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How do we discuss broad and difficult questions?
I don't ask questions often because I know I can read a specification on MDN or react.dev and usually get the answer. My work on flight controllers got me good at interpreting a coding standard, and '...
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Why do I get the Staff Label?
'bout 6 months ago I asked this question about why stack overflow is shrinking and it has me marked as Staff. When you hover over the label it says "This user was a staff member at the time of ...
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Migrate Q&A to opinion-based [duplicate]
I found this question which in Q&A is not a good fit - However it would make a great opinion-based question! As far as I can tell though the only option I have is to flag it for closure as being ...
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Are debugging questions involving non-public artifacts on-topic?
I have an MRE (a minimalistic Maven project with a failing test).But to reproduce the issue, you need to add a non-public fork of a public artifact to the classpath. I can include the fork jar.Would ...
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Why was my Stack Overflow question closed as “Needs More Focus”? [closed]
I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow, and it was closed with the reason “Needs More Focus.”I’m still learning how to ask good questions on the platform, so I want to understand what ...
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If you can figure out an answer to a first question from a second question and its answer, are the questions duplicates? [duplicate]
These questions are inverses:Q: How to set a variable to a reference to an HTML Element in the browser dev console?safarijavascriptA: Use the devtools shortcut foo = $0.Q: What does ==$0 (double ...
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Why are Discussions still live somewhere? [duplicate]
27th Nov 2025: Someone just replied to one of my posts in Discussions. It is still live and active, apparently, somewhere in limbo. I doubt this is on purpose? If it is, how to get there?The top ...
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Where is a place to ask why a programming language behaves in a certain way?
I want to ask a question about why JavaScript behaves in a certain way. (Why does JavaScript use auto-boxing instead of keeping primitives as objects?)I suppose that’s not technically a question ...
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How can this question about compilation load and build interface design for a C++ library be made suitable for reopening?
My attention was drawn through some side conversation about some main-site comments to the post My library is mostly header only, with a large, required section that only needs to be compiled once. ...

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Potentially inappropriate closure of a PowerShell question as "not about programming or software development", reopening denied
The post in question is this (self-answered) question of mine:Scripted installation of the Active Directory (ActiveDirectory) PowerShell module on Windows 11It was closed as "not about ...
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Is a link to a stackblitz not enough for a minimal reproducible example? [duplicate]
My Vite question was closed because it does not include the:desired behavior, a specific problem or error, and the shortest code necessary to reproduce the problem.However I've linked a stackblitz ...
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Answers can still be found with a tag that was removed days or even months ago
When I search for [rust] and ( [cargo] or [sqlx] ) in an ongoing attempt to clear up mistagged questions the results include several answer posts whose question were originally incorrectly tagged:...
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How to start bounty on a "Best practice" question?
I've visited my questions page, and to my surprise I see a banner to start a bounty or accept an answer on my opinionated question.As far as I know, it is not possible (source)We're removing the ...
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Turning an accepted answer into a comment makes the question unanswered again. How to avoid this?
Converting an accepted answer (appended below) into a comment, even while appropriate in some cases, turns "answered" questions into unanswered ones... and most probably, they will always ...
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Triage: Can not submit "Needs author edit" action
When reviewing this question, I have chosen "Needs author edit" option (it is active), pressed "Submit", but the page didn't change.I have also navigated to the homepage, then ...






