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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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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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?
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 ...
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Could we have the ability to flag a question as “answers are out of date”? [duplicate]
I've often come across very popular questions (usually on Stack Overflow) whose answers date back as far as 2008, even though the question is still relevant today as 2019 approaches.
It has ...
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Is it OK to edit someone's wrong answer [closed]
This question had already took place here: Editing someone else's wrong answer to make it right
But there's no clear answer
My question is: Is it OK to edit someone's wrong answer to make it ...
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How to give a chance to my cheesy riddle?
I submitted a poor answer on the competition Who Cut the Cheese? Then, I put a lot of effort into making an online cheesy riddle, but I couldn't create a new post, so I edited the bad, negative-scored ...
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How to show gratitude to all the people who posted great answers to my question? [duplicate]
I have posted a question about the Romans in London (UK) and I liked all the comments and specially both answers that were given to my question.
Both answers were very good, I just chose the one I ...
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When a tag is added to an old question, the question is updated? [duplicate]
I want to add new tags to some old questions.
Will the question will show up in Top Questions active as it has an updated answer?
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Anchor links for sharing specific answers [duplicate]
I want to be able to share answers using anchor links, such that when the link is visited, the page scrolls to the particular answer instead of showing the top of the page.
A good example is seen ...
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Allow moderators or other trusted users to pin accepted answer by asker
Currently, by design, if you accept your own answer it does not get pinned above the question. This practice is actually detrimental to lower throughout Stack Exchange network sites. As such, ...
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Why don't you get reputation for answers on your question?
Since one posted a problem that other people can benefit from, one should receive reputation points for every answer, even if the answer doesn't solve your problem.
Sometimes the 'marked as correct' ...
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Stack Exchange™ Piled Spaces™ made super-short answers possible
We all know that comments can't be shorter than 15 chars, and "inflating" comments with spaces isn't possible. For example, your web page may allow you to submit this comment, but the server rejects ...
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Partial bounty refund for good question with no answers
I understand that there has been a post in the past:
Offer bounty refund on "good" question with no answers
That has addressed this exactly but as a feature request, perhaps this is a new ...
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Hide 'convert to comment' from the mod menu on deleted answers
♦ moderators can convert answers to comments. Converting a deleted answer to a comment is not possible; you'll get a message
answer deleted; can't be converted to comment
This makes sense; ...
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What do I get from answering questions? [duplicate]
I have started answering on Stack Overflow two months ago, and I'm giving up a lot of my free time.
What benefit I will get on a personal and professional level by answering on Stack Overflow?
Does ...
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Editing a question in base of an answer [duplicate]
Suppose someone ask a question, then in base of the answer I gave, he/she change the question to something else. Now the my answer is meaningless looking like a copy of a part of the question. What am ...
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Should I post “milestones” to questions I'm working on?
I sometimes spend a long time working on answers to questions (eg, weeks or months). Sometimes I reach a "milestone" when answering that still isn't a complete answer, but may have the following ...
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Could we revisit the stance on fluff greetings and our no-nonsense approach?
We are currently working on our "new users experience". As a part of that, we have stated that we want to be more welcoming to new users and try to guide them during their first steps on the site. ...
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How to answer an XY question?
We have guidance on how to avoid asking an XY question. What is the recommended way to answer an XY question?
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Deleting question causes loss of answerers' reputation [duplicate]
I was quite baffled by what happened yesterday. On Worldbuilding Stack Exchange there was a line of questions, revolving around alchemists and spoons. Given that it was quite fun, these became quite ...
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Should jokes posted as answers be flagged?
I flagged this answer as not an answer, but my flag was recently declined with this reason:
declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer
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Answering etiquette
I'm wondering if there is an etiquette or rule to follow regarding answers.
Say someone answers a question, then someone else answers with a near duplicate of the first answer and that one is ...
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Add “read receipts” to comments and answers
Although not that much useful, I think it is better to add "read receipts" to answers and comments (to notify the answerers/commentors about whether their answer/comment was read by the OP).
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What is the etiquette on voting for an answer which is a copy of another user's comment on the same question?
Today I asked this question and one user (I'll call them UserA for differentiation) in the comments helped me get through my issue and gave me the answer to fix my issue, but it was left as a comment. ...
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Clicking “answered” or “modified” when answers are paginated should go to the answer anyway [duplicate]
A high-traffic question (The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review ) showed up at the top of the questions list today with a new answer from a low-rep user.
Because ...
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Why did the format of full-form URLs to answers change?
As I pointed out in this answer, the URL scheme for full-form links to answers has changed from:
https://site/questions/question-id/question-title/answer-id#answer-id
to:
https://site/questions/...
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On which Stack Exchange do you get the quickest answers?
I was writing an answer on this now-deleted question which basically asked 'Why do I get an answer quicker when I post on Stack Overflow than on Server Fault?'. This triggered me; was this just an N=1 ...
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Linking to /?lastactivity breaks when that activity is on second or greater page [duplicate]
When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here:
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Does Stack Exchange remove Ha! from my answer? [duplicate]
I just began an answer with
Ha, I just ran into this myself!
but it would come out as
I just ran into this myself!
and an edit would not help.
Now I see how that beginning of an answer is not ...
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How to remove or correct blatantly incorrect answers when the poster refuses to update
I've seen "answers" which are simply factually wrong, and have commented on those "answers" to correct it, even providing the proof of the facts, but the posters are simply refusing.
I've tried ...
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Does the new code of conduct still leave room for decent humor?
I've illustrated a recent answer for a more or less useless question with a little picture after the OP was asking back:
const literal versus const function as rvalue? (please check the link ...
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Accepting the answer given by a certain person
I have posted a few questions on Stack Overflow. And I have accepted the answers for most of them.
Stack Overflow gives us an option of sharing the link to a question that we posted with other ...
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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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When following a direct link to an answer, the sticky top bar will cover up the top of it [duplicate]
When I follow a direct link to an answer (a share link, or I click an "answered 1h ago" or "modified 1h ago" link in the active questions list), the sticky top bar will cover up the top of the answer, ...
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Why do people vote down answers that I have posted but are an answer in the comments?
I once saw a really good answer in the comments, but the question was unanswered and I (please don't say I'm a plagiariser) took that answer in the comments and made it into an answer and reworded it ...
