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.
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Taxes return hasn't came help [closed]
And my tax returns have not come it's been way over two and a half months now I've done everything to the IRS where's my taxes where's my money still nothing is there a number I can call and talk to ...
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How to opt-out of all experiments?
Just the other day I was reading
Upcoming changes to sign-up flow on the Stack Exchange network
and realized that some interactions I might be having with the software might be different than those ...
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Add spaces to tag names [duplicate]
How do you like the idea of adding a space in the label name?
Only we need to make a verification system so that labels like " " are not allowed. But like this - "functional ...
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Even without the checkbox, are SE's changes legal?
This relates to StackExchange's planned changes to the data dump process: Announcing a change to the data-dump process
One important point that I haven't seen anyone mention is that, in order to ...
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Goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025, which will break them in posts
Google's link shortener "goo.gl" was disabled back in 2018, but existing links still redirect to their destination.
However, according to this Google blog, on August 25, 2025, these links ...
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Why is SE Meta so downvotish? [closed]
I see many questions on Meta SE that are very interesting to me but many long-time users are so quick to down vote. Why can't Meta SE be more inviting to new members and give real solutions to improve ...
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Is it (going to be) possible to post questions directly from ChatGPT or Gemini?
I was a bit surprised by CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar saying:
... if somebody goes into the AI tools and asks a question to either ChatGPT or into, uh, Gemini and the AI is unable to answer the ...
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Preparing for the company to breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA license [closed]
I am expecting that at some point in the future and possibly quite soon, the company will breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence that I grant to them as a content creator.
As is my right, when this ...
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Site Recommendation: Q&A for campers, RVs, camper vans and any Home on Wheels [duplicate]
Summarize the problem
Information regarding van conversion and repairing, building and improving on our home on wheels is too spread out on the internet e.g. YouTube, blogs, Facebook groups different ...
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Why do my questions keep getting downvoted? [closed]
Ref:
Is it possible to demote "master" to a sub-branch (with its entire structure) and create a new master?
I have noticed that my last few questions both get edited and downvoted. That ...
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2024 WeAreDevelopers Event Summary
Earlier today, Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, presented at the 2024 WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. A key takeaway is that Community is and will always be at the center of ...
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Open letter: the July 2024 question quality survey is a dead end
I recently received an email from "Jeff // Stack Overflow" (no relation), containing a link to a survey. Before the survey was an email address, and an invitation to send feedback to it.
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Are questions asking about a standard way of doing things automatically an opinion based question? [closed]
I come across a lot of questions asking if there is a standard way of doing things. 98.7% (Google search query: site:stackoverflow.com "opinion-based" standards) of these questions are ...
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Why was an answer partially made using AI to make the point that you shouldn't use AI deleted?
My answer to a recent MSE question was deleted by a moderator a few hours ago. I have posted the screenshots below for those below 10,000 reputation. Yes, part of it did technically use AI to generate ...
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We are offline (or were) [duplicate]
Main meta seemed to be unavailable for a few seconds just now.
It's happened for very short periods occasionally on refresh that the page goes to the :
We are offline.
And a referral link to the ...
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