Every time I type a question in Stack Overflow , I occasionally see a "Draft Saved" string under the question area. Does this mean that Stack Overflow has a draft saving feature? If so, how is it used?
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Many times it takes me a while to properly compose my question before posting. Sometimes it's just a jumble of ideas and concepts, and is not something I'd want seen immediately. However, there is no way to save a partial question unless you post it.  This should work exactly like it does in Gmail. There, once you start composing your question, it's autosaved as a draft. If your browser crashes or you need to come back later to complete it, it will be there for you to finish and post later.  Optionally, allow multiple draft questions and a page to edit/delete them. If needed, make them expire after some amount of time.
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One of the main arguments against keeping old, fun posts in a locked state is that they create broken windows, which serve as an advertisement for the types of questions which are acceptable—notwithstanding the historical notice stating the opposite. I've never found that argument convincing, but I certainly wouldn't want to encourage behavior that makes Stack Overflow worse, so I'd honestly, sincerely, without any trolling like to ask those that do believe this to drop the hammer on me.   If this claim is true, I would expect Meta to be rife with posts from indignant users claiming that their question was closed, while that "weird programming feature" question over there exists. I would think coming up with about two dozen such meta posts from the last 6 months would be trivial; surely this problem is big enough to manifest itself at least once per week.  To be clear, I've seen Meta pages filled with posts containing "why question closed". I know plenty of questions get closed, and plenty of people complain. I'm talking about people specifically complaining that "old junk exists, so my new junk should, too".   Finally, let's not waste time digging through all the closed Stack Overflow questions looking for stuff that seems similar to these purported broken windows. There are tons of junk questions that come into the front door of Stack Overflow every day. This junk comes in many flavors: here's a wall of code, now find my error; here are my program requirements, now someone write it; spam; and, of course, non-constructive crap that might look similar to some of the old favorites. But just because some old junk questions exist, and some new junk questions get asked, doesn't mean the former caused the latter—post hoc ergo propter hoc.  No more rhetoric, no more arguments, no more anger. Just data.     EDIT  There's been a bit of confusion as to what I'm asking above, and it seems I could have been a bit clearer. A lot of answers and comments below deal with open questions on Stack Overflow and Programmers.SE creating broken windows, with one answer even quoting me to show how keeping questions open and active can create broken windows. The people writing these answers are correct; keeping off-topic questions open and active does indeed cause these problems.  This question is intended to ask whether broken windows would be created by keeping questions like the  closed and locked, delisted from "top question" pages, and with a big bright prominent banner proclaiming to all that the question exists for historical purposes only, and is not a good example of an on-topic question.  So the bottom line is, I was wondering just how many meta threads there were asking "why can't I ask X when Y exists" Where Y was locked at the time of asking (which would likely be reflected in the answers).
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On Stack Overflow, is there any way for users to view the actions that have been taken for the questions that they have flagged? I recently tried to move one of my own questions for stackoverflow to , but I still don't know whether my request was accepted or declined, or whether a response is still pending or not.
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So, here's the sequence of events:   Read an interesting question, that I think I have an answer for. Start typing up an answer. Realize that my thought isn't completely formed and stop typing the answer. The answer draft is saved. Change computers. Complete the thought to answer the question. Can't find the question again.   Now, theoretically, I should remember enough about the question to be able to search for it, but is there a quicker/easier way to find the question to which I have a saved answer draft?  As a side note, I understand the need to have a limited number of active answer drafts, but why only one?  For example, I start working on a complicated answer, walk away for a couple of minutes, answer a different question, then come back to complete the complicated answer.
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Does a feature like this exist? A question has been closed, because the user must write it in a better way. I have already an answer for it, and it would be great to have an alert/notification when it will be open again.
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I'm just curious. Is Stack Overflow built with  (or , , etc.)?  Can you guys say something more about code infrastructure?
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I was improving some of my old posts on Stack&nbsp;Overflow when I ended up encountering this:     You have already edited 5 of your own post today; futher edits are not   allowed until tomorrow   I know this it is not a major deal, but what's the logic underneath to this restriction?
