Questions tagged [answers]
For questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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When JavaScript is disabled, sort orders other than "votes" are buggy
I normally browse Stack Exchange with JavaScript disabled, and reading, searching, etc. mostly work just fine in that context. However, sort orders other than "votes" are broken, for users ...
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Is there a list of ChatGPT or other AI-related discussions and policies for our sites?
Lately, the use of ChatGPT on the network has become controversial, with Stack Overflow completely banning using generated text for content and several other sites considering bans.
Could we get a ...
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Should upvotes on new answers to old/unanswered/upvoted questions be weighted differently?
Note: This question has marked as a possible duplicate of: How about a difficulty rating for questions?
However: This question is not about a 'difficulty rating' for questions based on their perceived ...
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No descriptive error when trying to post an answer while logged out
While typing an answer, my session expired (?) causing me to be logged out.
I didn't notice that, but when pressing 'Post your answer', the following 'error' was shown:
Your answer couldn't be ...
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Make answering notice for unregistered users be translatable via Traducir
On sites where answering for unregistered users is available, they will see the following notice below the post body text area:
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
Please be sure to ...
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What can be done if a user accepts an incorrect or inadequate answer to his question due to some bias? [duplicate]
I've noticed that a lot of users on Meta, especially new users, have various biases towards and against certain answerers.
I wondered what would the protocol be if a user, who already has a few ...
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Add a warning about generative AI on other sites (only to sites which banned generative AI) of Stack Exchange
On Stack Overflow (only in English) there is the warning about generative AI answers:
Reminder: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow. Learn more.
Can ...
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Retagging questions with the answer?
When the answer to a question can be summarized in one word, I've found myself wanting to retag questions with that answer as a tag. Is this good practice?
Example: If "lib-y" is a good answer to the ...
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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Duplicate answers should be blocked rather than just flagged
Currently the system detects duplicate answers from the same user and flags them for moderator attention. This is useful, but could be streamlined.
Duplicate answers fall into two main categories:
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How can we identify ChatGPT-generated posts?
As a moderator on two sites, I am following the Stack Overflow community's policy regarding the ban of ChatGPT closely. However, does the community and its moderators have any handles on how to ...
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Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions?
A few days ago, OpenAI, the people that brought you GPT-3 and DALL-E, launched a new product called ChatGPT. It can answer questions so accurately that it's legitimately scary. Even the most obscure ...
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Answer marked as solution. If deleted, is questioner free to mark another answer as the solution?
A questioner marked my answer as the solution, despite giving new information pointing out it was not the right answer after all. If I remove my answer, is the solution flag reset and available again?
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Duplicate questions with no accepted answer [duplicate]
What am I supposed to do when trying to flag a question as a duplicate but the question I'm trying to link doesn't have an accepted answer?
This question and the answer makes me think that I should be ...
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How do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?
What is the "Not an Answer" flag and what is its purpose?
When should I use this flag?
When should I not use this flag?
But I'm still not sure if I'm using the flag correctly...
An answer is ...
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What can I do if an answer in the "First Answers" Review Queue is objectively wrong?
All the options presented to me through the UI do not seem to address the situation correctly. Here is a screenshot of the options available to me.
And here are the Share Feedback options.
The only ...
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Should edits to one’s own answers be isolated and highlighted? [duplicate]
I’ve observed that some answers include sections at the bottom that are explicitly labeled Edit or the like. But there are also many other answers that (as the system indicates) have been edited but ...
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Can clicking on a negatively-received post remove the graying-out on both the content *and* the comments?
This post was marked status-completed – and it is, to a degree. But clicking on a post with a score of −3 (or −7) or lower doesn't remove the grayness on the comments underneath the post, only the ...
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What can be done about an increasing impatience with poorly expressed questions?
I've only been using SO for about a month, but I think I've noticed an increase in impatient responses to poorly-worded questions. I may even have been guilty of it myself.
Of course 'poorly-worded ...
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Does Stack Exchange allow for answers which question the validity or stance of the original question?
One thing I keep running into on this site is that some questions are merely asked so that a persons opinion can be validated. I don't ever say I'm right and you're wrong when I reply to a question, ...
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Improving SEO on Answers for Increased Findability
Great answers answer technical questions helpfully, a necessity for answers that become reputation bedrocks.
But mother lode answers benefit from a near continuous stream of page views resulting in ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
On questions like this one that have a tendency to be answered by low-rep users who don't cite any sources, mods can add the following post-notice:
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed ...
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Unable to delete my answer
I wrote this answer to a SO question. Then I learned that I misunderstood the question, so I tried to delete my answer. The confirmation dialog popped up, I clicked on OK, but it wasn't deleted.
The ...
