Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is hacking/cracking on-topic? [duplicate]
Login to website behind captcha seeks to circumvent a captcha. I think that white-hat hacking or penetration testing for the purpose of security improvement might be OK, but this is clearly in the ...
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Is a changeset reviewable?
I'm looking at Java refactoring - reduce cognitive complexity by extracting private methods (note: the question has been edited since I wrote this. At that time, I was looking at Revision 4) and in ...
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Why is the [beginner] tag appropriate here as opposed to e.g. Stack Overflow?
I'm sure many of us have seen the blog post about the death of meta-tags on Stack Overflow.
One of the tags included in the aforementioned blog post is beginner.
However, this tag seems to be ...
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Is simply telling someone to use an API an appropriate code review?
I recently viewed a question where the only answer was simply telling the OP to use a provided API instead of scraping data themselves.
Is this considered an appropriate answer on Code Review? My ...
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A “The answer's author agreed to this edit in question” button which could be used only if code was expanded
In this question I added a segment to the code scope only after describing the essential addition before the answerer in comments and getting his consent to make this addition in a reply comment.
I ...
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Was this rollback justified?
The rollback in question: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/216088/revisions
I was told to contest the rollback here by the reviser and I believe the point of contention is about ...
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Shouldn't [random] be renamed to [randomness]?
The tag random evokes the idea of a "random" post, something which is categorically disallowed on Stack Exchange.
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Dealing with defamation and site-policy
Yesterday I got two separate accounts of defamation against me.
The first one Find the rotation point of a sorted array that is "rotated" accused me of using multiple accounts to down-vote their ...
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How do we train our self-moderators?
Over the past few months I have found myself voting to Leave Open many questions that someone else voted to close as not concrete. A case in point is this question. While this question could have been ...
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Is the review of vocabulary/ontology use (e.g., for HTML structured data) on-topic?
In HTML, structured data is typically added with the syntaxes JSON-LD, Microdata or RDFa. The review of the syntax use is clearly on-topic, just like the use of plain HTML is.
But what about the ...
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Alternate solution - what counts as an insightful observation?
One of our latest HNQ's has drawn the attention of alternate solutions.
Soon after the question was posted I answered it with an alternate solution, and got quite a few upvotes. My first version ...
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Synonym request for tag [animations], proposed synonym [easing]
Synonym Request
I came across this question screen-transition-effect-like-in-final-fantasy-games where OP makes their custom easing function in order to smoothly transition a color over an image. I ...
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Advice without knowledge of specific language
I'm here for a little more than one year now but still very new to the how-to of the place, and a recent comment in this post made me think that maybe I was ...
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Can questions request only specific kinds of review guidance? [duplicate]
In other words: if a CR question asks only for performance feedback, or only for OOP structure feedback, etc., is that valid? And would answers providing review feedback on other aspects of the code ...
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How to handle a VTC as duplicate that goes the wrong way around?
I encountered this review today, where a question was to be closed as duplicate of another, older question. However, the dupe target was closed, at -5 and unanswered. The quality was much lower than ...
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(Follow-up) Possible Solution for Zombies : The Brainstorm
This is a follow-up to this post.
We currently have 6022 unanswered questions + some others with zero score answers.
In order to find ideas, I propose that we post ideas here on how to reduce the ...
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Let's not close fixable posts without explanation
There's one thing that's hooked me to CR more than on other sites and it's the fact that the community is really great. But recently I've noticed (I don't have any data to back it up) that we have ...
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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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Review that targets code that makes the question off-topic, then question is updated
I was looking around for zombies and fell on this question : Importing text into PANDAS and counting certain words
The review is basically pointing runtime errors in the code that would've made the ...
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On/off-topicness of “conclusions” added to the original question
I wonder what is your opinion about on/off-topicness of conclusions added to the original question like it has be done here at the bottom?
Should such edits be rejected and a self-answer posted ...
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Are Nix expressions without any logic on topic? [duplicate]
I've written a configuration.nix file for my systems, and it would be very useful to have it reviewed. Nix expressions are code, very similarly to Puppet or Chef, but are declarative, so I wonder if ...
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Small portion of reviewable code isn't mine, but credited
I recently asked this question. I looked around, but it doesn't look like my problem has been asked here:
A small (9 SLOC) portion of my code is an equation from a user on Stackoverflow. I credit the ...
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Why were comments removed that reported bugs in my question code?
The comments on my question here appear to have been removed.
Some of these comments reported bugs in the original code. Given that question code can't be updated, and new questions or selfie answers ...
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Multiple related question titles
I am creating a programming language, Linny, and have asked two questions (First Question Here, Second Question Here). As I continue to improve the language, I intend on asking more questions to ...
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Why was this answer for “Add and Search Word” deleted without any comments?
I'm wondering why a perfectly valid answer with two upvotes for the Add and Search Word question has been deleted? There is no comment explaining this strage action. From a regular user's point of ...
