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Why are we getting more off-topic questions?

You may be wondering why we are getting off-topic question more often recently even though now CS.SE exists. I think part of the reason is that we had done a too good promotion (cannot complain ...
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Attacking Open Questions

In their latest blog post, the guys from tex.SE mention that they regularly hold events where they specificly sift through the list of open questions with the goal to answer as many of them as ...
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Under what conditions the problems about proving NP-hardness are on/off-topic?

Here we have a problem about NP-hardness for magic squares, posted by @levanovd. At first I do consider it as a home-work level question, and suggest the OP to wait for answers on Math SE. But after ...
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Non-meta, related discussions in parent site

I have just open a question about More on syntactic vs semantic classes, and UP vs NP. In the comments, @Tsuyoshi and I were discussing whether my interpretation about a related result to the problems ...
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When do we get a “subjective question” warning?

While writing this question about range counting I was warned by the site that it is likely subjective and will be closed. Do you think it is subjective? 2.1. If yes, then why? 2.2. If no, then ...
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Is my StackOverflow question a better match here than there? “Formally constructing control flow graph”

Given the PL Theory parts of my question (but seeing it also being part of practical compiler design) Im thinking it might be a better match here than there? ...