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This answer has been deleted as of yesterday. Similar to Jon Skeet's Stack Overflow question checklist, this answer has been used by many users as a go-to link to comment when a question with no ...

Many times users paste long code and those who want to refer to a specific line refer to it by its content, which can be misleading or cumbersome if the content appears elsewhere or the line is long. ...

If a competent coder asks a "spot the bug" question where the answer is non trivial, should it be downvoted? Does it depend on additional factors like the question's appeal to others? Suppose such a ...

I know this might sound crazy, but users like me can get stressed when asking, answering, or even commenting questions. I always ask myself: "Will I lose reputation, will it get down-voted or deleted?"...

We're all aware of how many bad questions and answers are posted on Stack Overflow every day. I think a large portion of these can be attributed to users who misunderstand how SO works. The reason for ...

Consider the following question, which is representative of a certain class of questions that get posted with some frequency on Stack Overflow. How to find length of array in C++? I want to write a ...

My question has been completely ignored. It has <20 views after 2 weeks, no downvotes, upvotes, comments, interactions whatsoever. I know I could just set up a bounty, but I was wondering why ...

First let's start with my understanding of what "this question does not show any research effort" means, because if my understanding is wrong then this question is probably invalid: As I understand ...

I have seen a many popular questions on Stack Exchange which are asking for explanations for very simple things like what does the yield keyword do and does Python have a ternary conditional operator. ...

I want to share with you some observations and thoughts I made while using Stack Overflow more intensively over the last weeks. Many/most of the very high-ranked users are posting many, many answers, ...

We sometimes get downvoted on Stack Overflow by posting one-liner, working answers to some users with a very clear problem, like here. So, OK, we're not a code-writing service, but what about the bad ...

There is a common situation on SO where people don't have the ability to ask a good question because they don't understand the concepts at hand well enough. If they were able to ask the question ...

I've recently noticed that moderators are now able to edit a section below the Help Center's search box on the landing page. For reference, two other sites that are using this section as well are ...

Back when I started JavaScript, my questions were often downvoted. As I got better, I figured out how to ask better questions because I was a little less clueless about the subject matter. Now that I'...

This post is prompted in part by What can we put in a question template to help people ask better questions? where Jon Ericson and others have indicated an intention to develop a question wizard ...