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What is the problem with my question? How can I improve it?
What is the problem with my question How can I unit test the thread-safety of method? that it has been closed?
How can I improve it?
At some point it reached 4 downvotes with 0 comments from the ...
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Why is the total number of questions on Stack Overflow shrinking lately?
On February 3, 2025 there were 24,248,034 questions on SO
On March 3, 2025 there were 24,254,223 questions on SO
On April 3, 2025 there were 24,241,364 questions on SO
On April 21, 2025 there were 24,...
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Why was a question with 11 upvotes and an answer with 23 upvotes deleted? [duplicate]
The question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55481074/azure-app-service-plan-what-does-minutes-day-mean was deleted despite having 11 upvotes and an answer with 23 upvotes. The deletion reason ...
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Regarding "What is rtol for in numpy's allclose function?"
I don't want to get into an edit war, so I'll try to discuss this matter. I know that the whole XY problem and editing questions to add clarity to them is a controversial thing, but I'll try to ...
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Should I delete my question or try to get it reopened and then self-answer it?
I asked question How can I write quicksort without caching the pivot value? but I failed to provide adequate debugging details. I then made a reproducible example that is standalone and can reproduce ...
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New editor keeps WYSIWYG formatting in both non-WYSIWYG modes, incorrectly handles character deletion because of that too
The new editor applies colorized text formatting (italics, bold, text color of code blocks, quotes and separators) to the text being edited in both non-WYSIWYG modes:
It makes the typing experience ...
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Why was this accepted answer deleted? [duplicate]
This answer seemed perfectly fine to me, was accepted and upvoted, and the poster isn't banned or anything.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/79536122
Apr 6 at 19:30 deleted Dalija Prasnikar♦ ...
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Always show the tag excerpt info as a yellow tag tip if a specific tag tip isn't otherwise available for that tag
Tag tips have better UX than tag excerpts and they apparently serve a very similar purpose. By default, we should show tag tips on all tags with information taken from tag excerpts/usage guidance for ...
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How can we stop this AI decline and make Stack Overflow a popular reliable and important tool for devs again? [closed]
In the past 1-2 years lots of rumours state that Stack Overflow is losing its public; tools like AI are taking over, as it is much faster and easier to ask questions on them.
How can we stop this ...
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Where to ask for shell scripting commands? [duplicate]
Where to ask for shell scripting commands?
My question got closed based on not asking for "software tools primarily used by programmers".
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Why wasn't the question migrated after my vote broke the tie?
I was surprised that this question was closed as "not about programming," even though I was the second user to vote to migrate it to Cross Validated—breaking the tie. Regardless of which ...
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Where should I put the question below or how should it be modified to adhere to Stack Overflow guidelines?
I was hoping to get some leads on how to modify a WordPress Gutenberg editor that had become orphaned after I rewrote my entire website in it. My question How do we maintain a Cwicly website given we ...
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Question answered by the OP containing a ChatGPT snippet
As I see it, LLMs are banned for both generating questions as well as answers and I am not here to dispute that, but the following case popped up:
How do we handle users who ask a question, it did not ...
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Are questions asking about use cases of a specific application acceptable for Stack Overflow?
Are questions such as (version 1 of) Redis Database Vs Redis Cache asking about use cases of a specific application acceptable for Stack Overflow?
If not which is the best suited site?
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Can we [bulk] delete this tag?
I "ran" into the bulk tag today, and came to the conclusion quite quickly that it probably needs to go. At the moment it has no Tag Summary, or Wiki, and it's "usage guidance" ...
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