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How does accepting an answer work?
What does it mean to accept an answer?
How do I accept an answer, and what are the rules?
Can I accept my own self-answer?
What are the reputation benefits?
Which answer should I accept?
Should I ...
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What is this "answer your own question" jazz?
I showed up here to write a perfectly normal rant about misaligned pixels, and there's a big fat checkbox cluttering up the "Ask" page, labeled:
Answer your own question – share your ...
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Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?
I might want to answer my own question because:
I arrived at a solution before there were any other correct answers or I like mine better, can I still answer my own question?
I have a folder with ...
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Is there stigma associated with self-answers on certain network sites? Or different etiquette? If so, why?
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I was told in chat that some sites don't / might not see self-answers in a positive light, which I found surprising, having read the (fairly old) "It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own ...
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Is there an etiquette for asking questions originally intended to be self-answered?
According to Oded's answer to What are limitations on self-answered questions? self answered questions have the same quality requirements as "the other" questions. So if we found a question ...
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Is there a bias against using the "answer your own question" feature?
I had a question. As I was researching it while drafting it, I found more and more relevant information that I incorporated into my question. It came to the point where it felt like I was answering ...
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How to ask a question when self-answering?
I've been researching lots of questions in the game World of Warcraft (WoW), and usually the answers to practical questions such as "Where is an item located?" are buried in the comment ...
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Question I know the answer of [duplicate]
I'm well aware of
Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?,
nonetheless I was wondering whether is it appropriate to clearly specify what I'm doing, rather then ...
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Is there an etiquette for answering questions originally intended to be self-answered?
This question is inspired by Is there an etiquette for asking questions originally intended to be self-answered?.
A few times, I have encountered a self-answered question with a question that seems to ...
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How do sites moderate self-answered questions?
Historically our beta site has discouraged self-answered questions.
The site has been running for 6 years (3 questions/day, 98% answered, 3 ½ answers/question, and very few questions are closed).
The ...
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Should own solution be included within the question? [duplicate]
I think its still in debate Etiquette for answering your own question
Normally when I have a question and a answer, but have doubt with my own attempt, I tend to put the solution within my question. ...
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Answering your own question, but don't accept answer
Is it bad etiquette to answer your own question, but then not accept that answer? I realize there have been numerous questions about answering one's own question, but I'm specifically wondering about ...
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Should I remove my post or should I give my solution there? [duplicate]
I've just asked something here:
Can't connect to a Oracle db instance via SQLDeveloper
In the meantime I figured it out myself, so I don't know what is the proper process at times like this?
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Etiquette for answering your own question with an answer inspired by another answer
This will probably get closed immediately as a duplicate, but I have read Etiquette for answering your own question and other similar questions, but didn't see this get addressed directly (though I ...
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Can I post self-answers that do not contain any code? [closed]
I know that I can make questions on Stack Overflow that already have the answer, by myself. But if I want to post a personal solution method for a problem (which is not necessarily the best/fastest ...
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Is it possible to close questions because they are already solved? [duplicate]
Some questions happen to be solved for some reason (for instance, a new software version), and there's no answer it should be marked as accepted, but the question is not 'Open' anymore. And I don't ...
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Is it okay to add information without asking a question? [duplicate]
Can you add information without asking a question? For example, I found a Firefox addon that lets you see the generated source of a page, but I don't want to add it to an answered question. Can I just ...
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Is there a way to post a guide on something without first asking a question? [duplicate]
I keep coming across bits of information throughout the internet and every so often, I collect enough data to do a solid write-up on that topic.
It'd be nice if I could post that consolidated info in ...
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Minimum requirements of self-answered question [duplicate]
Are there any rules (or guidelines) for a Asking and Answering your own question? What are the minimum requirements a self-answered question needs to meet, or do you treat it just like a normal ...
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Is time to remove "Answer your own question" option from question page?
The story behind this question is that a new user posted this question with a simultaneous answer. I posted a comment indicating that "answering own questions was extensively debated" and ...
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Capitalize and punctuate "let us continue this discussion in chat"
Stack Exchange has a feature to help move extended discussions out of comments and into chat, but when you use it, it automatically writes the following message for you:
let us continue this ...
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Why must everything be a question?
