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Code Review questions must contain code
As requested by Kaz and approved by the voters here on meta, questions asked on Code Review that do not contain code are now blocked.
I've configured this initially as a three-line minimum (or three ...
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Call of Duty II - We're still on a mission
Briefing.
November 16, 2013. In response to a not-so-shiny Stack Exchange Community Managers' review of our favorite Stack Exchange site and seeing that about 10% of the site's content consisted of ...
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Playing our home-made games!
As developers we know that it's not always easy to get people to play the games that we make.
We also know that it's not always easy to find motivation to work on the games you want to make.
This is ...
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Community ♦ has gained sentience and is posting bad comments, what should I do?
On Thursday the review queues changed. Whilst the change is hopefully for the better in the long term. In, hopefully, the short term, [5] the release has a number of issues. [1]
There are a few I'd ...
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Certain characters formatted with ### seem messed up under 100% zoom
I recently came across this post and noticed some issues with the heading text.
For instance, the first one (with ###):
main(arg)
That third letter is supposed to ...
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Fenced code blocks don't close properly at the end of a post
The new feature, GitHub (tilde) code blocks, from Implement ```-style (fenced) Markdown code blocks is a great addition, but there is a small bug which bizarrely only appears on Code Review & Code ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Do not prematurely accept answers
With the voting debate going on, I'd like to make a related point:
Please do not prematurely accept answers.
As much as I love getting the tick mark, it is a signal that tells the community that a ...
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"How To Format" guide has misleading UI elements
The "How To Format" guide on the right side of the screen is misleading. It uses "►" for each item in the list.
Usually this "►" means that the list item is expandable, but it is not an expandable ...
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Off-topic because... There are strange radio buttons
I was going through the review queue and came across a question that I thought may be off-topic.
I was deciding which topic it would be off-topic for, if any. And noticed that the radio buttons are ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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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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Flag summary layout broken
As you see on the picture, flag summary layout is broken. The right column should be on the right, instead of below the left column.
This doesn't happen on the other SE sites.
Tested on latest ...
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Can a "Not your code" default off-topic option be added to the close dialog?
A number of questions have come up recently where the code is not the asker's own code, prompting a 'close' response. It would be convenient if there was an 'off-topic' close option that included:
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Is the automatic low quality answer comment unfit for Code Review?
This is the comment made on my behalf when I recommended deletion on an answer in the VLQ queue:
This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author,...
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f# hashtag on Twitter is not valid
My question was tweeted with the automatic Code Review Twitter account.
The tweet in question is using #f#, which isn't valid. It should use #fsharp, like #csharp in this tweet.
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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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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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The color (or contrast) of visited links is too light to be readable
status-completed This has been fixed and will be live after next build on production.
After visiting a link, one can't clearly distinguish between this link and surrounding text.
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Grammar problem in close reason
Our "off topic" close reason has a problem:
It should read either "generally relate to a code review request" or "generally relate to code review requests." Can we get it fixed before anyone from ELU ...
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2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Sign Up / Log In page header looks funny
The page header for the Sign Up / Log In page looks a little funny:
The white Background on the header doesn't match the text. Also it may be debatable whether it's intended to break the background ...
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Zen Mode + Dual Pane for ease of review and writing
It would be handy to have some kind of "Zen mode" here at Code Review.
Think about it, you develop code in a maximized IDE or side-by-side with the result or the specs (or both). I think Code Review ...
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Candidate changes in 2024 Moderator Election – review your ballot
TL;DR: There's been a change in the candidate list for the 2024 Moderator Election. The voting period has been extended for a week. If you've already voted, you should confirm your votes still ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Can we remove the need for titles to be unique
I came across the following title on the HNQ list.
I made a Guess the number game in Python
This is a pretty poor title, but the OP isn't to blame for this.
As you can see the title almost ...
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For actions in a user profile more than a year ago the year should be visible
When viewing a user profile for a mostly inactive user (For example, akmad), the activity displayed goes back multiple years, but there is no year value for "ancient" activities and it does not make ...
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FAQ "Product Support" needs some TLC
Related Meta.SE Question:: The “product support” page in Help Center does not make much sense network-wide
The Product Support "Can I support my product on this site?" FAQ page seems to be stating ...
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2021: 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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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 before ...
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Can I legally post my solution to a company's coding test?
I had to do a coding test as part of the interview process for a job. The company didn't give me any feedback, though, and just told me they wouldn't be proceeding with my application.
Can I legally ...
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Follow the name change of "Programmers" to "Software Engineering"
In "our" help center there are links to programmers.stackexchange.com. I guess this should be changed to reflect the recent renaming of that site to "Software Engineering".
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Meta code highlighting
It appears that we don't have code highlighting in Meta
In this answer to Your vote matters! the <!-- language: lang-sql --> was added to a block of SQL code,...
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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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The C# tag clips just a tad
The picture is pretty self explanatory. It seems that the # sign on the c# clips when formatted into a tag. C# and C# don't do ...
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Is meta supposed to look so much like the main site?
I don't know how similar meta is to the main site for other grown up sites, but it's really kind of difficult to tell the difference between the main site and meta at the moment. The beta theme made ...
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Can we get a consistent green, please?
I just checked my profile page and found this:
Can we please have the accepted-answer score background and the reputation indicator (and privilege bar) in the same shade of green?
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Reword tour page to specify best practices in specific cases
This is my own fault, but if I made the mistake I'm sure others could too. I missed that "Best practices in general" was in the "Don't ask about section" because I stopped at "Best practices and ...
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First impressions on iOS SE app, as relates to Code Review
I have taken a number of screen captures of different interactions one would have with SE, specifically on the Code Review site. Here are some of my early observations.
Please note: Throughout this ...
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Mentioning and linking to other users in posts
I do this kind of thing all the time:
In addition to moving these declarations closer to where you use them as @lokiastari said, the initializations are pointless because you overwrite them anyway.
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Error about improperly formatted code appears when attempting to format LaTeX as math
In an answer, I tried to post the following math:
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Would it be possible to have the question closer to the answer field?
I find that when answering a question on Code Review, I'm constantly scrolling to the top of the page, copying some code, scrolling to the bottom, pasting it, then editing it. I do this over and over. ...
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Make HoF synonym a separate tag
higher-order-functions is currently a synonym for functional-programming. This is inaccurate; there is a significant overlap, however:
Functional Programming is a much broader topic.
HoFs are ...
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Request for placeholder text in the question textarea
After seeing a few off-topic questions today, I thought it might help to add placeholder text to the question texarea.
The question page currently looks like this:
"How To Ask" is easy to miss or ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Never received notification that an answer to my question was posted
I just happened to look at a question I asked a month ago and noticed that an answer was posted a week after I asked the question. I was surprised to see an answer since I didn't recall ever receiving ...
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Tags "Types" and their Usage
This is a question spawned from @Mat's Mug's comment on a question I had about a tag removal.
It seems that there is some consensus among the more senior users here about the way some tags should be ...
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UI falsely attributes migration to users who merely voted for closure
I voted to close a question today. Nothing new, except the closure turned into an unwanted migration. The question should NOT have been migrated, but all of a sudden my name was on it:
I voted to ...
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Why are we [still] not on the footer?
This completely feels like asking for an underground parking spot at work, but... there's at least1 one spot left in the page footer area, in the section we'd belong under:
Why isn't Code Review on ...