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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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Defining the limits of self-promotion
The user does, at least in the example shown at least do the following:
State that they're the author of the product being promoted.
State that they're the author of the product being promoted, agai …
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Should we close VB.NET questions as duplicates of C# questions and likewise?
As Adam has pointed out, the difference in syntax between C# and VB.NET can be confusing to someone who's familiar with one rather than the other. That said, sometimes the issue is not that a question …
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Pointless comments
The tooltip on the flag icon for comments says, at least on stackoverflow, "flag this comment as unconstructive, offensive or spam". I'd consider a comment of:
Fix your keyboard first!
To fall q …
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Why are twenty answers required for tag badges?
The rationale is, IMO, to ensure that you are actually an "expert" in the tag.
Does the top answer to the "Hidden Features of C#?" question, which basically suggests Path.Combine warrant a bronze (or …
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Is posting a very long quote OK for an answer?
Should I flag this as not an answer?
Does it answer the OPs question? (That said, what's the copyright on the excerpted document? Would this be considered "fair use". IANAL so I don't know, nor …
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Is it against the rules to proselytize your favorite things instead of answering the question?
It's worth remembering that Question & Answer pairs on here aren't just for the benefit of the person asking the question; the hope is that they'll benefit others in the future - which is why one of t …
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How to implement Stack Overflow's "are you a human" feature?
Now all this question needs is to be moved back to stackoverflow!
It's almost certainly a heuristic that tries to "guess" that a user is some form of automated process, rather than a person, for exam …
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Mark as duplicate for an identical question that was answered outside Stack Overflow?
This wouldn't, fundamentally, be any different to a link only answer so pretty much all the reasons that they're a bad idea would also apply to closing a question on a Stack Exchange site as a duplica …
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How to keep track of questions I'm answering?
Adding a question to favourites doesn't, I believe, increase the reputation of the asker or the person adding the favourite. So by all means, add the question to your favourites as a way of keeping tr …
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What's a good way to structure questions?
I always find a question that's structured thusly is quite a good way to go:
Preamble: What is the questioner trying to achieve, what environment are they trying to achieve it in and what isn't work …
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What makes Stack Exchange different from Quora?
Stack Exchange doesn't:
Require you to create an account to participate (purely on the basis that the Quora home page doesn't show anything other than a Login / Sign Up prompt).
Profess "to be the e …
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Is there a way to dispute a question that has been down voted and closed?
The closure reason was:
closed as too localized
You've got a discrete list of functions that you want to order and you've asked if the order you've come up with is correct, so unless someone else co …
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Summarising the key points of useful answers
is it worthwhile summarising the key points raised by the answers
What you've just described there is an answer. Rather than summarising in the question, add an answer yourself.
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Clear the "Invalid" flag on flags for posts that are subsequently removed by a moderator
If I flag an answer as "not an answer" and Moderator X (whomever that may be) deems that flag invalid, the flag shows in my flagging summary as "Invalid".
If I later look at my flagging summary and …
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If you really want to reduce the snark level
A perfect case of really low-level snark that can be seen on the network is the following comment:
What has this got to do with c#? C# files are just text files with a .cs extension.
On the foll …
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