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Question incorrectly closed as duplicate
Again, I believe my question about string concat was incorrectly closed as Duplicate.
Why?
As stated in the comments:
In fairness, that is definitely not a duplicate question - it focuses on ...
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1answer
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How to improve my question
My question (10k/non-10k) has been removed for reasons of moderation.
It seems that I had a precise question. Perl is known to be a perfect fit for a number of applications (which I enumerated). Can ...
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1answer
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Case study: Why the huge difference in number of views and upvotes in this case?
We have two very similar questions: One with A lot of views and other with Very few
I can't understand why this difference of upvotes and views. The second question is more generic, and I find more ...
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2answers
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I would like to know why question 16313526 was closed
Leaving aside the content of the XML...
I answered a question (10K needed to see) which received 5 downvotes and then the moderator deleted the question.
Why was it? Was it because of a problem from ...
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2answers
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My question was closed as being “off topic”. Can someone tell me what about the question is off topic?
Yes, I know there are plenty of questions here by people complaining about the same kind of thing. What I want to know is why my question, which directly relates to programming/software-development ...
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1answer
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Why was a question marked as duplicate? [duplicate]
So I was looking through some SO questions, and I noticed that Why have "while(1);" in XmlHttpRequest response? was closed as a duplicate, but the question it linked to was newer than the ...
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Deleted question
I have asked a question about socket:
What exactly is Socket
When I get the answer, I have asked the sub-question about socket - is the protocol the one who defines its type or something else. My ...
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1answer
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Locked community wiki has two accepted answers
Here is the post in question:
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
On both Firefox and IE, I see two accepted answers, as shown in the screen capture below.
I assume it's ...
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3answers
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Can my 10k viewed, closed question be reopened?
Many months ago I asked a question that was closed almost immediately. Since then it has had many views and has even earned me the "famous question" gold badge. There are comments on the question ...
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0answers
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0answers
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Problems posting a Google Map API question to Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I attempted to post the following question on Stack Overflow and was told that it does not meet quality standards. I have tried a number of variations, but got no joy. What am I doing that offends the ...
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1answer
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Do questions that get re-tagged as bug miss out on some queue?
I asked my question "The "Hot" tab algorithm changed recently, does not appear to be working as intended" a week ago and got a LOT of interest (32 up-votes, 4 favorites, and 223 views).
I ...
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0answers
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There is one migrated question left in this tag - does it matter?
The tag in question is screencast, which has but one lowly question left.
The last question in this tag was migrated, so it can no longer be retagged. Will this question stop the automatic cleanup ...
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0answers
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I don't see why this question is closed as duplicate
I have this question marked as duplicate:
Selenium:How can I get the href of elements found by partial link text
I have a few reason why it is not a duplicate of the suggested question:
The ...
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1answer
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Code deleted from question
C Programming Homework Segmentation fault?
The OP has deleted their code from a question a couple of months after posting. Should anything be done about this? Put the code back? Close the question? ...
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0answers
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Why was this question about MATLAB closed?
I sometimes don't understand why people close questions even when there are valid reasons given for not closing it. Look at this specific question. The last comment on the question explains why the ...
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2answers
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Can we get this question reopened please?
This question was quickly and quite undeservedly down-voted and closed as "not a real question" because a few power users interpreted "how can I track down where a seemingly random, hard to reproduce ...
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1answer
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Is this question a real question? Am I understanding the FAQ correctly?
From my understanding of the FAQ and How to ask, this question is not a good question:
How to query the average from a certain property in an Entity and return it in a List of List of objects in LINQ?
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1answer
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I've fixed this question. Is it good enough?
In Something turn on GPS but what? How do I find which Object uses GPS? I basically ask if there is a debugging technique that allow us to know which objects use location update.
Now we know that ...
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Why was a question about finding open files closed as “off-topic”?
Recently, I noticed that this question about finding open files in Windows was closed as off-topic. I don't really understand why this question was considered off-topic, since it's about a ...
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2answers
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Undelete and reopen this question, or not?
Question in question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16091025/simulating-keydown-in-google-plus-with-a-chrome-extension
Someone just offered money to whoever solved his coding issue. The question ...
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3answers
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At what point does this answer *not* answer the question?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/16086837/438992 (10k+)
The question is (redux) "Is there an advantage/difference" but it's a simple shortcut method, and the says so explicitly. Few of the other answers ...
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1answer
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Why was my question downvoted and closed?
I don't really understand why this question was closed and not even a justification given: How to enter password on terminal using nohup without disown
I have looked if I find an answer to this ...
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0answers
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Somewhat special question with additional information on question [duplicate]
I just found that question Why does my C# gzip produce a larger file than Fiddler or PHP?
on SO and noticed that
How was this additional information added to the question. My first thought was ...
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1answer
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Why was my question closed as off topic?
I asked this simple question: How to delete an azure active directory. I did some fast internet research and found no answer to it. It is definitely not an opinion question, it's topic is a tool that ...
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5answers
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Why has this question received close votes when it perfectly fits the FAQ?
I've started getting involved in reviewing questions and answers on Stack Overflow and came across a question which already had 2 close votes.
