Questions tagged [answers]
This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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Using spoiler to have better answers [on hold]
I recently asked this question. That was a homework problem; the response people gave was very nice, but in one answer they basically solved it for me. That was the most useful answer. I think there ...
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Can there be too many answers to a question?
Sometimes there are many answers to a single question, for example this question on Stack Overflow, with 60+ answers. I find it to be too many.
Is there a procedure to maybe close such questions, or ...
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Questions summary [closed]
I have a couple of quite specific questions on Math SE that are related to the same problem I am trying to solve. I was wondering if it makes sense to make a new question about the overall problem ...
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Redesign “lots of answers” JS confirm dialog to use Stacks stylized popups instead
Currently, when attempting to answer questions with lots of answers (usually 30 but configurable per site), users are shown the following generic JS confirmation prompt (from one's browser, in this ...
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Clicking on answer item from the achivements dialog doesn't close the dialog
Achivements dialog can contains items linked to the answers (e.g. when your answers got votes or you accept an answer for your question). In that case if you already had opened a page via that link, ...
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Valuable responses to my question are spread over numerous answers. As the asker, how can I make them more visible?
In my recent question on Travel Stack Exchange I attracted a lot of attention (not least in part because it was a hot network question) and I got a lot of answers.
Frustratingly, early answers drove ...
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Reward someone who edited their answer as obsolete to point to mine
I've been active on SO since 2009, and have seen many old questions get new answers as technology changes. Sometimes the accepted answer becomes suboptimal, and the OP is no longer active to mark ...
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Are link based answers ok if they link to other Stack Exchange Answers?
Is it ever ok to provide an answer to a question that's essentially a link only answer to another Stack Exchange question or answer?
Often I do this when
The answers of the other question could be ...
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Can answering questions and other forms of reputation increase lift question bans? [duplicate]
Due to a recent question ban on StackOverflow I was wondering, aside from just editing questions as the help page suggests, does answering questions help lift a question ban?
Aka does increasing your ...
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Converting an answer to a comment makes the comment a reply to a comment posted after the converted comment
On the site where I am moderator, I closed a question using a custom reason, and then converted the answer in a comment.
Even though the answer was posted the day before, and the comment is shown ...
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Shall I accept an answer that answers part of my question?
So I bet you all met into a scenario, where someone wrote a good, detailed answer which answers part (or most, or the core) of your question. Then should you mark it as accepted? Or should you just ...
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Difficult to lose the “converted to a comment” status message
If an answer is converted to a comment and then subsequently undeleted, and then deleted again (without being converted to a comment), the message beneath the post still reads:
If the answer is then ...
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Writing how the advice turned out
There are some SE sites, where an answer is obviously either correct or wrong (like math) and then there are some where there isnt a correct answer in principle (like codegolf) and some where the ...
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Why shouldn't existing answers that don't match the typical pattern of good answers be skimmed only?
I understand generally one should read existing answers before giving another one. This can avoid duplicated answer, add more votes to them, and even when the existing answers miss your point, they ...
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How do I answer a bug report?
I regularly see bug reports on Meta, occasionally with heavily upvoted answers.
When is it appropriate to answer a bug report?
How would I write a good answer to a bug report?
How could I write an ...
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Contriving questions to fit answers [duplicate]
There have been a couple of questions here on meta asking about changing questions to fit existing answers. However, this presupposes the existence of a question for which there exists a question/...
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Stats about askers and answerers in Stack Exchange
How can I get the statistics data of how many people ask questions and how many answer here? I'm curious about the distributions and seeing if more people ask than answer.
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Is it possible to find answers by ID?
It's possible to find questions by ID by going to <site>/questions/<id> (which automatically redirects to <site>/questions/<id><question name>), but I don't know how to ...
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How do I link the Stack Exchange data together? [duplicate]
I was trying to link the Stack Exchange data together from the archive.org data dump as my college database subject project, but I can't understand how to link the Post and its answer. I tried to link ...
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Italic on heavily downvoted answer is not gray [duplicate]
https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/55322/14341
Is this a bug?
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Is copy-pasting your own answer between Stack Exchange sites appropriate?
I recently posted a question and self-answer on Stack Overflow. Because (in my opinion), it's the best contribution I have made to the site thus far, I would like to post it on other topic-appropriate ...
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3answers
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Can mods see answer drafts from other users? [duplicate]
Yesterday I posted this answer, about 5 minutes after I clicked on the "Post Your Answer" button I got some comments from a mod.
In one of them he said I had edited my answer in the first 5 minutes ...
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Are old, link-only answers not-an-answer?
Yesterday I stumbled upon this answer due to the question being bumped.
It is, by the official definition, considered not an answer: If you strip the markup (link), you are left with NO useful ...
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What is the correct way to handle “answer plagiarism”? [duplicate]
Example:
User A gives a not-great but working answer
User A gets upvotes
User A gets accepted answer
User B gives the quantifiably best possible answer
User B gets more upvotes
User A edits answer to ...
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Add a button to scroll me to my answer if I view a question which I have previously answered
If I open a question that I have already answered, it would be nice if there was an icon or link telling me something along the lines of "You have posted an answer to this question." This would scroll ...
