Questions tagged [closed-questions]
This tag is for general questions about questions that have been closed because they are off-topic or otherwise do not meet the criteria defined in the FAQ.
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Why are we now starting to close 10+ years old SO questions with good answers and high visibility?
There are now hundreds of old to very old--10+ years--Stack Overflow questions being closed for no other reason than that they don't conform to new standards. This is highly unethical and very poor UX ...
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Can a closed question be migrated and re-opened by a mod?
Regarding this closed question: Localhost applications failing after installing 2025-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5066835) (26100.6899)"", ...
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My question was closed too quickly. I can't understand it [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question about server-side pagination in React, but it was closed as "needs debugging details."
The problem is that I tried to describe my code and the issue, but I don’t ...
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Why is my AI-related Python question considered off-topic?
I just posted this question: How to make sure my AI code correctly uses Google search? and it was downvoted and closed very quickly afterwards. No notes, nothing.
The reason stated was that it was off-...
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Why was my question about UI automation for submitting prompts to the Cursor IDE closed as off-topic?
Why was this question closed?
The official reason How to script Cursor Pro AI assistant was "Closed. This question is not about programming or software development. It is not currently accepting ...
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Close reason displayed twice [duplicate]
Browsed to this question and noticed the banner shows the close reason twice. How to solve WAMP and Skype conflict on Windows 7?
It's pretty old so might be something weird in the database entry that'...
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I don't think my question deserved to be closed for debugging details
I asked a question yesterday about why Python code worked on my computer, but not on my TI-84 Plus CE calculator.
The close reason was
Debugging details: Edit the question to include desired behavior, ...
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Proposal: Close as duplicate functionality must require referencing an answer that is up to date
It used to be the case that duplicate links to answers that are actually helpful and not something outdated, but increasingly, if you find another question referenced with a duplicate, the answer ...
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Was this question about sorting dates in JS correctly closed?
My question How is JavaScript able to sort dates when it's supplied as string? in SO was closed because it lacked clarity.
From my point of view, I think I was pretty much clear. It's fine that it ...
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Are there criteria for "needs details for clarity" not mentioned in the help page?
These two questions were recently closed as "needs details or clarity":
Managing systemd services with Go
Can a C program detect if its own source code has been modified?
This surprised me ...
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Is there a way to contest a closed question [duplicate]
I asked what seemed to me a perfectly legit question on SO. The question got closed, and I have no idea where to post such a question (to me it is about a programming tool, and nothing else).
Is there ...
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Why was my question closed as lacking debugging details?
Please consider this question of mine.
The person who has chosen to close this has given "lacks debugging details" for the justification.
I say that these are spurious grounds for closing ...
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Can closed questions be downvoted and will this remove points from the person who asked? [duplicate]
I have a question here, which is a duplicate. I agree and voted to close, then tried to delete the question, but I can not do that, as someone has answered.
Can someone downvote the closed question? (...
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Why is my question about library design choices opinion-based? [duplicate]
First, for reference, the question Why is the STL so heavily based on templates instead of inheritance? doesn't seem to have been deemed opinion-based. It asked about a design decision taken in the ...
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What’s happening to SO?
I’ve been around on SO for a long time. I saw it gain its reputation for being unforgiving and unwelcoming. I saw it try to course correct. I’ve also very recently watched it strangled at the hands of ...
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Duplicate vote followed by off-topic vote in Staging Ground closes a question as off-topic for reason duplicate
When 2 reviewers both cast duplicate votes on a Staging Ground post, the question is marked as a duplicate as expected:
When a question has a duplicate vote and then someone casts an off-topic vote, ...
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How to reopen an incorrectly closed question in Staging Ground? [duplicate]
I have a question that (IMO) was incorrectly closed in the Staging Ground. If the post had made it to the public site, it could be voted on to be reopened, but as far as I can tell, a post closed in ...
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Why was my question on an issue with an SDK closed as not about software development?
I asked this question about port forwarding with the node ngrok sdk. The question shows code in a minimal form and is about express and ngrok.
However, just a day after posting I got 2 close votes, 2 ...
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Why was the question deleted if it didn't ask for recommendations?
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: Are Qt and wxWidgets suitable for mobile and desktop game-development?
Screenshot for <10k users:
Why was the question deleted if it didn't ask for ...
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Started bounty on someone else's interesting question, then question has been closed before end of bounty
I have found this interesting question (I am not the author) : Cut a video in between key frames without re-encoding the full video using ffpmeg?.
It was quite upvoted, which shows interest by other ...
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Should a question about language version support be considered “not about software development"?
Many people have been surprised to find out that a top-tier programming language, PHP (#2-7 depending on metric), suddenly has an extra year of support, since sometime after March 2024.
When I posted ...
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Is it appropriate to reopen a "closed for not enough detail" question if a solution was found anyway? [duplicate]
I posted a question—size_t == sizeof (uint64_t) not returning expected results—which was closed for "This question needs debugging details. It is not currently accepting answers."
I don't ...
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To what extent is it useful to ask a very basic question about a legacy language if it hasn't been asked before?
At my job we work with a legacy language called Magik.
At this point there is one question regarding this language on Stack Overflow.
Would it be desired to ask basic questions on how this language ...
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What am I not understanding about asking this question?
I've been using SO for a long time and by and large it has worked fine. But recently I keep getting questions down voted and/or closed. So can I get guidance on a specific one?
Here's the question.
I ...
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Is this question about SQL Server Management Studio's query editor on-topic?
Regarding How to word wrap in SQL Server Management Studio.
Yesterday I voted to close it as off-topic. My reasoning was that a database administration tool's query editor isn't a programming tool. ...
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