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How will getting a list of everyone's favourite framework/language/IDE/text editor/ice cream flavour help you make a decision on which one to choose? We don't know whether you like strawberry or rasp …

The question would be closed with which ever out of "Not a Real Question" or "Not Constructive" was cast last. The rules are (as far as I know): Take the reason a moderator used to close. Take the …

While it's not programming related it is development related. Should SO be recast be a development questions site rather than a programming questions site?

It was closed before the current rules (5 votes and duplicate added) were implemented.

It seems to me that now SO tries to only have questions that accept clear, definitive answers. Is this true? Yes. Is there another place in the SO network for this kind of questions? Not r …

You can see the history of a post by following the link: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/[PostId]/revisions This will be available via the time on the last edited flair: If there's no last edito …

Closed is not the same as locked. If the post was locked then no voting would be allowed. Closed is also meant to be a temporary state. A closed question can go one of two ways: It's edited to fix …

The question was closed by the community, not the diamond moderators. It also take 4 votes for a question to be migrated from Stack Overflow due to the high number of poor migrations in the past. Th …

This is the opening line of the question: Can anyone recommend any compiled libraries or other method in Lua for getting the pixel length from a given string. This makes it not constructive or e …

Requests from the poster to delete their question are taken seriously. However, they are not always acted on. When you post on Stack Exchange you are assigning some of your rights to the community wi …

Closed questions can theoretically be reopened. If the question is bad enough that it shouldn't be reopened then you should be casting delete votes. If the "delete" link isn't visible then down-vote …

Merging is done by diamond moderators at the question level. Questions have to be pretty much identical for the merge to happen though (or flagged at some point later) as: Moderators don't always h …

Add closed:0 to your search. For example, to search for all the truly unanswered questions I use: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed:0%20hasaccepted:0%20answers:0%20[c%23]&tab=newest

As you've got less than 3000 rep on Stack Overflow your option are: a) mention it here in the hope that 5 3000+ rep SO users will see the question and vote to reopen - which you have done! b) flag i …

The problem is that "Best" is highly subjective and dependent on all sorts of implicit assumptions that probably aren't included in the question. This make the question not constructive as there's no …