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Q: Why questions about "the correct way" are too broad

Robert HarveyQuestions of the following form are often closed as too broad: "Review My Design" "What is the Best Practice?" "Is this the right/correct/most popular way?" Tell me the name of this thing so that I can Google it. How can I avoid the problems associated with these kinds of questions so that my...

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Duga
Duga
7:57 PM
"best practice" questions are as a rule "primarily opinion-based". "any better way" is "too broad". Stack Overflow is here to help you with specific, practical programming problems. There's softwareengineering.stackexchange.com for open-ended questions about design and implementation. — Peter Duniho 32 secs ago
 
 
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Duga
Duga
11:39 PM
Consider checking out Software Engineering and Computer Science and you might find your question is a better fit there. — Dean Taylor 57 secs ago
 

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