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How can I ask a "good question" and not get flagged? [duplicate]
I am trying my best to ask my questions in a format that is acceptable on this platform. I've used the wizard and searched extensively for documentation that gives direction. However, I keep getting ...
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Question Quality Control
NUMEROUS Python questions are of extremely poor quality. It's a pandemic of barely decipherable posts. One of the driving factors are users that have some arbitrary file format that they want to ...
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Is there a minimum length to consider a question as 'a good one'?
I stumbled upon this question
Is there a minimum length to consider a question 'a good one'? This question seems... fairly self explanatory as it is, but my first reaction was to think of it as an ...
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"How do I ask a good question" page needs explicit statement "Don't repost your questions"
At the moment, part of the closed question notice You can edit the question or post a new one links to the How do I ask a good question page as requested in “You can edit the question or post a new ...
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What to do when same user has many closed questions?
I came across a new contributor that has been a member for about one week. During that time they have asked three questions. One was closed for not meeting the guidelines, the second has two close ...
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Account banned for 5 questions in 6 months [duplicate]
I have been banned for 6 months, for having 5 questions in 6 months with only one having downvotes. My questions get marked as off topic even though I have read the rules and follow them perfectly to ...
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Suggestion: Review Queue for Question from Banned Users
I have a suggestion to allow users to positively get back into contributing to the SO community and I searched google to no avail so I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate.
What if users were allowed to ...
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I couldn't ask this question for a long time because it kept prompting “It looks like your post is mostly code, please add some more details”
I was trying to ask a question. I finally succeeded, but only because I kept smashing on the "Post Question" button. The system kept telling me:
It looks like your post is mostly code; please add ...
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How can I ask a question which hasn't been answered before without it being downvoted?
So, I've asked a simple question about a topic which hasn't been asked before. I've researched quite a bit and said I couldn't find any satisfying answers and even included some links to the articles. ...
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Have we started trying question templates?
I just came across these HTML comments when I went to edit a question:
<!-- What are you trying to accomplish? (Please include sample data.) -->
<!-- Paste the part of the code that shows ...
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Why is "Is this correct?" an off-topic question, and what should I ask instead?
Disclaimer: I'm not actually asking this - this is intended to be a reference post.
Also, if you have additional tips for how to get started with testing, please feel free to add them to the ...
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Let's improve Stack Overflow's "Ask a Question" page!
We've all heard and done our fair share of complaining about declining question quality. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Various ideas have been floated, but haven't gotten significant traction for various ...
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How to improve question quality of new Stack Overflow users
TL;DR: The low quality of questions has been linked to decreased activity of users who have > 25k reputation. Improving question quality would benefit both ends. What would be the best ways to ...
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Require new users to check the preview before posting
Following on from Highlight the preview on the Ask Question page, whether or not we do that, I wonder if for new users, we may want to (softly) force a review of the preview before allowing them to ...
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Highlight the preview on the Ask Question page
I can't count the number of simple errors in questions that a glance at the preview would highlight for the person posting them, such as
HTML not showing up because it hasn't been marked up
Code not ...
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