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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 don't people upvote questions they answer?

Judging from my own limited personal experience (both looking for questions, asking questions and answering questions) - there seems to be a culture of non-upvoting on Stack Overflow as opposed to som …
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Is asking for a citable reference off topic?

I think it is appropriate if it is secondary to asking for help with the programming problem (i.e. "and if you have a citeable reference for your answer please include it"). Very often you can't separ …
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