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Another common reason for questions getting closed is asking for a "best practice", as, according to StackOverflow, no such thing exists. When reading official documentation, nearly all of them do recommend best practices and often even state for what reason. So on StackOverflow, it is best practice not to talk about best practice.
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@fraktalisman yeah I understand your frustrations. I agree that there is a lot of unnecessary down voting happening, but things like typical homework questions, really badly/incoherently backed up questions and simple googling tasks are imo quite deserving unless they have good reasons...
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@fraktalisman and for best practices: aren't there a lot of websites summarizing/describing best practices? If documentation specifies you require certain best practices, they should implement the best practice of linking references themselves :)
Maybe I don't even want to understand what "programming" means. Although I keep visiting StackOverflow almost daily to find useful advice on topics that do matter to me, when I post a question myself, they mostly get deleted for being "offtopic", not real "programming" questions, prone to attract "opinionated answers" or too much concerned about usability in real life? 🤔
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