Unanswered Questions
225 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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More vote-to-close autocomments
If I vote to close a question as a duplicate, an auto comment is placed on the question along the lines of
Possible duplicate of {question link}
This is a great feature!
It immediately gives the ...
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Bookmarks for the close -> duplicate interface
Most of the times, when I close a question as duplicate, I open a new tab to make a quick google search to get the question ID, to then close the question.
I almost never find the duplicate, which I ...
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Questions and Articles are occasionally duplicated into two identical posts created in the same instant
I've noticed a number of incidences where a user posts the same question twice. However, these posts are created within the same second so this isn't a situation where a user keeps posting the same ...
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Audit questions also teach, so why aren't they manually cultivated?
I understand there is a legitimate purpose to making sure a user is paying attention when going through the review queues. However, in my opinion, a pre-requisite to doing this is to have some level ...
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See entire preview while editing a question
Most editing doesn't take a tremendous amount of time especially when it's in a tag you are familiar with. New users typically don't use backticks properly or will leave logcat and other error ...
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What is being done to improve new question quality?
TL;DR
What exactly has been tried in the past to address new question quality, what is currently being done, and how are the current tactics being assessed?
Intro
This post is to highlight my ...
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Good question etiquette for generalising questions regarding a protocol, not a framework or language
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A protocol can be used by many languages and frameworks - their usage is fundamentally generalised to some extent.
If the key part of the question is not regarding the development of the protocol ...
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Is there an issue with the Stack Overflow question list today?
I found a strange issue on Stack Overflow.
In the last 1 hour, four questions are repeated within a few minutes of time.
Question links are
First question (3 mins difference) asked by amir
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I see dead questions
So, this is probably something with the caching but tag pages recently started showing me deleted questions. For example:
Which in particular links to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/...
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When asking a question, make it clearer how to format code properly
We've all seen new questions with code that looks something like this:
func someFunction() {
// code here
more here
etc.
}
Obviously they posted:
func someFunction() {
// code here
more ...
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What is the recommended way of dealing with old (then on-topic) question with a bounty?
I posted a question about MD5 hash collision back in 2014. As far as I know questions about algorithms are on-topic on Stack Overflow, and the cryptography tag did not have the warning "...
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Influx of users including the content of their post twice in their question
As the title says, I've noticed an influx of users recently where they've posted a question where the content of the post is duplicated. If this was a one-off I'd think it were a user error, but these ...
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Please fix incorrectly closed duplicates of "Reverse each individual word of Hello World string with Java"
The question Reverse each individual word of "Hello World" string with Java has been incorrectly used as a canonical for questions that ask about how to reverse an entire string.
For ...
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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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What should be done with questions regarding unlocatable elements in Selenium?
A quick search in selenium brings up some questions like this:
I am doing automation with selenium, I have tried this:
[Some code of a Selenium automation, often with a complicated XPath query, and ...
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