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How to ask for further clarification when I can’t comment [duplicate]
How to ask further clarification, or to point out that the answer shown, even if once correct, is not correct anymore? I can’t comment as I don’t have 50 reputation.
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Do we have liberty or limitation to answer in Stack Overflow? [closed]
Today I got into a situation while answering a question on Stack Overflow and choose to answer with all the etiquette I know. Simultaneously I got a comment on my answer saying "it's the same answer", ...
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Can we flesh out /help/someone-answers a bit more?
I recently encountered a case where someone - a new user who didn't know any better - serially upvoted the answers of a user who'd answered their question. After they mentioned this in chat, they were ...
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Answer Box Not Showing [duplicate]
Why is it that whenever I decide to answer some question on Stack, some of the questions do not pop answer box for me to contribute in the solution? Do I need reputations even to answer a question!!
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Special acknowledgement and collection of extraordinary answers
I have just read an answer on Earth Science which left me with the feeling that we all have had on occasion: I wish I could upvote this more than once.
It would be nice if there was a mechanism to ...
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1answer
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Someone answered my question and then deleted it, but I need his/her answer
I asked a question here, a while ago. Someone answered my question and actually his/her answer was helpful and I was studying it, but then she/he deleted the answer! How can I figure out who answered? ...
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Top of answer covered by sticky top bar after clicking direct link… if it's a short answer just near enough to the bottom of the page
I thought this was resolved after my other question was status-completed, but I just saw it again. This is the first time that I've seen it since then, so it only happens in very specific ...
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How to choose between several incomplete answers?
If I asked a question (namely this one), and the solution I end up using is a combination of some of the answers, and another answer explains why it is correct,
How to choose the answer to accept?
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2018: a year in asking and answering
After 2018: a year in closing and 2018: a year in spam it seems natural to look at the questions and answers. What trends do we find there?
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Question protection should block low-rep users with existing answers on the thread
On Physics SE, I just came across a surprising case which looked like a user with 1 rep posting an answer a year after the question was protected. Upon some investigation, I found that they'd posted ...
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What about the possibility of answering and closing a question just afterward?
I have just seen someone who answered a question, closed it just afterward and got +10/+15 of rep (at the moment).
What is the problem?
No problem with the fact of being in the position of judge ...
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Second question at top
Is there any way we can do or add the feature where we can choose what order our second (or more) answers appear in?
I recently posted a second answer to a question but was annoyed when it drifted to ...
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The answer box should not be at the bottom
The answer box is at the bottom of all answers. If someone has to answer a question he/she has to browse through all the previously written answers.
If someone is interested to see others' answers ...
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Highly upvoted but has 1 rep? [duplicate]
I searched for an answer using the title of this question on Meta.Workplace and on Meta.SE but nothing came up.
This answer has been upvoted a lot.
But the person that wrote the initial answer only ...
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Question asked by same person (and answered) on different site - how should it be answered
At this question (and a number of others with similar tags), a SE question has been answered elsewhere on a domain-specific non-SE Q&A site. Indeed, the same user acknowledges posting both places ...
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What about increasing negative reputation of down-votes?
I know that with down-voting an answer the OP will take -2 reputation per down-vote.
I see some answers with some up-votes and some down-votes for example consider these voting:
up-votes | down-votes ...
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Why not display a users adjusted reputation depending on the domain in which they are answering or asking?
Let's assume that on Stack Overflow I have been asking and answering questions strictly in c programming and I acquire 200k reputation simply because I breath c programming and nothing else.
If I ...
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How do I “answer” a feature request?
I regularly see feature requests on Meta, sometimes with heavily upvoted answers. A feature request is not really a question with an answer since the poster is asking for a feature to be added to the ...
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Stop users from deleting brand new questions [duplicate]
TL;DR It's frustrating when a problem being worked on evaporates before I can hit the submit button.
It is very frustrating for me to find a question that I feel I can give a good answer to, only to ...
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Wrong # of answers on network profile
My network profile claims that I have only one answer on Stack Overflow en español:
but I actually have two, both from September this year so it's hard to blame caching.
There are more people ...
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Is it ok to answer a contest post with a list of links to others' content?
I am not sure if my potential post passes muster.
I have a fun answer to Time for some more swag! I would like to post the Top 10 Songs of All Time list.
This is a top 10 list, so the songs ...
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Profile setting to sort answers only by votes
There is any option in the user profile that allows indicate to the system that, when a question is opened (click on question link), it must present the answers ordered only by votes (regardless of ...
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Will I get a notification after my post ban will be removed? [duplicate]
I am currently banned from giving answers on Stack Overflow, and I want to know if there will be some kind of notification after the ban will get removed?
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Add a 5-10 minute delay before being able to answer a question
As seen here, Stack Exchange has a problem where people are answering as quick as possible and putting minimal effort into their answers. To address this problem, I propose that there should be a 5-10 ...
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Should I paraphrase the cross-site duplicate when posting it as an answer?
This Stack Overflow question had an answer on Software Engineering. After reading this answer here, I went ahead and posted an answer, since I feel like that question is on topic on both sites.
In ...
