Questions tagged [opinion-based]
For questions about the "primarily opinion-based" close reason, For the new question types use [open-ended-questions]. (Use the [discussion] tag instead for questions on Meta Stack Overflow that are opinion-based themselves.)
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Rate Limit is not applying to Opinion-based Content
I've noted that new users appear to be able to post multiple questions in short succession, despite the rating guidelines stating that there is a 90 minute rate limit for new users on Stack Overflow. ...
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How should “primarily opinion-based” be applied on Meta, given that Meta is meant for discussing site behavior and policy?
Intro I’m trying to understand how the “primarily opinion-based” close reason is supposed to work on Meta. According to the Help page: https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-meta Meta is described as a ...
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"Share Feedback" does nothing on the experimental open-ended questions [duplicate]
In the First questions review queue, I chose "Share Feedback" on this question which is one of the "Advice" questions from the open-ended questions experiment. However, no visible ...
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Why do comment replies appear in "first answers" review queue?
Why do comment replies appear in the "first answers" review queue? I thought the review queue of first answers would only contain answers. Example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79907047 Here'...
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Why did a question with an answer get deleted as 'Off Topic' 10 years after it was asked, when a 'General Advice' category is now allowed in SO?
I was referred to ask the question in meta-stack-overflow from here https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/417340/282861 . If I understand the reasons stated there,this question got moderator attention due ...
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Edit history for new question types [duplicate]
There's a bug (or unimplemented feature): edit history is not displayed for new types of questions (such as Tooling recommendations). I refer to hyperlinked messages like "Edited 2 days ago" ...
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"Is there any way we can help Stack Overflow Website get back up?" is using [stack-overflow] tag. How to proceed?
Yesterday, the following "Advice" question was posted Is there any way we can help Stack Overflow Website get back up? It's tagged stack-overflow. The tag excerpt says that this tag should ...
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Why is my question marked as open-ended? [duplicate]
I recently posted a question on SO: How do I use default/system colors for extending my standard UI? I am asking how to perform a very specific (but presumably, commonly required) task using a ...
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Experimental opinion-based Tooling question post visible relative response date displays wrongly
I edited experimental "opinion-based" "Tooling" question post Synthetic to real chess images project. Then I posted a response, which I then edited. But within a few minutes the ...
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The current status of question types?
I was about to suggest to re-ask a question as another type (advice), only to find out there's no type field in the form: Experiments are enabled in my preferences. I searched on the topic and found ...
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Opinion-Based questions don't respect "Enable new editor" setting nor remember the preferred editor
It appears that when posting on Opinion-based questions, we are now forced to use the WYSIWY(D)G (don't) editor; the posts don't respect the Enable new editor preference. In addition to this, it ...
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Opinion-Based questions don't remember sort order and always default to newest first
I noticed that the responses on an opinion-based question I was reading had been sorted by newest first. I changed the view to be oldest first, however, the next opinion-based post I read had reset to ...
Thom AMod
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Cannot edit answer in new question format (advice/best practice/etc.) [duplicate]
I was editing an answer to a SO question to add some explanation and documentation. After I hit the "Save edits" button it would just revert to the original post with all changes lost. I ...
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Modernizing curation: A proposal for The Workshop and The Archive
TL;DR: The opinion experiment revealed that users aren't looking for subjective debates; rather, they most often seek detailed explanations. To capture this value, we propose a radical shift: stop ...
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Allow saving new types of posts on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Recently, Stack Overflow introduced new types of posts that include tooling, advice, opinion-based posts like Reading gz files with very long lines, line by line in c++? for example. As we can see ...
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