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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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Why was this specific question migrated to Stack Overflow?
I am shocked by the migration of How to use multiple if-statements once? to Stack Overflow. It is not broken code and it is not asking for any behavioral changes.
Unfortunately I cannot see the ...
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Should an “ancient” question that would be rejected now be nominated for closing?
This seven year old question was recently edited to update some of the links in it.
However, this question would nowadays be rejected as not-reviewable code. Should such old questions be nominated for ...
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Is, or should, comment reviewing be on-topic for this site?
Source code commenting is essential to the maintainability, readability, and quality of code. Are reviews for such comments on-topic on this site? Alternatively, do we want these types of questions on ...
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Create [x86-64] synonym for [amd-64]
On Stack Overflow, the x86-64 tag is the main tag for questions about 64 bit extensions to the Intel x86 architecture. The amd64 tag is a synonym.
Here on Code Review, the amd64 tag exists (and only ...
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Burninate [heuristic]
The heuristic tag has only one question, no description, no synonyms and no wiki entry. The only question using it has four other tags and a comment pointing out that the use of the word "...
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Are Epic and Legendary badges obsolete?
Since it's hat season again, I actually looked at all of the badges and things associated with my account here on Code Review. One thing I noticed is that I am about halfway to "epic" which ...
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Comments Lost Days after Posted
Recently I noticed twice that my comments under answers (answer 1 and answer 2) were gone several days after they were posted. In answer 2, only part of the comments, which I actually referred to in ...
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Why did I receive this moderator message?
I got a moderator message informing me that I've made some bad reviews.
However, I failed to see which ones they are pointing at.
Can you please show me? I've made 21 reviews in total.
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Revision page now fails the x-overflow
I was looking at the revisions for one of the questions, and noticed that the horizontal clipping is broken.
To verify that it wasn't one of my extensions doing so, I opened in an incognito window as ...
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Add images in comments
Sometimes I would like to add an image to the comment. So far, I used postimg, for example here.
To add an image in a question I see that imgur is the default option.
Is imgur the recommended service ...
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Is code “working as intended” if significant portions are hardcoded?
I was looking at the question How to output to an XML file in Python?, and to me it clearly seems to be off-topic, but I wanted some second opinions.
In a nutshell, the program takes data from an ...
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Are you allowed to ask for reviews of the same program written in two languages?
In the past few days, I saw 2 questions that were asking for a review of code written for a programming challenge.
However, both of them had something strange, I hadn't seen in other questions. The OP ...
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Replace tag [parse.com] with [parse-platform]
The tag parse.com should be replaced with parse-platform analogous to a similar renaming that was done on Stack Overflow.
This tag request is part of the Parse Community's effort to maintain Parse ...
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Forcing detail when none is needed
What more is expected of this question? It's not any less detailed than this one, nor is its answer any more thorough than this.
It appears some users expect "more text" that only gives ...
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Shall we lower the close-vote threshold to three?
There is a comment on the MSO post We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3 for good
Other sites can have whatever threshold is most appropriate for them, @gnat – Shog9 Dec 3 '19 at ...
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Syntax highlighting for C++ ,initializing with `=` vs `()`
Here is the example
int a = 5;
int c(5);
I hope the syntax highlighting works for you, if not then the way a and ...
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Is undefined behavior (for C/C++ code) off-topic here?
This site states that correctness in unanticipated situations is explicitly on-topic here.
If you have a working piece of code from your project and are looking for open-ended feedback in the ...
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I do not understand the feedback about my title
I don't understand how my question does not fit the site's standards. Can I please get some guidance?
Is this an appropriate use of async/await combined with Task continuation?
The current question ...
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Are translating questions on topic?
I'm attempting to translate the Matlab code in this answer to Python. I'm halfway done, but I've never really written Matlab code and I'm having trouble finishing the final function.
Can I ask for ...
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I missed that a question was for a subset of the language. Next steps?
I recently answered a Python review question. Unfortunately, I had missed that the question was for MicroPython; a subset of Python with reduced features. As a result, 1/2 to 2/3 of my suggestions are ...
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Seeking project wide input rather than modification of individual pieces of code [duplicate]
Does Code Review allow for posting (or linking to) entire projects?
I'm not sure if this helps at all, but in my case, I am not looking for generic input, but rather I have a specific question about ...
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Missing Review Context on stand alone script
My question has been closed for Missing Review Context. I feel like I've had no support or explanation from the community.
The reason why it was closed is out of context.
This is a script that works ...
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Should I kill my own account?
