You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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What to do if someone is downvoting my answers without explanation?
Getting a downvote now and then isn't a problem but what if someone is downvoting answers without explanation and it seems it is just for the sake of downvoting? I got three downvotes on answers ...
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How to handle flagged posts
I have started getting yellow notifications of flagged posts. For example, this one:
simplepie - The data could not be converted to UTF-8
When I look at the original post I see that it has been ...
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Can I post a GitHub repository link to CodeReview?
I'm completing a project of mine which will be hosted on GitHub. I want people to see what I have done and get some code review...
Can I post a GitHub repository link to CodeReview section of Stack ...
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Does this question belong to stackoverflow or programmers?
I asked this question a few days ago and I started a bounty also but I am having confusion about this question. Is it better suited on programmers or stackoverflow?
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Can this question be improved?
I have asked this question about Python. I am not getting any comments/answers on this. I think I might have missed something leading to this.
What can I improve in the question (like details, more ...
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My question was closed without any explanation
My question Verify collection as a method parameter was closed.
I havent found any explanation why it was closed.
According to FAQ http://codereview.stackexchange.com/faq we can aks the question ...
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Will my rampant upvoting help?
I recently discovered Code Review. As a beginner programmer who wants to improve, I consider the site essential. I want it to move beyond the Beta phase.
I read in this post that the key is ...
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Was my answer deleted?
How can I tell if my answer was deleted?
There's no evidence of the answer on my profile page, except for the fact that I have the Teacher badge.
I haven't recieved any notifications about this.
I ...
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Confused between posting on Code Review, Programmers, or Stack Overflow
I have this questions that fits the FAQ of Code Review, Programmers, and Stack Overflow. It contains a couple code snippets for one platform and I'd like to know the recommended practice between them. ...
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Two approvals for suggested edits
It seems to me that currently a suggested edit needs two approval (or reject) reviews (as suggested edits on Stack Overflow) while a week ago they required only one approval/reject. Why? What is ...
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Why was this question deleted?
This Question was deleted yesterday and I was just curious why.
Besides the fact that the OP never responded and then, a few days ago, erased his question without warning. In the text he left in the ...
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Does creating a new wiki summary without description count in the Research Assistant badge?
Recently I was awarded a Research Assistant badge but I would not think that I've edited 50+ tag wikis. If I'm right creating a new tag with only an excerpt creates an empty tag wiki description too.
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Why was this answer deleted?
Why was Travis Parks' answer deleted on the Multi-tiered sorting using custom IComparer question? Is there a place on the site where we can see the reason of a delete?
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How do I take back a vote to close?
I voted a question to close as it was asking for the best place to host the code, and coincidently looking for improvements to code.
But in response to my comments, the questioner changed the content ...
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Consecutive days reset for no reason
Yesterday, I looked at my profile and it said I had 25 consecutive days. Today I look and it has 1. That's wrong.
I'm also active on SciFi.SE. There I have 69 days consecutive. I check the two sites ...
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Why Didn't I Get My Rep Back?
I posted a bounty on a question, got no answers within a week, The bounty ended, but I still have 66 rep.... Why is this? It says in the Bounty Part of the FAQ that:
If you do not award your ...
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Is a question mostly pertaining to build configuration appropriate for this site?
I'm currently creating a somewhat complex Maven project (specifically, to automate this answer), and hence would like to submit it for review here - specifically, the POM and the general structure of ...
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Grammar problem in close reason
Our "off topic" close reason has a problem.
It should read either "generally relate to a code review request" or "generally relate to code review requests." Can we get fixed before anyone from ELU ...
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Put in FAQ: Will submitted code be licensed under the copyleft CC-BY_SA?
Put in FAQ:
Will submitted code be licensed under the copyleft Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY_SA) license?
I really want to know this~!
Since the CC-BY_SA is a copyleft, viral ...
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Why don't people on code review use the SE chat system?
