Questions tagged [opinion-based]
For questions about the "primarily opinion-based" close reason, and opinion-based questions – both regular questions and the opinion-based questions experimental feature. (Use the [discussion] tag instead for questions on Meta Stack Overflow that are opinion-based themselves.)
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Migrate Q&A to opinion-based [duplicate]
I found this question which in Q&A is not a good fit - However it would make a great opinion-based question! As far as I can tell though the only option I have is to flag it for closure as being ...
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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. ...
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How to start bounty on a "Best practice" question?
I've visited my questions page, and to my surprise I see a banner to start a bounty or accept an answer on my opinionated question.
As far as I know, it is not possible (source)
We're removing the ...
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Triage: Can not submit "Needs author edit" action
When reviewing this question, I have chosen "Needs author edit" option (it is active), pressed "Submit", but the page didn't change.
I have also navigated to the homepage, then ...
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Unable to comment on question and answers to "Advice" question?
Is it a bug, or a design change? I cannot comment on python3.14 returns error but output is still correct and one other I looked at. I have commented before, so it's not a reputation limit. There ...
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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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Until I click something, all opinion-based questions (e.g., "Advice") are shown to me on tag pages, even when I'm opted-out from experiments
The annoying Advice posts keep appearing among normal posts to me from day one, even though I was opted out from experiments for a long time already and though there was a post recently (can't find it)...
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Are there any additional principles for reviewing open-ended questions?
I had some free time today and decided to finish some review queues. After a few "First Answers" i stumbled upon a fragment of a discussion from the "Advice" section (this one). I ...
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Comments can be added on "answers" to opinion-based questions from review queues
I came across this "answer" in the first answers review queue and more out of curiosity than anything shared feedback using the Community bot. Afterwards, I noticed that the actual ...
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Open ended questions/discussions needs close vote capability yesterday
I do not like having to flag moderators to close an open-ended question that's just blatantly off-topic and got multiple posts saying so, but can't be closed because there's no close-vote feature ...
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When will the opinion-based question experiment finish?
The announcement of the opinion-based question experiment did not specify the duration or end date of the experiment. If the announcement is to be believed then staff are no longer monitoring that ...
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What should I do about "opinion-based" questions that should be regular Q&A posts?
Most "opinion-based" questions I come across are actually better candidates for regular Q&A, such as many of the examples in this thread. Ignoring the fact that many of them would be ...
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Should the review queues include opinion-based questions & answers?
The first question and first answer review queues also show discussions posts and answers - I find this odd since most of the quality metrics for Q&A don't seem to apply, given replies "join ...
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Is a forum inside Q&A a terrible idea?
A forum inside Q&A is a terrible idea.
Why? Because everyone will be using it instead of the very strict, harsh and unfriendly system designed to build and contain a best-in-the-world Q&A ...
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Question types are confusing
I had a question about how to do something in C++
How to pass arbitrary-sized array as template nontype argument?
when writing the quesiton I noticed a new field "Type" with options:
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