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Reviewing non-working code when author thinks it's working?
I came across a pretty simple question where the author explicitly states:
The function returns the correct output, and all known edge cases have been accounted for.
I took this at face value and ...
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Is it okay to post questions that don't contain a full program/library?
For example, say I wanted to ask a question about memory efficiency regarding two versions of a structure I have in a specific language, but I'm only concerned about that one section of the program. ...
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Possible Solution for Zombies (unanswered questions)
Would it be possible for Code Review to award bounties on good questions that have remained unanswered for more than 6 months? When I was working through zombies I found a few questions I couldn't ...
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Mod team updates and site status
Today the paperwork caught up with reality, and Simon officially relinquished his diamond. For me it is a sad occasion. Fortunately, I know Simon is not really going anywhere, and he'll still be just ...
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How closely can code on this site be copied into other projects?
I understand that code found on Stack Exchange is under a Creative Commons License. This stipulates that
any projects using the code must be shared with same (or compatible) license, and
the author ...
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Are mods allowed to answer non-meta questions?
This may seem like a very simple question with a very simple answer, but it’s been bugging me. Having looked through hundreds of answers on questions on the regular site, I only see answers from ...
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Why is this question asking who's right in answers on Stack Overflow off-topic?
Code knowledge against simplicity when looping on a list, what is the best practice?
Close Reason:
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to ...
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Any reason my “Emulation of SE's text input control for tags” question has gone unanswered?
Is there something wrong with this question ...
Emulation of SE's text input control for tags
... that might make it difficult or unpleasant to answer?
Can you suggest what I should do to ...
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Reviewing language design, with working interpreter and test case?
I'd like to get some feedback on a small tuple-rewriting language I've been playing with. It has a working interpreter, and a working test case.
A little more background information: This idea began ...
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Reviewing queues using a Python tool: case 1
I developed a tool in Python which has lot of functionalities, among them ways to access review queues.
I have a series of questions that I may ask separately. Here is the first one:
Suppose a post ...
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I was the shield that guarded the flags of users
I became a moderator in the first election four years ago but it is now time to step down.
I came here to Code Review in November 2013, after browsing the site for a few days I posted my first ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
In Recursive conversion from ExpandoObject to Dictionary<string, object> the OP omitted the keyword private, and after ...
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Should Code Review be a place for discussing sensitive topics?
I always thought that Code Review is a place where we try to improve code and do not discuss highly questionable philsophical theories. For this reason I'm very disapointed that my flag about this ...
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What is “lacks concrete context” exactly?
Context
Recently I've seen an increase in people voting for LCC when I don't agree this is the correct reason. These all seem to be getting LCC VTC because they're lacking description.
https://...
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Peculiar application of [reinventing-the-wheel] tag on my question
My question has been edited by a moderator to include the tag reinventing-the-wheel.
Allthough I did state
I am not relying on libraries like cats even if they might already provide solutions for ...
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Are explicit words allowed in source code?
I have just posted a question about an explicit song checker here. I decided not to include the explicit words.
Question:
Are explicit words allowed in a programs source code? If so, is there a ...
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Disambiguate 'rop' tag
I see rop was recently added, to refer to "Railway-oriented programming" (which I have to admit was new to me, not having come across the term when I was using functional Scheme).
However, the ...
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Out-dated duplicates definition in Help Center
We recently had a discussion in The 2nd Monitor about a post being closed as a duplicate of this post. I had flagged it based on a Rule I found in the Help Center:
This question has been asked ...
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Caesar Cipher in C++
Come on people!!!!!
Caesar Cipher in C++
Closing this as of-topic is ridiculous. It compiles it runs it works (for specific input). Yes it has flaws but this code is basically 99.9999999% complete ...
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Code review of YouTube video
I have a YouTube playlist that I have created showing my iterative approach on a subject ("C# CUSTOM Script Language Creation").
I know that sites like this one have some limitations as to what is ...
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Why is my self answer being downvoted?
I have shown that my code works. I have corrected people that they were wrong when they said my code does not create valid Sudoku. I'm awaiting valid reasons why my answer is being downvoted.
If you ...
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Why am I getting downvotes for not working code when it's working code?
I've become a little frustrated with Code Review. They said my code does not output a valid Sudoku when it in fact does. Is it that people are confused of my code and don't realize that it's in fact ...
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An edit of mine was rolled back and the question locked
I asked this question:
Templated division by a power of 2
and did not include an #include directive before my actual code. An answer noted the ...
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Is {language} on-topic?
When looking to see if a niche language is on-topic on Code Review it's fairly hard to tell if it is or isn't.
The help centre only says "code":
Code Review is a question and answer site for ...
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Questions should not be locked when off-topic comments are moved to chat for the first time
I my opinion, it's to early to lock a question when moving off-topic comments to the chat for the first time.
It's understandable when it repeats two or three times... and it certainly did in the ...
