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44 questions linked to/from Etiquette for answering your own question
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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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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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How do I reply on my own topic? [duplicate]
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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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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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better to post question with separate answers or a question with answers in the main body? [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Question I know the answer of [duplicate]
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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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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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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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