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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Disable Anonymous Contributions
Note: Due to my position as a moderator I can't comment or point to specifics, which greatly obfuscates the validity of my question.
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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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Tools for format and error checking in your programming language
Lints and Hints: What tools are available for checking and correcting the conventions, style and common errors in my language (lint tools), and are there tools that can automatically fix them (hint ...
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How to post a follow-up question?
Sometimes I stumble upon follow-up questions, where code is being posted again after having gone through a review (or two).
Examples of possible sets of follow up questions:
Find missing numbers - ...
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Coroutines vs. async-await
I just created the coroutines tag. However, I then noticed that there is already the async-await tag. I think these are distinct concepts, even though in some languages, that distinction is a bit ...
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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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Was splitting my code review into 6 parts excessive?
Got this comment:
Please take rest, you already have monopolized the Code Review.
– S. M.
2023-09-20 18:28:46Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Not sure what the best action is.
Going forward, should I limit ...
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"unclear what you're asking" vs "Lacks concrete context"
Aren't these two close reasons too similar? Since the Lacks concrete context exists I cannot remember using the unclear what you're asking anymore.
unclear what you're asking
Please clarify your ...
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How should I include resources (images, videos, audio, etc) in questions?
I know my code doesn't have to be complete.
However, in my specific case I have a project where I'd like to focus on performance improvements.
Some optimizations are obvious,
where others require ...
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What are the most active languages on Code Review
Normally I ask and answer questions on C++. And the responses are reasonable.
But recently I asked question for review of my JavaScript (as I actually need a lot of help here). But I got a lot less ...
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Nefarious user still allowed to contribute?
Yesterday, I flagged an answer from this user because he/she posted a harmful link which performs a drive-by download attack.
Should not the community ban them network wide?
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How should we [compose] this tag?
I'm following all the Kotlin questions and I noticed that there was no tag for Jetpack Compose.
While Stack Overflow has four tags for variants of compose:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/...
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New user posts 20+ times within 10 minutes?
How is it possible for a new user to post 20+ questions, with mostly the same content, within 10 minutes, on the same day the account was created? How is there no throttling? How do these posts remain ...
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Are vectorization requests on-topic?
Currently, there are 62 questions tagged vectorization, nearly all of which say "The performance sucks; how can I vectorize this code?".
Recently, How to efficiently apply correction to a time series ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Do configuration files constitute reviewable code?
A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?...
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Let's update the tour- what should be added?
Last year we updated the modal for new users. There are many comments left on posts, especially new posts, asking OPs to "take the tour" (especially when a post is off-topic).
The tour has ...
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Is CR targeted at anyone else except the OP?
As a person who joined Stack Overflow about 15 years ago I am always curious to see what new flavours of my favourite Q&A site emerge every year.
So from time to time google takes me to ...
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Including function implementations if I need advice about architecture/design/file hierarchy?
I have a program that loads data from CSV files, processes it, and returns CSV files as output. The program is divided into a series of functions that are housed in various files.
What I'm interested ...
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TypeScript and JavaScript tags
We typically treat c and c++ as mutually exclusive. We don't tag the same question with both c and c++. I feel we should do the same for TypeScript and JavaScript.
TypeScript needs to run through a ...
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How to get the best value out of Code Review - Asking Questions
I have a project I am working on, and I would like some, or all of it
reviewed, how can I ask for this review on Code Review in a way that
produces the best possible value?
This is not about a ...
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Trying to make sure I ask an apropriate request for code review
I have not had the best of luck asking for code reviews. Mostly my fault for not really knowing what I don't already know, and not being able to correctly convey what I am trying to ask about.
I have ...
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Change the licensing of code in Code Review contributions to GNU GPL
It seems that one of the community's main aversions to changing from the current CC license, to a more permissive MIT license, is the idea that people seem to not want to simply give code away.
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What Site Policy should we have for code written by ChatGPT?
As all of us I'm sure are aware, ChatGPT has induced a plethora of discussion network-wide. Specifically with this site, we could very well see an influx of questions about reviewing ChatGPT generated ...
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Should we do something about our meta tags?
We have a decent selection of language and technology tags, but we also have many meta tags, such as refactoring. A meta tag, at least on here, specifies the OP's request(s) in a review, and not much ...
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How do I make my code more readable?
I've often come across the same kind of question:
- How do I make my code more readable?
- How can I improve my code?
And usually the answers are similar - regardless of language or problem.
