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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questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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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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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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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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Why can 1 rep users post so many answers so fast?
I just came across this(10k only) on Ask Ubuntu. (Image Link) A new, one-rep user just posted thirteen "abusive" answers over fifteen minutes.
Is there ever a legitimate reason for a user, especially ...
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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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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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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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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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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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People Reached “OR Score >5” criteria allows users lifting with popular posts
People Reached stat has currently the below criteria for answers:
Answers - Views of the parent question for answers that are:
Non-deleted AND
Score > 0 AND
Also meets one or more of ...
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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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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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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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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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Timeline page should make it easy to go to specific answer
I was looking at the timeline of What can we do to encourage downvoting? on Meta.SO. This is a big question with lots of answers. In the timeline I saw an answer that I was interested in reading ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How did the system not catch these two <30 character answers?
A few days ago, I saw this answer, and thought nothing of the fact that it had <30 characters (including zero-width spaces and HTML tags and other Unicode characters). But then I saw this answer, ...
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No notification received for new answer
I posted a bug just now (Referenced topic isn't automatically shown in the Linked section on the ELL site?) and then I guess I encountered another one.
Usually, after someone else answered my ...
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Please extend the automatic slow-down system to also apply to answers
A couple of years ago a rolling rate limit was added that limited the number of new questions a brand new user could ask, and adjusted that limit based on the feedback they were getting. It was there ...
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Does the reputation system increase the likelihood that registered users will take greater risks of providing answers than of asking questions?
Reputation is not considered to be the currency of SE, as evidenced by much previous discussion, such as:
Is reputation the currency of Stack Overflow?
The closest that reputation is considered to ...
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How well do answers bubble up?
For context, I mostly use sites of "medium" size and traffic, like unix.SE - it's not clear whether that makes a difference to this question.
From experience, it seems that the effect of good answers ...
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Answerers Comments “Background Color”
Does anyone else think having answerers comments have their own background color like the OP does for any comment they make, make for better readability. Sometimes looking at comments (mostly) when ...
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Doppelgänger answers
Few days ago I was editing an answer on ProgSE (few minutes after I had posted it), and when I saved the edit it was posted as a separate answer. Didn't think much of it at the time, but today I ...
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Delay the appearance of “Have you considered accepting …” message
On june 6th I posted this question. After about ten days, someone posted an answer. This was (at the time I'm writing this) thirteen hours ago. When I logged onto stackoverflow this morning, the first ...
