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Why is the historical aspect of Stack Overflow being downplayed?
I've seen the party line: "This is a question and answer site".
Things like reputation and historical context have clearly been depreciated. One item that is more recent: reducing comments ...
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Reasons why a question should never be closed [duplicate]
I will base my explanation on this question, although it only shows one of the possible scenarios.
First, the question went through staging ground. I don't know what happened at that stage, but it was ...
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How do we compete with AI for reputation? [duplicate]
I have been an active user on Stack Overflow for 9 years, going on 10. At the time of posting this, I have authored 225 answers and 55 questions, which averages roughly 2 - 3 contributions per month. ...
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Reputation not updated after question reopened — do closed-period upvotes get counted later? [duplicate]
I have a situation where my answer received upvotes while the question was closed, but I didn’t gain any reputation for them.
Later, the question was reopened, yet my reputation didn’t update.
Here’s ...
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Should an answer be posted that is basically in the comment section of the question? [duplicate]
Just recently posted an answer to a question by taking the cue from the comment of another user.
On second thought, I realised that while my recently posted answer is correct and was based on another ...
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Adjust the wording in the close reason "(Not about ...) software tools primarily used by programmers" (again)
When a question is closed with the "Not about programming or software development" reason, the following info message gets shown in the question:
This question does not appear to be about a ...
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Approach to hyphenation is unneeded & misconceived; stop (mostly) hyphenating [closed]
Text on Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange is not right-justified so there is no need to hyphenate anything except:
a single word that overflows the given line length
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if you are really, really ...
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Comments UI change: Please add back flagged icon
When I've flagged a comment, the UI used to show a little red flag symbol, but it doesn't anymore.
This icon is helpful when re-reading a list of comments so that you know that you can skip the ...
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Why was this upvoted answer deleted by a moderator? [duplicate]
I asked a question and set a bounty for 50 points. Then someone posted this answer which seems reasonable to me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79783501/1175080
It does not cite sources as requested in ...
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What to do about reputation gain essentially ending in certain tags?
Assuming we want reputation to remain dynamic and grow over time for users who contribute to SO, how do we keep reputation and more importantly reputation based privileges from becoming essentially ...
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"This edit resolves the original close reason" but it doesn't!
I tried to cleanup someone else's closed question and while editing I noticed the following text under "Edit Summary":
This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should ...
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Feedback on the new "Answer your own question"
As a non-native English speaker, I found this variation to "Answer your own question" confusing.
At first I was looking for the "Answer your own question" and couldn't find it. I ...
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How do I preview the appearance of my question before posting?
The interface for Asking a question used to render a live preview below the Body block.
Like in this example borrowed from Math meta How do I preview my post before posting?
However, my recent ...
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Question with answer got deleted by users. Doesn't that go against SO Policy?
I have this question which asks How would we go about reacting once 2 seconds of N videos has been preloaded?.
And Goldman had provided a really good answer, that I'm sure would be of interest to ...
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Clarification for closed question needs debugging details (or MRE)
Intermittent NoSuchMethodError in WebLogic application
The question is about a Java runtime error that happens very rarely (once in few years). It seems to be a code error, not environment or data ...
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