Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
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Pastebin thoughts
The odds of someone submitting a massive amount of code seems likely on this type of site. Whether or not this is permitted is the first hurdle. If it is permitted, then offloading the code to a ...
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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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What to do with good code?
There are 'Unanswered Questions' that contain good code and do not get closed, because saying 'looks good' is really a comment, not an answer. Example: how-can-this-simple-handler-in-nodejs-be-...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 1 - Raise the idea on the meta site
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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 ...
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Why are they 'questions' if this site is primarily for code review requests?
"why are they 'questions' if this site is primarily for code review requests?"
This is not originally my question, but it never-the-less is still a good one that deserves more attention. I'm sort of ...
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Code Review Blog - Post One Contest
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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 ...
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Raising the time in which an answer cannot be accepted
Should the time in which an answer cannot be accepted be raised?
On Stack Overflow there is a limit of 15 minutes before you can accept an answer, such that other answerers have a chance of providing ...
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Is the tag [reinventing-the-wheel] really helpful?
So I just stumbled upon the tag reinventing-the-wheel and I ask myself if this is really a helpful tag. Most of the code on Code Review does reinvent the wheel in one way or another, there is nearly ...
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Can we disable "Questions that may already have your answer?"
If you post a question, Stack Exchange with all their clever AI produces a list under your title called "Questions that may already have your answer". This makes a lot of sense for Stack Overflow, ...
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Rewording close reason "Explanation of code"
Inspired by this question: Custom Close Reason Post-Mortem.
Can we alter
Questions must involve real code that you own or maintain. Questions seeking an explanation of someone else's code are off-...
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set [null] = null? (or "Burninate [null]?")
In my opinion, the null tag is not helpful for anyone. Even if this tag matches the content of the question, it might be a bit too specific.
I'm not a programmer. What are your opinions on ...
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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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Shouldn't there be a Remind_Me_Later kind of button or link ?
I often find interesting questions with code that requires a lot of time to understand, review and suggest improvements. I absolutely want to come back to them when I have spare time to work on those ...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 4 - Plan a Schedule
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 authors ...
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Code Difference
I've just been visiting code review lately and I've realized what I'm doing is opening two browser windows, putting them side by side to compare my code with the answered code.
What I've realized ...
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Code Review Blog - Phase 2 - Define the Scope
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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 ...
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Warn if question is tagged with [python-3.x] but not [python]
Given that 16/50 of the latest python-3.x questions aren't posted with the python tag,[1] and site policy is to tag with both.[2] Can we move the burden onto the poster to tag properly, rather than ...
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Should we have a [testability] tag?
I came across this recent question, originally only tagged with c#.
OP is particularly interested in how unit-test -friendly his code is, and what could be done to improve on that aspect.
The unit-...
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Why can't rep from other SE sites count towards at least some rep here?
This has probably been addressed vis-a-vis stackoverflow, though I mostly hang out at gis.SE.
I posted this question, but don't have enough rep to give it a tag.
Seems like this impedes movement of ...
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Reviewing same file multiple times = same question?
I think code review is the best thing ever and that I need code review basically daily since I change the code daily. I don't posted too much, only 3 or 4 questions how to clean python and yaml and I'...
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Time for an [encryption] tag?
So, we have a ceasar-cipher tag, but not the more general encryption tag. A quick search shows over 200 questions that should potentially have such a tag.
What do you think? Is it a good tag? I can ...
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Should the sorting tags be merged?
There are currently two specific sorting tags:
quick-sort (22 questions)
mergesort (18 questions)
We then have the main tag: sorting (79 questions).
Should we merge the specific ones with the main ...
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Some more answer badges to encourage participation
I have posted this as a part of an answer of mine on meta question "Approaching 1000 days on beta", but it's burried in the question and actually deserves its own post. I posted it on Meta....
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Should we Drop [ETL]?
etl currently has no wiki and three questions. It was mentioned that it may be a rebel tag.
For those that don't know, ETL is an acronym for Extract-Transform-Load and is a term heard often in the ...
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Close and/or delete a question abandoned by the asker?
If someone asks the OP a question in the comments, and the OP never answers, and there isn't really enough information to give a good answer to the question, should we be able close the question and/...
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Are comments being favored over answers?
Scenario:
I've noticed while skimming through questions on CodeReview that people are replying with legitimate answers in the comments section, instead of the answers section.
While I've only ...
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Codeblock detection
The idea jumped at me after reviewing two close votes in a row (granted, from the same user) that were homework assignments without any code in it.
Since a question that has no code in it (or one ...
