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Are “Can I use X for Y” questions on-topic?
I'm tempted to vote this question as off-topic but cannot find any criteria on meta about this.
What do we do with questions of the form "I'm using X, can I do Y with it?"
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How can I focus my Kijiji RSS feed question?
To clarify my question has not been officially asked. I just know it has issues that need to be fixed before it is asked officially.
I have a question that is really a collection of several. That ...
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Why do my questions not get views/answers?
Most of my questions get little to no views or answers. I have seen questions, where I believe are of 'lesser quality' than mine (i.e. Tagging, formatting or asking a relevant question) receive an ...
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Are questions regarding password cracking on-topic?
Are questions regarding password cracking on-topic?
This could include passwords of archives such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z etc. but also cracking of OS passwords like NTLM hashes or a Linux passwd file.
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Shall I ask more questions?
I often read questions by Franck and I think "What kind of crazy stuff is he doing all day?". But obviously, his questions are well received - and he even gets good answers.
At the same time, I think ...
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How to handle half-and-half questions?
What is the best way to handle half-and-half questions?
For example, part of this question belongs on SuperUser and part belongs here:
Retroactively download a history of all URLs I have visited in ...
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Handling questions that asks for a tool or a website
While performing reviews, I sometimes encounter questions that ask for a software tool or a website to perform a task.
Here are 3 examples:
Browsing random page of a particular website
Software/App ...
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Asking questions about potentially “bad” software?
This question asks about a "stealth keylogger" recommendation. Now, there is a small chance this person is only using it to spy on his kids or something of the sort. But from the fact that he want's ...
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What if OP no longer needs a solution?
A questions gets asked, it gets no answers, time passes, and OP no longer needs a solution …
Should we do something with such a question?
To clarify: This is not about cases like
OP already found ...
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“Ask Question” functionality: Essential details for every question
Almost every question should specify the operating system(s) and whether the recommendation request is for gratis or commercial software.
Many questions fail to include this information, which then ...
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How to handle dreamware requests? [duplicate]
I haven't been around Software Recommendations for very long, but I notice a lot of requests never getting answers, or being for software yet to be developed or envisioned, i.e. dreamware.
How does ...
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Is this a software comparison question?
I want to know what the pros and cons are between using PortableApps.com portables versus just using the portable apps. (A lot of programmes can be downloaded in a self-contained zip file.) So my ...
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Approve or Flag commented questions that need improvement
Sometimes there is a question from a new user in my review queue that needs to be improved by the OP. When I view it in my review queue, someone else has already done a good job leaving a comment to ...
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New script: Questions needing attention
You have already scrolled the Questions page twice, and still looking for other questions to answer?
This script is made for you!
http://data.stackexchange.com/softwarerecs/query/284387/questions-...
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How many questions has Roomba deleted on this SE so far?
Does anyone know how many questions has Roomba deleted on this SE so far? I'm also curious how many questions are expected to be deleted in the coming months.
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Make sure your questions don't get deleted silently: beware of Roomba!
Just a word of warning, as this SE is now over 1-year old: if you asked a question that is 1-year old, has no answer, didn't get any upvote and has at most 1 comment, Roomba will delete it without ...
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What to do with these “cross-platform development environment” questions. Are these a good fit?
Here is one and here is another.
Apart from being a duplicate or not, are these questions a) answerable and b) on topic?
A development environment or programming language is a huge ecosystem in ...
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How should we handle a question related to request made by a particular small business organization Needs ( billing process software.)
This question clearly requests for Data entry and billing software for his organization,so this question is not off-topic but as he clearly states in that question that there are limitations with ...
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Can users request any of the following criteria (Cracks/Activators) [duplicate]
Is It possible to ask for any programs such as Windows operating system activators And cracks or any software activator on this forum?
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How should we handle obsolete questions?
The question Software to combine Springpad with Firefox/Chrome is "obsolete" - Springpad shut down, and thus the question isn't really of use anymore (and can't be answered)
What should we do in ...
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Why questions about antiviruses gets so little attention?
As in title, I wonder why questions about antiviruses (including my question) gets less than 3 answers, when
There is so much antiviruses,
Every computer with Windows should have one => every Windows ...
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Are these questions better suited to SuperUser?
Software, script or a tool to automate managing which tests to run
When unit test fail, show the related file changes from git repo
I honestly don't remember why I thought they'd go here,
because ...
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Would a more rigid question template help achieve a consistent quality?
On other sites much more variation in the question structure is expected. For instance on stackoverflow some questions are very short code snippets, some are in depth debugging - the asker needs a lot ...
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Criteria you should mention in your question, for each type of software
We sometimes get questions like "What criteria should I consider for X" (which are off-topic).
Also, we often get questions with not enough criteria (even though they comply with the general rule) ...
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Shall this site support questions on youtube downloaders?
Should questions regarding youtube video downloads be supported by this site? Quick Google search shows particular clauses of youtube terms, which are getting breached.
I received the comment
@...
