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69 questions linked to/from My question was closed as being off-topic. What are my options?
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What was wrong with my question? [duplicate]
My question eLearning webapp made with Django was recently closed for:
Authorship of code: Since Code Review is a community where programmers improve their skills through peer review, we require that ...
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Is it ok to ask here how code works? [duplicate]
I have a working piece of code without any documentation and explanation, but I don't understand how it works. Can I ask such questions or not?
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Frequently Posted Comments
On Code Review we often encounter questions with the same kind of problem over and over again.
Some of us are using the auto comments script which allows you to maintain a list of comments to post.
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Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?
Is it OK if I write a question and include a link to GitHub/Pastebin/other similar site instead of putting the code here on Code Review?
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Why is only my own written code on-topic?
I tend to disagree with point #2 on the Help Center:
Did I write that code?
I believe any code, written by one self or anyone else should be eligible for code review. Many a times, you're reviewing ...
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How should we revise the standard off-topic reasons, if we can have up to five?
Note: For chat-like discussions of this subject, let's use this Discuss Close Reasons chat room
Code Review currently has three standard off-topic reasons:
Questions containing broken code or asking ...
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Let's draft better Help Center pages!
To follow up on Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center, let's collaboratively draft better Help Center pages.
For each Help Center page to be modified, post a Community Wiki "answer" containing ...
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Why is hypothetical example code off-topic for Code Review?
As stated in the Help Center, one of the criteria for a question to be on topic is:
Is it actual code from a project rather than pseudo-code or hypothetical code?
Details matter! In order to give good ...
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Are questions with undiscovered bugs allowed?
Re: Connect 4 in C++
Situation: The OP, a beginner posted code with several bugs in it. They said they thought the code worked okay, because they hadn't discovered the bugs during their testing, ...
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Asking questions - including full code
In my first CR question, I was looking for feedback about my implementation of a graph data structure and an algorithm for depth first traversal, as I am studying these at the moment.
Although I ...
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Is asking for a review of boiler plate for a minimal repro okay?
For asking and answering questions on Stack Overflow with certain frameworks and libraries I have boilerplate lying around for a minimal repro. I would be interested in getting feedback on my WCF ...
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How should we deal with askers fixing off-topic questions when an answer has been posted?
I did a quick search to see if this has been asked, but it didn't seem to be. The intent behind this question is from how this question was handled, but is not limited to it.
The situation is an asker ...
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What to do with bitter disappointment?
put on hold as off-topic by 200_success♦ 15 mins ago
This question appears to be off-topic for this site. While what’s on-
and off-topic is not always intuitive, you can learn more about it by
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Can I have a question "series" for a major project?
I'm about to start my senior computer science project, which involves a web REST API (Rails or Node.js) as well as an Android app. I don't imagine that I'll have a ton of questions, but there could be ...
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Should there be evidence for a provided reason when a question is put on hold?
It is easy to say about code that it is written by someone else. It is fine if it is based on concrete facts by providing a link to that code of which they think that it is written by someone else. It ...
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How should we revisit our standard close reasons?
We have some history, shown below, with our close reasons, there are some problems we have with them. And there has been a consensus to rework them for a while now.
The latest I heard about this was ...
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Are we allowed to ask questions about just regular expressions?
Are we allowed to ask questions just about regular expressions?
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What exactly does it mean for code to be "Working Code"?
Why is it that Code Review's definition of "working code" is so misaligned with so many people's expectations?
@rolfl
Well, we've had a lot of discussion about broken code on meta, but we ...
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Review for large chunks of code
I am migrating from small pieces of code to larger applications. All my code is public on github or simillar. As I am in the middle of this transition, I am not very intrested in reviewing chunks of ...
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"unclear what you're asking" vs "Lacks concrete context"
Aren't these two close reasons too similar? Since the Lacks concrete context exists I cannot remember using the unclear what you're asking anymore.
unclear what you're asking
Please clarify your ...
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Are requests to analyze the complexity of code on-topic?
Here is an example of a question that asks for a big-O analysis of a function (to count the number of ways to make change): What is the run time of this algorithm?
Here is my algorithm
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"Who Wrote This?" and What Do We Actually Consider Authorship?
As I was working through the Close Votes Review Queue, I came upon a question beginning like this:
I just cloned (Github clone, not literal clone) someone's Tic-Tac-Toe game and I was originally ...
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Is our "broken" wording broken?
"Questions containing broken code or asking for advice about code not yet written are off-topic, as the code is not ready for review. After the question has been edited to contain working code, ...
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My code is too long. How do I trim it down when code posted here is expected to function?
The code I would like to have reviewed, found here, is more than 30,000 characters long. I don't feel like that in and of itself makes it off topic, but removing code from it so that it can be posted ...
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What is "best to the author's knowledge"?
The question has been put on hold with the reason code not implemented or not working as intended.
It is a curious case: in fact, the code is implemented, and does work as intended. The OP just didn'...
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What's the best way to change how my code looks?
A long time ago the question avoiding Python multiline string indentation was asked.
The question was well received with a score of 66 and 16 favourites.
It was even answered by one of our previous ...
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Caesar Cipher in C++
Come on people!!!!!
Caesar Cipher in C++
Closing this as of-topic is ridiculous. It compiles it runs it works (for specific input). Yes it has flaws but this code is basically 99.9999999% complete ...
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Confusing phrasing of the "off-topic" close reason
Before asking my last question, I've double checked what counts as off-topic and on-topic in this SE. According to my findings:
We require that the code be working correctly, to the best of the ...
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Is it appropriate to ask for review on an entire GitHub repo?
I have a Python application that I created a while back and I'm hoping to have someone with more Python experience than me look over the entire project and let me know if both the structure of the ...
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Request to re-open "Find out relation between Devices…" question
I had sought out review for a question about some proprietary code that I am working on. The code in question retrieves information from a list of one-to-many mappings and seeks to build a ...
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