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Enough. The inevitable has come
11 years have passed since I signed up on Code Review. More than 14 years since I've signed up on Stack Overflow.
I've... seen things. Learned things. Some of those things, I'm glad I saw and learned. ...
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Desynonymize web-extensions tag to firefox-webextensions
I got this message when trying to add web-extensions tag to my question Streaming messages for Chrome MV3 Web extensions
The tag [web-extensions] is too similar to [firefox-webextensions]. If you ...
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Should we adopt the "Copy button for code blocks” feature on Code Review?
As of today (November 4, 2025), all code blocks on Stack Overflow have a “Copy” button. From Results of the October 2025 Community Asks Sprint: copy button for code blocks, and more on Meta:
As of ...
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Is pseudocode allowed in *answers*?
There are several meta questions plus the help center making it clear that questions must provide real code.
However, it is unclear to me whether answers must therefore also be runnable code. ...
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Questions pertaining to deleted APIs
I already know that a moderator disagrees with me on this topic, so I expect a dissenting answer but I am posting this for transparency's sake anyway.
For questions like Analyze Stock Market Bottom ...
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Lost in the bureaucracy
I have a question about usage of libraries, harming performance of other code. I thought the question would fit Code Review being a general point about coding, prepared and put it into CR.SE.
I ...
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Would a question asking an unimplemented feature about a fully working script be on-topic here?
Two days ago (or yesterday depending on your timezone) was π-day. So I thought it was a good day to calculate π.
I used Machin-like formula to calculate π, in homage of William Shanks, who calculated ...
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Improve the "good" example in "How to ask a good question"
Close to the end of of How do I ask a good question? , we see how a poor question can be transformed into a much better one.
It doesn't go quite as far as I would like, however. The ...
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Turn off code detection inside MathJax expressions [duplicate]
When you type MathJax expressions, it will often trigger the error:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as
code.
Examples of MathJax that could trigger this would be <...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Suspicious downvotes on questions
I have noticed a suspicious pattern of downvotes on questions.
Here is a typical sequence of my actions when I post an answer on another user's question:
I upvote the question
I edit the question
I ...
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My content on Code Review was used by some YouTubers to make bad videos, what can I do about it?
I don't know if it is on topic here, but it does involve this website. In fact this is only possible because this website exists, but the Stack Exchange network is not at fault.
So a little ...
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Save rotting links by Google link shortener
I have rececently found a goo.gl link in a comment (here: Searching an element in a sorted array) and when followed, the link displayed a warning:
This link will no longer work in the near future
goo....
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Complex review how much context?
I have some code that needs reviewing based on the C++ Co-Routines that were released with C++20.
This is a non trivial update to the language (I am not sure I understand it). If I just put the code ...
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Can I post a question about my own answer to another question that has been criticized?
My situation is a bit peculiar and unusual: I posted an answer to a question around a month ago, and originally got 5 upvotes and accepted. Later OP unaccepted my answer, and recently a person told me ...