Questions specific to stackoverflow.com and not necessarily related to other Stack Exchange network websites, such as retag requests.
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Unlock “why not use tables” question
Can someone please unlock this question: Why not use tables for layout in HTML?
It has 677 upvotes and 12 downvotes, giving an average of 665. Clearly it needs another upvote, but I can't because ...
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Burn Programming Languages
Not the languages themselves of course, just the tag, which has 3,672 posts attached and must be the most meta of meta tags. The excerpt reads:
A programming language is an artificial language ...
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Should tags for plot/graph/chart be synonyms?
My question is about tags that deal with plotting, graphing, charts, visualization, etc. I know there has been some previous discussion about this - at the level of whether there should be a graph tag ...
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Should we burn [sudoku]?
The tag wiki for sudoku describes the puzzle sudoku, obviously. However, do we really need meta tags describing the game the asker is trying to make?
As for it being a meta tag, if you saw a question ...
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Possible inconsistency between Help Center and close reason regarding programming tools
According to Help Center's On topic page
but if your question generally covers…
a specific programming problem
a software algorithm
software tools commonly used by programmers
...
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What would be the milestone based on ratings that would give expert validation in StackOverflow? Are there such specific process? [duplicate]
Let's say user A has received different milestones. Does StackOverflow have any ways of identifying that this user A now belongs to an expert community for this specific subject?
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1answer
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How could I improve my question to change the on-hold status? [duplicate]
My question at Stackoverflow is been marked as on hold for a few days.
I've already reworded the question and a nice guy edited it to be more clear.
But it seems nothing happens on my question's ...
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0answers
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Issue in entering text in chat stackoverflow
I have an issue in stackoverflow chat, when i enter text and click send, text gets dissapear in stackoverflow chat.It's not displaying in chat. What may be the issue?
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1answer
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How to resume 'on hold' question? [duplicate]
Can I use scala or groovy for Android Studio development?
I don't know what to do to unfreeze my question, ask again?
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What should I do with a bad SO answer from a respected user?
I have asked this question on SO. If you look at Marcin Orlowski's answer, it is really bad – it does not explain anything about the problem, and it also pointed me in a completely wrong direction. I ...
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1answer
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Broad questions not deemed fit for Q&A format [duplicate]
Many questions get closed on Stack Overflow for having a broad scope or being subjective in nature - often with the motivation that these questions are not fit for the Q&A format. Examples:
The ...
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Why are some questions closed “off-topic” or “not constructive” years after they have been posted? [duplicate]
I am confused as to why some questions are currently closed as "off-topic" or "not constructive", despite them having been open for a long time (maybe years).
My question is: What is the policy to ...
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Why is this question off topic?
I'm just wondering why this question was closed? It has code that the asker has tried, there is an accepted answer that provides the code that the asker needed (a particular curl option), and it has ...
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1answer
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Duplicated tags: imageio, javax.imageio
Tags imageio and javax.imageio should be merged - they even have the same description.
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Classifying and evaluating Stack Overflow posts
I was trying to evaluate and classify Stack Overflow posts using some objective metrics extracted from a Stack Overflow data dump as a research project. I need some expert advice about the ...
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Burn [get] and [post]
When I say "get", what does it mean to you? A GET request? To retrieve something? To query a database? To call the get method on a C# object? get appears to encompass all of those and more. We should ...
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Please barbecue the [writetofile] tag
The writetofile tag on stackoverflow seems to add nothing. It looks to me as if it could be vaporized with no impact on the 136 questions that have it.
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1answer
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Tags [custom-data-attribute] and [data-attributes] should be merged
The tags custom-data-attribute and data-attributes should be merged. They are for the same topic. Note that custom-data-attribute has a wiki, while data-attributes does not.
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How to get out of a question ban? [duplicate]
I have some questions that I would like to ask on stackoverflow. I have over 800 reputation and more than 200 today though I still can't find a way to ask a question. One of my answers has one ...
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The [add], [adding] and [addition] tags should be cleaned up
add and adding are a complete mess: questions with those tags could be about numeric addition, or adding graphic elements to a screen, new records to a table or modules to software, etc, even though ...
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Greeting formula [duplicate]
Sorry if this is a basic question, but why can't I post something like Hello people or Hello dear coders, when asking a question?
It never appears, when it's written in the first line.
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Remove the [removing] and [removal] tags
I see the remove tag has been taken care of. However, its equally worthless cohorts removing and removal remain. How about banishing those as well?
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Deliberate misspellings in titles to get around 'probelms' with banned words? [duplicate]
It's very irritating to go around dealing with titles that are misspelled only to find that the misspelling is there because of the banned words stuff. Can't we get some AI into the title parsing?
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Burninate [interactive] tag
Currently 488 posts are tagged under interactive and none of them has been tagged only as [interactive]. All 488 posts contain [interactive] tag in combination with other major tags suchs as c#, ...
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Was this an appropriate use of moderators' binding deletion?
You may remember this discussion from March: Can we nuke this “too localized” question?
The discussion was regarding a question concerned with the behaviour of an contrived unrealistic sample of Java ...
