Questions tagged [external-links]
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Where do we tell users not to use Pastebin?
I assume that people asking questions should not be using Pastebin, because:
Its license doesn't match SO
Questions should be self contained.
I just asked a user not to use Pastebin (they had put 50 ...
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Block links to CodeSandbox without providing the code
Links to code-sharing services are blocked when the person asks the question and doesn't put the code into the question.
It seems this is not the case with CodeSandbox:
See this question: higher-order-...
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Link only answers - why not?
For removal of "link only answers" the reason is given that if link changes the answers become invalid.
I have a few points here:
There are other software changes which make answers or both ...
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I asked a question then later found a blog post on the web that perfectly answers the question: Can I copy-paste the content of the article? [duplicate]
Here is a concrete example:
What is the difference between using and not using <type>pom</type> for a dependency (in the <dependencies> section)?
In the meantime I've found a really ...
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Trigger MRE error on ctxt.io
There are 20 posts containing a link to ctxt.io, some of which are questions not providing any minimal reproducible example.
The site itself states “This paste expires in <30 days.”. Thus, most ...
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Render links of these formats [duplicate]
I would like to have links like:
[Google](google.com) to render as [Google](http://google.com) and [Google Drive](drive.google.com) as [Google Drive](http://drive.google.com)
[Google]s(google.com) ...
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Feature Request: [Broken external links] [duplicate]
I was looking for a solution to a problem related to rendering a JSON file in HTML. I searched on Stack Overflow and found the answer to a similar question referring me to another question which was ...
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What should I do if an answer has a good-turned-bad link, and the replacement cannot be found? [duplicate]
The link in an answer currently redirects to some casino advertisement (at least for me, maybe it behaves differently depending on location). Maybe the source still lives somewhere under a different ...
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Is it ok to quote short solutions from GitHub issues *verbatim* as answers?
I found an answer to a Stack Overflow question from a GitHub issue. The solution posted in the issue is short and to the point.
Is it ok that I quoted the GitHub comment verbatim and posted it as my ...
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Using campaign URLs in external links
In some answers I would like to link to a blog post where I discuss a similar subject. It would be interesting to see what traffic is coming from Stack Overflow to my blog. Am I allowed to add Google ...
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Your article is in another castle: should link-only articles be allowed?
I noticed this article (now deleted) that was posted recently to the Google Cloud collective. It's essentially a link-only article:
Seeing that articles (at least technical ones) are similar to ...
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Link-only answer when content's license is unclear
I came across a blog post that answers an unanswered question. I didn't write that blog post, and I'm not sure about that blog's content license, so I don't want to simply lift the code in an answer. ...
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Buy me a coffee/donate links in user profiles [duplicate]
I see that many SO users have buy me a coffee links in their profiles, is this something that one should do? Is this in accord with SO guidelines?
I can't seem to find information about this subject.
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Should the pastebin link warning suggest using code fences instead of indented code blocks?
When editing a question with a pastebin.com link without accompanying code (e.g. How do I create tileable solid noise?), a warning is displayed saying that the link needs to be accompanied by code:
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Fixing up now-bad links to use Wayback Machine
In light of bobpowell dot net having been taken over by malware, as noted in How to report malware to Stack Overflow, does anyone have any objection to me editing the 26 posts I found with "...
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