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Tagged with question-quality support
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Request to undelete questions to improve and lift ban [closed]
I recently received a question ban on my Stack Overflow account. I understand that my previous questions may have been off-topic or not up to the site's standards.
I would like to improve those posts, ...
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What's wrong with these two questions?
I posted two question in the past few days that were carefully researched and carefully laid out. The first one got an answer, which I learned from and edited to add what I learned from it.
The first ...
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How can I find all the self-answers available on Stack Overflow?
I very much like self-answers. Over the last 7 years, I've written 4 of these myself. Q/A's about Displaying characters, Displaying numbers, Buffered input, and Multithreading.
I believe the author of ...
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What link should I give when people ask to write their software for them? [duplicate]
In handling first time posts, sometimes I encounter a 'write my software for me' non-question. Is there a link to SO official guidelines that I can give in such cases? Also, when I flag it, what is ...
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What to do with a post that has an incorrect code formatting & it's mostly code [duplicate]
When I try to edit the format of a post with copy-pasted code and barely any content, I receive an "It looks like your post is mostly code; please add some more details." error. I know it's mostly ...
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Why are titles suddenly so hard to write? [duplicate]
I just tried to post a question, and there's suddenly something that is checking titles for "quality". It took me three tries to get past it, and there was precious little information about what was ...
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How can I improve this question about undefined behavior and comparison operators?
I recently asked this question about comparing pointers and undefined behavior:
Is comparing two pointers with < undefined behavior if they are both cast to an integer type?
However, I have ...
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Why are so many recent question titles starting with "Say..."?
I recently noticed rather unusual pattern in some question titles: these start with word "say", followed by what I would call a real title, in quotation marks.
After noticing pair of such questions I ...
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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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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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I want to know if people get a warning when their question title starts with "I want to"
According to my non-researched casual observations, questions with titles (and possibly also bodies) beginning with "I want to..." are usually non-question requirement dumps. Here's a recent example ...
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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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Why did they ban me from asking questions for asking a poor question when I copied a question exactly that was asked at least four other times?
Why did Stack Overflow ban me from asking questions for asking a "poor" question when I copied exactly the same question that was asked at least four other times on Stack Overflow? If it was a so poor ...
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Even though I set bounties, I received no answers; what is wrong with my questions?
I've been a member for over a month and it seems I do really need to improve my skills when it comes to asking questions. I've given bounties to 3 questions of mine so far:
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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What is the quality standard I'm not meeting with my question?
I can't submit the following question on Stack Overflow:
I'm using OSClass 3.3.2 and I want to remove the contact form
according to a condition, but I can't find it. Which file is it in?
I tried ...
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