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I came across this question earlier today. Given it's very plainly a request for tool recommendations, I went to go close it as such. However, the VTC options for Opinion-based and Seeking ...
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I am seeing this now in the close-voting dialog: The tooling-recommendation tag is used for 2 questions1 as of now, so it seems to be very new. What is this? Is it announced somewhere? How does it ...
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Update on October 16, 2025: The Free Votes Experiment has now graduated, allowing thousands more Stack Overflow users to contribute to the platform by voting on content. We get roughly 1,000 - 1,200 ...
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Before jumping into this post, you should probably read post Next steps for open-ended questions that describes changes released today that provide a path for integrating open-ended questions on Stack ...
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I've noticed that a couple of Open-Ended Questions (OEQs) have been created with only a single tag and that tag being a type tag, such as advice. This isn't ideal as tags are there to denote what the ...
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I just received a templates tag badge for writing replies to an open-ended question. I wrote no other answers to normal Q&A today, hence I must assume that replies on open-ended questions count ...
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I just spotted best-practices. It looks like a new tag, but it shows 1.5k watchers already (mouseover tag on any question... well, that single question as of now): Are those bots? Or is the tag much ...
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With the new plan being shaped for open-ended questions, we the community are being asked to weigh in on the site scope and close reasons. It sounds like we should relax the old "unique to ...
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UPDATE: February 7, 2024 As detailed in the original version of this post, Discussions can now be created on a wider range of topics, using any existing Stack Overflow tag. To get started with ...
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This quarter, the Community Enablement team is focused on researching the asking experience. This research has led the team to consider the types of questions allowed on Stack Overflow and how to ...
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Update December 16th, 2025 Threading was released this morning. You can reply to different replies to the question and then respond to those replies, and so on. We don't have a cap on levels of nested ...