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Should Code Review improve the new-question Title hint?
I would like to suggest a UX improvement
for new users, so they're less likely
to encounter edits / pushback from mods.
1. Summarize the problem
Code Review posters are typically new users.
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Acknowledging code review contributions in academic projects
In the context of academia, consider the following scenario: a person, such as a PhD student or postdoc, shares parts of their code related to a scientific project on this platform and receives ...
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Nefarious user still allowed to contribute?
Yesterday, I flagged an answer from this user because he/she posted a harmful link which performs a drive-by download attack.
Should not the community ban them network wide?
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What are the most active languages on Code Review
Normally I ask and answer questions on C++. And the responses are reasonable.
But recently I asked question for review of my JavaScript (as I actually need a lot of help here). But I got a lot less ...
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New user posts 20+ times within 10 minutes?
How is it possible for a new user to post 20+ questions, with mostly the same content, within 10 minutes, on the same day the account was created? How is there no throttling? How do these posts remain ...
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How should we [compose] this tag?
I'm following all the Kotlin questions and I noticed that there was no tag for Jetpack Compose.
While Stack Overflow has four tags for variants of compose:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/...
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Can I ask a question on a very specific aspect of design?
Can I ask a question on a very specific aspect of design? Like, I would like to know whether
Is this the right way to set defaults? I want the defaults set
regardless of whether an object is created ...
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Is CR targeted at anyone else except the OP?
As a person who joined Stack Overflow about 15 years ago I am always curious to see what new flavours of my favourite Q&A site emerge every year.
So from time to time google takes me to ...
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Including function implementations if I need advice about architecture/design/file hierarchy?
I have a program that loads data from CSV files, processes it, and returns CSV files as output. The program is divided into a series of functions that are housed in various files.
What I'm interested ...
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Are 'follow up' questions on the same/similar code allowed?
I had a code that I submitted here for review, and got a review. Good. But the implementation was primitive, and I have since written a new, more refined implementation, but the concept/intended ...
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What Site Policy should we have for code written by ChatGPT?
As all of us I'm sure are aware, ChatGPT has induced a plethora of discussion network-wide. Specifically with this site, we could very well see an influx of questions about reviewing ChatGPT generated ...
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TypeScript and JavaScript tags
We typically treat c and c++ as mutually exclusive. We don't tag the same question with both c and c++. I feel we should do the same for TypeScript and JavaScript.
TypeScript needs to run through a ...
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Rubberduck is growing out of SE chat
At one point in time, the VBA Rubberducking chat was CR's most active chat room. Here we are almost a whole decade later, and Rubberduck as a project is entering a new phase as work on version 3.0 is ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...