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How did this question survive?
Official abbreviation for: import scipy as sp/sc
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like Stack Overflow was so much more lenient during its early days.
As a test, I paraphrased that question with ...
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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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Can SO get users to supply actual answers before negatively marking a question? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How to use RegEx to capture multiple landing pages URLs?
I come to this site to find answers by asking questions. But all I've found so far, is that SO ...
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Number of new accounts that have their first question closed shortly after account creation?
In the Tavern, the topic of post quality came up recently. One of the ideas thrown out was to delay the ability of newly registered users from posting immediately - perhaps a 30 minute delay to '...
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Was I (and Stack Overflow) being too strict and unreasonable in closing this question?
This question was asked and, somewhat predictably, closed:
How do web designers do complicated CSS coding?.
The question (reproduced at the bottom in case of deletion), to my mind, was horrible (...
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Does the broken window theory apply to closing questions?
Lately I've been seeing complaints that we've taken away valuable tools to fight the rising tide of low quality questions. The assumption often seems to be that it's harder to close questions, so the ...
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