It seems like SO is dedicated to questions, but one thing that would be useful would be for people to share something they learned. E.g. Recently I had an issue where I discovered IIS 7 is locked ...
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better to post question with separate answers or a question with answers in the main body? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Etiquette for answering your own question
Should I answer my own question, or not?
I want to post a question on which I've done already quite a lot of research.
I want to ...
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How do I reply on my own topic? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Stackoverflow: Should I answer my own question, or not?
How could I add a reply on my own question?
Like in the most other forums?
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Ratio of answer types
Related to post:
Etiquette for answering your own question
As far as I can tell, Stack Overflow is semantically both of a) a place to share information and b) a nerd battleground.
Users do not care ...
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How to close "invalid" questions
While reviewing close votes, it's common to come across a question where the OP came back and said "Oh, never mind, I found the problem existed elsewhere in my code!"
Example: https://stackoverflow....
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What to do when an author writes multiple answers to develop the solution while discussing things with others
This is not about the general topic of answering your own question.
Rather I came upon a question where the asker publishes several slightly different versions of his initial answer while he improves ...
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How can I organize a discussion and resolve concerns about a controversial question?
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I noticed an answer of mine about searching for text in vim was getting a lot of attention, so I wanted to improve it by linking to an SO answer detailing how to select text. To my surprise, no ...
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I don't always answer myself, but when I do, I fail to ask a good question
Sometimes I'll encounter problems while coding, or sometimes out of simple interest for a question, I'll google for an answer, and most of the time I find that answer is here on stackoverflow.com.
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Answer is deleted, Answer and question is down rated, Not able to understand Moderator policy
I did few hard and extensive search on few point of facebook graph API exploration.
My question matched with few PHP geeks' question, I answered there and got negative votes.
I got java community ...
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What happens if i answer my own question?
I am thinking about answering my own question but i still would like to be able to mark an answer from someone else as the solution. Currently the FAQ has no information what happens if a user answers ...
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A New Feature to Improve Suggested Edit Review?
I submitted my first suggested edit of an answer to a question I asked on Stack Overflow today.
It was rejected
After reviewing several other posts about rejected edits, I generally understand the ...
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Why was my question downvoted although I was just sharing my knowledge, Q&A-style?
We can share knowledge by answering our own questions.
Reading this Stack Exchange blog entry helped me understand that
if you have a question that you already know the answer to
if you’d like to ...
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Posting self-answered questions for information: Should they be community wiki?
I recently posted a question to SO in which I immediately answered myself because I figured it would be a common question about the newly released Windows Phone 8. Someone suggested I make my answer ...
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How to deal with unanswered questions?
I have a question on SO that has no useful answer. As I changed my application distribution, that question is not so important to me anymore. As I see it, I have the following possibilities to deal ...
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Where do Vim questions belong and what is the community opinion about answering your own?
A few days ago, I stumbled onto a nice announcement: Vim ported to mobile devices. Since it was news at a time, I decided to post a question and give an answer right afterwards about it.
From what I ...
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Ended up solving my own problem/question - what to do with the post? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Etiquette for answering your own question
i have asked a question in stackoverflow about an alternative way to avoid using overflow:hidden and prevent shadows from clipping. ...
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Can I publish my own solutions on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Posting and answering questions you have already found the answer to
Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Etiquette for answering your own question
I know Stack ...
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When to mark something vague as an answer?
I wish I could mark something as 'half an answer'.
In Practical (Django) Caching Strategy & Implementation? Cache long, Invalidate cache upon data change, I ask a rather vague question, and get ...
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Trying to be helpful ... it would have been a question, b-b-but [closed]
I was solving my own problem and several times came close to posing it as a question
See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7053022/sending-with-smtp-using-c-vs2010-net-4-win7.
However, shedding ...
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What to do when you answer your own question while writing it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Etiquette for answering your own question
It just happened that my question didn't exist anymore (I found the answer) while writing it:
git website update strategy - how to ...
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What is the best way to answer your own question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Etiquette for answering your own question
What if you figure out the answer to your own question, what is the approved way of answering your own question?
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Etiquette: How do I insert some useful info into the form of a question
For example, I have found the link to a PDF with VS keyboard shortcuts very useful. But being constrained by the question/answer format, it seems a little clunky to ask the question "where can I find ...
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