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A friendly challenge!
A few years ago you beat us (PPCG) to getting out of beta and getting a design. It is time for us to strike back. I am planning on hosting a King of the Hill challenge Programming Puzzles and Code ...
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Do we still need separate [unix] and [linux] tags?
I'm not sure if we still need both unix and linux. Unix is a broader family of operating systems and Linux is one of them under Unix. I don't think we should just have linux since there are ...
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Highlight color for favorite-tagged questions
As you all know questions that have one of the user's favorite tags are highlighted (in all of the StackExchange sites), but the highlight color in this site is not easily recognized, it's not comfort ...
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Synonym request: [template] -> [generics]
As far as I can tell, template is basically just C++'s version of generics.
If this is correct and there is no other appropriate use of the template tag (the tag says it's not supposed to be used for ...
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Should [adventure-game] and [role-playing-game] be synonymized?
We have both adventure-game (14 questions) and role-playing-game (5 questions), which don't seem to differ much in the questions being asked for both. Plus, most of these questions involve a console ...
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Difficulty & time-required classifications
I'm sure some of the experts get somewhat annoyed by easy questions... or that some of the novices don't want to see the advanced stuff because it would just confuse them... etc... so I think giving ...
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Adding alternative answer comment to low quality posts queue
When I review posts in the low quality posts queue, sometimes I stumble upon answers which provide alternative solutions instead of reviewing the OP's code.
It would be nice to add this entry (...
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Review of code reviews?
I'm just wondering if there is any need to change the 'review' label here or (much worse) change the name of this site, since review in the title bar means something very different from review in the ...
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VBScript Code Highlighting
Would it be possible to use the same Syntax Highlighter that Wikipedia uses for VBScript
If it is possible we could probably use it for all flavors of VB (vb6,vbscript, vba, etc.)
Right now we have ...
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Merge or synonymize Cold Fusion tags
cfml and coldfusion-10 should be merged with coldfusion.
coldfusion is the most popular tag of them all, but they are all the same thing and there aren't very many questions associated with them.
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Complaint about rollback policy / bug fixes
I posted some useful code on code review.
One of the answers suggested an improvement to the code.
I agreed and made the improvement to the code, and left the comment "Thanks, fixed".
A moderator ...
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Programmatically removing "review" from titles
It looks like we all agree that titles should never contain the word "Review" or "review" inside them. What about writing a small script to remove all such occurencies? (4,369 such occurrencies to be ...
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Synonymise [objective-c-runtime] with [objective-c]
The tag objective-c-runtime has 3 questions:
UIScrollView Category utility function for auto sizing contentSize (0 answers)
Dynamically setting unknown properties of a subclass from parent class in ...
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Would you ever use the [jquery-ui] tag without the [jquery] tag?
I think that if you were able to use one and not the other then it would okay to not synonymize the jquery-ui to jquery.
But it just doesn't seem like we need both of these tags. I think that we ...
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I think comments should allow more characters on Code Review
I just got a great code review and I wanted to reply to it because I had questions. Of course the character limit was exceeded very fast.
Code reviews are somewhat different in it's nature than the ...
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Suggestion: new tags for web technologies
I tried to post a question...
...why are they 'questions' if this site is primarily for code review requests?
...anyway, the tags I tried to use did not exist and I don't have a high enough ...
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Should we have a "Too long" close reason?
Several questions (including some of mine) have lots of code. Some of those have ridiculous amount of code and should probably be broken into two, three, sometimes even four questions.
When it's a ...
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We should have a [language-design] tag
tl;dr: We need a language-design tag. For already created languages.
We have tags for interpreter and tags for compiler, so I think that a language-design, or something similar to the likes of that. ...
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Why are [questions] and [asking-questions] on meta?
If I want to scan the list of titles of all topics on meta about 'questions', then I need to do that twice (once for each tag, questions and asking-questions).
Could one of them be synonymized or ...
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Let's have the credits roll on this [role-playing-game]
I'm not sure why a role-playing-game is needed when there's already a game tag. Personally, I think we should just burninate it and add the game tag to all the questions tagged with it that don't ...
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Add tag existing on SO, for which I have rep
I am one of two users with a c++-cli tag badge on Stack Overflow. I think that
any tag in use on SO is a good candidate for being a valid tag here and
a badge shows that I properly understand the ...
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Can I keep my chat with darkness in it?
I prefer a dark color-scheme for almost all my activities online, including the 2nd monitor.
For SE chats I have a special extension installed, that inverts colors and has some other gimmicks. ...
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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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