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1answer
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Stack Overflow got demoted in the footer, no longer listed first
I just noticed this on the footers:
Stack Overflow is gone!
Actually, it's still there. It's just the third from the bottom of the list!
Isn't Stack Overflow the big site around here, the one ...
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2answers
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Has SO ever found a new better solution to a problem
So I was looking at this problem in which someone asked for a solution that hasn't been figured out or doesn't exist at all. This made me wonder if stackoverflow ever produced a solution to a problem ...
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Add synonyms/merge [.file-extension] and [file-extension]
Examples I found:
wav .wav
war .war
vdproj .vdproj
rdlc .rdlc
ico .ico
doc .doc
More difficult examples:
mov has questions about file extensions (as .mov) and about assembler mov.
mov + ...
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Make [nodejs] a synonym of [node.js]
The nodejs keeps getting re-created and it keeps getting used despite being marked 'DO NOT USE'. It should be made a synonym of node.js.
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Burninate the [api] tag in Stack Overflow
The api tag is typical meta tag. It is used as modal modifier for other tags, but it is used for so many different things, that in no way it could be used alone.
Let's burninate it. Every time ...
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Question Migrations from StackOverflow [duplicate]
See How do i know if i need to use a design-pattern?
The question is of "how to do programming right" kind. I believe it belongs to either
http://cs.stackexchange.com/
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1answer
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How to name tag for raster package for R?
I need to create raster tag for raster package for R. The problem is that the raster already exists and means general array of pixels.
So how should I name the tag for the R package? These tags ...
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Academic research surveys: knowledge sharing in R and self-representation on Stack Overflow
As a follow up to a positive reception of academic research by the StackOverflow community, I would like to invite you to participate in two academic surveys: Knowledge sharing in R, and ...
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Answering Questions that should be Migrated From Stack Overflow
Take a question, like this. In this case the question has been flagged as not belonging on Stack Overflow. Is it appropriate for Stack Overflow users to answer questions like this?
Edit
At the time ...
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How do you search for the term “stack overflow” on stackoverflow.com?
I want to search for questions related to stack overflows, and of course I'd like to include results on stackoverflow.com. Does anybody know how to do this?
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“Request for exemplars” question [duplicate]
Please see my post at Exceptional examples of complete HTML/CSS pages.
I would like some help here in basically getting an answer to the question or making an appropriate question that gets the ...
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Add the words “in the question” to the “questions require code” close reason
The new wording would be:
Questions concerning problems with code you've written must describe the specific problem and include valid code in the question to
reproduce it. See SSCCE.org for ...
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Is the [web-api] tag useful?
The web-api does not add anything useful to a questoin.
It is usually used to mean:
I am using an API - These should be tagged with the specific API or platform
Which API can I use to do X - These ...
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Delete the tag [website] and its synonyms [duplicate]
The current SO tag website (and its synonym websites) should be removed from SO entirely. They currently serve no useful purpose for a question (all relevant questions have almost always been also ...
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Does a change in reputation in meta cause a change in reputation in Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I am a Stack Overflow user.
I just wanted to know if any change in my reputation here will cause a change in my reputation in Stack Overflow?
Also, I just wanted to know since I am new to this site, ...
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Why is my reputation not increasing? [duplicate]
I am receiving upvotes, but my reputation is not increasing. Why does that happen?
Take a look at this answer and this question for example.
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Has Citizen Patrol Badge location changed?
In my Stack Overflow profile we can see that Citizen Patrol badge is there. Now I have same badge on meta site too but instead of showing this badge in my meta profile, it is showing here.
Is this a ...
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how to lift ban from answering any topic [duplicate]
Hi friends if we any one of us get facing difficulty or problem in submitting the answer for any question asked in stack over flow and you are getting this message "answer from your account is banned" ...
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Blocked from answering on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
When I was trying to enter more than one question within three minutes I was blocked from answering questions. I cannot change this, since my answer was not good enough and deleted. How can I answer ...
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Bounties - no longer as useful on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow now has 8 pages of bounty questions. And as an earlier question indicates bounty questions receive very little attention till they are on the front featured page.
Jeff's answer to the ...
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increase upvote lock time to ~ a day
Would anyone be in favor of increasing the time you have to "lock" in your vote? I find that I upvote a user's answer after -- lets call it -- "brief" testing, only to find some flaws in it an hour, ...
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OpenERP StackExchange site in Area51
There is a proposal for an OpenERP StackExchange site currently in Area51. It is currently stuck in the "needs more questions with 10 votes" stage.
On StackOverflow there are currently 975 OpenERP ...
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Is [insert] a meta tag, and should be replaced by more specific ones?
The tag insert wiki states:
A data entry mode. An example would be new data typed on the keyboard
to be inserted at the current cursor location on screen.
For me it sounds like a meta tag ...
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SO Synonym Request: [tag:script] and [tag:scripting]
On StackOverflow scripting already has as scripts as a synonym.
We also have script, and I propose that it be made a synonym of scripting. I can't make this recommendation on SO because I don't have ...
