Questions tagged [specific-answer]
This tag is for questions about a specific answer to a question. Answers given to such questions might not be applicable in general.
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Does improving scalability and mentioning the improvement count as sufficient justification?
A recent VB.NET AES File Encryption answer was posted with, mostly, the following text:
I'm enclosing a program I wrote to help you along the way. It is very effective and will encrypt whatever you ...
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Why is this shown as "Modified" when I don't see anything there? [duplicate]
The question Gameboy emulator in C is showing up on the Top Questions as "Modified 6 hours ago by Sami 1".
Clicking on the "modified" word takes me to the question itself, not a ...
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How do we handle answers that pertain solely to other answers?
Most of us are (or should be) familiar with this section of the Help Center Page How do I write a good answer?:
What goes into an answer
Every answer must make at least one insightful ...
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Can an OP add missing keyword(s) to code?
In Recursive conversion from ExpandoObject to Dictionary<string, object> the OP omitted the keyword private, and after ...
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Should Code Review be a place for discussing sensitive topics?
I always thought that Code Review is a place where we try to improve code and do not discuss highly questionable philsophical theories. For this reason I'm very disapointed that my flag about this ...
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Why is my self answer being downvoted?
I have shown that my code works. I have corrected people that they were wrong when they said my code does not create valid Sudoku. I'm awaiting valid reasons why my answer is being downvoted.
If you ...
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Is an answer that doesn't provide any code review, only how to unit test on-topic?
I ran across this answer which gives no code review feedback only how to write unit tests. If there were some unit tests provided, then they would be fair game for a code review also. In this case it ...
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Why was my edit to fix an answer rejected, even though it was approved by the author?
I suggested an edit to this answer.
The edit came after I suggested the said changes in the comments (with 4 upvotes for the comment) and the author of the post told me it's better if I do it. So I ...
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What is the reason for the downvotes on my answer to "Country Guessing Game"?
I feel like I have a scenario like this, but recently I gave an answer which received a down-vote, as did one other answer to the same question, and then mine got a second down-vote, yet there were no ...
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Peer review a code review?
I recently made a for me, somewhat extensive code review and going through all the details I am unsure if I didn't lose myself a bit to much in reviewing.
Can we ask in someway to peer review a code ...
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An 'edit' might have messed up my ability to edit
Someone edited my answer to 'FFT Algorithm', and after that, I am not able to edit the code. Even if I just open it in edit mode, and try saving (without doing any change), it says:
code needs 4 ...
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Can you have an answer without any code in the question?
I was doing some reviewing earlier when I came across this question, which in my view doesn't have sufficient code to constitute a reviewable question. It essentially consists of a data structure <...
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Downvotes on an answer which answers the question
I answered a question, followed the rules, then it gets downvoted and two other answers which are pretty much the same (you decide) don't. I feel the loss of the points.
I think one of the downvoters ...
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I saw no notification about my answer that was to be deleted
I spotted the deletion only because I forgot to close the browser tab:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/134503/665
It's ridiculous that I was not notified that someone saw some issue with my ...
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Must answers be limited to the code only?
Does the feedback for a Code Review question have to be limited to the scope of the explicit code cited, or can we infer direction and context and comment on that also?
For example, in this answer, I ...
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