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How often does ChatGPT give an incorrect answer to an SE question?
This is a follow-up of Ban ChatGPT network-wide. How often does ChatGPT give an incorrect answer?
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If SE introduces system-generated answers, how to fit them into SE's question and answers model
This question is meant to be constructive in tone, not another channel to start debates or express opinions or frustrations on what happened around AI in the past weeks. (There are plenty, more ...
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Competing with ChatGPT Answers: An Expert's Perspective
Although I'm a moderator on two network sites who has had to deal with GenAI answers, I'm writing this from the perspective of a lower (<2k reputation, with limited access to moderation tools) user ...
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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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Add the share button to (other) answers in review queues
When reviewing an answer in one of the Low Quality Posts, First Posts, or Late Answers queues, there is the option to watch the Other answers of the question. This gives a more "naked" view ...
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Answers on migration stub questions include a false notice that they were converted to comments
This question was recently migrated from Sustainability.SE to Politics.SE. There was already an answer when it was migrated, and as expected, that answer was included with the migration.
However, back ...
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When writing an answer, it should appear directly below the question
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When I am writing an answer, especially a detailed one, it's useful to be able to refer to the question to make sure that I am answering everything and doing it in a logical order. Because of ...
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What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you read the following information to understand what has happened and how to regain ...
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The anonymous "Post your answer" button gets squashed
Across all SE sites when I visit a question without being signed in and scroll down to the bottom, there is an option to submit an answer as a guest, but I don't think the button should be wrapped (...
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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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Add # next to each answer?
I would like to suggest adding the answer number (#) to each answer on a page. This makes it easier to know which answer you are at when scrolling down a list of many and long answers.
For instance, I ...
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When does misinformation "harm democratic institutions"?
One of the things that our new Misleading Information Policy bans is "misleading information" that "Is likely to significantly harm democratic institutions or voting processes or to ...
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Ban ChatGPT network-wide
Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned.
However, the reasons for the ban really apply to much or all of the network, and certainly for sites that are similar ...
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Question already answered by a comment [duplicate]
I was wondering if someone else has the problem that a question might be already answered by a comment. I mainly focus on questions that don't have any answer already in order to help.
It costs me a ...
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Is it okay to upvote answers posted in comments?
I recently received an answer to one of my questions posted as a comment. I upvoted the comment and suggested that the commenter post it as an answer. Was it appropriate to upvote the comment? The ...
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What should we do when the OP answers his/her own question in an edit?
Reference question: Can't set video mode for SDL screen on embedded device
Sometimes users solve their own questions, which is great. Sometimes they say they've solved it and move on, which is not ...
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How can we discourage people from answering bad questions? Should we?
It happens all too often someone will post a question with no regard to how the system works. They put in no effort whatsoever, their accept rate is often low as well and they come up with a questions ...
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Please split the answer count shown on posts to distinguish between deleted and undeleted answers
Note: this is not a request to hide deleted answers (which has been requested in the past).
The answer count under a question currently has code that tracks which answers are deleted and which answers ...
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Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
Today we changed the way we sort answers on Stack Overflow. We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes ...
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I am a beginner. Should I answer?
I'm not a professional programmer, but I have some experience. Sometimes I see a question, but I'm not sure about the answer, or even if I am confident. I'm not an advanced programmer and my answer ...
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There is still a need for facilitating transient discussions about Q and As
Comments are great for annotating questions and answers but are lousy for dialog between users to pin down clarifications that may ultimately be reflected in the question or answer itself. ...
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Is it okay to write answers that compete with moderators' or 10k+ users' answers?
I am afraid of posting answers to questions that have already been answered by moderators and/or 10k+ users. I've posted about ten or 12 such answers between SO and MSO. Whenever I have different ...
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Requesting Expansion Regarding Old Answers
A user answered a question relevant to something I'm working on myself, albeit back in the dark ages of 2011. I don't have enough reputation to post a comment for an incredibly minor clarification, I ...
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Is it rude to not select an answer when you're not sure which one might be correct?
Sometimes when a question is asked, the correct answer is easy to recognize.
Sometimes, the answer is not easy to recognize and the asker doesn't have the expertise to select the correct answer with ...
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Offer long links to answers, in addition to just short
Let's say you are looking at some question and you see a good answer, and you want to share it with your friends.
Well, each answer only has short links available. If you want a long link that looks ...
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Wikipedia-like references in answers
Would it be possible to introduce a feature where we can reference other websites in our answers?
For example, if we answered a question on how to use a method in a library, we could link to the ...
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Is it possible to create an RSS feed of the latest answers for a certain tag?
I want to create a feed for user activity that will give me the recent questions and answers.
I was able to create a feed for new questions with this script:
import feedparser
# Set the RSS feed URLs ...
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