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Should we close custom program requirements as Too Broad or Off Topic? [duplicate]
Not sure why but I feel like few questions makes no sense whatsoever as far as the Generalized Functionality is concerned. I'm a web developer and I've programmed certain Systems (Tailor Made) where ...
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Promoting the asking of less technical questions
So we are building up a good foundation of questions.
A concern is that the vast majority of the questions are very specific and biased toward the more technically oriented individual.
I would (to ...
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Two-way converters: 1 or 2 questions?
I need to convert tables from MediaWiki to LaTeX, and conversely. Shall I ask one or two questions?
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Should we migrate questions from other SE sites?
I have seen some questions on other SE sites which are closed. For example this question (there are more of them):
What's the best CDN for image hosting on a high-volume web site?
This question has ...
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What if a question is looking for a software doing X on Mac OS, and I want a software doing X on Windows? [duplicate]
There is a question is looking for a software doing X on Mac OS. I am looking for a software doing X on Windows. Shall I create a new question with the same content but just changing the name of the ...
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How should we deal with question asking for a “project-like”(full system) software
Question asking for a software with such specific elements and business rules, like the one asked by @Chris where he ask for tours booking portal.
That is one Portal (as himself states), with ...
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What if we don't know exactly what we want?
The ground rules for softwarerecs give top billing to the idea of listing specific requirements in a question, and I totally get why that is. But what about those cases where a user may not actually ...
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Should we allow questions asking for software cracker, patcher or keygens?
Should we allow questions which ask for software product license/key generators, activators, patches or cracker? And why?
Question would be of the sort say
I'm using X, version Y on OS Z. I want ...
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What happens when someone needs one very specific feature?
I agree with the quality standards that have been outlined so far but I think there's a problem with people understanding the difference between a low quality question and a brief question.
There's a ...
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Impossible/impractical requests?
Program to search EULA contracts for problems asks for something that appears to me to be well beyond the state of the art. (If not, you can supply an answer).
I think it reasonable to "require" ...
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Does the OP have to mention obvious features?
I see in this question that in order to have the questions contain many features for the sake of matching some interpretation of the question guide lines, someone suggested to add having a GUI or ...
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Is it OK to ask for a software having a particular feature?
I saw some questions being put on hold as too broad because they ask for just a particular feature. How many features must the OP mention in the question? Is it OK to ask for a software having a ...
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Are hosting recommendation requests on-topic?
I just saw this question: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/1718/looking-for-hosting-for-laravel
It's asking for a hosting recommendation. Are these on topic here?
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Do I have to ask one question per OS?
I use different OS, namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Therefore, when I'm looking for an application, I'm interested in applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS (with generally a preference for ...
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How should we treat questions about plugins and such “software-parts”? [duplicate]
I made a "test-drive" question about plugins.
But, how should we treat those kind of question, that doesn't ask for a application itself, just a dll or plugin like software?
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What are the pro and cons of allowing opinionable but useful questions?
Imagine I go on this Website and I ask for a mature implementation (also for a production environment) of an AOP framework which is usable in commercial projects for free and which allows me to ...
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What should be done about questions with potentially unreasonable multi-platform requirements?
First of all, I can totally understand how questions specifically looking for cross-platform apps is a useful thing. However in a few minutes browsing here I have already seen a number of cases that ...
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Edit question to fit the answer
I'm wondering if it is ever a good idea to edit the question to better fit the answer.
Before you reply "Absolutely Not," here is the question I am talking about:
Email client that supports Markdown
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My question was closed as too broad, why?
I asked a question with some specifics characteristics I'm looking, but was closed as too broad, why?
Here is my question:
Image editor that can draw a line
Must be able to draw a line.
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What kind of software recommendations is this site for?
I don't understand..
if I ask for a list of software, it is too broad.
if I ask for the best, it is opinionable
if I simply ask to detail the feature of one good graphic program it's not the mission ...
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Recommendations and “Titles should avoid being subjective” [duplicate]
I'd like to better understand the meaning of two things that seems opposite to me.
To recommend means to give an advice to someone.
The etymology of advice is:
advice (n.) late 13c., auys "opinion," ...
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What is required for a question to contain “enough information”?
This is the question edition of What is required for an answer to be high quality?
One of the key problems that I see Software Recommendations having, is people asking extremely vague and simple ...
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Reverse Recommendations: If X is the answer what is the question?
I was considering today, if questions of the form:
Reverse Requirements Form
I am considering Fortran as a tool for numerical computation. If
Fortran is a good tool for me, what are my desires? ...
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Should we have some broad wiki questions for some things?
Crazy idea -- I was just wondering, maybe it is good if we include some very few broad questions (like "What is the best Linux distro"), so that each noteworthy distro gets a wiki answer for people ...
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Should we accept root/hack/jailbreak related questions?
In the Tavern (where the mSO folks sit all day and watch this site with eagle eyes), at least one person expressed concern at this recent question - App to alert me of firmware updates on a rooted ...
