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I'll make it short because I think the more I say the more likely it is that it'll offend someone. As a reaction to the latest events on MSE concerning the CoC and especially the Official FAQ on ...

When I put down my mug 18 months ago, I promised I'd stick around, and I did. I've been keeping a distant eye on CR and meta, while remaining in our Rubberducking dev chat, and monitoring vba posts on ...

I recently posted this question about a brainfuck interpreter in ANSI C. I answered my own question, but then realized that my answer was invalid, so I removed it. I then wanted to add a bounty to ...

Note the updates at the end: In short, my resignation is now in full effect, though I suspect for a short while I'll still have a diamond against my name. A moderator is a person trusted by both ...

A user recently posted this question which-set-of-code-is-more-accurate where they ask for a comparative review between their code and code written by a third-party, hosted on GitHub. My question is ...

I've been following this question pretty closely, reading comments and everything because the "reasoning part" seemed... blog-ish. By reading this answer and the comments under it + the way the ...

As I came across this answer Codility's Permutation Check in C# [answer #200620], I noticed the user reviewed quite a few requirements of the challenge, before reviewing the OP's code. My questions ...

I have written a library. It compiles. It has basic unit tests. - One could say it works. However, I would like to improve the usability of the API and get general feedback. Am I allowed to open a ...

This question is now in somewhat of a bad state. The OP did significant rewrites of their question, and then received an answer. Not realizing the sequence of events, I rolled the question back to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quite often I roll back the edit because the code was edited after the answer was posted. In such situation I feel obliged to post a comment why did I rolled it back. Not a biggie, but annoying. Can ...

This question is answered on Meta StackExchange Let's say there are two answers currently, Answer #1 and Answer #2. At first glance, I see that Answer #1 is above Answer #2. After refreshing, I now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tag random evokes the idea of a "random" post, something which is categorically disallowed on Stack Exchange.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Driver for Sensor payload Decoder I have been trying to get some suggestions on the code which I have written after learning about drivers. ...

We have a consensus view that questions asking for re-writes of code are off-topic, but we still get a lot of these. Some examples: Making this Pygame code object-oriented Refactor Linq Expression ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sidebar on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/ask links to http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/129598. Visiting this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I encountered this bug a few minutes ago, and decided to bring it up here. It happens when both asking and answering a question. Steps to reproduce 1. Create bulleted list with a couple/few items. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have this question that was put on hold because some people thought the code was not made by me, putting the question on hold and so I got no feedback or code reviews for it because some people ...

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 ...

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 ...