Questions tagged [context]
For question related to missing context close reason.
50 questions
-12 votes
1 answer
132 views
Time to remove the "no context" close reason
The context I think, you have played enough. Now the stats, as we know, are really not the best, and contrary the popular belief, it is not only because the LLMs. The decrease started already around ...
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24 votes
4 answers
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What context are we supposed to add for technical questions?
I've seen this situation come up often with other people's questions, and I'm posting now because it's happened with one of mine. This isn't a reopen request but a request for clarity on what the ...
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3 votes
0 answers
406 views
Closure votes for "lack of context": maybe voter has to understand the question first? [duplicate]
I've noticed several times in the past that good questions — well, good from the viewpoint of a mathematician, as in "having an interesting answer, quite difficult to derive from a surface-level ...
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44 votes
3 answers
1k views
Why are we required to write "why this question is relevant to us"?
When I ask questions, it's always for the same reason: because I'm curious about the answer. It's not like my life depends on it, it's just a random question I asked myself while thinking about a ...
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-7 votes
1 answer
297 views
What context is needed?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: How to prove that the surface of sphere is measure zero. I posted the question with context, but it is said that additional context is ...
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7 votes
0 answers
732 views
How do we handle a chain of "duplicate" questions that are linked to a "missing context or other details" question?
The following chain questions are currently all closed: Proving that $\langle x, y \rangle$ is a not principal ideal of $\mathbb{Q}[x, y]$ Non-principal ideal in $K[x,y]$? The ideal $I= \langle x,y \...
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30 votes
3 answers
1k views
Why are clumsily formulated questions downvoted & closed so much?
Regularly, I feel that a significant part of the community closes or downvotes question because they don't fit neatly into the category of "well-presented question", while the question is ...
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15 votes
0 answers
755 views
What can I do to improve this question?
This self-answered question has $5$ downvotes . Metamorphy commented that 'Still the question should have a context and not just a problem statement' after which I added an attempt. After discussion ...
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