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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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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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How does the justification for closing this question make sense?
I had this question closed: Are these all the types of variadic arguments that printf() expects? - with the following justification:
We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for software ...
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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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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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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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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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My question was closed, but It wasn't my fault [closed]
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How do I host a java file using Apache Tomcat in xampp?
This post was closed because the code samples were not formatted as code in a comment. But that ...
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Disambiguate [mov]
The mov tag is supposed to be for the MOV assembly instruction. However, it's also being used for MOV files (at least 30 questions are tagged both mov and ffmpeg).
Maybe rename to mov-instruction and ...
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Can I restart my account? [duplicate]
When I started asking questions, there was a lot about Stack Overflow that I didn't know. My reputation is getting so low, I'm loosing more than I'm gaining. Stack overflow said that I cannot try to ...
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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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Was this question about sorting dates in JS correctly closed?
My question How is JavaScript able to sort dates when it's supplied as string? in SO was closed because it lacked clarity.
From my point of view, I think I was pretty much clear. It's fine that it ...
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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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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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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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