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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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]
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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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Do I own and retain all rights (copyright) to all the content posted on my profile page? [duplicate]
Does the 'public Network' include content on the profile page such as the profile picture and display name?
Does the answer to Do I have to give attribution to SO when using my own content elsewhere? ...
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In today's era where artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, what significance does a Q&A website still hold？ [duplicate]
We can ask AI (like Chat GPT) for answers to almost any question. It usually provides multi-faceted and correct answers, and always remains calm. Especially for knowledge-based questions, AI has ...
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People using comments to answer questions [duplicate]
I have been noticing new questions often have answers in the comments instead of the answer list.
What is the rationale behind this?
I have seen this with users that have a lot of reputation too, so ...
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Where can I ask this question about managing Git servers?
I have the following question that I've already attempted to ask on Software Engineering SE and Stack Overflow, but both were closed. Where can I ask this question?
I'm planning to manage a cluster ...
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Announcing a change to the data-dump process
Please note: We usually avoid posting on Fridays, but with the data dump scheduled for the end of July, we wanted to share this information with the community as soon as possible. We will monitor this ...
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How can a user with no activity make a 5-year-old Stack Overflow question "active"?
A 5-year old question on Stack OverFlow, Page Navigation not working on the final for loop iteration, is currently showing as "Active" (AND displays at the top of the list) under the tag &...
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