Questions tagged [etiquette]
Questions regarding etiquette and proper behavior toward other users, both on and off Stack Overflow.
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What kinds of questions are allowed on this site? [duplicate]
I am pretty new to forums and Q&A sites. I also have a whitelisted browser with very few sites for learning about C# and Windows Forms. What kinds of questions are allowed on this site? Do they ...
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When is it acceptable to delete a post?
Question inspired by this post as well as this one.
This applies to users with privileges to cast delete votes. In some cases, a post may be off-topic. Here's some situations:
It's blatantly off-...
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Should users encountering benign but irrelevant comments flag them as not needed?
I just flagged the following two comments from the question Is it worth bothering to align AVX-256 memory stores?;
Good question! I don't know the answer off the top of my head and
don't have the ...
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Are comments that merely correct terminology acceptable?
In C++, we say "data member" not "member variable". This led me to leave a comment underneath a helpful question which used the wrong term, along the lines of:
The right term is &...
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Discussion: New AI-generated content policy
Recently Stack Exchange announced a new network-wide policy regarding AI-generated content: What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
In short: moderators are prohibited from banning ...
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Do answers have to be "standalone"? Can an answer add useful information to another answer?
So recently a comment I put in an answer turned out to be useful (from another comment responded to me) so I turned it into an answer like this:
To add to the current answer, you need to ...
The ...
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When answering, should we upvote the question and the other (correct) answers? [duplicate]
When answering a question on Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites, I usually upvote both the question, as well as any other answers on the question that correct and working. My reasoning ...
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Should my edit be a separate answer?
I edited an answer here to make it more deadlock-safe:
Why can't I use the 'await' operator within the body of a lock statement?
Someone else has reverted my edit, saying that it changes the original ...
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Should users repeatedly redirect askers to an external site for official support?
I have noticed that many questions with a specific tag on Stack Overflow are receiving a lot of comments by the same user that contain a link to the official repository from that open source library. ...
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Question deleted in 15 minutes, was it appropriate?
This question:
Was closed, which makes sense, was swiftly downvoted, which also makes some sense, and in the matter for 15 minutes was deleted. Now, the question needs some refactoring, a title, the ...
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When asking, Is it preferable to use "I" even when there is a "we" and the "we" is not a useful or necessary detail?
I sometimes see question posts where the asker refers to a "we" instead of "I", where the "we" is their company or some other unknown group of people they are speaking on ...
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Why is everyone so helpful? [duplicate]
I’m very grateful that so many people help and even take time to write code to make examples, but my question is why? How come people take their time to look for questions and help?
It sounds dumb, ...
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How can I edit several messages because there are security concerns?
I would like to make a security edit (but all the answers repeat the same concern). I don't know how to proceed with the edit, and that is why I'm bringing the issue up on Meta.
There is this message: ...
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Community reward for correct and unaccepted answers?
It is frustrating to witness something like this answer. Someone invested time and effort into someone else problem, and it seems too much to ask for a button click. I know life isn't fair.
And the ...
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How can I request "simpler" answers?
Sometimes I ask questions, and get answers that assume that I know a lot more than I do. To be clear, I am not a "beginner programmer" in general (I have been programming for years and have ...
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