Questions tagged [asking-questions]
This is meta-meta: questions specifically about the process of asking and posting questions.
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How should I ask about getting a software recommendation?
I am looking for software advice (or any resources that exist off-site) and don't want to ask a question like:
"What is the best racing game for iOS?"
"What is the best free alternative to Photoshop?...
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When should I ask here, and when should I ask at Super User?
So what's the difference (assuming i'm asking an apple related question)?
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What is wrong with this hardware question for Ask Different and is there a better way to ask it?
Here is the question https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41969/what-input-devices-do-you-find-to-be-an-indespensable-part-of-using-your-mac
The question is not intended to be about shopping ...
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What exactly is a recommendation question on Ask Different?
Ask Different closes some questions as off topic and one broad category employed to keep the questions (and thus answers) highly focused on practical questions that have objectively verifiable ...
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Are questions about the effect of upgrading iOS out-of-topic
Are the following types of questions considered out-of-topic at Ask Different?
- Will my iPhone X be able to run iOS X without lagging
- Anyone tried to install iOS X on iPad X, what's your ...
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What are this site's quality standards?
I am unable to post a question because "it does not meet our quality standards":
Where can I learn about said standards? I see no mention of them in the FAQ.
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App to lock phone
I’m looking for apps which lock the phone, either for a specific app (I.e. “don’t use Facebook for 1 day”) or for the full phone (I.e., “don’t use any app for the whole day”). On Android this is ...
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When did we become a scriptwriting service?
NB: This is probably not the first time a question of this nature has been asked, but I could not find anything similar.
While scrolling through the front page/review today, I noticed a trend that ...
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Would this question about statistics be on-topic?
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro running High Sierra and I have to upgrade to Catalina (some programs are no longer updating). As usual I'm worried about bricking the machine, so I thought about asking ...
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Wrong “correction” of the title
Please have a look here :
How to have Safari open links with the evil target attribute open in the same tab?
These curly quotes in the title of my question are totally wrong ! This sort of “...
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Multiple Part Questions
I have a question I would like to ask and in typing it out I realize that the same post could end with three, closely related, yet different questions.
What is the consensus on multiple part ...
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How to ask a question about why a product doesn't exist
So I understand questions that invite purely speculative answers are not helpful here. But I have a real use case situation and the fact that the product I'm looking for doesn't seem to exist both ...
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What do I do if I have a series of smaller questions?
Let's say that for instance I have a series of very short questions with an average of 5-10 words each. Do I normally ask a question for every? Or can I ask small questions in one question? Or should ...
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Prerequisites for Canonisable Questions / Scope of Ask Different
Sparked by the question: What is coreduetd?
This got criticised for being: "it’s also a canonical question for one we want to close as “too broad” and “too wiki” - we don’t want to encourage ...
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Questions asking "Has anyone else experienced this?"
I'm seeing a fair number of questions that describe a problem then ask whether anyone else has experienced the problem. This invites a host of "yes, I've had that problem" (or worse, but less common, "...
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Migration rejection followed by repost on original site closed as duplicate, how do I proceed?
I had asked a question on the IoT and they immediately migrated it over to Ask Different, where it sat for a while (almost 2 weeks) and no answers.
A moderator from Ask Different thought it should be ...
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New users don't tag questions correctly
Here's a sample of two, consecutive, new user questions posted a while ago that prompted this discussion. Let's ignore the non-optimal titles for now and focus on the choices for the tags on the ...
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Should I answer an existing old question or ask/answer my own new question?
Is there a point when a question gets too old to answer it? Before today, there was no easy way to tell if your iOS device is currently jailbroken, but an iOS security analyst has developed an ...
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Can I ask a question asking for iPhone pre-purchase advice?
I have a question I'd like to ask before purchasing a new iPhone that involves advice about switching carriers, carrier reception, if in my circumstances I should be going through a physical store or ...
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Is StackExchange supposed to be so hostile?
I've been making a concerted effort to contribute here, but see a lot of the same "in-crowd" politics as on other forums, particularly the open source ones.
I don't understand why there's a desire (...
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Are questions about the Apple website allowed?
I've got a quite unusual question here.
Would asking a question about the Apple website directly be on-topic?
If so, what are the specifications or the "checklist" I should follow when ...
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how to attach files that exceed character count limit for thread insertion inline?
I have output from a diagnostic I ran on my Mac. I want to insert the output of the diagnostic into a thread I have, but got the message that it exceeds the character limit. I then put the file into ...
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Questions are no longer being accepted
Right now my Ask Different is no longer accepted questions from my account. Is there a way to override this or am I screwed?
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question allowed here? buying a battery replacement for Macbook Air if Apple doesn't have official service in the country
I am considering to post the following question. Will it be allowed at AskDifferent? Any suggestions on how it can be improved?
title: battery replacement for Macbook Air (if original Apple service ...
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"You can only post once every 20 minutes."?
Rare occasion. I actually have two questions about Apple products and it complains
What gives?
I don't quite understand the rationale whichever way I think about it. Even if this is something to ...
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Upgrade related questions appropriate?
Appropriate to ask for advice on upgrading on this site?
For instance, if a user says "I have this computer was set up a, and $500 to spend, what are the best upgrades to spend my money on?", will ...
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Draft forgets title of question
I was writing a question on apple.stackexchange.com. I saw the little “draft saved”. I went away, then I went back to the page.
I found my draft question, with even the tags, but the title was empty.
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Does Ask Different have a different tag-suggester than other SE sites?
I’m using an old version of IOS Safari (original iPad). Of course, there a lot of minor irritations with the UI. One of them is that on all SE sites, selecting a suggested tag takes anywhere from ...
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