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F.Y.I: I replaced the tag "open-close" by "open-closed-principle" in all 29 questions where it was used
I took the freedom to clean up these two synonymously used tags. "open-close" was less often used and had no description. There were two questions which used "open-close" without ...
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Why the older posters are so rude
I saw three older devs deleted my questions because I asked them to follow the guidelines
We generally expect that moderators:
are patient and fair
lead by example
show respect for their fellow ...
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What's the proper to phrase a question pertaining to good practices so that it doesn't get closed?
I asked a question about good practices: Are there good practices or even conventions to store LLM prompts I use while coding?
It got closed as opinion-based. I looked at other questions tagged ...
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Removed question was before closed by moderator
Is it possible to know why this question was removed?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/452793/how-do-you-build-a-high-availability-horizontally-scaling-application
I was looking ...
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Why is my question opinion based and downvoted?
I asked about the rationale for defining a block size and number of blocks for various file interaction interfaces rather than just defining a number of bytes. Given how I see those in enough ...
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Make [delegates] a synonym of [delegation]
They appear to both refer to the Delegation pattern which is a design pattern that consists of helper objects that hold methods called on by main objects for example.
Therefore I am suggesting ...
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What's a positive question record?
Good afternoon,
In my reputation view, there is the following:
While checking my account, I see four questions with a negative score, one with a zero score, all the rest (ten in total) have a ...
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Is it appropriate to ask to check exercises from Dragon Book here?
I am studying the Dragon Book about compilers and it has exercises which I try to solve. Unfortunately, there is no-one nearby who could check my solutions. Is it appropriate to post my solutions here ...
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Reopen a question that was closed, then changed, and now is missing last reopen vote
I was directed here to ask about reopening my question after the revisions I made: Creating necessary documentation for maintenance staff when only Code repository contents can be relied on
This was ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Should we request a banner to communicate our policy regarding generative AI in posts?
Staff recently completed a test of a banner to inform users of a site's policy regarding the use of generative AI, finding that it doesn't significantly impact answer rates but that it does reduce the ...
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Why are questions asking for resources about conceptual problems that age well off-topic?
From Can I ask for resource recommendations here?:
Resource requests are asking for specific resources that are relevant to the broader concepts. Links to tutorials and blogs can stagnate: if you ...
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Why is the question asking about guideline on modelling a domain unfocused?
The question Is there any guideline on how to choose the objects to be modelled? is closed for being unfocused:
If your question has many valid answers (but no way to determine which, if any, are ...
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Because someone has already answered I can't delete my question even it was closed and everyone considers it is not appropriate
I had opened this question I feel like the tech industry is increasingly calling for pragmatism and I'm just bad at it. It was rapidly downvoted multiple times and closed. I concluded that it does ...
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Is it wrong for a question to be wrong?
Off topic and useless questions aside, what about questions that have an incorrect premise? Every question makes some assumptions. Does the question need to be closed when those assumptions are wrong?
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