Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.
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What's the point of reviewing close decisions on answered questions [duplicate]
I'm spending some time to review close decisions on questions. I was asked to check this one: Injecting DbContext in ASP.NET Core - concrete type or interface?
I understand that it is subjective, but ...
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Were my comments overly provocative?
This Stack Overflow answer seemed to come off immediately with a very harsh stance against a JavaScript feature. In fact calling it "trash". Okay, I'm cool with that, but I'm therefore going ...
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Is it plagiarism if my solution is reposted with a minor change that makes it work with an older version?
Backstory: Some years ago I posted a solution for an old, unanswered question. Nothing happened for a couple of months, but then the question author commented on my answer to note that is doesn't work ...
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Started bounty on someone else's interesting question, then question has been closed before end of bounty
I have found this interesting question (I am not the author) : Cut a video in between key frames without re-encoding the full video using ffpmeg?.
It was quite upvoted, which shows interest by other ...
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Should [translation] be a synonym of [language-translation] or vice versa?
Isn't any form of translation from one language to another, regardless if its a human language or a machines language? Also the language machines use is created by humans therefore you could argue it ...
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Why was the content of the tag descriptions reduced? [duplicate]
It seems like the content of the tag descriptions was reduced. E.g. when I open a question containing a JSON tag and hover the tag, I can only read "JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a ...
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Is ChatGPT and LLM killing Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Last few months I have been using ChatGPT LLM for coding, debugging, troubleshooting.
Earlier I used to google / post my question on Stack Overflow.
But now I have instant solution to most of my ...
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Are there circumstances when flagging a non-rude/non-spam but hopeless question on Staging Ground is warranted?
I came across this question on Staging Ground, and I saw that a reviewer had diligently and politely made 3 relevant comments asking for improvements. And this actually troubled me, because the ...
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Should all questions with the [ios-app] tag on MSO be closed as the app has been dead for years?
Just over seven years ago, I asked a question on MSO about the misbehaviour of the iOS app for Stack Overflow (tag on MSO ios-app — question iOS app does not show the previous edit message when re-...
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Why is asking for the advantages of a technology acceptable, but asking for disadvantages is delete-worthy? [duplicate]
This question is high voted and answered. This question sits at -1 and is deleted. Yet, the difference in their titles is only three letters. The first question is
What are the advantages of running ...
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Why is editing a staged question so different from editing a posted question?
I tried to fix code formatting of this staged question https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78740556.
I didn't manage to get the formatting right, because there is no preview, and the top bar ...
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Should we burninate [class-names]?
The tag class-names has 79 questions in it, has no wiki or wiki excerpt, and is used for questions where the questions refer to different things. Running through the burnination criteria:
Does it ...
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Is it okay to ask questions about specific APIs with explanation?
My question that I'm trying to find an answer to is, in a broad sense, How to use Google Drive/Form's authentication process. I would provide more details such as what I'm trying to do, what I have so ...
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Even asking a good question and answering it yourself causes downvotes => moderator intervention? [duplicate]
I'm a regular member of Stack Overflow. I have experience in Delphi, C++, Java, Python and now I'm working with C#, based on XAML.
Despite my Delphi experience, I'm having some issues with XAML ...
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Collectives Update: WSO2
The WSO2 Collective will be decommissioned on July 17. Questions and answers that were part of the Collective will not be affected, apart from the removal of collective-specific markup. All published ...
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