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 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

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 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas‭

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 3y 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 5y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y 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 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y 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 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y 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 5y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 5y 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 5y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Alexei‭

Context Our team has begun migrating a pretty old internal application and one aspect that got my attention is the impersonation. This is implemented as follows: only administrators are allowed...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by meriton‭

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 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by meriton‭

I have recently stumbled across the Maybe (or Optional) modal usage in .NET Code: example code or this one example article Based on everything I read, there are multiple advantages on relyi...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by asynts‭

Context We have recently received a suggestion to allow questions about recommending books directly connected to software development. The way I see this now (pros and cons) Pros: allow more ...

7 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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