Questions tagged [asking-questions]
This tag is for questions specifically about the process of asking questions on Stack Overflow.
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What img src to use for questions about img tag?
What's an <img> element I can embed into snippets in my question with a placeholder in them on this site?
<img src="???">
A placeholder image would be helpful to make MRE for ...
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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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Error while Submitting a Question on stackoverflow.com
The question has already passed the automated checks:
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How are tags intended to be used?
I've never been sure whether you're supposed to pick tags which:
attract the eyeballs of the experts you want, who are hopefully watching the tags, and/or
categorize your question for good curation ...
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Should I post on Stack Overflow just because I have more chance to obtain a useful response?
I asked this question (Monitoring Wildfly cluster with ElasticSearch and cron jobs [closed]) and it got closed for not being about programming or software development.
I knew that it was not about ...
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What exactly is needed for a basic how-to question?
I know from experience that many questions get closed as "Needs debugging details" and will be accused of lacking a minimal reproducible example, and that the early comments on a short ...
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How to ask questions related to program performance, especially in compiled languages?
Whenever someone asks a so-called "benchmarking" question about performance: execution speed or memory use etc, I have noticed that there is almost always a problem with the question itself. ...
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Understanding the standard for "opinion-based" questions
I've read the relevant part of Question Close Reasons - Definitions and Guidance, as well as What types of questions should I avoid asking? in the Help Center (which is mainly about opinion and ...
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How can questions about Power Automate be formulated more helpfully?
Some questions regarding Microsoft Power Automate:
How to make the apply to each in my flow faster?
List Rows in Table not showing individual values as options in later actions
Copy/paste action is ...
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One Ask Page to Rule Them All
The company is working to simplify, improve, and consolidate the question asking experience for users new and old on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. We are rolling out a few more ...
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Improve capitalization of sister sites in "Have a non-programming question?" sidebar widget
When asking a question, there's a sidebar widget "Have a non-programming question?" which links to a couple of sites, but does not use the correct capitalization, which should be
Super User
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"similar questions" seems to ignore assigned tags
When asking a question (like How to use code (`(?{ ... })) in right side of substitute?), it seems the proposed "similar questions" ignore any tags assigned, mostly using the title of the ...
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Why is this comment inappropriate? How can I ask a question or request clarification without risking deletion? [closed]
I'm new to Stack Overflow, and I'm trying to learn how to properly phrase my questions and comments. Recently, I replied to a question asking for clarification because the author had done something ...
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How can we improve the question asking process on Stack Overflow?
A lot of questions that get asked on Stack Overflow simply don't do well on the platform. 20% of questions that get asked today get deleted, 22% are closed, and 36% survive but don’t get answered. ...
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How can I write this title that includes the word "code" without triggering the title quality filter?
It seems I cannot post questions now. No matter what I write I get blocked with
Please provide a title that summarizes your question. For assistance, see: How do I ask a good question?
Even though I ...
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