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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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As a new user, how do I gain reputation/participate in SO if all my questions have already b...

You can raise your reputation mainly by answering people's questions with good answers (that get upvoted) or asking good questions that the community appreciates (enough to upvote). It's true that a …
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When potential answers are already rejected within a question (with no reasoning provided)- ...

Some questions contain curious hoops or preemptively reject valid answers/solutions and don't explain the reasoning behind the rejection. Should these be downvoted? Examples are: I don't want to use …
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How should we treat answers that ignore the premises of the question?

A considerable portion of the questions asked on Stack Overflow are beginner questions. Often this makes the answerers considerably prone to underestimating the asker's capacity to understand their ow …
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