Questions tagged [specific-answer]
This tag is for questions about a specific answer to a question. Answers given to such questions might not be applicable in general.
40 questions
1 vote
2 answers
85 views
Does improving scalability and mentioning the improvement count as sufficient justification?
A recent VB.NET AES File Encryption answer was posted with, mostly, the following text: I'm enclosing a program I wrote to help you along the way. It is very effective and will encrypt whatever you ...
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7 votes
2 answers
204 views
How do we handle answers that pertain solely to other answers?
Most of us are (or should be) familiar with this section of the Help Center Page How do I write a good answer?: What goes into an answer Every answer must make at least one insightful ...
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20 votes
4 answers
639 views
Should Code Review be a place for discussing sensitive topics?
I always thought that Code Review is a place where we try to improve code and do not discuss highly questionable philsophical theories. For this reason I'm very disapointed that my flag about this ...
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6 votes
2 answers
197 views
Is an answer that doesn't provide any code review, only how to unit test on-topic?
I ran across this answer which gives no code review feedback only how to write unit tests. If there were some unit tests provided, then they would be fair game for a code review also. In this case it ...
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4 votes
1 answer
229 views
What is the reason for the downvotes on my answer to "Country Guessing Game"?
I feel like I have a scenario like this, but recently I gave an answer which received a down-vote, as did one other answer to the same question, and then mine got a second down-vote, yet there were no ...
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2 votes
0 answers
117 views
An 'edit' might have messed up my ability to edit
Someone edited my answer to 'FFT Algorithm', and after that, I am not able to edit the code. Even if I just open it in edit mode, and try saving (without doing any change), it says: code needs 4 ...
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9 votes
3 answers
629 views
Downvotes on an answer which answers the question
I answered a question, followed the rules, then it gets downvoted and two other answers which are pretty much the same (you decide) don't. I feel the loss of the points. I think one of the downvoters ...
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11 votes
2 answers
193 views
Must answers be limited to the code only?
Does the feedback for a Code Review question have to be limited to the scope of the explicit code cited, or can we infer direction and context and comment on that also? For example, in this answer, I ...
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