Questions tagged [specific-question]
Use along with [meta] to ask about specific questions here on Meta Stack Exchange. Questions about questions on other network sites are off-topic here and should be posted on the site's meta instead.
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Completed feature-request gets closed as off-topic
This feature-request was marked status-completed and then it got closed as off-topic. If it was really off-topic then it should not have been tagged completed. To me that is really strange, maybe I am ...
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How do new users get help on Stack Exchange?
I'm having a computer issue and joined SuperUser looking for help after your site popped up in a search for tech help forums. I asked a question as a guest and received a couple of comments, so I'm ...
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Should opinion-seeking questions with many answers be reworded or left as-is? [duplicate]
I have an opinion-seeking question that is several years old and just recently was marked as on-hold. The on-hold status requests I re-word my question, but since there are already so many answers ...
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When to ask multiple questions in a single post ? (Revisited) [duplicate]
This question has been asked several times in similar (yet often slightly different) ways.
The general consensus seems to be that it's best to ask multiple questions individually in multiple Question ...
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Question removed by OP after I answered it
The OP removed this question after I posted an answer (and an useful edit) to it. Not sure if this is too un-common as I faced it only second time. (can't get the first instance details as it was ...
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Deleting a question which is answered and must be deleted for company reasons [duplicate]
I want to delete my question which is answered.
I breached my company policy by sharing the original code! Now my account is suspended for 2 days! How do I delete an answered questions?
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Why is my question put on-hold since there are plenty similar ones? [closed]
Do you know is there anything different between my question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29206889/are-there-any-examples-of-using-the-state-design-pattern-in-net-framework) which is put on-...
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Revision history says these two questions are deleted, but they still exist
While playing around with some SEDE queries, I came across the following two odd questions (both from the same user):
758706: Insert matching parentheses xcode? (revision history)
1101705: Input ...
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Delete my own misguided question?
When I asked this question I didn't understand enough basics to even formulate the question correctly.
Specifically, I asked about basis when the real question (as I now understand) was about how ...
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How can I make this question acceptable? [closed]
Earlier today I posted this question on programmers.stackexchange:
How can a manager best communicate software development best practices to junior and mid level staff?
My boss asked me this ...
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Why was this link removed in my question? [closed]
I asked a question regarding how a Blu-ray disk can be released online before the official Blu-ray release date on Stacke Exchange site Movies & TV. So I used a link for source, but someone ...
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After reading the meta I still don't know where to post my question [duplicate]
I posted a question on Programmers and was told that I should post it on Stack Overflow instead.
Having posted it in both places, both questions are now "on hold as off-topic" so really, I don't ...
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Regarding specific edit
One of my questions had a suggested edit and I approved it. I am still having a feeling that there wasn't a reason to make that edit. It was addition of a relevant tag. The question was quite old. The ...
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Help me count editors of this post (made CW by "more than 5 different editor", I found only 3) [duplicate]
This post was made community wiki in rev 14. Edit summary says:
[Post Made Community Wiki by being edited by more than 5 different editor]
(Side note "5 different editor" (instead of "...editors") ...
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Delete the popular popular deleted Stack Overflow and Programmers questions
The justification for keeping https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73455/popular-deleted-stack-overflow-and-programmers-questions on Meta.SE is:
So those two Programmers questions are the only ...
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