Reproducibility of code in questions involves nuanced community formatting expectations, not merely technical correctness¶

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q2 i? Thread 3 shows commenters upholding MRE criteria implicitly, requesting a comma-separated list format because copy-paste was inconvenient even though the existing format was technically correct. → 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 3, where a commenter noted an array displayed without commas is inconvenient for copy-paste and requested the list/repr format "to make reproduction easier in Python". This is the article's own interpretive characterization of the interaction, not a measured comparison.

"reproducibility of code is not simply a matter of technical correctness but also involves nuanced community expectations for formatting that is most conductive to reproducibility."

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