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How would one handle software recommendation answers (that answer the question)?
So I recently came across a review for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79608719/15982771
If you're having trouble pulling a Docker image and it's failing with network-related errors, try using ...
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Are new users no longer forced to go through the question wizard?
According to the announcement first-time askers cannot opt out of using the question wizard, however, I encountered a question today where, according to the timeline, the user was neither forced to ...
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How can I add an animated GIF to a question? [duplicate]
I'm trying to add an animated GIF file to a question which illustrates the problem.
It shows the animation in the preview thumbnail but when I click "Add picture", I get an error saying '...
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The Fanatic Badge, it's broken and the user experience is horrible [duplicate]
This will probably get reaped soon. This is more like Consecutive days problem #97?, which @VLAZ was helpful to point out and it put this into perspective. User expectations for activity can be ...
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All Activity Links to (my) Comments seem to result in "Comment not found."
If I go to my profile and select "All actions" --> "Comments" I get a list of my comments as expected., At the moment though, these comments have links that while taking me to ...
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should tag [libgsl] be made a synonym for tag [gsl]?
While looking for questions about C++ Guidelines Support Library and finding GNU Scientific Library I found that there was also a tag of libgsl with no wiki entry that is on several questions ...
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Is it acceptable to edit answers to clarify that they may be applicable to later software versions?
Sometimes a correct answer to a question will contain references to specific versions numbers, for example:
This bug was introduced in v2.0. It has been fixed in v2.0.5. Upgrade to v2.0.5 to fix your ...
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To what extent is "an edit intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit"?
I encountered this rejection reason a few times now, and I'm confused as to what exactly is the deciding factor to whether an edit is considered "addressing the author". The latest such ...
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Allow sending old/deleted questions back to the Staging Ground
What is the Staging Ground? reads as follows:
Staging Ground is available to two different types of users on Stack Overflow:
Users who are asking their first questions
Users who want to review and ...
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Unsatisfying reply to a declined R/A flag
I flagged this (now deleted) question as R/A and it was declined.
Assuming the reviewer missed the swear word in a rather long-ish question, I took another swing:
In the first screenshot, the window ...
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Why was this question closed and not reopened?
Two months ago I ran across Stack Overflow question Find the intersection of two parallel (collinear) line segments that addressed a problem I was facing. There were 6 answers, many of them good, ...
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How can a question be a duplicate of nothing? [duplicate]
I have found a question that is closed as duplicate but there is no link to the question it is a duplicate of.
When to use phantom references in Java?
I speculate there was dupe-target that has been ...
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Prioritize frameworks and implementations over programming and query languages in page titles for SEO
Stack Overflow puts what it considers the most important tag in a question's web page title for search engine optimization.
However, it tends to prioritize (programming) languages regardless of ...
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What we learned: Insights from the discussion on closed (and potentially useful) questions on Stack Overflow
Thank you to everyone who engaged in the recent Meta post: A discussion about closed (and potentially useful) posts on Stack Overflow. This post sparked lively debate, you can see it just by looking ...
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Trying to understand why this answer was deleted? No notes or comments that I can see [duplicate]
I came across a deleted answer that seems helpful and without issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/78910183/199700
When I tried to vote to undelete it, it said it was deleted by a mod, so it was ...
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