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Tagging is a bit nonstandard for a number of cs50x problems and vague in general
For numerous problems there are 'more' and 'less' versions of them. In some cases they are tagged x-more and x-less In others I've seen xmore and xless. I think we should be consistent and/or setup ...
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Breaking: the sale of edX assets to a publicly traded company
edX is soon no longer a non-profit effort by two prestigious universities to bring education to the masses. It's set to start a new life as an IP asset in the coffers of a private company,
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Consider opting into the 3-vote close and reopen test
Recently, Stack Exchange (the site's host) is running a test of only requiring 3 votes to close or re-open content. Details of the test can be found here.
Currently, it takes 5 users to agree to close ...
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"%" renders as nothing when creating a new tag
When I type the "%" sign when creating a new tag, it later doesn't render, shown below.
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Feature Request: see if another is online
If there was a feature that allowed us to see if another was online, that would be great. Then we wouldn't be waiting all day for a specific person to respond.
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Why didn't I get two rep for accepting an answer?
I approved an answer here yet I didn't receive two rep for doing so. Why is that?
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Why does it require 75 rep to place a bounty?
I am, as you can see, a new user. I have an ignored question here. So I was wondering why new users cannot place bounties. I am just casually asking. I am not thinking of placing any bounties.
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Why are downvotes locked?
I downvoted a question but later changed my mind. What do I do? Your help would be appreciated!
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Boilerplate in answers directing users to mark as accepted?
I'm not sure the network permits this,
"If this answers your question, please click on the check mark to accept. Let's keep up on forum maintenance. ;-)"
There are 1,500 that have this message ...
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Can we share our cs50 code?
Can we share our cs50 code for problems or is that prohibited here?
I have a question about getting a 4/5 on style for one of my assignments that style50 shows is good. I don't want to break any ...
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Should questions/answers have the dates (deadlines)?
Can psets be graded a second time in edX?
Is it important or relevant to state something
need/want to up until the 31 Dec 2014 deadline.
It seems like adding in a deadline will make the ...
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Unreadable Error Message prevents Posting new Question
A couple of minutes ago I posted my first question on the Meta.
However, when I added a Tag, a big red exclamation symbol popped up, probably with some error message which could not be read because ...
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Empty Review queues - I keep getting Notifications
Every couple of hours I keep getting a notification that I have to work on the Review Queue for Low Quality Posts.
But whenever I take a look, I see that that Review Queue is empty ...
Is there ...
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THINK before editing someone else's question or answer!
Are you about to edit someone else's work? Before you do, think about what you are doing!!!!
I write this because of a recent rash of trivial and/or harmful edits.
Edits should materially ...
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Course ending on December 31st 2018
So I logged into edx and when I was looking at the psets, and I saw an announcement that said the class ends on December 31st 2018. I was under the impression that I needed to have everything ...
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Synonyms - Do you have problems creating or suggesting them?
We have far too many tags, partly because we're not synonymizing them - the first step in the mods merging them. I think we need to start working on this problem.
I've been having trouble creating ...
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Feature Request: add spoiler to support formatted code blocks
I am not sure if this is something which would be beneficial to other sites which handle blocks of formatted text, but for sites like CS50.SE and others, it would be good if there could be a special ...
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Should we encourage question upvoting?
This is my first post to the CS50 Meta group. I don't think this is a duplicate question/comment:
Would it be useful to encourage people (including moderators & alumni) to upvote good questions? ...
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Using Stack Exchange
How to type the code (code would come seperately)? Can anybody help me? I am using it about two three weeks, but can not understand ( I also tried to read the instruction but wasn't helpful)
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Question about the extra resources (post-mortem solutions)
I'm going over pset5 and reviewing the solution from past psets for guidance in how to approach it.
It seems like they walk you through the majority of the problem, so I was wondering at what point ...
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CS50 IDE's GDB Debugger
Just out of curiosity and lack on prior knowledge wanted to know -- if the GDB on other IDEs is run in the same way as we run it on CS50's Cloud9 IDE? i.e. if they have a similar debugger button or is ...
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Why questions don't get answers or why people are ignored?
[EDIT: 2/5/17 For those referred here as well as everyone else! ]
READ THIS FIRST!!! If you were referred to this post, please don't take it badly or the wrong way, especially if you are new to the ...
