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15 questions linked to/from Why is only my own written code on-topic?
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What is immoral about reviewing someone else's code? [duplicate]
The Help Center says:
For licensing, moral, and procedural reasons, we cannot review code written by other programmers.
Can somebody explain what is immoral about reviewing someone else's code?
If ...
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Can I ask a Code Review question about a Linux kernel patch made by someone else? [duplicate]
I've been following another developer who fixed a bug in the Linux kernel. The developer has posted a patch series hoping it would get reviewed/merged, but he got no response so far. The patches have ...
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My question was closed as being off-topic. What are my options?
I can understand that sometimes questions are closed as being too opinionated, too broad, or unclear, but my question was closed as being off-topic. I have read the On-Topic Help Center page for Code ...
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Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?
Is it OK if I write a question and include a link to GitHub/Pastebin/other similar site instead of putting the code here on Code Review?
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"Who Wrote This?" and What Do We Actually Consider Authorship?
As I was working through the Close Votes Review Queue, I came upon a question beginning like this:
I just cloned (Github clone, not literal clone) someone's Tic-Tac-Toe game and I was originally ...
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Revising list of closure reasons
Following up on a past discussions, I'd like to tweak our list of off-topic close reasons. We may have up to three canned reasons. Currently, they are:
Questions asking for code to be written ...
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Do we even need to keep following [meta-tag:site-policy]?
I recently stumbled across site-policy.
The tag has:
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of which 10 are tagged faq
and of which 11 are tagged specific-question
no tag wiki
the following tag excerpt:
This tag is for ...
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What does it take to make code your own?
This question is meant as a general question, but it is also specifically about this specific question:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/39228/original-factorial-method-in-java/
It is ...
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Is it really off-topic to ask for the explanation of a "best practice"
This question was put on hold for being off-topic:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/58091/why-is-it-suggested-to-replace-temp-with-query
To refactor the code, it is suggested here to ...
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Is it okay to ask for feedback on code you modified extensively but aren't the original author of?
There's an init script template I used once a while ago. I've been working on tweaking it to be more POSIX compatible and stylistically easier to follow, but I'm not the sole or primary author.
https:...
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Requesting a comparative review of own code with third-party code
A user recently posted this question which-set-of-code-is-more-accurate where they ask for a comparative review between their code and code written by a third-party, hosted on GitHub. My question is ...
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Is undefined behavior (for C/C++ code) off-topic here?
This site states that correctness in unanticipated situations is explicitly on-topic here.
If you have a working piece of code from your project and are looking for open-ended feedback in the ...
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Why was this specific question migrated to Stack Overflow?
I am shocked by the migration of How to use multiple if-statements once? to Stack Overflow. It is not broken code and it is not asking for any behavioral changes.
Unfortunately I cannot see the ...
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Do we need to update the link in the "own or maintain" close reason?
This is the close reason I'm talking about:
Currently, the "you own or maintain" link points to this meta question, but we've recently made a slight modification to the policy, per this meta question: ...
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Can a user post code in an answer even if they don't fully understand how it works?
In this answer the OP of the question presented an alternative solution from github. The github repository shows that it uses the MIT license:
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