That's ...
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Change the licensing of code in Code Review contributions to MIT
One of several problems of having a creative commons (CC) license for code generated on Code Review, is that it is incompatible with major software licenses. Your project would have to either have to ...
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Reviewing generated code
Is reviewing generated code on topic ?
Scenarios:
Someone wrote the generator and it is included or linked and provided with generated code.
Someone wrote the generator and only included generated ...
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Is it okay to edit part(s) of code not yet reviewed?
In this question of mine, the one answerer so far has only reviewed a part of my code. However, I've made changes on other parts of my code, but I don't want to somehow invalidate that answer.
Would ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Are bioinformatics challenges from ROSALIND welcome?
Code for programming challenges, such as Project Euler, is apparently welcome on codereview and the respective tags exist.
Would it be considered on-topic to post solutions to problem sets from ...
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Updating a question before it's answered? [duplicate]
My most recent question hasn't received any answers in the 24 hours it's been up, and I've made a couple (IMO small but not negligible) changes since asking it that I would like feedback on.
Can I ...
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Reviewing "design"
It has been said in various comments that on Code Review we review code and not design.
I find this statement not very clear though. Obviously, if someone has an UML and not any written code, that's ...
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Asker deletes question after posting an answer
Yesterday I answered this question. Today when on my profile I noticed my answer was deleted.
This was not a DMCA takedown, and so this meta and this one don't help in this situation.
This meta, ...
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Should reputation be required to delete answered questions? [duplicate]
Should there be some reputation limit, below which an OP cannot delete an answered, up-voted question?
A "New contributor" asked a question. 9 hours later, I first saw the question. It ...
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May I post a question whose code is written in a programming language about which nothing exists in Code Review Stack Exchange?
May I post a question whose code is written in a programming language about which nothing exists in Code Review Stack Exchange?
For example, Asymptote is a vector graphics programming language which, ...
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Offering a Bounty for a long unanswered question; is it good practice?
Thank ye all for your patience and understanding in advance. Posted a Code Review question 4 years ago and it has never received an answer review, so thinking about offering a bounty for it. Is this ...
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It looks like it's finally time
Well, somehow I didn't see this coming for a while, but it looks like it's the best time to move on after all these years.
I've been here since 2013, which I believe was two years after CR was founded....
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How much modification is needed to be considered authoring the code?
In C++ PEXT/PDEP implementations
I believe that significant changes were made. But there was a comment stating that modifying is off topic.
As this code is public, then modifications should be ...
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Should we generalize the [native-code] tag?
Until now, we have been using the native-code tag for questions involving high-level code that calls c, c++, or similar lower-level code.
Occasionally, people write code to allow c or c++ code to call ...
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer is up. What now, Wonderland?
If you didn't know already, the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) now includes Code Review and all public Stack Exchange beta sites.
Bookmark: http://data.stackexchange.com/codereview/queries
This ...
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Bad experience on codereview.stackexchange.com
I had bad experience on codereview.stackexchange.com. Someone told me "You have been told to do this ..." as if that guy is a master and I am a servant.
To avoid all this in future, I have ...
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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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Tag synonym request: [lexical-analysis] and [lexer]
The lexical-analysis tag was created in February 2016 and currently has 36 questions. lexer was created in January 2019 and has 31 questions. A few questions are tagged with both.
Don't these tags ...
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Code Review Blog - Post One Contest
On Hold SE Community Devs:
The short of it is, it's kinda on us to make something that works, and we don't really do that. There isn't any real proper integration between the systems and the ...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 4 - Plan a Schedule
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The short of it is, it's kinda on us to make something that works, and we don't really do that. There isn't any real proper integration between the systems and the authors ...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 3 - Recruit contributors
On Hold SE Community Devs:
The short of it is, it's kinda on us to make something that works, and we don't really do that. There isn't any real proper integration between the systems and the ...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 2 - Define the Scope
On Hold SE Community Devs:
The short of it is, it's kinda on us to make something that works, and we don't really do that. There isn't any real proper integration between the systems and the ...
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StackOverflow questions being incorrectly sent to Code Review
I've noticed a couple of questions where the poster originally posted on Stackoverflow and then was sent here. However, its not a proper code review question because the code doesn't actually work.
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Is it possible to get feedback on the structure of an application (with code posted)?
I've recently completed a (to a certain version, anyway) project in Python and am looking to get feedback on it.
Problem is that I want feedback on how the project and the different components are ...
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