Questions tagged [ask-question-form]
Use this tag to report bugs and file feature requests related to the interface used to ask questions.
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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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Form to ask questions doesn't show up
A user (hmathers) reported over chat that the ask question form doesn't show up for them, the place where the form is supposed to be is blank as shown in the following image:
They are using Windows ...
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Can't post question (Safari problem?) [duplicate]
I'm trying to post a question to SO and I'm hitting a weird brick wall. After typing in a title and a body, and selecting a few tags, I click the "Review question" button as usual, and... ...
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AI suggestions button in ask/edit question interface gives 404
I have just finished writing a question, and I noticed at the bottom of the screen a new "AI suggested edits for your question" section, with a "Get suggestions" button.
This ...
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When confirming a post, why not show the page as it will be?
When I write a post I rarely bother to look it over before confirming I want to post it. The reason is purely because I very much prefer to see it in the actual page as it will be and then just edit ...
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Post Question Button Greyed Out
I started off using the Question Wizard. When I finished with the Wizard to the point where it gave me a single body for my question, I then toggled off the Wizard and chose to answer my own question. ...
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Stop asking me to check existing questions if there are no relevant matches
Every time I ask a question, I have to click submit twice. First because I want to ask a question and then a second time because SO is spamming me with possible duplicate questions.
I never check for ...
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Show a warning when on Stack Snippets throwing errors
Tl;Dr: Make use of the Ask question warnings to reduce the misuse of Stack Snippets. Automatically run it in the background when the user click the "Review your questions button", if there ...
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Regression in new "Ask" page: tag usage guidance (tips) has been de-emphasized and is not obvious
We got tag tips, they are little guidance flavor that is supposed to try to nudge you into asking better questions when you use some tags on the site. Well, I doubt askers are reading it because it's ...
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Posting properly formatted code is poorly explained and harder than it needs to be
Every day I leave comments on the site asking users to fix their code formatting, or notes that I have already done so. True, a lot of it comes down to apathy (or lack of consideration) on the part of ...
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Guidance on the posting form is actively counterproductive vs how-to-ask guidelines
Whenever one goes to "Ask a Question" on Stack Overflow, the fields are labelled like so:
Title
Be specific and imagine you’re asking a question to another person
Body
Include all the ...
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How can the ask question page be improved in the case the validation checks out OK?
When trying to post a question, a validation step checks if the question is ready to publish. I assume that this workflow was constructed very deliberately and with a lot of feedback. Yet, I find it ...
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Make the "How to ask a good question" guide (much) more visible
I have been seeing so many homework/leetcode/whatever-website questions being asked on SO. They aren't good questions too. These people would just post the website question on SO, and call it a day ...
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What happened to the Ask Question Wizard / Guided Mode?
I've only checked the Ask Question Wizard when it was in the prototype phase and shortly after it went live. I was just trying to re-visit it now but I didn't have any luck.
In the post linked above, ...
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"Question couldn't be submitted" and "Question is ready to publish" icons aren't aligned with background color in Dark Mode
Got this error in the Ask Question page, and saw that the error icon wasn't aligned with the red background:
Same thing with the green icon:
It looks okay in the normal mode, like a red shadow, but ...
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