Questions tagged [opinion-based]
For questions about the "primarily opinion-based" close reason. Use [discussion] for questions that are opinion-based themselves.
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Exploring new types of questions on Stack Overflow
This quarter, the Community Enablement team is focused on researching the asking experience. This research has led the team to consider the types of questions allowed on Stack Overflow and how to ...
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Why is my question about library design choices opinion-based? [duplicate]
First, for reference, the question Why is the STL so heavily based on templates instead of inheritance? doesn't seem to have been deemed opinion-based. It asked about a design decision taken in the ...
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Should opinion-based questions be moved to Discussions instead of being closed?
Given that discussions are made for more open-ended and subjective posts, should posts that don't fit SO be moved there?
Pros:
It would populate discussions with more questions.
The asker and anyone ...
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Encourage rephrasing questions to cure appearance of being opinion-based
Often times, new contributors to SO will phrase questions like "What is the best way to do XYZ". These questions often get closed for being 'primarily opinion-based', despite the question ...
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Where is the "opinion-based" part of my question?
I asked a question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78479004/which-branch-to-checkout-when-working-on-prs-for-a-forked-repo) and it was promptly closed as "opinion-based".
Where is the ...
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How to make this question more focused?
I asked about a best-practice strategy for field initialization. To keep it tight and clear, I specified a limited set of possible approaches and explained why they all may make sense in certain ...
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What can we do when a close-reason requires an explanation?
Suppose you have this question:
Which is better: X or Y?
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What is the best way to do Z?
You could close it using the "opinion-based" close-reason. However, this is not very helpful for ...
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Can/Should I fix an opinion-based question?
My question was marked as opinion-based:
Should Equatable include the id for Identifiable structs in SwiftUI?
I am reaching out, because I am unsure on how to proceed in way that benefits this ...
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Close opinionated questions [closed]
This question looks like an opinion with very little research details. Why wasn't this closed for this exact reason? Which btw might also be considered an opinion.
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My "Why..." question was closed for being opinion-based
Yesterday, I asked Why aren't traits Sized by default? which was closed for potentially being opinion based.
I didn't agree, so I voted to reopen it.
Upon reopening, it got a well-received answer, ...
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Questions about best coding practice [duplicate]
I recently asked a question about a coding problem to which I had several possible solutions, and I was asking which one would be considered best practice, or if any of them would be considered ...
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Guidance re-writing a question closed as opinion based
I had a question closed as opinion based. I'd like to ask the community if the problem here was the wording I used, that is, how the question was written, of if the subject itself is not suitable to ...
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Opinion-based close reason doesn't seem accurate for my question
I don't understand how Make dapper SQL be syntax colorized is opinion-based. It's asking for a very specific technical task to be done, and the top upvoted answer gives a concrete and specific means ...
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Question closed since it's opinion-based
I'm trying to write a question to get a better understanding of what advantages an EKS cluster provides over a traditional ECS system: When should I use EKS over ECS?
However my question got closed ...
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What makes this question on Stack Overflow opinion based?
I asked this question on Stack Overflow and it was closed for being "opinion-based":
gRPC endpoint that sends initial data and afterwards stream of data
I formulated the question like this:
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