Alexei‭

There are multiple reasons why using images of code, errors, logs and other text resources used in programming instead of the actual text is strongly discouraged. Shortly put, the question should ...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

I have noticed that virtually any question containing an image of some code or error got a comment asking to replace it with the actual code, error text. Why is it so bad to include an image inste...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

We got our first (mostly) ChatGPT answer in our community. Also, a question includes an adapted ChatGPT code that does not seem to do the job. StackOverflow has already banned ChatGPT answers and ...

9 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

sheets tag sounds a little bit too generic and I feel that it should be replaced with the more specific [google-sheets]. I know that we should avoid using company names as much as possible, but in ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

Yes Questions about troubleshooting your non-working code are on-topic, provided that you include enough information for the community to understand the context (SO names this minimal reproducible...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

This question featured a quite heated discussion in the comments which led to some of them being removed. This action was discussed here and I have realized that our community lacks a guide about p...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Estela‭

A recent flag for this question suggested that it would be a better fit for the Linux community. There is no motivation provided, but I guess it is related to the fact that most of the question and...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

Note: some of these points are relevant for all communities, but I would like to focus on Software Development for now I am thinking of promoting Software Codidact, but I could not find a single p...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

Context Over the years I had a hard time addressing questions about software architecture like these ones . Soon after posting them, they receive a couple of downvotes and close votes which set the...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by shagie‭

SQL Server uses '1900-01-01' as a "zero-point" in DATEDIFF(dd, 0, some_date): select DATEDIFF(dd, 0, '1900-01-01') --> 0 select DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()) --> 44066 days since the "zero-d...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

Currently, there is no consensus about whether to provide tooltips for the voting buttons (especially the downvote one). However, the community now includes quite a lot of questions that attracted ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by meriton‭

There are multiple questions/aspects in your posts, so I will go one by one: Stack Overflow which answers many questions While this is true, for many questions SO has an important drawback. I...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

Short version As you probably know SO offers Stack Overflow for Teams as a product for a knowledge management tool for private use (private teams). I am wondering if it is possible for Codidact t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

For me the following reasons might lead to downvoting: Posts that are not related to a specific programming issue, but are rather meant to start a discussion. Example Asking for software ...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

A significant fraction of software developers also needs to make some UI/UX-related decisions. I am wondering if we should such questions in the Software Development community. Based on feedback...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