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There are too many tags
There are way too many tags. Honestly, should 0 be a tag? What about honesty, academichonesty, and academic-honesty all be tags? Many tags are unnecessary, and/or too vague. We need to get rid of ...
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It looks like a code "steal", what should I do?
It looks like the load function in q16858 is a copy (except for the correction!) of the load function in q16598. I marked it as a "possible duplicate". I couldn't find any guidance or reporting ...
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Hacker editions of problem sets
Are we allowed to ask questions about hacker editions of the problem sets? They are given just for exploring purposes not for credit. Would they be off-topic?
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How to use syntax highlighting on CS50 SE?
I'm aware that Stack Exchange uses the Google prettify to add syntax highlight to code we use in our answers, but how do you specify in what language your code is, if you want to specify it explicitly ...
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Opinion questions - Some should stand!
The standard rules for this forum (and I think most stack exchange forums) is that questions that call for an opinion-based answer rather than a fact based answer should be removed. I would like to ...
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Forum has 30%+ open questions. Time for a housekeeping policy?
I've noticed an abundance of open questions on the forum (just over 30% as I write this.) Many of them have been answered in comments, but don't have a formal answer. These questions are going to sit ...
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Why is there no syntax highlighting?
I think the title is pretty clear. I'm not a SE expert so I'm not sure whether this is normal thing for a private beta website. But it's often helpful, especially since many of the questions on the ...
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What is this site for?
What is the correct usage of this site? Should I be using this for all my CS50 questions, or are some not allowed? What about overlap with Stack Overflow?
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Remaining delete vote count is incorrect in voting dialog
This seems like it would be a network-wide issue but I haven't found an identical report on meta.SE and I do not have delete voting privileges on any other site, so I can't test that assumption.
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Is this a "plz [sic] fix my code" website?
Stackoverflow is clearly not a "plz [sic] fix my code" website.
You can see comments to that effect, and code just dumped in there is quickly down voted. Do we allow plz fix des codez questions here?
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The moderators do not seem to be moderating
It may just be me not understanding how this site works, but these are the moderators (all appointed March 2014):
danallan ♦ 1 - No activity besides reading tour page.
daven ♦ 1 - Absolutely nothing....
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Tagging convention for problem sets
We currently use the tags pset1, pset2, etc. to categorize questions according to the 2013 version of the course syllabus. However, the syllabus changes from year to year; for example, the 2014 ...
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Spoilers caused due to unchanged psets for next year
I don't know whether this question fits well for meta or not,
But I would like to draw staff's attention to the fact that, solutions to many psets or I should rather say most part of solutions are ...
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Add recent questions feeds to the cs50 chat room
Just what it says on the tin. Chat room feed settings are available only to moderators and room owners.
Here are the feed URLs, taken directly from the icons at the bottom of our main and meta ...
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Can these tags be combined?
Both in each set have associated questions. Makes sense to me to combine the tags.
caesar, caesar.c
greedy, greedy.c
mario, mario.c
find, find.c
Can these please be combined?
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Redundant tags for the game of fifteen in pset 3
The tags fifteen and gameoffifteen clearly refer to the same program. Unfortunately, the file is called fifteen.c while the problem set refers to "The Game of Fifteen" so people will instinctively try ...
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Editing disabled
I'm trying to edit a question to improve readability:
mario.c-printing of pyramid tower
While I was editing someone else made an edit which blocked my edits from being saved, and now editing seems ...
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Case study: Code dump and multiple questions
A question came up today, which I thought could be useful as a case study to address some of the issues raised here on meta, specifically relating to other questions about code dumps and broad ...
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How should we deal with code dumps and other Academic Honesty issues?
There's currently not a single obvious way to approach questions and answers that include too much of a user's own code.
We can suggest edits, but only 3 non-moderator users currently have earned ...
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Why the need to edit everyone's questions?
I've noticed lately that almost every question asked is being edited by someone else? Why is that necessary? Sometimes the way the question is worded tells the reader a lot about the knowledge level ...
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Burninate numeric tags, e.g. "400"
Bare numbers are not useful tags and should be burninated:
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Rules about broad questions
In most SE websites (e.g : Academia, Stack Overflow...) questions considered to be too broad and questions which can accept too many valid answers are close. I was going to post a PSA on reddit ...
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