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How to write a good question? [closed]
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How to ask a smart question?
I face the problem of writing a good question in Stack-overflow sites.
What is the best way to write a good question?
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Yesterday in my SO stats its was showing flag weight 160? [closed]
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What happened to flag weight?
but today instead of flag weight its showing helpful flags 9
how its was changed from flag weight to helpful flags?
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Can we revisit the possibility of hellbanning repeat offenders?
Case in point, I came across this user who posted two almost identical rants on the same question.
His first answer was the following:
Take the Arab and Chinese out of our computing! This worked ...
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StackOverflow comment bug
If you comment something on StackOverflow you need to enter at least 15 characters and you can't post a comment which just contain spaces.
But if you type in zero width spaces it will work.
A zero ...
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Writing documentation about a topic in Stack Overflow [closed]
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Posting and answering questions you have already found the answer to
Sometimes I find I know a good method to do something (for example writing a clean and efficient ...
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Add tag synonyms for [cloudfront] & [amazon-cloud-front] -> [amazon-cloudfront] on Stack Overflow?
Synonym-Request: I noticed there already is a synonym relation among cloudfront and amazon-cloud-front. Yet there are also several questions tagged amazon-cloudfront.
Considering the official variant ...
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How can I connect my auto-created account to a newly created one?
I wasn't sure what wording to choose when searching, so this may have been asked before. After a question on SO was asked, and I answered it, the question was moved to CR. In the past, I remember that ...
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How can I share my MSO questions on Facebook?
How can I share my MSO questions on Twitter or my Facebook wall?
I can share my SO questions. Why can't I do the same for Meta posts?
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Best practice for SO-titles according to prefixing/suffixing technologies
I often see people editing questions to remove technologies from the title or at least commenting for example "Please don't prefix your titles with "C#, Gridview, LINQ", that's what the tags are for".
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Remove change tag
Can change be deleted?
The tag is a way too broad/generic to ever be useful.
It can be used for basically everything that involves a change, and most things involve a change of some sort, or people ...
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Why was my question about tuning my mysql server closed?
What's wrong with me asking about tuning my mysql server, by giving all the information about my server and what is running on it.
It is a clear question of getting direction on tuning MySQL ...
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Questions that ask to “do my work for me”
I answered this question 3 days ago. The asker is looking for a way to get all the CityIds in a site called ghix.com. Maybe he wants to crawl it. It's okay to crawl it. But I don't think the main ...
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Disambiguating the [clustering], [cluster] tags on SO
The clustering and cluster tags on SO are quite ambiguous.
I'll cite computer-related terms from the Wikipedia disambiguation page for "Clustering":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering
A result ...
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Merge [latex-environment] into [latex]
[latex-environment] has only 24 questions and no clear description. I proposed to merge it into [latex], where the description points to tex.sx.
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Downvotes and close of beginner question
I experienced it several times, that beginner questions are closed or downvoted on SO. Now I read the FAQ and found the following.
A question is closed if it is
exact duplicate
off topic
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