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Should the question be closed if it has been answered in another thread of some website?
The question which has been answered in some other website should be marked closed in Stack Overflow? It can help to find active questions and reduce time to investigate duplicate questions with other ...
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Reporting Close-Voting misuse [closed]
I sometimes come across a question on SO from a new user that was structured well, asked properly and the user showed their code, etc. Essentially it's a good question and follows the rules.
But I ...
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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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Close reason: off-topic as asks for best-practices or ways of usage [closed]
I just visited this post on SO, here's an excerpt for containment sake:
Ways of formatting an AngularJS directive template
What ways of formatting do you use for formatting templates in ...
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the concept of too broad, primarily opinion violation [duplicate]
tl; dr: I was offended by 2 questions that got closed and reopened multiple times here and here.
Both of these questions got lots of downvotes, then got closed, then reopened, then upvoted, and so on. ...
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Limiting downvotes to those with an accompanying comment [duplicate]
Don't you think a downvote without a comment, even a 2 word comment, is just unnatural, non constructive and against Stack Overflow regulations itself?
I mean if someone wants to downvote, sure thing ...
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The current off-topic close reasons are bad
The Problem
After speaking to many users who have been moderating this site clean many, many times, and after some thought, I came to the conclusion that the current custom off-topic reasons do not ...
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Failed Audit : 4118533 - Close Votes Review Queue [closed]
This seems too broad and/or off topic (for finding a tool). https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/4118533 So I clicked close, but I got this :
Am I right that this question should be closed? Or ...
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Are "guessing game" questions off-topic? [duplicate]
I recently came upon this question in the close-vote queue and I'm struggling to figure out what to do with it.
As @gnat correctly points out in the comments, this is obviously a "name that thing&...
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Is "lack of minimal understanding" an off-topic reason or not, now? Mixed messages [closed]
Lack of minimal understanding of the problem being solved is no longer an off-the peg reason for flagging a question off-topic, and according to
this answer
As of now, the "minimal understanding" ...
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Add "or tutorial" to off-topic close reason [closed]
There are very many questions asking practically for guidance, tutorial or spoonfeeding. Answering such questions would require namely to give link to some tutorial, however off-site resource are off ...
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Is this question asking for an Eclipse plugin off-topic on Stack Overflow? [closed]
Is the question https://stackoverflow.com/q/21253155/1309352 off-topic on Stack Overflow?
And if so, why?
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recent changes to the off-topic close reasons [duplicate]
EDIT: Why was this question marked as duplicate? Please do not vote for a duplicate if you did not take the time to read the posts. As I said in the comments, the difference between those two reasons ...
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What happened to the "You're Just Lazy" close vote reason? [closed]
...not literally, of course. But what happened to the previous menu of close-vote options?
I find the current set unsatisfactory. Take this question that boils down to a typical java.lang....
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Why are Node.js questions being flagged as off-topic on Stack Overflow and suggesting Server Fault?
I've seen several questions in the close queue like this one lately:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20878109/in-nodejs-parent-process-send-socket-handle-to-child-process-but-cant-recv-data
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