Questions tagged [open-ended-questions]
For questions about the new open-ended questions feature, AKA opinion-based questions – not to be confused with the opinion-based *close reason*. For questions about the close reason or both, use the [opinion-based] tag. For questions on Meta Stack Overflow that are opinion-based themselves, use the [discussion] tag.
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"Share Feedback" does nothing on the experimental open-ended questions [duplicate]
In the First questions review queue, I chose "Share Feedback" on this question which is one of the "Advice" questions from the open-ended questions experiment.
However, no visible ...
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Career advice on Stack Overflow
It's early 2026 and there seems to be a lot of career advice questions. It's understandable, considering the economy, but as far as I can tell, they go against the general rules for on-topic questions:...
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Why do comment replies appear in "first answers" review queue?
Why do comment replies appear in the "first answers" review queue?
I thought the review queue of first answers would only contain answers.
Example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79907047
Here'...
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Are opinion-based questions cannibalizing regular Q&A?
This is a graph showing the questions per day on Stack Overflow (based on this SEDE query). It includes deleted questions, but doesn't include opinion-based questions since they're not present in SEDE
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Where to find the Tour for the new question types?
New users take the tour when joining the site. Often they are refered to the tour after posting their first question in case they didn't read it yet. However, the tour presents an introduction that in ...
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Questions posted on beta are not visible in feeds on main site. How should I watch my tag of interest at one place?
I recently observed that one of my Custom Filters was showing blue circle, indicating that there is new question or activity in the tag I am watching. I clicked on it to see the activity, but there ...
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Opinion Based Question That is Not in English
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79896067/best-practice-for-c4-adr
Is:
Not in English
Has a first comment that repeats the question by the question's author.
Has content (based on my browser's ...
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Open-ended questions should not be in the triage review queue
https://stackoverflow.com/review/triage/37100271 is apparently a "open-ended question" in the Triage review queue.
There's nothing I can do with this. The question is hopelessly lacking in ...
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Is there a way to filter on the new TYPE of posts? (advice, best practice, etc)
When sifting through questions, is there a way to filter a specific type or set of types?
e.g. Something along these lines: [python] and {advice_type} or {best_practice_type}
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There is no question type in the experimental ask question page that makes sense for requesting help implementing an algorithm in a specific language
I am a long-time but low-intensity SO user who occasionally asks and answers questions. I just asked a question, my first in a while. As the title of this meta question indicates, I requested help ...
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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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Edit history for new question types [duplicate]
There's a bug (or unimplemented feature): edit history is not displayed for new types of questions (such as Tooling recommendations). I refer to hyperlinked messages like "Edited 2 days ago" ...
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"Is there any way we can help Stack Overflow Website get back up?" is using [stack-overflow] tag. How to proceed?
Yesterday, the following "Advice" question was posted
Is there any way we can help Stack Overflow Website get back up?
It's tagged stack-overflow. The tag excerpt says that this tag should ...
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Mods aren't denoted as mods (missing their diamond ♦) when interacting with open ended questions
I just posted an answer/comment/reply to an open-ended question, and I was missing my diamond (♦). Our diamonds aren't displayed when we post in these questions:
The mod diamond (♦) should definitely ...
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Why is my question marked as open-ended? [duplicate]
I recently posted a question on SO: How do I use default/system colors for extending my standard UI?
I am asking how to perform a very specific (but presumably, commonly required) task using a ...
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