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 assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion. Not to be confused with [discussions-space], which is for the Discussions beta feature on Stack Overflow.
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How to discuss with close voters whether my question was correctly closed as off-topic when the close banner doesn't say who the close voters are
My last post on Stack Overflow has been closed as off-topic. I tried to reopen it explaining my reasons, but it seems to remain closed.
I really would like to understand why my reasoning is wrong, but ...
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Badger - Submit a Community Badge Suggestion and it is successfully implemented
To get the ball rolling for the new Community Badge feature, I thought I'd suggest a badge that promotes some engagement with the new feature. A badge you get for successfully suggesting a community ...
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Where do I go to ask for library recommendations? [duplicate]
Earlier today, I posted this question asking for a good C# equivalent to Python's "prophet" forecasting library. It was promptly closed, on the grounds that the site does not allow library ...
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Should Stack Overflow rebrand from a Q&A site to a FAQ site?
The graph. We should've seen it coming. There's been a disconnect between the curators and the masses. Can adding the word "frequently" resolve this misunderstanding?
A computer science ...
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Asking about problems of a CPU architecture
Would SO be a good place to ask which mistakes in the design of the RISC-V architecture Linus Torvalds means in the video at https://youtu.be/1Y82U450zcI?si=1CL-JmCjlvCoKpkJ when he claims all the ...
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Why have question counts and total views on my Stack Exchange site dropped to nearly zero? [duplicate]
I've noticed something peculiar in the Stack Overflow public data lately. The vibrant community that once generated tens of thousands of questions and views per month has apparently decided to ...
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Why was suggested edit 37086539 rejected?
I recently suggested this edit, which converted some unformatted text into code-formatted text, so that it would be (more) readable, and remediated some incorrect spellings.
However, this was rejected,...
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Please drop the large vertical space at the beginning of code blocks [duplicate]
A while ago (several weeks I think), code blocks in SO posts gained a corner "Copy" icon, which is fine, but the entire vertical span of that icon is now unused across the horizontal span of ...
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Added minimum executable code to reopen the question. Does it need anything else to reopen? [closed]
How to update column without updating whole table
When I first asked, I pasted the code into an external source (codesandbox), simply because it made it easier to see the entire problem and experiment ...
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No, I do not believe this is the end
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain
We all have seen the graph that is making the rounds. The question posed. The assumptions made. I have seen the speculation. Many ...
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Let's not mention the Close vote count any more, to give a question more chances to be kept opened: "Close" link is better than "Close (n)"
I'm reading a question with its close link below it written Close. If it's a normal question, I'm neutral. If I judge it so bad that it should be closed, I will click on Close and the link will change ...
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What should we do with completely offtopic open-ended questions (unless we are facebook support now)? [duplicate]
I just stumbled about an open ended question about... getting a cryptic error while trying to create a facebook page.
Is this thing now okay to post here? (If so, I'll have some questions about a ...
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Create new [precizer] tag to support the open source project of the same name [duplicate]
I am the developer of the open source project “precizer”.
For users of the project, I would like to provide a support channel on https://stackoverflow.com by using a tag with the project name. This ...
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Is a question about the system requirements for installing an in-scope programming tool in-scope?
By "system requirements", I mean things such as what OSes are supported, generally how much disk space is needed, how much memory is typically minimally needed to run the program, etc.
My ...
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Was the deletion of my question fair or justified?
I understand perfectly well why source code is required in questions. Most questions, but why all of them?
The question describes my situation: MessageBox.Show("Message") was added to the ...
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