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I just found  , and I must say I found it very useful; however, it was closed as "Off topic". Now, it hasn't generated all that many page views, but I would have loved it if it was open, in case something new came up in the past year it was closed.   The "Off topic" specification doesn't exactly explain what the problem is with the question; I see the point for Stack Overflow, given there is no actual coding problem discussed - but a user in that post points out:     (That aside, prepare for your question to be closed, it's a bit too close to "please provide me a list of", which isn't muchly appreciated)   Now, the thing is, a lot of times I actually would appreciate greatly a "provide me a list of" question, like in this case - however, I can see the point in this posting in particular not being on-topic for Stack Overflow.   My question then is - is there a place where such "listing" questions about computer software in general can be asked? I don't think it would fit in programmers.SE, and one may think superuser.com would be appropriate - but then again, its purpose could be understood as specific questions about how to do more advanced stuff with existing software, thereby excluding again listing questions.   If that is so, then where do such question belong? If Super User on the other hand is appropriate, wouldn't the referred post be better off moved to Super User, and opened for contributions there - instead of sitting on Stack Overflow closed?
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The placeholder text on Stack Overflow is:     Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like    So, what kind of comments should be avoided? I seem to recall that it was only      Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements.   before.  Screenshot:    I notice the same on Meta. Tested in latest Chrome and Firefox versions on OS X.
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I know this , but obviously there's still something that keeps this from being implemented/fixed.  I am a pretty active editor on Stack&nbsp;Overflow. In fact, I do edit a lot more questions than I answer. I have the Strunk-and-White badge, and if that one would stack I would have it several times by now. I am pretty high-rep — in short: I know what I'm doing.  Still.  When a question has been edited by someone whose edit needs approval, I cannot "instant-approve" his edit. Why on earth should another user be needed to approve my decision?  I know, if I go to "improve", I can overwrite the suggested edit. But that's not what I want. Especially if the edit is good, why should I take credit for it?  If I click "approve" instead, the system doesn't even let me "improve" the edit anymore. Seriously, this makes no sense at all.
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I just saw a  from a user asking about a C# stack trace.  It was a valid programming question for someone with little experience, yet it was marked down twice.  I've always believed that there are no stupid questions. Am I wrong?
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We know that Stack Overflow has a suggested edit queue, visible to the users who have the  privilege. Someone said the queue has a fixed size.  What's the fixed size of the suggested edit queue?  Is it often that the queue gets filled up and users can no longer suggest edits?
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I keep seeing new acronyms internet slang everyday on Stack Overflow.  Such as the following         Is it possible to make a stack rule guideline (or frequently asked questions entry) that, when you are answering a question, you spell out whatever acronym Internet slang you are using, because not all of us know what a lot of these mean?
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I noticed this issue as I tend to view Stack Overflow via the mobile site frequently:   The mobile version does not show possible duplicate questions while you're typing the question/description, while in "full site mode" the suggestions come up just fine.  In my mind, getting the suggestions to show up on the mobile version of the site should not be a hard thing to implement  While I admit it makes me lazy asking for this feature when there is a work around, the full site doesn't display nearly as well as the mobile one so it would make life a lot easier to have this simple change.  Also, what good programmer isn't lazy? :)
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The search engine that works behind the scenes to generate the &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; is staggeringly amazing; even this first draft at a not very good title brings up exactly the question I was going to ask as the first result:   On the other hand, the search bar doesn't do quite such a good job:   So I'd like to propose that a little of the &quot;New question screen&quot; magic go into the search bar. Or to propose this in a little less wishy-washy way; that (in addition to normal search results) top results from the &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; box go into the search box as if the search had been phrased as a new question. This will help casual users who may search but may not (attempt to) ask. This will additionally be helpful for experienced users because (due to draft saving) you cannot have two independent new question pages open at once. As such, I can't use the new question-based search while also drafting a question
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I just asked a question on Stack Overflow. Often I notice my questions coming through on the front-page, but this one isn't there, even after I gave it some time. Why is this?
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I'm wondering how SO is able to display the "New answers have been posted" message when I'm typing an answer for a question. Does my browser send an AJAX request to the SO servers, or does SO send a trigger back to my browser?