Questions tagged [answers]
For questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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Don't display "protected" notice if the question is locked or closed
If the question is locked, obviously new users can't post answers to it because no one can post answers. It seems somewhat redundant to list that box there. I'm not saying remove the protection from ...
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Change "Your Answer" to "Your Answer to this Question"
Many new users use the "Answer" section to answer another answer. It seems they (reasonably) assume the Stack Exchange sites work the way many forums and Facebook work: a chronological sequence of ...
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Can Community ♦ raise a duplicate content flag when an answer is deleted and re-posted as a new answer?
I haven't seen this behavior out in the wild much, but it happened again recently and I was wondering if a flag could be automatically raised when this happens:
User posts answer
Answer is down voted
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Add the data-nosnippet attribute to answers with negative score (-3 or less)
This post on RPG.SE meta describes a heavily downvoted answer (current score -17) being shown as the featured snippet by Google when searching for the question title (or something resembling it):
The ...
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Why can 1 rep users post so many answers so fast?
I just came across this answer (10k only) on Ask Ubuntu (image link). A new, one-rep user just posted thirteen "abusive" answers over fifteen minutes.
Another case: a user managed to post a ...
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Show the answer author in suggested edit reviews
Today, I was going through a suggested edit and found that it was shortening the code (something that we don't allow on our site (Code Golf)). However, when I tried to reject it, it had already been ...
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Discouraging repwhoring - Reverse rep from answers posted shortly before the question gets closed
TL;DR I'm proposing the following:
When someone posts an answer and the corresponding question is closed within a certain amount of time after that, then, for certain close reasons, all rep gained ...
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Bad robot! I just logged in, I didn't create the post in 0.35 seconds!
Problem
The robot dialogue (captcha) presents itself if you
Compose a post on a site you haven't logged into without submitting the post
Log in
Submit the post (it's already filled out since Stack ...
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Add an option for mods and staff to pin a certain answer to the top on meta sites
Now that accepted answers are in the process of being unpinned, and that's likely to happen on meta sites too, we probably need another way to pin certain answers to the top. This will go in line with ...
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Existing answers should be eligible for bounty auto-award, when the reason for bounty is to reward an existing answer
I am not asking...
... to remove the 24-hour waiting period for reward-type bounties.
... for the ability to pre-select the winning answer, either.
My request is this:
When a user sets a ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics results: In which ways do unregistered users participate?
Source: In which ways do unregistered users participate?
Data source: February 6, 2012 NDA dump
The results here are only for StackOverflow, as it pretty well dominates the network. The final month ...
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Add Year to Dates for Dates within 11 Months
Note: I know this is very similar to "Add year to question and answer dates.". I felt it deserved a separate question because I'm asking for a modification to the functionality requested in that ...
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The "there are already 30 answers" message shouldn't override the "you already answered this" message
When you try to post an answer to a question that already has 30 answers you receive the following message:
This question has more than 30 answers already.
Did you read through all the existing ...
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Can we please warn people if they start answering a question that has close votes?
Answers being posted before closing invalidates the closing mechanism
Quite often, I see the issue of a stackizen posting their answer while question closure is being discussed in comments or has ...
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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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Add detailed help for Stack Snippets to the editor's "Code" section and the advanced help
Stack Snippets are markedly under-documented. Please update the "Code" section of the help you get when you click the (?) icon in the editor, as well as the advanced help, to provide detailed ...
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Un-fade low-score answers on click/tap too
Since a couple of weeks ago, answers that are shown grayed out can be un-faded by hovering the mouse over them. This is great especially for users with poor eyesight, who can now read such answers ...
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My answer is shown as up-voted from me
I was looking at Will anybody help me gauge the quality of my question? and I noticed that my answer is shown me as up-voted from me.
How is that possible? Even in the case my account were merged ...
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My answer was posted twice, despite the rate-limit for users with less than 125 reputation
In attempting to post an answer, I got a message saying:
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
users with less than 125 reputation can only post answers every 3 minutes; try ...
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Add answered-novotes CSS class to answers column
When I scan the front page of Stack Overflow, I habitually look for non-green boxes for opportunities to answer questions. Would it be helpful to differentiate between questions that have answers with ...
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Old links to answer sort orders became broken after the change to answer sort tabs
I previously posted this as an answer (10k-only) to the announcement Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, ...
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Accepted answer icon is out of alignment on highly scored answers
Over at Stack Overflow, there is a highly-scored, accepted answer with its accepted icon well out of alignment:
Also this answer, here on Meta:
Can we fix the alignment of the checkmarks to match ...
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Answer count in network profile is less than the actual count
My network profile cites the number of answers on Mathematics that is consistently less (by 13) than the actual number, shown on my site profile. Over the time, the counts changed as:
network profile:...
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Stack Overflow calls my short answer "trivial"
I wrote a short answer today, and I was a bit miffed when Stack Overflow called it trivial and turned it into a comment.
I think it's fine to turn a short answer into a comment, but I think the ...
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Forward progress answers
I recently read a question I found very interesting. It's here, if it matters
I put some effort into helping the person get a good answer, and when I was done I had made forward progress on solving ...
