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What is wrong with “does this (anti-)pattern have a name” questions?

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Can I ask here about nuances of a certain technology?

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Unwanted horizontal scroll bar in all the pages in Firefox browser

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The very first question if deleted cannot be retrieved until 2nd question is added

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Why is “Is it possible to…” a poorly worded question?

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The cup of coffee has gone cold

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Can I ask here the Qn about technology comparison here? [duplicate]

discussion specific-question tags vote-to-close

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How to improve our style for reacting on “low quality questions”?

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“more” link in footer is hardly viewable

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Mentors for New Users

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What Are Some Examples of Good “Guiding Comments” to Leave Users To Help Understand The Site?

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What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow

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Open letter to students with homework problems

discussion faq featured questions homework-dump

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Should I approve edits on off-topic questions or answers to poor or off-topic questions?

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Is it possible to collapse all answers, while answering a question?

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Shouldn't the nlp tag be replaced with natural-language-processing?

support status-completed tags tag-synonyms

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How do I explain ${something} to ${someone}?

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Why was my legacy question closed and locked?

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Is it on or off topic to ask questions about TOGAF usage here?

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Am I right to downvote questions that contain the word “best”?

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Where can I ask a subjective programming question?

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Bug: incorrect links in 'What topics can I ask about here?'

bug status-completed new-site-name help-center hyperlinks

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Why was my question about 'outsourcing' closed and downvoted, while others like it upvoted and not closed?

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Proposition : Commenting with less than 50 Reputation

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Handling of fortran 90 underflow error - on topic [duplicate]

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Why is this question off topic?

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I think it's time we just make all licensing questions off-topic

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Off-Topic : Are questions addressed to convince people off-topic? [duplicate]

discussion off-topic opinion-based

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Should we continue to accept software licensing questions?

discussion on-topic-definition scope licensing legal

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Should new off-topic software licensing questions be moved to the law/open source Stack Exchange websites, or deleted?

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Are software licensing questions on-topic for this site, or not? If not, can we make this more obvious?

discussion licensing

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Is this terminology (word-request) question really opinion based?

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Should we edit “recommend a design pattern” questions so they don't use the phrase “design pattern”?

discussion questions

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Are diagramming skills off topic?

discussion scope

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Just hit 20K. How am I doing?

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What kind of evaluation does the “evaluation” tag refer to?

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Would a set of interview questions and answers to common/trick interview problems be on-topic?

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Downvoting because we don't agree with asker's approach or logic

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Could we delete these old opinionated, chatty, discussion questions?

discussion specific-question

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How can I improve my question?

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Rejected edit accidentally - Can we revoke the rejection we made?

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A “welcome to programmers” comment for questionable questions

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What is wrong with my answer?

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Is this place right to ask about specific clean code practices? [duplicate]

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Why is this still too broad?

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Are Design Review questions on-topic?

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What topics are not “part of the SDLC” but are nevertheless still on topic?

discussion on-topic-definition

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