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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?
About 6 months ago I asked Why is the total number of questions on Stack Overflow shrinking lately? and it has me marked as Staff. When you hover over the label it says "This user was a staff ...
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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 ...






