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Tagged with duplicate-questions tags
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Can I ask a new question to ask whether an answer I gave is correct, targeting a knowledgeable audience via the language-lawyer tag?
I've recently gave an answer to a question about value cateogries in C++, and the author accepted it.
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure about the correctness (or at least thoroughness) of my answer, so ...
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Problem asking/searching questions
I have been on Stack Overflow for a while, and I always search for the question I have before asking it. However, sometimes I don't find it, I ask it, and it results in a downvoted question because it'...
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If questions should not be tagged as C and C++ why are they being closed because the other tag exist?
This question is tagged C++, this one is tagged as C. On meta it has been discuss questions should not be tagged as both and this meta question has a comment by a mod saying the below
"Since the ...
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Tagging [swift]/[objective-c] for framework/language-agnostic related questions
I recently edited a question on the basis of thinking that consensus was framework/language-agnostic questions should not include tags for unrelated things such as language, IDE, etc. It was pointed ...
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What's going on with the NullReferenceException in C#?
Ever since I have been at SO, I have seen questions about NullReferenceExceptions get closed as a duplicate almost every time and immediately. If every question on that topic was to be closed as a ...
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"Null Pointer Exception" questions closed as duplicates [closed]
Whenever someone posted a question attached with nullpointerException logcat, the question will be down-voted and marked as duplicated, and soon it will be closed.
I admit this post is a very ...
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Confusion about reference question and tags for R questions on functions accessing/assigning to parent environment variables
We get a constant stream of R questions on errors inside functions trying to access/assign to variables which only exist in parent scope/'environment'. Invariably the title and tags are vague or ...
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What can we do to prevent repeated Relational-Division questions?
Recently I have seen a lot of similar questions that boil down to same idea:
I need to select values from my table that have a row meeting one requirement and another row meeting another ...
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Dupehammer for user in [tag] doesn't work if [tag] was added later [duplicate]
I have gold badge in c# so got all mighty close-as-dup hammer for quetsions tagged by c#.
But if a question was edited to add this tag later then dupehammer stops working. Here's an example.
Is it a ...
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Classify error/answer type
Wouldn't it be helpful for the users to be able to tag the accepted answer in a restricted number of categories?
E.g.:
Providing resources (SO or external) [when the answer gives more resources which ...
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Expand close as duplicate gold badge coverage?
I have ability to close questions, tagged with ios, as duplicates without the need for voting, however there are other related ios tags (for example ios7, and iphone*) which I should be able to close ...
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Does the existence of this question make any new null pointer questions obsolete? [duplicate]
This question pretty much sums up NullPointerExceptions and how to solve them for almost all cases. Many new questions on NPEs are frequently closed as duplicates of this one.
Because of this, it ...
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Migrate VHDL to EE StackExchange
A question was posted on both StackOverflow and Electronics StackExchange.
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/116050/entries-for-subprograms-in-vhdl
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Tagging answers? [duplicate]
After having read this: "Tagging a question based on its answers" it came to my mind that it might be helpful to tag answers.
This would help grouping questions (my marking them as duplicates for ...
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Should we discourage marking C and C++ questions as duplicates of each other and potential merges?
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In general I think it does not make sense to make C and C++ questions as duplicates of each other and obviously potentially merge them. I see this happening often enough that I thought it made ...
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