Here is the old room which was frozen due to inactivity.
And the new room which noone is ever in?
Why is that?
This has been sort of asked before ( Role of the Chat in Code Reviews ) but it was not ...
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How do you highlight code in a <pre> block?
Is there a way to highlight code syntax in a <pre> block?
In this post, I had originally inserted my code using a <pre> block, but the code was not highlighted. After indenting every line ...
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Can't copy network profile to Code Review
I tried signing up for the site using Google's openID, but got a "something bad happened but it's our fault" error.
I tried logging in again, it worked, but I can't copy my profile, I have a userxxxx ...
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Flagged questions aren't showing up in my flagging summary
I'm noticing this more recently where flagging off-topic questions aren't being listed in my flagging summary. Consequently, my flag weight is also not updated -- it remains stagnant regardless of how ...
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Should font-size for question text and code blocks be the same?
On StackOverflow the the font-size for text and code appears to be the same, but on CodeReview they're noticeably different.
It's a bit of an annoyance, because when the text font size is set to my ...
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Use of refactoring tag
It might be naive from, but aren't the aim of a code review to find out if there is a way to refactor the code in order to have it improved?
If this tag doesn't apply to all question, when should I ...
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There's a question offering +100 reputation, but the user doesn't have this amount of reputation
Is this a bug? or is this entirely possible?
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Accepted two answers, earned twice the reputation
In question Is there anyway I can improve my implementation of this C function at code review I accepted one answer, then a better one came along and I changed it. I earned reputation from both ...
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Can't suggest an edit: “edit” link missing
I was going to try editing this question, but there are no edit/retag links available:
At the same time, the link is there on other questions. For example:
I've run into another question where ...
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Homework question and how long can a code be?
First of all before, I hate the typical homework question: "codez plz".
This, I hope has nothing to do with that, but is actually a class assignment.
I won't post my code until it is completely ...
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Typing comments feels sluggish on CR compared to other SE sites.
For a while now typing comments on CR has felt very sluggish compared to comments on other sites such as SO and MSO.
Is there anything we can do to improve this?
I'm currently using Firefox 4.0.1 on ...
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Best practice questions
I wanted to ask a question at Code Review, so I visited the FAQ. It says this is ok:
Code correctness
Best practices and design pattern
usage in your code
Application UI
Security issues in a code ...
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Is it possible to merge questions?
Hi,
is possible for two questions to be merged?
This user posted the same question identically here and on Stack Overflow. Both questions got good answers. And now the Stack Overflow question was ...
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This question appears to have been migrated from programmers.SE twice
First as:
Is it better to put more logic in a for loop condition, or to use a while loop?
And then again as:
Is it better to put more logic in a for loop condition, or to use a while loop?
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How did I get the username trystero?
I use the generic auto-assigned userNNNN ids on stackexchange sites. I started my code review account a while ago.
Recently a question of mine was migrated from programmers to code review. At first, ...
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Lisp symbols not highlighted correctly
Exhibit A:
The symbol d_n+1 is highlighted as the variable d_n, operator+, and 1. This is incorrect; the symbol should be all one color.
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Redundant tag: review
Since this site is about reviewing codes, review is redundant and should be removed.
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Broken question link.
I went to open the following question on the code review main page and was given a "Page Not Found" response.
Implementing the Shamos algorithm in Java
The question is closed and appears to be ...
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Can't share a specific question on Twitter or facebook.
When I click on the Facebook or Twitter buttons in this question, nothing happens:
Review Request: Snippet of code that tries to convert an already uploaded file & save it into a model's FileField. ...
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Meta-meta: reputation lag or bug?
I posted this question an hour ago.
My profile page shows 3 up-votes and accept for 17 rep, but this is not reflected in my total, which is 101.
I'm not concerned with accumulating rep here, but ...
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What's happened to community wiki?
Am I missing something?
I can't seem to find an option to make my question a community wiki.
