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Answer by Raedwald for Should we be more obnoxious about not allowing people...

If a question has multiple problems, that suggests the question is too broad or unclear, and the question should not be answered until the asker has narrowed or clarified it.If it often happens that...

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Answer by Berin Loritsch for Should we be more obnoxious about not allowing...

It's my personal opinion that the current alert implementation is not sufficient. It's too easy for corporate proxy server (mis)configurations to break the functionality in subtle ways. Some of the...

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Should we be more obnoxious about not allowing people to waste time answering...

It's happened more than once, but it's a major frustration. The scenario goes like this:OP asks a question that on the surface has a simple answerThe example code reveals there's actually more than one...

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