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Why is there no flag for 'plz send teh codez' questions? [duplicate]
I keep running across questions like this and this that are obviously 'plz send teh codez' questions. Why is there no flag for this? What flag should I use for this type of question?
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Should I answer a write-my-code question? [duplicate]
Sometimes we see questions are about write code for me. The question does not show efforts.
We should downvote it, and leave comments to notify the author to improve their question, sure. But should ...
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We need "too localized" back as a close reason, if only for regex questions and nothing else! [duplicate]
The inverse of this basically.
Questions like How to parse this string using regexoriginal title are not helping the community nor the OP either, and they are not going to generate ad traffic to the ...
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Flagging questions asking for code [duplicate]
I'd like to suggest another flag for questions which asks for code implementation. The reason for this, there have been lots of question like this lately (at least on the tags I usually browse). ...
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Can we please have the "Lacks Minimal Understanding" close reason back?
That close reason
Yes, I believe it was condescending and somewhat rude. However there is a mass of questions that fall under a crystal clear criteria:
They're poorly written.
They have formatting ...
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How much research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users?
I'm well aware that some research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users before they post any new questions, but I'm not sure just how much research effort is considered adequate.
I asked a ...
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Should Stack Overflow be more restrictive about new user registrations?
The largest problem facing the site today is the flood of terrible questions coming in, mostly from new user accounts. I've mentioned this before, but I suspect that some of the worst of this is due ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are providing a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Should we add a "Do my work for me" close reason?
This question was prompted by this SO question
It's a classic example of a "paste in requirements and ask for working code to solve it" (typically such questions are homework, but not always).
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Off topic questions have to be cleared out of the way, but NOT via closure
Recently I ran across a particular question on Stack Overflow. Despite its being quite easy to answer, it has got no answer yet (and most likely won't, as questions older than a hour hardly receive ...
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Fall 2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better Stack Overflow user?
Note: This question was inspired by a hat but it's actually about your experience interacting with the site in pursuit of a hat.
During Winter Bash 2014, I spent a lot of time thinking about hats. In ...
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What effect would introducing a small barrier for new users to ask a question have on Stack Overflow?
Recently I asked How many new users does Stack Overflow get per day? According to the user's page, when sorted by creation date, there are roughly 100 pages per day (this is fairly accurate even back ...
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Are there questions that are too trivial to answer?
...and what should we do with them?
I'm starting to see questions on the Python tag like:
"How do you access a value in a list?" (i.e., how do you use a basic data structure)
"How do I call a ...
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Do we want questions specific to one person's lack of understanding of a basic language feature?
Here is the question.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45745040/code-after-if-block-inside-a-for-loop-doesnt-work (10k only since the question has been removed)
To make a long story short, the OP ...
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