Withholding or delaying an MRE is treated as a breach of foundational local norms, normally triggering escalated norm enforcement and undermining problem-solving¶

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q2 i? In Thread 2, an OP's offer to upload an entire project instead of an MRE was corrected with reference to official guidelines, and delayed compliance coincided with thread removal. → Alena Seredko 2025

Evidence¶

Alena Seredko 2025¶

Alena Seredko. (2025). Accomplishing collaboration at scale: How professionals jointly frame problems on Stack Overflow. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-025-09451-w

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Sequential analysis of Thread 2 (question ID 77879966): the OP self-identified as "new to coding", proposed uploading the whole project, was corrected to official MRE guidelines, and committed to supply an MRE later; the thread was eventually removed. MRE requests are framed as "validated by the collective rather than merely a personal preference".

"The thread's ultimate removal from the platform suggests that incomplete or delayed adherence to norms undermines the intelligibility of the problem and hinders problem-solving."

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