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11 questions linked to/from Why are we getting so many off topic 'debug this for me' questions? what can we do about it?
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Using Programmers as "learning and training area" for Stack Overflow kind questions [duplicate]
Related: Create a New Stack Overflow Instance for Beginner Users and Content (MSO). We are getting many off-topic / implementation and coding kind questions where askers appear to be aware of Stack ...
380 votes
12 answers
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
Four years ago we asked for a name change, which was rejected by SE because there was no evidence to support the claim it was causing user confusion, and there were other things the site should focus ...
57 votes
5 answers
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Renaming the site to match its FAQ or changing the FAQ to match the site name?
This site is called programmers.stackexchange, while the FAQ states that this site is about "conceptual questions about software development". Since a large number of people never read the FAQ, or ...
33 votes
7 answers
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Change the name of Programmers to something that more accurately reflects the site scope? [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to the discussion on renaming the site to match its FAQ, or changing the FAQ to match the site name. That discussion is one of the highest voted questions on here, so this ...
20 votes
3 answers
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Migrating Crap to SO. Really, Programmers?
So there was this question asked by a new user. And it's undeniably crap. It is a code-dump showing 0 research effort, not even a problem statement. This is the prime example of what a crap question ...
11 votes
3 answers
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Every day we get opinionated questions asked here. People seem to think that this is the place to ask them. New users point to the old open questions that have fallen through the cracks of time as ...
19 votes
2 answers
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The CV experiment has officially failed...but what are we supposed to do about it?
It should come as a surprise to no one that I am disappointed about the 3 close vote experiment being deemed a failure by the powers that be. Whether or not we did "fail" (and what that even means) is ...
6 votes
3 answers
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Is there any point in this site still existing?
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives. Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them ...
22 votes
0 answers
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Could we please detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow data and offload them to Triage review for an hour or two?
Propose to detect troublesome questions using Stack Overflow quality scoring data and put them to Triage queue for an hour or two. If the timeout expires before decision is made, let questions go to ...
4 votes
2 answers
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If "Problem" and "Help" are to be blocked on Stack Overflow question titles, block them here too
We have a problem, need help. When people fail in trying to post their question on Stack Overflow, they come here to post it. This is often the case with people trying to get around a question ban ...
11 votes
1 answer
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Perform automatic checks for cross-posting and question block at SO when post enters close queue, not only at attempt to migrate [duplicate]
Suggest to perform automatic checks for cross-posting (including deleted SO cross-posts, like this one for example) and question block / warning at Stack Overflow when post enters close queue, not ...