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I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Website for demonstrating company skillset

The question above was voted off-topic when the only error that I get on my browser console is the map key error. Can anyone explain this to me?

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    \$\begingroup\$ I think your question got closed by a misunderstanding over whether the code in it is broken or not. To my understanding it's not broken, but it may appear that way for users who try to copy-paste it but without using a valid API key. I reopened it now. \$\endgroup\$
    – janos
    Jun 29 '17 at 9:17
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks @janos for your help. \$\endgroup\$
    – user8172330
    Jun 29 '17 at 9:53
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I first saw this question at around revision 13, it had a working stack snippet, but when you ran it you'd get two error messages.

Error: { "message": "uncaught exception: InvalidValueError: myMap is not a function", "filename": "", "lineno": 0, "colno": 0 }

Error: Google Maps API error: InvalidKeyMapError https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#invalid-key-map-error

When I saw these I instinctively went to vote to close the question, what made matters worse was that the errors took up the entire stack snippet. I however enlarged the stack snippet so I could see what else was there and a fully working website was there.

There were comments saying that the code is broken, which were getting upvotes. I don't know if you commented to say it was working. But you should have adjusted your question to mention that the two 'errors' were due to a bad API key, and not required for the website to work. So other users coming to the question can clearly see that it is working as intended.

EBrown later commented saying it's not broken, since it was the tenth, plus, comment on the question, you'd have to scroll a while to see it. Which significantly reduces it's impact. So I upvoted the comment, and left.

Why is my question voted off-topic?

It was because people mistakenly took the above two errors to mean your website didn't work.

If something like this happens again, update your question so that you clearly state that the code works. In this case adding "Currently the provided code has two errors due to an intentionally incorrect API key. The code otherwise works as intended." as a paragraph would have been enough.

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    \$\begingroup\$ As one of the people who voted to close this question, I agree with this answer. \$\endgroup\$
    – Mast Mod
    Jun 29 '17 at 11:16
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    \$\begingroup\$ Very nicely explained, thanks \$\endgroup\$
    – janos
    Jun 29 '17 at 14:31
  • \$\begingroup\$ thanks @Peilonrayz for explaining. \$\endgroup\$
    – user8172330
    Jun 29 '17 at 17:25
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks for explaining these things and I am not blaming you but I had to find a solution that is why I posted this question here.I completely understand what you are saying but I would like to say this before voting the question of a new user off-topic please do confirm whether the question is really off-topic because I think 5 other users voted that off-topic only @EBrown checked that well. \$\endgroup\$
    – user8172330
    Jun 29 '17 at 17:36

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