I have some poorly received posts. Should I kill my account? Should I make all my posts say user227432 with no link?
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Overly aggressive moderation on Alloy tag
Alloy is a lightweight formal specification language. Such languages are completely different in style and way of thinking than programming languages. We've been using SO to answer many questions.
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The [Salesforce] ecosystem
While hunting for my next zombie to take down, I encountered the following question: Patient Appointment CSV to insert records using simple_salesforce
A question that seemed well written, almost ...
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Creating a new tag for Alloy
I would like to use this site to review Alloy code. However, I do not have enough reputation on this site to create a tag. Without a tag, I cannot post code. This seems to be a chicken and egg problem....
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Are sanity checks allowed?
There are times when I have written code that looks insane when I step back from it. It is during those times where I might need a sanity check. So, is asking for a sanity check allowed?
For example, ...
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Can I ask a question about a custom scripting language?
I recently asked a question and was reminded that pseudocode is not allowed on this site; I translated it because I felt the original code would have been confusing. The reason being that the ...
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Are “review and guide me” on topic?
I am writing a pooled memory management. It works to some degree. You can allocate and deallocate
but it is missing some crucial parts like avoiding/reducing fragmentation and safety checks.
I ...
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How do we differentiate “language-agnostic” from “pseudocode”?
I understand the policy that we do not allow pseudocode in the question. That said, if an OP indicates it, would answers whose language diverges from the language of the post be on-topic?
The ...
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Preventing edit wars
There's an edit war going on in Smart Tic Tac Toe, a reinforcement learning approach . Every edit by one high-rep user is being reverted by the OP with no explanation, and he (sigh) offers this:
keep ...
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moderators limited, downvoting abuse on new users
For any reason moderator are declining flags from me i have send it 2 time.
about donwvoting my question, and donwvoting user not give any type o feedback/comment/edit.
https://codereview....
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I want a review of my large project, but it doesn't fit in the question
I asked the question Meme (title with picture) exchanger. I don't want to separate it into independent questions because the components altogether form the whole architecture; I think that the entire ...
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Are questions mostly unrelated to the presented code on-topic?
So we had an argument whether this question is on topic:
RESTful movie shop
I see this question as off-topic although it seems to satisfy most rules.
There's code. It works. It's real...
But the ...
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Is it OK to cross post here and in SO?
This is the dedicated realm in SE to post questions about reviewing one's code. But this is not a SE site that has many members in comparison to SO. The possibility to have this code review helped ...
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How should I ask on the main site without getting too many downvotes to a piece of code that was a P vs NP attempt? [closed]
I wanted to find out my mistakes in the code that could shorten it all together.
I would love to figure out how to address bad variable names
Use enumerate instead of python's range
Use a better ...
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Why can we not ask for the best practice of code?
Good code reviews are the bar that all of us should strive for. They
cover common and easy to follow best practices that any team can get
started with, while ensuring high-quality and helpful ...
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Phrancis: A final review of a good member
On May 22, 2020, I received a message from the roommate of one of our cherished members, Phrancis (Francis Veilleux-Gaboury). She was reaching out and using his account to inform me that he had passed ...
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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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How to deal with reviews of Jupyter notebooks?
There is currently a question in the python tag which asks as the main question for a review of an (externally linked) Jupyter notebook. In order to not be off-topic the OP also included the most ...
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Encouraging the community to edit the question to maintain a list of external resources
I have requested and successfully received a nice review about a piece of code which relies on a pool of third part services.
Since the code was nicely welcomed with some upvotes I thought that it ...
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Unifying “Is {language} on-topic?” questions under one tag scheme
Please can we unify all "is {language} on-topic?" questions to one tag scheme.
Since there are, with my counting at least, 35 such questions if we were to make this a tag then it would have more ...
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What do we do with low-quality questions that already have answers?
This question is a terrific mess. The question itself seems to me clearly off-topic due to being a snippet and the OP graciously agreed in the comments; but in the meantime it has attracted answers of ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Why does the “Close votes” review queue have a red dot when empty?
I get a red dot displayed in the review queue menu beside the "close votes" queue on Code Review although the queue is empty. On other StackExchange sites I only see this if the queue is very full. Is ...
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How long should you leave a question before you accept an answer?
I don't like to leave questions open for so long it looks dead, but I want people to still think that I want more feedback and I can't find a good middle ground. Any opinions?
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Negative engagement, ganging up, question closing, downvoting
I am relatively new to Code Review, so I don't know if this Stack Exchange site suffers particularly from counter-productive interaction by negatively critical senior users but I'm certainly seeing it ...