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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Duplicate Answer Created When Editing Original Answer
Something really weird just happened in this question.
I answered the question and then clicked edit to add a few more details. Once I submitted the edit, a new answer was added instead of editing my ...
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How to handle bad questions with good answers?
Take a look at this question. It's a really crappy question that (especially for the first revision) really deserves its -4 score.
However, one user has written what (to me, who doesn't know jack ...
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Are questions about best practices bad?
I was looking at asking for some help from the SO community in relation to best practices for ASP.NET MVC. I planned on making it a Community Wiki as well.
But, when I was typing my title, I was told ...
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Unreasonable Editing Practices
I am annoyed with some editors who edit my questions for no good reason. I consider some people involved in this activity to be dangerously obsessed with it.
In my last question, someone changed '...
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ASCII-art formatting in SO?
Can someone tell me how Dictionary<T> of List<T> and ListViews in ASP.NET was formatted?
I know how to do this in a text editor, but I can't figure out how it is done on the Stack ...
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Sockpuppets who expose themselves
On SO, Beeph, asks a question, What's the simplest way to embed blog functionality on my home page? which is an exact dupe of the question asked a few minutes prior.
When prompted about the earlier ...
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"Post Locked" vs. "Post Closed"?
What is the difference between "Post Locked" and "Post Closed" ?
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What's going on with the "DO NOT CLICK LINK" message? [closed]
What's going on with the "DO NOT CLICK LINK" message on this question? What is "SLASH SLASS"?
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What did I do wrong in this answer? [closed]
I just spent quite a while writing an answer. Within mins it'd been downvoted and the downvoter didn't leave a comment.
I'm still quite new to SO and still working out the rules. I guess I've done ...
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Community-wikiing of question
It might be a little selfish of me to ask, but why was this question (and the answers) community-wikied? Was the (now deleted) user rep gaming or something?
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How can I ask my closed question in a better manner?
I recently posted a question on SO and within minutes it was slammed shut offensively without any help as to how I could make it better. Furthermore, it got saddled with the 'subjective' tag, when if ...
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What has happened to the quality of answers on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Apologies of this has come up recently / been done to death, I've only just discovered Meta Stack Overflow.
I signed up for Stack Overflow just after its launch nearly a year ago, and ...
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What should we do with a Question about "How would you develop software for a nuclear plant?"
The question How would you develop software for a nuclear plant? got some interesting answers, despite being closed at least once (I think). Yet when I asked the OP what he wanted from the question, ...
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How can we retire "What is the worst programming language?" with dignity? [closed]
My question What is the worst programming language you ever worked with? got closed and locked recently.
If you feel strongly
that we should keep this alive, please
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