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141 questions linked to/from Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?
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Should I not answer my own questions? [duplicate]
I asked a question recently, looking for examples of an online tool. Per the FAQ, I answered my own question with a few examples that I had already found. I did this so that these examples would be ...
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Posting and answering questions you have already found the answer to [duplicate]
Sometimes you spend a day or more solving a technical problem, and when you finally solve it, you may want to post it on your blog (if you have one) to share with the community.
However, most ...
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Is it useful to post questions I already know the answer to on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
I have a log of problems I've encountered over the years with the solution at the particular time. What's the etiquette for ...
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How to close a question in stackoverflow.com [duplicate]
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How does accepting an answer work
When I post a question and then find an answer for it (either other members have answered or I ...
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What if my question has no answer? [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Is “Don't do it” a valid answer?
I had asked a question on SO sometime back -
Is there a Eclipse plugin for ...
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Why people ask questions when they already know answer? [duplicate]
I have seen many questions by users on 'SO' who post question without providing code and/or less description and then right after posting question post answer. What is the reason of the asking ...
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Would it be sleazy to take my content from other sites and post it as StackOverflow self-answered questions? [duplicate]
I already understand that StackExchange considers self-answered questions to be OK. I'm wondering about a specific class of self-answered questions, those that merely rephrase the author's posts from ...
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Can I answer my own question on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Should I not answer my own questions?
I have posted a question, and then later I found the mistake and solution by myself. Can ...
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Should I ask questions intended to be self-answered? [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
I had a problem that took much digging to find the answer to. Now I have found the answer, but I think it would help others to ...
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Asking many seeded, beginner questions [duplicate]
I've used SE and SO, only to ask questions to which I didn't know the answer.
But there may be another way to ask questions:
From a text book or other canonical reference (History, C++, etc., ...
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about users who ask, then answer and vote for themselves [duplicate]
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Can I answer my own questions, even those where I knew the answer before asking?
Am i the only one who find it's absurd to allow a user to answer to his own question, then ...
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What is the difference between answering my question or not? [duplicate]
When I fill up a question form, I see an
Answer your own question
checkbox.
What are the differences between checking and not checking this option?
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Posting Questions with Answer [duplicate]
Can I post questions while immediately giving an answer, when I think it is important enough to share?
I guess this is not the original spirit of Stack Exchange, though sometimes I think it would be ...
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Is it OK to post a question and self answer it within 1 minute? [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Moving a personal technical blog to Stack Overflow/Server Fault
Is it OK to post a question and self answer it within 1 minute?...
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Just solved a problem, not on StackOverflow, but would like to share the solution [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
I just spent a few hours solving a problem, but it wasn't on StackOverflow. StackOverflow seems like a good place to post the ...
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Just a simple query! [duplicate]
I have a simple query:
I have been working on some interesting jQuery stuff lately and I have created an interesting piece of code. And I wanted to post it in SO, so that if any OP have a similar ...
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Can I answer my own question? [duplicate]
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Should I not answer my own questions?
Should I ask questions I already know the answer to and answer them myself?
Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
This is ...
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When should/could I answer my own question? [duplicate]
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I have a question in stackoverflow and I've came up with the best (technical) answer in my ...
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Shall I remove my question if I found the answer myself? [duplicate]
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Should I continue adding a question if I have found the answer myself?
Shall I remove my ...
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Is it okay to ask a question and answer it yourself to share you knowledge? [duplicate]
Pretend I know how to do something that a lot of people can't do or don't know how to, can I do a question like "How can I start a jar file with a batch file?" and answer it? Is that allowed?
P.S. ...
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Is it kosher to ask a question that you plan to try to answer? [duplicate]
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Should I not answer my own questions?
Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
For instance, it occurred to me that the question "what's the difference between using '...
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Article writing on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
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Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Is there any way to share articles on Stack Overflow similar to The Code Project? There should be, because many users like me ...
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Is it okay to ask a question I know the answer to? [duplicate]
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Can I answer my own questions, even those where I knew the answer before asking?
Is it considered bad form to ask a question specifically for the purpose of answering it for a ...
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What should I do if I find the answer to my question before someone else answers? [duplicate]
Kinda related to my previous question: sometimes there happens that I post question before I think the problem over well enough. (if I know well it's not against the rules, the only problem with it is ...
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Best way to share answer with the community [duplicate]
I have recently spent some time putting together a "recipe" for getting a vagrant box up and running with clojure / emacs / nrepl. It took me a couple days to get it spot on. I'd like to share it but ...
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Is it acceptable, actually encouraged, to post self-solved questions/answers? [duplicate]
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Can I answer my own questions, even those where I knew the answer before asking?
I really dislike having to solve the same problem more than once. Often though, I will ...
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Posting self-discovered solutions on SO [duplicate]
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Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?
Should SO members be encouraged to create new topics and post solutions to problems they have spent quite some time figuring ...
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Just found an answer to my own question. What to do? [duplicate]
I posted a question. After messing around on my machine for about an hour, I found a solution. Would it be more appropriate to remove the question, or to add the answer to it just to save some other ...
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Clarifying an answer not a question [duplicate]
Can I include my some hints that may others get helped in stack-overflow or there is other stack-exchange website to place the question with solution?
I would like to give users some hints not a ...
