New answers tagged opinion-based
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How to start bounty on a "Best practice" question?
You can, in fact, make a bounty on a Best practices question:
Running this in the dev tools console creates a bounty:
$.post("/posts/bounty/start/<ID>", {"bountyamount": 50, &...
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Exploring new types of questions on Stack Overflow
At the risk of sounding naive (I have only been on SO for 14 years), I really don't understand what exactly is meant by an "opinion-based" question. It looks to me like almost every question ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
You told us:
As you can see in the mockups, the key change is a simple ”type”
selector on the Ask Question form. We ran some research with users to
confirm if they could successfully and consistently ...
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bug status-completed
Opinion-based questions should not appear in Close-Vote audits, at least, not without review actions to select. The only action available is "skip", which means this ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Reminder notifications on mobile devices (Android/iOS))
This topic has been covered quite regularly already. Since OP asks about specific pitfalls, they seem to have done some basic research. The ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
I cannot figure out how to Opt-out of this feature. I can't filter them out. I can't find a setting to turn them off. I can't downvote them. I can't ignore people who post them.
They are acting as ...
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When will the opinion-based question experiment finish?
Kevin B is correct, this will not be turned off any time soon.
But we are working on an update of what is coming next for the experiment, what we are seeing, what we are working on, additional ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
This is posted as an advice question, but really should be a normal Q&A: How to not write a Firestore Converter for each type. (Firestore + Unity / C#). It is reasonably answerable in its current ...
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When will the opinion-based question experiment finish?
Just like past experiments surrounding discussions, there is no specific end date for this experiment. Given it is a place where they are allowing users (both new and old) to create content, it's ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79820362/minecraft-mods-decompiler-with-ai
Not asking for any advice, not asking for any opinions. Pure "join my project" advertisement. Not sure if there ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Is it the tty, the shell, or both that echos user input? is an "Advice" question that is literally just a regular question. There's nothing opinion-based about it. I think part of the ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
Removing downvotes on opinion-based questions (which is a signifcant portion of what people try to ask, according to your metrics), just protects precious new users who don't bother to read the rules ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
To me, this entire experiment appears to be misguided. Take a look at the provided reasoning for why this is happening:
The goal of this new approach is to add more quality information to
the ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Vim 9.1 & Python Virtual Env looks as if it could be a traditional Q&A question, although an incomplete one.
Unfortunately, it lacks contextual information, a [mre], and an understandable (at ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
I was very surprised to find an advice question pop up in one of my very small, niche followed tags:
Is there any working difference when setFocus() method for agenda group is defined in the java code ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
With regards to closing such questions, here's an interesting case:
Python for finance
I have a question regarding core finance using logical reasoning in it:
A stock rises by 200% in the first year. ...
decezeMod
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What should I do about "opinion-based" questions that should be regular Q&A posts?
I can raise a custom flag, but I'd imagine this puts unnecessary work onto moderators.
Moderators cannot do anything about it anyway. There is no way to "migrate" between question types at ...
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Is a forum inside Q&A a terrible idea?
Yes, I think it's a bad idea for a Q&A site to allow forum-like posts to co-exist alongside Q&A posts.
The whole point of Q&A is people come here, ask their questions, get answers, and ...
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Should the review queues include opinion-based questions & answers?
No, I don't believe they should. The review queue doesn't really make it clear that these aren't traditional Q&A posts either, which is causing people to then raise "Not an answer" flags ...
Thom AMod
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
feature-request
Can questions that should absolutely have been asked in the normal Q&A style be converted from open-ended after the fact? By moderators (might be too much work for them), by the ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Why does Python get a red carpet to vSphere while Java gets a CAPTCHA and a shrug? isn't really asking anything the community could answer. I don't think it's even really asking a technical question ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug status-completed
Infinite vote glitch
Steps to reproduce (on Chrome):
Vote for an answer.
Click a link on the page.
Use the browser's Back ⬅️ button.
The vote count remains in the state before ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
The design is plain annoying: the people that care make sure to select the section, they think applies best to their question. But actually, those people are the ones who do ask well-received, on-...
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Is a forum inside Q&A a terrible idea?
Not necessarily although in this case and the current implementation very likely yes.
You say you clicked there on accident while having no interest in it? No problem. Surely the feature can (in ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
A combobox as new property for a usercontrol to show in the designer crashes VS
This post is quite obviously a factual Why? debugging question, the answer of which is simple and a duplicate: the ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
feature-request
Let me enter my email so that I am informed when a) this feature was removed or b) I can set preferences to hide those endless discussions.
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Robot for Websites should be a normal question, fleshed out with a minimal, reproducible example and full context for what OP is trying to accomplish. It's posed as a "best tool" question, ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
Looking at the questions that have ended up in the opinion-based question types since the experiment has started, it becomes clear that the overwhelming majority of questions there aren't opinion-...
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Question types are confusing
I think asking people to pick a category for their questions is a trap. It feels like this will give us information to help us do things with it, but, just like forcing authors to add tags, it just ...
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Is this a good idea?
First of all, I'm all for opening up the scope of SO for other types of programming questions, as was the intention here. The "primarily opinion-based" close reason is ...
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Display Revisions link on Opinionated Questions
This has now been fixed, the creation / last modified date on opinion-based posts (questions and responses) now link to the corresponding timeline page.
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
feature-request
Please distinguish these from normal questions when shared with other parts of the Stack Exchange network (e.g. Realtime Questions).
At present, it's unsettling to follow a link ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
we want to focus on improving the current process here to something more constructive that encourages the asker to refine their question in a different way
That assumes that the question the user is ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug
Replies can end up in LQA review queues: https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/37037121. I don't think this is as designed since "Not an Answer" is not available from the ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Typescript: Create array type containing values of all object properties should be a regular question. The asker does not understand the difference between question types.
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug or feature-request
There's no way to use comment formatting, including shorthands like [edit] and @-tags like @wjandrea.
This hinders communication, e.g. giving advice to new users:
For reference:...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
This may be the most poorly conceived new feature I have ever seen on Stack Overflow.
I have lost count of the number of "opinion-based" questions I have seen posted in the new format which ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
Find the commit that deleted a particular line is not only not opinion-based, it's actually a duplicate of a question asked 15 years ago.
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
I am seeing a lot of questions being posed in the new opinion-based mode that really ought to be traditional Q & A. This is presumably driven by the new category selector, which is awful.
My ...
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What opinion-based questions and answers have you come across from this alpha experiment that you liked or didn't like?
HTML 5 Audio Player should not be an advice question, and would normally be closed as all the debugging information is externally hosted with the URLs marked up as code.
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug
Duplicate detection has a bug – opinion-based questions (e.g. "General advice / Other") should not be detected and blocked as a duplicate of a regular question ("Troubleshooting / ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
feature-request or possibly bug
Please make reply placement consistent
(I previously posted this as a separate question before finding out feedback should go here. It acquired 16 points.)
For "...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug
For this experiment, we will only ever show the thumbs-up count
Somehow this entry has negative thumbs up. As I understood it should always be >= 0.
Always reminds me of the joke when the ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
The questions so far have proved that there's significant confusion about the categories. (I think part of it is regional English, as my experience working for a major multinational firm has ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
feature-request
Please restore proper comments on these types of posts.
Even though we may have a relaxed standard for what counts as an answer/response for these types of questions, I assume we are ...
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The UI implementation of this needs to be fixed into something that isn't just one big wall of text. With the current design, it is very difficult to understand who is replying to who, or the ...
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Opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
bug
I thumbs-upped this response a few days ago, but its thumbs-up count is zero:
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