Questions tagged [faq-proposed]
Proposals for new entries for the FAQ repository on this site should use this tag.
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Can I flag suspected AI-generated posts as "Plagiarized content"?
I found a post that I suspect to be generated by ChatGPT or another LLM service.
The available guidance about what to do in such cases suggests to raise an "In need of moderator intervention"...
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Why should I help close "bad" questions that I think are valid, instead of helping the OP with an answer?
There seems to be a very high bar for contributing to Stack Overflow, especially when it comes to asking questions. These standards can result in serious self-doubt, and seem to be the driving force ...
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When is it acceptable to delete a post?
Question inspired by this post as well as this one.
This applies to users with privileges to cast delete votes. In some cases, a post may be off-topic. Here's some situations:
It's blatantly off-...
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Why does tagging multiple RDBMS products make my question unclear?
I recently posted a question where I was having a problem writing some SQL for a problem I was trying to solve. When I finished writing it I added the tag sql as well as the one for the database ...
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Is it good to add/keep words like "Error", "Uncaught TypeError", etc. in the title of the question?
A Stack Exchange rule is explicitly telling:
Avoid inserting tags into titles in any of the following formats:
[tag]: [question title]
But there are lots of questions which are using this pattern ...
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What are the possible resolution states for a Not an Answer flag?
I correctly flagged an answer as "not an answer", but when I later checked the status of the flag, I found it was "declined" because the post was edited to be a proper answer ...
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How can I prevent an edit war happening when someone edits a post of mine?
Disclaimer: this is a proposal for a separate FAQ item dedicated to handling edit wars and not a question per se
Someone edited a post of mine, but I disagree with the edit - how should I proceed? ...
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How do I deal with old answers containing broken links?
I found some old answer that contains a broken link. What do I do about that? Should I flag it?
(There is this closely related Q/A. But it comes from a different starting point with OP already being ...
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Why are proposed changes to voting, which limit or remove the use of downvotes, met with strong disagreement?
The comments and answers on many proposals to change the way voting works on Stack Overflow indicate there are strong opinions against many of these changes, mainly because such proposals alter the ...
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Should we disapprove of uploading images of tables when asking a question?
Since the introduction of the table markdown should people still be using images of tables instead of the markdown? Or should we be enforcing the use of the new markdown? If we find a question that ...
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Is it OK to leave a comment asking for upvotes? [duplicate]
If lots of other people seem to have the same question, is it OK to ask for those people to upvote my question?
The reason I ask is because I was looking at this comment (comment now deleted by a ...
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How should I deal with posts that have been edited to replace the content with off-topic content?
I recently saw a question that was off-topic. Once I went to the revision history, I could see that the OP had changed the content of the question completely, thus making it off-topic.
In cases like ...
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Where do I ask questions about Stack Overflow Meta itself? Is there a Meta Meta?
For discussions about the policies and inner workings of Stack Overflow, we have Meta Stack Overflow. As described in the Help Center's "What's Meta?" page:
Meta Stack Overflow is the part ...
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I'm asking a question about my own post, but I'm still prompted that I need 5 reputation to post here. What gives?
I had a meta question about one of my own posts on the main site.
Someone (a user, a help page, etc.) told me that while I ordinarily need 5 reputation to post on this Meta site, I can ask a question ...
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How do you use `FileReader` or a web worker or similar that needs an external file in Stack Snippets?
I need to show an example of my problem using FileReader. How can I do that with Stack Snippets? They don't let you have multiple files. The same thing happens when I need to ask about something with ...
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