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Is it time to reconsider career/education questions as being off-topic?
What project types best prepare students for real-world software engineering? was closed because it was asking about career or education advice — I agree it was — however as of writing this meta post, ...
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Why was "When to use std::reserve" closed as duplicate of "when to use microoptimization in coding"
Post in question: When to use std::vector reserve
I'm not the author, but I had seen this question earlier and found the discussion interesting. I wasn't surprised however, to see it closed as ...
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Scope of questions related to management and devs' health
Is this an appropriate place to ask a question related to project management decisions and some impacts on the devs' mental health that these decision have had?
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Are we ready to reopen "How to build a local LLM-based assistant for querying an ERP system..."?
This closed question was edited heavily
How to build a local LLM-based assistant for querying an ERP system without relying on an external APIs?
to give context, examples, and make it focus on a ...
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What is the "hook" tag about?
I recently asked a question, where Git hooks seemed to a good solution, so I thought of adding the hooks tag to that question.
That tag exists indeed, but out of the fourteen questions with that tag, ...
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Is on-topic relevant and disclosed self-promotion banned?
I've always considered searching for a relevant question and posting an answer with a solution I've developed to be perfectly legitimate self-promotion practice.
Is it truly bannable?
I'm asking ...
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Expanded tag wiki for "project-structure"
I updated the tag wiki on Sunday, but we can certainly make other changes later. This version was much better than what I had.
I tried my hand at expanding the tag wiki for project-structure. This is ...
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2025: 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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Virtual fridge good, Virtual library bad
OK so neither of these questions are the best in the world. But they are both essentially the same. "here is my idea, what do you think?" one gets upvotes and answers one gets deleted ...
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Since "what is the best practice/industry standard"-style questions are poorly received, when is it acceptable to edit that part out?
We've seen and discussed this a lot over the years. Most recently, Ewan posted another meta question tangentially related to this where a string of questions were down-voted. The answer to the meta ...
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Downvoting/closing tusharRawat's recent questions reflects badly on the community
tusharRawat has posted 3/4 similar questions about his ecommerce product. They all have lots of detail and describe specific problems but they are all getting close votes and the usual -1 downvote.
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Should comments be edited out from answers?
I'm worried I'm overreaching in my edit in First Answers queue.
In particular, it removes paragraphs:
i don't know why this old question popped up, but i do have a few comments on the ideas you bring ...
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Hidden history entry by Community Bot
Why was Efficiency of C# dictionaries bumped on 2025-12-03?
The history contains no entry for this date, but the home page says:
Community Bot modified 19 hours ago
Is it caused by a spam deletion? ...
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I've stepped down as a moderator
You may have noticed that I've stepped down as a moderator on Software Engineering. It actually went a couple of months ago, but I completely forgot to post this then, so I'm doing it now - better ...
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What's wrong with the Curious badge? [duplicate]
According to the hint on the Curious badge, I need a positive question record.
I have 16 non-deleted questions, 9 of them have a positive score, 1 has a zero score and 6 have a negative score.
The ...