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My question, How do I request a CSV of email activity from SendGrid without emailing our administrator?, was closed as being "not about programming or software development", and I am confused as to why.

The question is about the functionality of the SendGrid v3 API. There are 507 questions tagged and 3,379 tagged . The first revision of my post didn't include a code example since I was sending a basic POST request without a body. This matched the format of other questions about SendGrid's API. When I received my first close vote, I edited the question to add an example Python code block sending the API request to make it more clearly about programming, but the question was still closed.

Why was my question about the functionality of the SendGrid API closed as being "not about programming"?

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    My question was re-opened shortly after posting this. 👍 Commented May 20, 2025 at 16:55
  • I wasn't one of the original close voters, so I can't speak for them, but I think that the closure was incorrect. Commented May 20, 2025 at 17:04
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    What you want isn't possible with the API SendGrid provides. There's no "code" way to make that work... I'm guessing that's why the question was originally close-voted. Commented May 20, 2025 at 17:11
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    The title possibly doesn't help; emailing your administrator is somewhat irrelevant. What you want to know is how to do it programmatically. Commented May 20, 2025 at 17:26
  • @ThomA Good point. I’ve updated the tile accordingly Commented May 20, 2025 at 17:36
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    @Cerbrus The problem with that, of course, is that "this isn't possible" is an answer, not a close reason. Anyone closing questions because they ask for something that isn't possible is misusing close reasons. Commented May 20, 2025 at 20:17
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    Hey, that's just my guess. I can't think of any other reason for that vote. Commented May 21, 2025 at 2:08
  • My money is on the misleading title. Push comes to shove, it is a question with a edit history that is too long for its own good and so it experienced what will happen to a question that is not spit polished from the get-go - in record time. Asking successful questions on Stack Overflow in the 2020's is not for the faint of heart. Commented May 21, 2025 at 16:02

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