Questions tagged [discussion]
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What is required to be in a question on Software Engineering?
I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the ...
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Please don't make or approve tiny little edits to old questions
A question posted 12 years ago ended up today on the home page. I thought, originally, that it probably received a spam answer—which happens occasionally—but it appeared that it all has to do with two ...
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Why would you close a question that already has answers?
My question Optimizing a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" parser was closed with this reason: Right now, your question may contain multiple distinct questions or is too broad to easily address ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Duga, The Whiteboard, and brainstorming
I've been hanging out in chat more often now. I tried starting a topic of discussion, but it was quickly drowned out by Duga, a bot that looks for mentions of software engineering at StackOverflow. I ...
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What are the acceptable criteria to determine that an answer is AI generated
Generative AI answers are banned here. And obviously some of them are easy to spot: usually they are longer thant needed, take a didactic tone, and do not directly conto the code of the question. ...
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Are Programming Paradigms really off-topic on a site dedicated to Software Engineering?
I posted a question: Did I Discover A New Programming Paradigm? where I introduce the reader to Declarative Domain Programming, a paradigm I am exploring for the last 5 years. The questions got closed ...
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Why question was deleted by a moderator. The deletion notice doesn't include rationale, and I cannot vote to undelete it. What is my recourse?
Problem When I visit softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/revisions/455243, I see that the answer has been deleted. However, the deletion notice doesn't contain rationale. In its stead, it merely ...
