Linked Questions
124 questions linked to/from What is the XY problem?
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Chameleon questions that answer themselves
I'm using the definition in Exit strategies for "chameleon questions"
I've recently come across a few questions where the OP has answered their question via an edit in the question.
I'm ...
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Help develop the site and community knowledge base in your language
I think everyone agrees that it is great to have a lot of technology Q&A. In this way, anyone can quickly understand how to use a technology. The Stack Exchange engine is a quite complicated tool ...
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Burninate the [godaddy] tag [closed]
First off, godaddy has 903 questions tagged with it. godaddy-economy-hosting has 15. (no longer true, burninated)
EDIT: we're at under 100 questions with godaddy tagged.
GoDaddy is a platform for ...
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Serial numbers for questions
Shouldn't questions — in any community — have some handle (e.g. serial numbers) to retrieve them back the next time you visit the community?
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Answering a Question Vs. Solving a Problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is “Don’t do it” a valid answer?
As long I'm airing my grievances, I thought I'd throw out another point that drives me crazy.
This actually is something I'm ...
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There is by now a captcha-problem
Tried several times with several captchas. This is the data explorer page I tried to access.
with space between :
To the non-believers :) :
System produced on:
Windows 7
Chrome Version 33.0.1750.146
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Just one more thing [duplicate]
This is getting old, sometimes I answer a Q and it feels like doing tech support for my uncle or neighbor. You know, they call every few days with "one more thing".
Case: Reset a list using jQuery
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Marking your own question obsolete
Some sites have a topic matter such that questions could become irrelevant or irreproducible. Example scenarios:
Server Fault: "Never mind, we decided to reinstall the OS on the faulty server, and ...
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What should you do when someone questions your question in his answer?
Has anyone encountered such a scenario when someone questions your question in his answer? I did encountered this situation here from someone with a high reputation. Though his response did not answer ...
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Does SE track previous website access?
I am wondering if math.stackexchange.com tracks or otherwise has a record of specific user-initiated access to the site, from a certain device at a specific time and date.
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Is it acceptable to close a question because there might be a better way to achieve what the asker wants? [closed]
This question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5458392/programmatically-take-ownership-of-a-registry-key-in-c seems to have been closed because no reason was given WHY the asker wished to do what ...
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Would not the XY Problem be void for Feature-Request tagged questions?
I recently posted a question for a feature-request here on meta, in which I offered a possible solution to a problem (I've deleted the post, since I missed seeing a clear duplicate question). However, ...
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Is asking if there already exists an open-source solution for a difficult problem not welcome on Stack Overflow?
I posted this question - Compare two strings (similar to how GNU diff does), asking if anyone knows about an open-source solution of a fairly difficult problem - comparing two strings for differences.
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Is there a way to browse and upload images directly from stack.imgur?
As an editor for the blog, I use the images from stack.imgur. However in order for me to use them, I have to get the link from the posts themselves or if they're my own images, or images I've found ...
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Is it allowed on SE to include AI (ChatGPT) generated output in the question post? [duplicate]
My initial understanding is that Stack Exchange currently bans ChatGPT generated answers.
But is it allowed to include text that ChatGPT has generated as part of a question?
As an example:
Suppose I ...