3 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
3 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
1 vote

Change wording of "Exact Duplicate"?

It seems that the suggestion to avoid the duplicates has been implemented on Meta, where the note at the top is the following now: This question already has an answer here  [original question …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
1 vote

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
0 votes

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
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
0 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar
0 votes

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 …
Michael Freidgeim's user avatar

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