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For questions about the "primarily opinion-based" close reason, and opinion-based questions – both regular questions and the opinion-based questions experimental feature. (Use the [discussion] tag instead for questions on Meta Stack Overflow that are opinion-based themselves.)

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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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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 ...
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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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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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What if I post a question but then realize it's actually a different type of question (e.g. a debugging one). Since editing question type is not supported, can I repost it with a different type?
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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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As new types of Stack Overflow posts are there, I am unsure how the score is calculated. For instance, one of the new types is "Advice" questions. I see there are no upvote/downvote buttons ...
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I come across a lot of "answers" to opinion-based questions in review queues that don't actually answer the question. I've noticed many of these are either requests for clarification on the ...
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Since the opinion-based questions went live, asking a question now presents a user with four possible categories: Based on the amount of questions I've seen in opinion-based that should be in Q&A ...
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I found this question which in Q&A is not a good fit - However it would make a great opinion-based question! As far as I can tell though the only option I have is to flag it for closure as being ...
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My attention was drawn through some side conversation about some main-site comments to the post My library is mostly header only, with a large, required section that only needs to be compiled once. ...
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I've visited my questions page, and to my surprise I see a banner to start a bounty or accept an answer on my opinionated question. As far as I know, it is not possible (source) We're removing the ...
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When reviewing this question, I have chosen "Needs author edit" option (it is active), pressed "Submit", but the page didn't change. I have also navigated to the homepage, then ...
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Is it a bug, or a design change?  I cannot comment on python3.14 returns error but output is still correct and one other I looked at.  I have commented before, so it's not a reputation limit.  There ...
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Now this "opinion-based-questions" experiment is running we have this annoying situation that users frequently post questions as opinion-based that clearly should have been regular questions....
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