Questions tagged [discussion]
Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion. Not to be confused with [discussions-space], which is for the Discussions beta feature on Stack Overflow.
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Why does Google search ignore stackoverflow.com/robots.txt?
Why does the google search engine ignore https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt ?
The current robots.txt is
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Yet, if you search for "Why is processing a sorted array ...
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Should there be tags for natural languages?
Prompted by comment discussion on Request to reverse the direction for a pair of tag synonyms :
Apparently, it happens that tags get made for natural languages. In a quick survey, although there doesn'...
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Is there a canonical question to flag duplicates of "I installed my python package and I get PackageNotFoundError" due to env mismatch?
Fairly regularly, I come across a question where the gist is "I installed this python package with (some variant of) pip install, and yet I get ModuleNotFoundError when I try to import it".
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Getting "Attention! Your last edit was rejected", but last edit was cancelled not rejected
Cross site duplicate of:
If my suggested edit is canceled, there should not be a notice saying my edit is rejected
I just got a notice, when trying to edit a post:
Attention! Your last edit was ...
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This question pushed me over the question ban threshold. How should I improve it?
The following question, posted exactly as follows, after receiving -2 votes, pushed over the question-ban threshold:
What is the best way to resize one Excel table based on another?
I have a workbook ...
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Consider renaming tag [cosign-api]
The tag's wiki suggests it's now called "DocuSign Signature Appliance API".
Posters (including myself) are confusing it with Sigstore Cosign.
Propose adding [sigstore-cosign] or [cosign] for ...
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Did advertisements get more distracting recently?
I've been using Stack Overflow for years and never really had any issue with the advertisements distracting my attention. Recently however, I've noticed quite a few animated ads with scrolling ...
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How can I work up to the "lifeboat" badge?
I get on Stack Overflow kicks from time to time. Recently, the Lifeboat badge caught my eye.
Answer score of 20 or more to a question score of -3 or less that goes on to receive a score of 3 or more.
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C FFI question must be more focussed, but my question is about existence of portable C FFI
C FFI - how do I share scalar types, `struct`ures, arrays of each, and `map`s to other languages?
One of the comments could be expanded into a detailed answer:
Nothing portable, AFAIK. Every language ...
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Stack Overflow Experiment: Safely expanding voting access
Update on Friday July 25, 2025:
We are getting a lot of feedback around where free votes should be included or excluded, which is useful insight for our team as we flesh out the details of this ...
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Why was this question about Steema TeeChart closed? [closed]
My question (How to make different width and color only for a specific horizontal grid line with Steema TeeChart?) was closed.
Was the closure correct?
If so, what more information should be added, so ...
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Three of my previously approved suggested edits were rolled back by the post owner: Was it justified?
I have suggested the edits to three posts below a few weeks ago, which were approved by the community, but then rolled back by the post owner:
Angular 17 click event not firing? (Approved July 4th, ...
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Should a question combining two+ questions and additional information be closed? [duplicate]
This is about my closed question: Can linking be nested (e.g. by using intermediate object files)?
I disagree that the question is a duplicate, because after reading the answers to the first linked ...
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Which network site is best to ask questions about GIMP? [closed]
I want to ask questions on GIMP --image processing tool. Which network site is best to post them? Stack Overflow or Super user or Photography or others?
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Why was my already answered question closed? [duplicate]
I asked a question about IMAP behaviour, (How to change headers of an E-Mail inplace (via IMAP)) it was completely answered.
Now it was closed for being unfocused (no clue why). My question was ...
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