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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Question deleted as duplicate despite unique answers and distinct use case
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Understand why the specific question about pow and base conversion was:
first closed as a duplicate, and
later fully deleted along with a well-received answer.
Argue that the ...
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Appeal: My answer was deleted as AI-generated but it was original work [duplicate]
My answer to How do I make a matplotlib bar graph scale with the amount of items? was removed as “AI generated”.
However, the content was written by me and I can explain each step of the reasoning.
I ...
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How do we discuss broad and difficult questions?
I don't ask questions often because I know I can read a specification on MDN or react.dev and usually get the answer. My work on flight controllers got me good at interpreting a coding standard, and '...
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Are debugging questions involving non-public artifacts on-topic?
I have an MRE (a minimalistic Maven project with a failing test).
But to reproduce the issue, you need to add a non-public fork of a public artifact to the classpath. I can include the fork jar.
Would ...
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Why was my Stack Overflow question closed as “Needs More Focus”? [closed]
I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow, and it was closed with the reason “Needs More Focus.”
I’m still learning how to ask good questions on the platform, so I want to understand what ...
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If you can figure out an answer to a first question from a second question and its answer, are the questions duplicates? [duplicate]
These questions are inverses:
Q: How to set a variable to a reference to an HTML Element in the browser dev console?
safarijavascript
A: Use the devtools shortcut foo = $0.
Q: What does ==$0 (double ...
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Where is a place to ask why a programming language behaves in a certain way?
I want to ask a question about why JavaScript behaves in a certain way. (Why does JavaScript use auto-boxing instead of keeping primitives as objects?)
I suppose that’s not technically a question ...
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How can this question about compilation load and build interface design for a C++ library be made suitable for reopening?
My attention was drawn through some side conversation about some main-site comments to the post My library is mostly header only, with a large, required section that only needs to be compiled once. ...
starballMod
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Potentially inappropriate closure of a PowerShell question as "not about programming or software development", reopening denied
The post in question is this (self-answered) question of mine:
Scripted installation of the Active Directory (ActiveDirectory) PowerShell module on Windows 11
It was closed as "not about ...
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Turning an accepted answer into a comment makes the question unanswered again. How to avoid this?
Converting an accepted answer (appended below) into a comment, even while appropriate in some cases, turns "answered" questions into unanswered ones... and most probably, they will always ...
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How to flag plagiarized answers that were copied from other answers using the new "Copy" button and so include an attribution? [duplicate]
Stack Overflow gets a steady stream of code-only answers that are plagiarized, verbatim, from other answers to the same question. See Can we get some automated filtering of answers that are entirely ...
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How do I correctly attribute other users comments in my answer [duplicate]
Other Users partially answered this question in the comments but missed out a part of the problem and therefore I answered it. Is there a neat way to attribute their helpful comments in the answer?
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Can I use ChatGPT to improve the English and clarity of my Stack Overflow questions? [duplicate]
I’m not a native English speaker, and sometimes I struggle to write my questions clearly.
Before posting a question on Stack Overflow, is it acceptable to use ChatGPT to help improve the grammar, ...
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When users delete their opinion-based questions, what are the repercussions?
Now this "opinion-based-questions" experiment is running we have this annoying situation that users frequently post questions as opinion-based that clearly should have been regular questions....
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What are "advice" questions and how are they created? [duplicate]
When looking at the list of questions of a tag I'm following, I've recently noticed that there is a new "type" of question of which I haven't heard before.
It has the keyword "Advice&...
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