Questions tagged [quality-filter]
The undisclosed algorithm through which all new questions are passed to determine if they can be posted on Stack Overflow.
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Impossible to write or edit posts on SO using `begin snippet`
Attempting to write or update a Stack Overflow post that uses the begin snippet directive seems to be impossible currently.
For example, attempt to edit any answer in this post, and it will be ...
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Quality filter preventing including links to jsfiddle tricked by using backticks
I recently came across a question that had backticks enclosing the entire content, as you can see in this screenshot:
The jsfiddle URL at the end is not a proper link, nor is it rendered as inline ...
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Should the string 'noob' be added to the blacklist for question titles?
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There appear to be quite some not descriptive question titles that boil down to [program language]-noob here..., noob-question why does y do y? (See for yourself.)
The actual questions might ...
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Why was this flagged 'Your question appears to be spam.' as a new user?
I attempted to post the following question using an account I created for work and it wouldn't let me, giving me the red message:
Your question appears to be spam.
Can I add a custom soap ...
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Is the New Question Form for New SO User's Working to Prevent Low Quality Questions? (maybe a revisit?)
This time of year Stack Overflow seems to get bombarded with numerous low-quality questions. That's understandable. It's about a month and a half into the fall semester and burgeoning programmers are ...
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Unable to post question due to large number of characters
I am trying to ask a question about HTML and XPath. It requires HTML code to fully understand the issue, but the problem is that whenever I try to post it this message appears saying that you cannot ...
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"Mostly code" is rejected but "mostly screenshots" goes through
According to its author, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72928402/referenceerror-jsondata-is-not-defined was at first rejected for containing mostly code. The author then replaced the code with a ...
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Is this the desired result of the algorithm for detecting incorrectly formatted code? [duplicate]
I think I have a case where the algorithm for detecting incorrectly formatted code isn't producing the desired result. I could be wrong, or this could be a non-fixable issue. Here's what happened:
I ...
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Exempt edits from "Title cannot contain" for high-rep users
Could we please lift this restriction from edits by users with a significant amount of reputation?
Ref: What triggers my title rejection?
In other words, I am proposing a new privilege "use ...
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Existing answer detected as improperly formatted code while trying to edit
I'm trying to edit the regex community-wiki reference post, but any change I make gives me the error:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code ...
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Is filler allowed to bypass "It looks like your post is mostly code; please add some more details."?
This is not a duplicate of How should I flag questions trying to get around the “This post is mostly code” filter? because my flag was declined, meaning that the answers there are irrelevant to my ...
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I don't post code, but the editor requires me to format as code
Question in question: The Facebook app I create doesn't present in my profile setting. How to find User ID for Facebook App ID?
While I'm not sure which part the checker thinks it as code, I ...
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Trying to ask a question about running C/C++ code from CosmosOS but it thinks that I want to run C from C# [duplicate]
I'm am developing a basic OS using CosmosOS devkit, and I have a question:
Title: CosmosOS - Run C/C++ code from kernel
Tags: c# cosmos c c++
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Hello, I am ...
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A Markdown table is detected incorrectly as a badly formatted code block
I tried to post this on the new tables feature thread on Meta Stack Exchange but I don't have enough reputation to post an answer or even a comment on the question. It might only be a Stack Overflow ...
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Error when trying to save edit - Title cannot contain X [duplicate]
I tried to edit this post. The title is "Automation Error in VBA." I did not modify the title at all but when I try to save the edit, I get the following error: Title cannot contain "...
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