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Questions tagged [ask-question-form]

Use this tag to report bugs and file feature requests related to the interface used to ask questions.

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When a "new" user (user eligible to be sent to the Staging Ground) is writing their question, they are presented with the below modal, to chose whether they want their post sent to the ...
Thom A's user avatar
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I just spent over an hour writing a well-researched and highly detailed question - only to have it blocked as a suspicious request as I added tags to it. I believe the bug was triggered as I added a ...
carl.anderson's user avatar
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1 answer
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I don't know if this is another A/B test or not, but right now I have no way of using the plaintext Markdown editor while being able to see a live preview of the rendered result. I am not going to ...
Dai's user avatar
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As a non-native English speaker, I found this variation to "Answer your own question" confusing. At first I was looking for the "Answer your own question" and couldn't find it. I ...
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A user (hmathers) reported over chat that the ask question form doesn't show up for them, the place where the form is supposed to be is blank as shown in the following image: They are using Windows ...
Abdul Aziz Barkat's user avatar
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I'm trying to post a question to SO and I'm hitting a weird brick wall. After typing in a title and a body, and selecting a few tags, I click the "Review question" button as usual, and... ...
Steve Summit's user avatar
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I have just finished writing a question, and I noticed at the bottom of the screen a new "AI suggested edits for your question" section, with a "Get suggestions" button. This ...
simonalexander2005's user avatar
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When I write a post I rarely bother to look it over before confirming I want to post it. The reason is purely because I very much prefer to see it in the actual page as it will be and then just edit ...
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I started off using the Question Wizard. When I finished with the Wizard to the point where it gave me a single body for my question, I then toggled off the Wizard and chose to answer my own question. ...
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Every time I ask a question, I have to click submit twice. First because I want to ask a question and then a second time because SO is spamming me with possible duplicate questions. I never check for ...
William Entriken's user avatar
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Tl;Dr: Make use of the Ask question warnings to reduce the misuse of Stack Snippets. Automatically run it in the background when the user click the "Review your questions button", if there ...
Wicket's user avatar
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We got tag tips, they are little guidance flavor that is supposed to try to nudge you into asking better questions when you use some tags on the site. Well, I doubt askers are reading it because it's ...
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Every day I leave comments on the site asking users to fix their code formatting, or notes that I have already done so. True, a lot of it comes down to apathy (or lack of consideration) on the part of ...
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
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Whenever one goes to "Ask a Question" on Stack Overflow, the fields are labelled like so: Title Be specific and imagine you’re asking a question to another person Body Include all the ...
Karl Knechtel's user avatar
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When trying to post a question, a validation step checks if the question is ready to publish. I assume that this workflow was constructed very deliberately and with a lot of feedback. Yet, I find it ...
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