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What's wrong with the Curious badge?
According to the hint on the Curious badge, I need a positive question record.
I have 16 non-deleted questions, 9 of them have a positive score, 1 has a zero score and 6 have a negative score.
The ...
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What is required to be in a question on Software Engineering?
I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the ...
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Possible improvement to user experience on help page
While I've been a member for a long time, I have only asked 1 question and that was a long time ago. I decided to review the guidelines in the help pages before I ask a new question.
I was looking at ...
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How long does a suggested edit typically linger in the review queue?
A couple of weeks back I posted (as a guest) an edit to an answer on What is the difference between Times and Dup in Assembly Language?. The edit is about correcting an error in the answer that was ...
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Please don't make or approve tiny little edits to old questions
A question posted 12 years ago ended up today on the home page. I thought, originally, that it probably received a spam answer—which happens occasionally—but it appeared that it all has to do with two ...
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"move this discussion to chat?" link is broken
When I click prompt:
"Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?" a small error box without text appears and no chat is ...
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You might be able to help me: Pre-post question review
I have a question in mind for the main site. The question has several parts that ultimately culminate in a single document: An Explainer.
I would prefer to not go through all of the work to post the ...
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Are there any plans for delivering a dark mode version for this stack?
Since this is mostly visited by programmers, I think it would be a great improvement to follow StackOverflow and add that functionality here.
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Why would you close a question that already has answers?
My question Optimizing a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" parser was closed with this reason:
Right now, your question may contain multiple distinct questions or is too broad to easily address ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Software Engineering has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Software Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election ...
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Duga, The Whiteboard, and brainstorming
I've been hanging out in chat more often now. I tried starting a topic of discussion, but it was quickly drowned out by Duga, a bot that looks for mentions of software engineering at StackOverflow. I ...
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Are naming questions on-topic?
Even though there's a designated tag for naming, naming questions (like this one) are often frowned upon, disliked, even closed as off-topic on this site.
Are naming questions on-topic?
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Mobile chat always shows irrelevant rooms
I've tried using mobile version of chat.
It is polluted with deleted/frozen/whatever rooms and there is no obvious way to hide them.
I've tried hiding those on Desktop version, but the changes did not ...
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What are the acceptable criteria to determine that an answer is AI generated
Generative AI answers are banned here. And obviously some of them are easy to spot: usually they are longer thant needed, take a didactic tone, and do not directly conto the code of the question.
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Why was my question about finding the specific name of an ontology closed as opinion-based?
Is it because of On the troubles of naming and terminology?
Name the ontology: eq; cmp; to_str; from_str
Off the top of my head here are the things often derived in serde (Rust), dataclasses (Python),...
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Are Programming Paradigms really off-topic on a site dedicated to Software Engineering?
I posted a question:
Did I Discover A New Programming Paradigm? where I introduce the reader to Declarative Domain Programming, a paradigm I am exploring for the last 5 years.
The questions got closed ...
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Can we reopen: Helper "wrappers" around listener registration methods?
I think the question below is ready to be reopened. We see implementation code and example usage:
Helper "wrappers" around listener registration methods
I've already up-voted and voted to ...
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Why question was deleted by a moderator. The deletion notice doesn't include rationale, and I cannot vote to undelete it. What is my recourse?
Problem
When I visit softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/revisions/455243, I see that the answer has been deleted. However, the deletion notice doesn't contain rationale. In its stead, it merely ...
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Question closed without explanation - why?
I asked a thorough and well composed question that was closed as off topic despite fitting into the categories listed as on topic and not fitting any of the categories listed as off topic.
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Can opinion-based questions be migrated to SO Discussion?
This question has been deleted (for being opinion-based?). However it is suggested to be better suited in SO Discussion. Is it possible to migrate it to there?
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Were my comments deleted from this closed question, and if so, why?
I'm honestly trying to decide if I just hallucinated comments in my mind, but I swear I left a comment on Custom API Clarification just after I voted to close it. I thought I left a comment that went ...
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Are "root cause" questions opinion based?
A root cause is a fairly singular concept. The facts in the this case are well known. Yet the question is closed as being opinion based with no explanation. If there is another credible opinion about ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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How is choosing between Javascript or CSS NOT a good software engineering question
However, the question on this site was closed, 14 years ago: When a task can be accomplished by either Javascript or CSS, is it better to use CSS? .
This all seems very fundamental, and not opinion ...
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What do people use as basis for voting on this site?
I once commented on Cryptography Meta, that the answers there are generally theoretical (and bleeding edge) in nature, so people don't have a basis for voting, which results in 0-scored posts, unlike ...
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How can I improve my "design-choice" question?
My question recently got closed due to needing to be more focused,so I want to ask exactly what I should improve upon. In my view, I have put enough detail into the question, and described the problem ...
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I want to ask if there is an existing solution to the communication problem between desktop applications. Can it be submitted in software engineering?
May I ask if my following question can be asked in software engineering?
I plan to write multiple desktop applications using PySide. These desktop applications need to work collaboratively, so this ...
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How can I view my deleted questions?
Over the years I have asked some very popular questions on Software Engineers (formerly Programmers) which have been closed. I would like to review all of my past questions that have been closed but I ...