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11 questions linked to/from How should we revise the standard off-topic reasons, if we can have up to five?
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My question was closed as being off-topic. What are my options?
I can understand that sometimes questions are closed as being too opinionated, too broad, or unclear, but my question was closed as being off-topic. I have read the On-Topic Help Center page for Code ...
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How should we revisit our standard close reasons?
We have some history, shown below, with our close reasons, there are some problems we have with them. And there has been a consensus to rework them for a while now.
The latest I heard about this was ...
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The context of "Lacks concrete context": let's fix it
Early 2018 we changed the close reasons on Code Review. This was necessary, but now almost 2 years later it's perfectly clear there's a growing discontent with one of them: "Lacks concrete ...
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Let's update the modal for new askers
The Issue
There are many posts on CR that are off-topic for various reasons... Sometimes 10-20 per day! Apparently many users don't read/heed the text on the right side (i.e. "Your question must ...
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Is our "broken" wording broken?
"Questions containing broken code or asking for advice about code not yet written are off-topic, as the code is not ready for review. After the question has been edited to contain working code, ...
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Should we do away with "someone else's code" wording?
This has recently been brought up that we should improve this off-topic/close reason.
While we can agree that this VTC reason is less than ideal (perhaps too broad, should be two separate reasons) ...
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When is explaining code to its author on topic?
The question Python: My program is unable to perform addition correctly which asked for an explanation as to why the code was buggy was closed as off-topic; I don't know about the last two close ...
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What is the best strategy to reopen: text based adventure in python
What's the best strategy to re-open
Text based Game Python? As I wish to invite others to also review the existing working code.
My current understanding is the question is off-topic exclusively due ...
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When is a question too broad?
I wish to bring this question before the Code Review site. In the past, we have had this question: What makes a question too broad for code review?, which asks how to use the "Too Broad" close vote ...
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Need clarification on my close reason interpretation for a specific close reason
The question Does this method guarantee that cells in a CSV will be correctly partitioned? is a duplicate of this one (10k+ and mods only) which asks whether a singular function properly 'escapes' ...
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Can we do away with “someone else's code” wording? [duplicate]
The other day we got the question Python - Print the average of a list which is a value in a dictionary [on hold].
When I came across this question it was being closed for a custom close reason, I can'...
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