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294 questions linked to/from How much research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users?
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Is asking for "how to improve the question" a reason to delete a comment?
One of my questions (Scatter plot with colored markers + colormap in ECharts) got a couple of downvotes, and I was asking in a comment what I can do to improve the question. Today I noticed that my ...
12 votes
2 answers
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Question was deleted while I was writing an answer, but the answer is still useful
I made a really good answer to: How to programmatically set the sequence of equations using VBA according to variables' precedence? The question basically asks how to parse expressions that are in a ...
40 votes
4 answers
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What's wrong with my answer?
I recently answered an interesting question and thought it was a good answer. Everybody was happy (the question was upvoted two times). Almost a day later I got three downvotes without any comments ...
58 votes
4 answers
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Understanding question quality vis-à-vis question difficulty
This general topic seems to come up constantly on Meta Stack Overflow as a major point of contention, yet there never seems to be a really proper reference to direct people towards. Existing Q&A ...
-65 votes
3 answers
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Moderator engaging in Abusive behavior
What do you all think? While posting Python change double slash to single , the user https://stackoverflow.com/users/476/deceze Made no change or suggestion other to answer/assist with the question ...
35 votes
4 answers
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Is there a point where someone is asking too many questions on the same thing? [duplicate]
I'm not going to be providing any links to the questions here, but just wondered what people's thoughts were. I've noticed recently that a user has been asking a lot of linked questions on the same ...
59 votes
2 answers
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I approved an edit adding backticks and fixing a typo - was that so bad as to deserve a review ban?
I just discovered that I was banned from reviewing for approving this edit. At least, the "Review" page shows so: I just don't understand, what was wrong with it? There were two changes in formatting ...
24 votes
4 answers
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Overwhelmed when processing questions in staging ground
I've tried to process some new questions in Stack Overflow's staging ground, but quickly got overwhelmed. Most questions are out of my comfort zone to triage (due to not knowing the underlying tech ...
7 votes
2 answers
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When not satisfied on moderator action on custom flag (marked helpful)
tl;dr: I edited a question, removing parts I considered a jab at veterans. The edit got rolled back. I raised a custom flag saying that I don't want to involve in edit war, but I think the respect ...
10 votes
4 answers
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Where should I do my research, and are low research effort questions bad?
From the help center How do I ask a good question: Search, and research ...and keep track of what you find. Even if you don't find a useful answer elsewhere on the site, including links to ...
23 votes
4 answers
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How much effort looking for plagiarism is expected of a reviewer of a tag wiki edit?
I was recently banned from reviewing for two weeks because I approved a tag wiki edit that should have been rejected for plagiarism. The notice of the ban seems to be a generic "should have been ...
14 votes
3 answers
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Does asking a question on SO, itself, count as research
TLDR I strongly believe that the answer is no, but I want a question that addresses this simple question. I hope I know the answer to this, but on a recent question, a commenter opined (in my ...
27 votes
3 answers
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C++ question a duplicate of a question in Python?
C++: Running total not incrementing with for loop Python: How can I force division to be floating point? Division keeps rounding down to 0 C++ has totally different ways of solving the issue than ...
13 votes
3 answers
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Require clarification on the amount of research a question needs in order not to be closed [duplicate]
The question that is prompting my request is What is the difference between List.of and Arrays.asList?. This is the type of question that asks the most trivial question about a new feature, the type ...
11 votes
1 answer
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Help me improve my question
I asked this question yesterday Create two barplots for categorical variables having different numbers of classes It didn't get much attention, except for a downvote. Can you help me improve it? ...