Linked Questions
27 questions linked to/from Short answers and code-only answers
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Frequently Posted Comments
On Code Review we often encounter questions with the same kind of problem over and over again.
Some of us are using the auto comments script which allows you to maintain a list of comments to post.
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For an iterative review, is it okay to edit my own question to include revised code?
Is it okay to edit the question to include the improved code?
I would like to do so for the following reasons:
To share the improved code with others
To show the answering persons that I take their ...
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How is Code Review doing right now?
I’m Grace Note, a Community Manager at Stack Exchange. Normally for most sites we run a community site evaluation, as explained in this Meta Stack Overflow post under Public Beta sites. However, these ...
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Let's draft better Help Center pages!
To follow up on Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center, let's collaboratively draft better Help Center pages.
For each Help Center page to be modified, post a Community Wiki "answer" containing ...
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What are the correct actions to take when there is a 'bad' answer?
When there is an answer you feel is 'bad', what are the correct actions to take?
For example, the question:
Similar methods using loops
has an answer:
If you always use both functions together ...
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None - Let's work together to offer ultimately better content, faster
Nhgrif pointed out a great idea: Teamwork
"I think it's probably best if the question instead has several good
answers that each address a specific topic. The result will be that no
single ...
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What to do if the asker's code contains bugs?
Based on this question: WPF Calculator Code
The question's code... works, according to the author. However, I quickly spotted multiple bugs. I know that Code Review is not there for fixing bugs. A ...
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Where is the "spam line" drawn in the sand?
An answer from a prominent member of the coding community does very little to answer the question it was posted on.
The question is laid out almost with bullets where each point says follow the link.
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Checklist or general directions on how to write a good CR-ish answer
This question is intended to be the counterpart of Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question.
Getting started with Code Review:
New users often seem to have problems to understand, what ...
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Should code block(s) as answers always require an explanation?
Here is a great example of this. Granted, that was that user's first post, but this is still common.
UPDATE: That example has since been updated, so consult the original version.
This type of ...
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Should we encourage deliberately incomplete answers?
Let's say you have 5 ideas to criticize in a question.
I see some advantages in including only 3 of them in your answer:
Other answerers will have more things to say, making it easier to join in:
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What about questions which demands expert opinion and design feedback
This has been an issue here since a long time and I see a lot of people just to get brownie points jump in and copy paste the answers which can be as generic as possible for example:
Use linter
Bad ...
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Revising the "insufficient explanation" post notice
On Code Review, "code dump" answers are not allowed. When an answer contains just code, moderators will often put the following warning notice on it:
We're looking for long answers that provide ...
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Answering Guidelines (answer length)
From Grace Note's CR review (emphasis mine):
Time to Answer
Jon Ericson, another Community Manager, ran some numbers on the site and discovered that the average time it takes for a question to ...
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Do we even need to keep following [meta-tag:site-policy]?
I recently stumbled across site-policy.
The tag has:
77 questions
of which 10 are tagged faq
and of which 11 are tagged specific-question
no tag wiki
the following tag excerpt:
This tag is for ...
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How can we get the most out of Winter Bash 2015?
I think that ranking high on the leaderboard, as a community, is good publicity for Code Review. I'd like us to rank high, and all members to get a lot of hats, but without abusing the rules, staying ...
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Considering a migration from Stack Overflow to Code Review
I just ran into this question on Stack Overflow and there was some discussion in the comments about whether or not it would fit better on Code Review.
On SO it doesn't seem to fit in its current ...
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Must answers include a code review?
I'm surprised to ask this but, "Must answers include a Code Review?"
I'm looking at this answer.
The request in the OP says,
Can you please look into my code and suggest me some ...
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Self-answers that re-write code with little/no explanation
I came across this self-answer today:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/10844/46800
It had no explanation or evaluation of the code in question, just a code rewrite. This seems to me to not ...
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Should I answer my own question with the improved code?
More to the point, should I delete this answer? I went through the help center pretty thoroughly and searched on here on Meta and couldn't really find anything that answers that question.
The answer ...
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Answer made on suggested comment, not on initial question
I came across the following answer: dynamically-add-remove-fields-on-input and don't know the site policy for this specific scenario.
Scenario
OP asks for the following:
The following code allows ...
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Is solely suggesting another solution a bad answer?
Related to Is a bad approach for a problem a good reason to close a question?, this question is about the opposite instead: Is solely suggesting another solution a bad answer? We've been over this ...
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To what extent should a recorded Excel macro be rewritten (removing .Select)?
I'm just feeling my way around here, having had a post recently moved over from another site together with its question. While I like the idea of a place to ask specifically for improvements to ...
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VLQ review queue, option for "this should be a comment"
I was reviewing an item in the Low Quality queue (which I sadly cannot link to) that was most definitely not an answer and should have been a comment, because it was asking for clarification from the ...
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Can the help page on what a good answer is be updated with specifics?
The How do I write a good answer? page seems to be generic SE help page rather than specific to Code Review; can this page be updated with specifics to this site? Is there a help page on how not to ...
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Can a user post code in an answer even if they don't fully understand how it works?
In this answer the OP of the question presented an alternative solution from github. The github repository shows that it uses the MIT license:
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ...
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Does improving scalability and mentioning the improvement count as sufficient justification?
A recent VB.NET AES File Encryption answer was posted with, mostly, the following text:
I'm enclosing a program I wrote to help you along the way. It is very effective and will encrypt whatever you ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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