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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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Question validity for Stack Overflow
As most of the questions are too personalised to be useful to others. I don't agree. Since the start of my coding career, I relied heavily on various SE sites especially SO. I've always found the same …
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Why is 150 reputation needed to vote in elections?
Why do we have an age limit for a real life election? So that people who are adults or in other words those who understand the system can participate to choose a better candidate.
The same happens h …
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Do questions on WAMP belong on Stack Overflow, Server Fault or Super User?
IMHO it depends on what your actual problem is. For example your code is not working on wampserver, then it certainly relates to StackOverflow, since the main problem is with code and it can be solved …
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Where to ask about career paths from different degrees?
Questions which can only be answered with opinions, suggestions and advice are not welcomed anywhere on SE sites.
Check my answer on this question. We've discussed the fate of open-ended questions …
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How to ask questions related to two different Stack Exchange sites
For example, I have a question about a game in Android, which is a suitable candidate for both Stack Overflow (more answers) and Game Development (specific and experts answers). So how can I ask it? S …
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Should a question that's good but in reality off topic, be down voted?
Although it's better to vote for migration or vote to close than downvote. But downvote is also a good way to show that we don't want anymore such question here. Downvoted questions are ignored by com …
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The fate of closed Questions
Closed questions never gets deleted(as far as I've seen), unless they're voted for deletion.
The question asker often gets penalty in terms of negative votes from other users, so no other penalty r …
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Anything to do when a good answer is provided but none accepted?
Or if you really think the answer is good enough and well deserving, you can start the bounty on the question and award the bounty reputation to the one who deserves it. I think you can award multiple …
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A/B testing the sticky vote controls
That looks creepy! No doubt on that. I just started to see this and thought that either I need a sleep right now or SO implemented a new feature without telling us first.
Then I found this post. Well …
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Why is there a Precognitive badge on Area 51? [closed]
What's the point of having a Precognitive badge on Area 51 itself, since no one could have earned it?
It's on Stack Overflow to make people aware of Area 51, as mentioned here, but this reason wouldn …
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
I am on the side of Tim and SE staff that new users are not treated properly in SE. Some pro users are really rude with the new user when they make a mistake. Although, the rudeness should not be tole …