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Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question
Simon's Guide for posting a good question
There are a lot of questions that appear on Code Review, and all questions are fighting for reviewer attention. This is a non-exhaustive list of items that I ...
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Hide the "describe what you've tried" bullet (new askers' modal)
Yes.
This statement implies that if you've tried and failed, then you can post your non-working attempt on CR.
We should remove that instruction.
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Making a tag for a Code Review community project
Tags for specific community-owned projects are nice, and rubberduck has been a good tag.
However, this does not mean that anyone and everyone can/should say "I'm gonna post all my code for project ...
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Does preventing exact duplicate titles makes sense here?
I personally quite like that "warning", it inspires you to create titles that are more imaginative than "FizzBuzz from a file" - how about "IFSFB - Input File Specified FizzBuzz"
Do something ...
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Should we have a Code Review Blog?
I have one problem with this. Assuming that there was a blog that we can contribute to, would there be contributions?
It's nothing against the people here, trust me.
If we look at all the blogs and ...
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If in doubt, post the question on Meta first?
The best thing to do is to read the Help Center, and specifically, in your case, where your questions are not off-topic, but not that well received:
How do I ask a good question?
That said, Meta is ...
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Making great content more visible
You can do this using bounties.
Get an answer you want to reward. Take this one (this is the question I got the images below on).
Select the 'start a bounty' option.
Select the size of the bounty ...
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Making a tag for a Code Review community project
17 questions is substantial, it is also active, and growing.
There are a number of people who would 'follow' or favourite the tag.
The tag would describe the context in which the code is being ...
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Can we rename "Ask question"?
I think if it's possible, we definitely should. Unlike other stack exchange sites the posts made here aren't really questions, at least not by the primary definition of the term. Which I agree is ...
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How can reviewing be made more efficient?
Scrolling up and down between the OP and the answer-in-progress is utterly wasteful and annoying.
A work-around I've come to use whenever possible, is to duplicate the browser tab, drag it to a 2nd ...
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How can we work to prevent off-topic questions?
On Server Fault, for example, new users see a click-through warning when asking any question.
Considering that Code Review puts 30% of its questions on hold (though many questions are eventually ...
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Official xkcd of CodeReview
I don't mind injecting a bit of humour into the site to make a point, but that one conveys the opposite of the spirit of Code Review.
Code Review answers should not disparage code without being ...
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Possible Solution for Zombies (unanswered questions)
I think this would require a large cultural shift to get others to do this too. If you want to post a bounty then feel free to do so. I post bounties for questions every now and then, and I've seen ...
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Can we rename "Ask question"?
Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer sites. Code Review is one, too — it says so on our tour page.
Should we rename the "Ask Question" link? I don't think so, at least not as a ...
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Help Desk Chatroom
Wait a bit longer.
11 days is not enough time to start evaluating a long-term experiment. Wait 2 more weeks and let's see if we have more cases at that time.
It could be a fluke, after all the newest ...
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Link GitHub project to Code Review
Update
Implemented, see the Code Review question, for feature requests please open an issue on GitHub
It looks a little something like this:
Code Review http://www.zomis.net/codereview/shield/?qid=...
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An answer feed in The 2nd Monitor
No
I think The Mission is about bringing down the zombie count. That's a much smaller subset than all the answers. I think all the answers would be too much. On days when users pimp several answers, ...
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Should we have a Code Review Blog?
Would I like a Blog
Yes I would. I would like to see articles on how to code review better. I would read artciles about best practice on many major languages.
Would I contribute
Personally unlikely. I ...
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Making a tag for a Code Review community project
Disclaimer: I own the Rubberduck project's GitHub repository.
Should we create a rubberduck-vba tag?
No. The project's name is "Rubberduck", so the tag should be rubberduck.
Okay then. ...
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Programmatically removing "review" from titles
Thanks for taking the initiative to help improve question quality. I see a few problems with this idea, though:
If you automate any edits, please do so in a way that doesn't flood the front page. ...
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Selfie code-only answers as an offsite link
Yes - change the policy - but must be a revision link where possible
The post can be edited to include an off-site link, but, where possible, the link must point to the revision of code that's in the ...
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How can reviewing be made more efficient?
I spend a needless amount of time indenting code by hand because just selecting code and pressing tab does not work. I know that there is ctrl+k but it only solves half of the problem since it only ...
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Gold tag-badge users closing questions as pre-written off-topic duplicates
No
"Duplicate" on Code Review has a special meaning (the code is exactly the same)... and that's hard enough to keep clarity on as it is. Adding a special case where some things that are ...
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Accepting without upvoting
Technical limitations:
Upvotes require 15 rep. Accepts do not.
Self-Answers can not be upvoted.
Every user is limited to 40 votes per day. Accepts are not subject to that limitation
Non-Technical ...
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New tag proposition: Leetcode
Forgive my bluntness, but absolutely not.
Today it's leetcode, yesterday it was hackerrank and tomorrow it might be who-knows-what. But what value does it add to know that by the tags? Are there ...
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Inconsistent Python tag formatting
Done, but a bit differently from how you asked.
I did the following renames:
python2.6 -> python-2.6
python3 -> python-3.x
So now all names have dashes. This is in line with how they do it over at ...
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Dialog is difficult... why isn't there a linting tool?
I think this site needs a lot more work for it to become a good open-source code review platform.
Funny you mention, out of the 112 questions I have asked on this site, 26 are tagged rubberduck - an ...
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I suggest two tags, [readability] and [compatibility]
We are actively trying to reduce "meta tags". For example, see: Optimize our meta tags?
Tags are expected to summarize the content of the code in the question. They are not expected to summarize the ...
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How do we train our self-moderators?
Use Comments and Chat
You could leave a comment challenging the VTC. This way, both OP and the community are aware of the pending VTC and your concerns about it. OP may react to reflect on their ...
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moderators limited, downvoting abuse on new users
You're using flags the wrong way. Two downvotes aren't 'extreme'; users aren't require to disclose why they downvote (see here for reasons why) and ♦ moderators can't do anything about it – they're ...
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