Questions tagged [discussion]
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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(Almost) One year of Challenges
It's been almost a year since the launch of Coding Challenges on Stack Overflow. We think it’s important to share this reflection with the rest of the network, and we also want to know if there is ...
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What is the line between sharing personal experience and self-promotion on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I’m trying to understand where the boundary is between a genuine contribution and what might be considered self-promotion.
For example, if someone has developed their own framework, method, or ...
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If an answer is deleted, what should links to it do when viewed in an incognito window? [duplicate]
If an answer is deleted, what should links to it do when viewed in an incognito window?
Currently they just go to the parent question, leaving users confused.
Shouldn't they print some explanatory ...
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I'm Adam, staff software engineer, and this is how I work
Hi hello 👋 I'm Adam Lear and I'll be your host for this round of the This Is How I Work series. In mid-January I celebrated my 14-year anniversary of joining the company. It's kinda wild to think ...
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How does the recent reorganisation impact the Stack Exchange community?
In a comment on the post Retiring the beta site over on meta SO, Philippe wrote:
... we had a recent reorganization, which resulted in different folks being put in charge of various parts of the ...
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Asking AI instead of Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange to avoid triage/acceptance phase for question that is becoming too complex
This past year, I had some subjects that blocked me while developing and deploying.
Few questions that have been closed or not well received because of dangling off-topic
"What to focus on first?...
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How will Tennessee's SB 1493 ("making certain AI training a Class A felony") affect Stack Exchange?
Tennessee may be on the verge of enacting one of the most punitive artificial intelligence laws in the country. Under this proposal, the state would transform routine design features of modern ...
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How do I get 20 reputation on this web site so I can chat? [duplicate]
How do I get 20 reputation on this web site so I can chat?
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Reporting a bug in a user's network profile anonymously [duplicate]
I sought permission from the user concerned and chose to respect their denial of permission to name or any identifiable information them in this report.
On a site that I curate I followed a user ...
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When should I just click the contact button below?
When should I just click the contact button below?
vs. posting here?
Digging deeper, we find the contact button is for an "issue that can't be addressed by meta".
OK, I will first send to ...
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Why do the network profile activity links to answers have /q/ instead of /a/? [duplicate]
I noticed that on the network profile "activity" tab, answer posts are linked as if they are question posts, like
https://{domain}/q/{answer_id}
instead of
https://{domain}/a/{answer_id}
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This tag isn't [trivial] -- it has two uses
The trivial tag (14 questions) has a description saying it's for "Trivial answers and trivial edits". Problem is, those are two completely different things, with different rules etc., that ...
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Should AI-assisted answers be explicitly labeled on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
With the increasing use of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude for drafting answers, it’s becoming harder to distinguish between fully human-written content and AI-assisted responses.
While high-quality ...
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I hereby challenge Stack Exchange's CEO to make a video using Stack Exchange
Not that long ago, McDonald's's CEO promoted their product by attempting to eat a McDonald's's burger:
I love this product. It is so good. I'm going to do a tasting right now, but I'm going to eat ...
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Adjust not-an-answer default comment text to be more welcoming to newcomers
A very common confusion among newcomers is the fact that answers truly need to be answers, and that this is not a forum where followups can continue to be posted.
Such an incident occurred today on ...
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