Questions tagged [scope]
Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why.
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How do we discuss broad and difficult questions?
I don't ask questions often because I know I can read a specification on MDN or react.dev and usually get the answer. My work on flight controllers got me good at interpreting a coding standard, and '...
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Are debugging questions involving non-public artifacts on-topic?
I have an MRE (a minimalistic Maven project with a failing test). But to reproduce the issue, you need to add a non-public fork of a public artifact to the classpath. I can include the fork jar. Would ...
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Where is a place to ask why a programming language behaves in a certain way?
I want to ask a question about why JavaScript behaves in a certain way. (Why does JavaScript use auto-boxing instead of keeping primitives as objects?) I suppose that’s not technically a question ...
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How subjective is asking for the "best approach" for obtaining the lowest execution time? [closed]
I stumbled upon: What is the best approach to compute Brun's constant with Python (which includes a primality test and a long-running sum)? when searching for Brun's constant. I believe that this ...
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Why can't we migrate old high-quality off-topic questions that are good and useful?
In an answer to a recent question we see mention of this problem: There are a bunch of highly voted, high traffic questions that are now considered off-topic. Many of those questions are good and ...
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Adjust the wording in the close reason "(Not about ...) software tools primarily used by programmers" (again)
When a question is closed with the "Not about programming or software development" reason, the following info message gets shown in the question: This question does not appear to be about a ...
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Should I post on Stack Overflow just because I have more chance to obtain a useful response?
I asked this question (Monitoring Wildfly cluster with ElasticSearch and cron jobs [closed]) and it got closed for not being about programming or software development. I knew that it was not about ...
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Do Asciidoc or other markup languages constitute programming with regard to being on-topic here?
My question here is prompted by the closure, as off-topic because it's not about programming, of How to center preface title?. It happens that I answered the question, but that's not important; I've ...
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Do questions about AI training belong in Stack Overflow?
I came across some questions about AI training recently (this and more for example). I flag these questions as “off-topic” mostly. Do these questions belong to Stack Overflow or some another site?
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Why was my already answered question closed? [duplicate]
I asked a question about IMAP behaviour, (How to change headers of an E-Mail inplace (via IMAP)) it was completely answered. Now it was closed for being unfocused (no clue why). My question was ...
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My question has been closed as "not about programming or software development". This is incorrect. How can I move forward?
I recently asked this question, titled Is it possible to compose Dockerfiles to create multiple images with shared code?. The question has been closed with the close reason "not about programming ...
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Is there a way to ask about actual good practices?
I'm a C++ developer. I don't know how it is in other languages, but in C++ best practices are a big thing. Most of the books recommended in The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List are best-practice ...
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Questions closed as Opinion-based in accessibility topic
I regularly answer questions about accessibility. Since a few weeks, I have the impression that quite a lot of accessibility related questions are closed very quickly as "opinion-based". ...
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How is a question about docker not about "a specific programming problem, a software algorithm, or software tools primarily used by programmers." [duplicate]
I don't understand. I want to RUN in a docker image that is a bit strange. That's a specific programming problem. Docker is a tool used by programmers. How to extend a Docker image that does not have ...
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Setting up remote databases for WordPress is not software related?
I'm not sure why my question was closed, I believe it follows all the rules: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79652669/how-can-i-setup-a-remote-wordpress-database-on-slickstack Disclosure: I'm the ...