Unanswered Questions
161 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Let's help askers who are trying to circumvent question block at Stack Overflow
If a first time asker has an SO account that was recently (say, within a week) question blocked over there, how about showing them a warning like this:
Wait! You've recently been blocked at Stack ...
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Can we resuscitate more content?
Noobs everywhere
Ok, so we have people new to programming, poor English speakers, and sometimes their intersection asking questions here. Their questions aren't always the best, but sometimes there ...
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Angular 2 is a long time ago
The angular2 tag is somewhat outdated.
I don't think it is a good idea to make a new tag for every version of Angular 2+ but most questions these days are about Angular 6 or 7. (And soon Angular 8).
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Could we please detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow data and offload them to Triage review for an hour or two?
Propose to detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow quality scoring data and put them to Triage queue for an hour or two. If the timeout expires before decision is made, let questions go to ...
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Call for volunteers: close voters
Programmers could benefit from a few more regular visitors who close questions on the front page and the Unanswered page that are clearly off-topic.
"Clearly off-topic" means:
We don't do ...
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kerning issues - click reads like dick, letter spacing
Using Firefox 16.0.2 22 on Windows 8, I've had a hard time reading certain sentences. Browser is normal zoom.
clean looks like dean.
click looks like dick.
Screenshot if you cannot see it:
And ...
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Looking for algorithms
I have a problem I'm trying to solve and I'm looking for an algorithm to solve it. I'm sure a solution exists I just don't know what it's called to search for it.
If I describe the nature of the ...
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How do I ask a good question?
We’d love to help you. To improve your chances of getting an answer, here are some tips:
STOP!
Softwareengineering.SE is primarily about software design. We don't do code troubleshooting here, ...
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Burninate and blacklist request: [career-*] [job-*] [resume]
This is not a duplicate of this: Usefulness of [career-development] and [career-transition] tags ... it's time for them to be blacklisted. The narrowness of scope of what actually would be on topic ...
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Can we decide to get rid of [decisions]?
The decisions currently has 30 questions, no tag excerpt and is used for all kinds of decisions: design-decisions (also a vague tag), technical decisions, decision tables. Not surprisingly, since ...
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Can the more clear description of the sites scope on the 'Sign Up' page be repeated in at least the 'Ask Question' page?
Plenty of discussion on the issue of the site's scope, here's my suggestion in this Q&A as an official feature request.
Before a user joins programmers.se they are welcomed with what I feel is a ...
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Some stats on first and second posts
One of the things that we occasionally see on P.SE (and more often at the start of a new college semester) is new users posting their homework. With single posts, we are often able to comment and ...
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Grant more close votes for close reviewers
Based upon a recent answer1, 2 to a previous question of mine, I'd like to re-visit an older request.
Please give all close voters3 on Programmers 50 votes instead of the standard 244.
Why?
All of ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Burninate then Blacklist the [tutorial] and [tutorials] tags
I feel that the tutorial and the tutorials tags should be blacklisted. They are for the most part called out in the FAQ as off topic, and even when they are non general knowledge and cannot be easily ...
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