How do I draw a graph or tree structure in JavaScript?
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1answer
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Syntax question about maple welcome here?
This question of mine about maple syntax is probably not welcome on math.stackexchange.com:
"In Maple, taylor(exp(x),x,2); returns 1+x+O(x^2). How can I
automatically convert this result to the ...
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1answer
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Why was my question deleted (how original, I know)
Why was my question deleted? I did not even get to see it in closed state, so I really do not know why.
(Also, a deletion being a moderation act, "removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of ...
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0answers
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Wrong answer was accepted [duplicate]
What is the procedure to let the OP know that he/she has accepted a wrong answer ? The answer in question is here.
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2answers
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Should this closed question be reopened?
This question was closed by the community.
I don't agree this it wasn't a real question, I admit it wasn't a good question, but it is a real question.
Obviously the OP doesn't know how Java Objects ...
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3answers
158 views
Should this edit have been approved?
http://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/1910225 Should something like this be approved?
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4answers
295 views
Why is this question about ruby frameworks considered not constructive?
I stumbled across this question about ruby frameworks, and found a great, informative answer.
Is it possible to make a web app in ruby without using a framework? And if yes, why are frameworks ...
2
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1answer
104 views
Why is a question about setting up a php framework using a php package manager off-topic for programming?
Why is a question about setting up a PHP framework using a PHP package manager off-topic for Stack Overflow?
Is there a Stack Exchange site where this question would be considered on-topic?
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3answers
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Stack Overflow moderators are making SO a pain to use [closed]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe SO needs to revisit its policy concerning how moderators can act. In the past few months I've noticed that nearly half of the very useful, very relevant ...
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1answer
113 views
Vote to reopen an ancient question
Why did non-von Neumann languages never became mainstream?
This is an ancient (by SO standards) question closed 2+1/2 years ago as "Not a real question". The question is broad and imperfectly ...
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1answer
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Mitigate community wiki on closed question
A recent question of mine has been closed and reopened a lot of times.
As the FAQs suggest, I've edited it a lot of times, to improve it as much as possible.
This however has raised the ...
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2answers
380 views
How can I avoid down-votes?
I think my question is fair, but the person who answered it has down-voted me. Why?
Is it because I didn't write proper code in the question, and gave a direct link to view it instead? Should I ...
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1answer
94 views
Why was my question closed?
I read the FAQ, and question seems to fix.
Why was it closed?
See What html video players that work in the Android browser are there for Android 4?
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1answer
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why my answer gets not in standart [duplicate]
i'm trying to post the following question and getting: this post does not meet our quality standarts - Why???
this is the question:
I'm writing an iphone application that sends email, sms and ...
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6answers
501 views
How can I turn a not-constructive question in a constructive one?
Today, one of the question I asked has been closed as not constructive, but I can't really understand why, since it doesn't ask for opinions, lists and the like. Moreover it's very unlikely to be ...
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1answer
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Does this question deserve closing?
I am here trying to understand why Business Process Manager for Pyramid framework was closed. I am not contesting, but SE rules tend to go over my head, and as Help us make "Not ...
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1answer
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Why was this question closed as “off topic”?
Why was this question closed as "off topic"?
I see that there are some issues with this post, e.g. the formatting (Anthon reviewed/edited it, not correctly through), grammar/capitalization.
But ...
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1answer
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Question edited against my will: no way to either remove it or remove my screen name from it [duplicate]
I strongly disagree with the edit made to my question by a moderator. The question is locked now, but even before then it was not possible to delete it because it already had answers.
So I want to ...
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3answers
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Why was my question closed, and how can I have it reopened?
I'm a newcomer here in Stack Exchange. I've posted 3 questions and 2 of them are closed for being off-topic/not for this site / closed as not a real question.
Here is a link to my last question ...
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1answer
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Revisiting a question
I recently asked a question about how to get something to work. One person answered that my code was working correctly for him, including in Firefox which I am using. However, the same exact code is ...
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1answer
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Why was my answered question about self help from experienced users deleted? [closed]
A few seconds ago my question (>10k) was deleted. So I need an explanation. And avoid myself of further explaining this!
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1answer
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Answer is deleted, Answer and question is down rated, Not able to understand Moderator policy
I did few hard and extensive search on few point of facebook graph API exploration.
My question matched with few PHP geeks' question, I answered there and got negative votes.
I got java community ...
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2answers
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Closed as not a real question
This is the question: Assemblies (Namespaces) used for retrieving XML file?
It was very poorly formatted and it wasn't clear what exactly was asked. When I saw it, it had already gotten many ...
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6answers
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Why was my answer deleted? (constructive, highest voted) [closed]
In http://stackoverflow.com/q/15650351/ my answer read:
I really really really hate libpng.
As you are using C++, I would recommend a "C++ enabled" version of it: png++.
It was the ...
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Closed as not constructive but Protected… conundrum?
I was just reading the question below,
What is node.js?
When, I noticed that, it was closed!, for "not being constructive" as says obviously; But just below that, it also says it is, protected ...
