Questions tagged [close-reasons]
This tag is for instructions and guidance on closing or migrating questions, and the reasons for those closures.
69 questions
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Updating the "code not implemented or not working as intended" community-specific close reason to use the new five-field close reason system
As part of the updates to the closing system that took place last year, the community-specific close reasons (off-topic sub-reasons) gained a new five-field format, which displays different text in ...
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11 votes
1 answer
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Is a memory leak and a lack of concurrent safety enough to make code unreviewable?
There is this question which has one close vote and three down-votes. The only comments are The code is broken because it doesn't deallocate memory (and because it uses a global variable although ...
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Review a piece of code bought from someone else
In How can I speed up this serialized array generation php script? the OP states, that they "bought one [...] script" from someone else. Since I could not identify if the script in question was also ...
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1 answer
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Let's not close fixable posts without explanation
There's one thing that's hooked me to CR more than on other sites and it's the fact that the community is really great. But recently I've noticed (I don't have any data to back it up) that we have ...
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Add the word "readability" to the off topic close reason
Today we have this close reason: Code not implemented or not working as intended: Code Review is a community where programmers peer-review your working code to address issues such as security, ...
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13 votes
2 answers
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What is "best to the author's knowledge"?
The question has been put on hold with the reason code not implemented or not working as intended. It is a curious case: in fact, the code is implemented, and does work as intended. The OP just didn'...
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3 votes
1 answer
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The problem with insufficient context
The new (well, not that new now) Insufficient Context close reason has a problem. People see the name and think it is about the text surrounding the code. The text context for the code. But the ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Need clarification on my close reason interpretation for a specific close reason
The question Does this method guarantee that cells in a CSV will be correctly partitioned? is a duplicate of this one (10k+ and mods only) which asks whether a singular function properly 'escapes' ...
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