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Reviewing a First Answer with red flags leads to "Possible spam" notice shown for question
There is a First Answers review item about a (questionable) answer that received four (still pending) rude/abusive flags. That leads to the familiar notice
Our system has identified this post as ...
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How can I list all my questions and answers whose CommonMark rendering doesn't match the cached rendering?
I understand that the CommonMark migration messes up the formatting of some answers and posts once they're edited.
How can I list all my questions and answers whose CommonMark rendering doesn't match ...
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Answered question with positive scored answer appearing in unanswered question list
That's a weird title for a bug report: Answered question with positive scored answer appearing in unanswered question list.
This question: Wallet initialization failed: basic_string::resize on Monero ...
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Troubleshooting master - good or bad?
All is good.
There is a user who recently has joined Stack Overflow. He seems to be very keen on answering and very active on site. For about 50 days, he has gained over 4,5K of rep points from just ...
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Allow site-specific answering notices for 101 rep users
When you try to answer a question on an SE site as a new user you'll be greeted by a notice like the following one:
These notices can be adapted for each site, this specific one is for Skeptics.
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Answer no longer linked to my account after being migrated twice?
I recently answered this question which was originally asked on Stack Overflow. I asked for it to be migrated to math.stackexchange, but it was accidentally migrated to Mathematica. From there, it ...
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Orphaned answers in migration rejections
It appears that the following sequence results in orphaned answers:
Question is migrated from A.SE to B.SE.
An answer is posted on B.SE.
Question is closed on B.SE, which causes a "migration-...
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Why is the "recent answers" feature so well hidden?
For a long while, I've been wanting to find answers in the tags I'm interested in, because I like spending my votes.
I've given up hoping for a chatroom-friendly answers RSS feed, so I ended up ...
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If an answer receives a bounty, the bounty reason should be available alongside that answer
If a bounty is offered on a question, the user offering the bounty is asked to select a reason for offering the bounty.
This reason should be displayed or at least available alongside the answer that ...
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Can we provide better feedback to people who answer by modifying the question?
As a edit moderator (2k rep), I now see many many many edits that are actually new users answering the question. This most often happens where a code modification occurs.
Many of these answers look ...
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How to know reputation question/answerwise separately ?
I have asked some question and also answered some questions on Stack Overflow. How can I know how much reputation questionwise and answerwise separately ?
Is there any way to check this ?
It will ...
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How can we prevent non-optimal answers from being "cemented" to popular and mature questions?
I originally posted this question on the Philosophy.SE Meta site, but someone recommended that I post it here instead to get a more varied set of responses from experienced users. I'm aware that it's ...
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Why doesn't the FAQ include more information about what constitutes a good answer?
I might have missed it, but I don't see the "How to Answer" page linked to in the FAQ. This is an extremely useful page, and the information it gives is pretty basic; following it is a crucial part of ...
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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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Reconsider adding the ability to bookmark answers
Often, when looking through a certain question, I find an answer that captivates my attention more than the question itself. I would like to find it again, which I can do by following the answer, but ...
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The voting tooltip for answers should be expanded to match the one on questions
When you hover over the question vote arrows, the tool tip that shows gives a short description why someone may vote that way
This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear.
This ...
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Active sorting should put deleted answers at bottom
Currently, active sorting ignores that posts are deleted, unlike other sorts.
According to Please sort deleted answers to the bottom, the sort was fixed to sort deleted at the bottom, which applies ...
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Allow moderators to merge an answer with the question, under some circumstances
Maybe this is only a problem with small sites. What I notice on Drupal Answers, where users are not required to register an account to ask questions, is that sometimes a user asks a question with an ...
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Having too much reputation reducing the amount and quality of answers I get?
I've gathered quite a nice amount of reputation on Stack Overflow answering questions about PHP, jQuery and stuff I know a lot about. I have recently started learning C# and WPF, and I am an utterly ...
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Have questions display that they were recently answered, despite minor edits since
I often write an answer to questions on sites like Earth Science and then inevitably wind up editing it shortly thereafter, realizing I've missed a few things or made typos.
However, it has seemed ...
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Links to migrated answers' revision histories incorrectly go to the parent question's revision history instead of the answer's history
When a question along with its answers is migrated to another site, only its latest revision is copied to the destination site. Originally, there was no attribution supplied to users who edited either ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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Is there a limit to the number of answers that a single user can submit to the same question?
Some websites run weekly, fortnightly or monthly topic challenges, e.g. Gardening, Worldbuilding and Literature. On Literature Meta SE, anyone can submit reading challenges, using one answer per ...
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Question deletion doesn't notify users composing an answer
I was just writing an answer to a quickly-deleted question.
When you are writing an answer to a question that gets closed, your Post Your Answer gets disabled. When you are writing an answer to a ...
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Answer panel sorting when a question gains multiple answers
I had a question open that had zero answers. While it was open, two people answered it. The familiar popup of "2 new answers to this question" appeared, I clicked it, and:
The sorting box (active - ...
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