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Reviewing Low Quality Answers by New Users that Should be Comments
Sometimes, while I am reviewing posts in the low-quality posts queue, I come across some answers by new users that are actually meant to be comments, i.e., they either ask for clarification of the ...
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What's the intent of the dimming/undimming feature on DV'd answers?
Answers with negative net votes are shown in a dimmed font color, but when you hover the mouse over one it returns to normal color (on computer, haven't tried phone).
What is the intent of both of ...
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How can I report an answer? [duplicate]
I've asked my first question on Stack Overflow and someone answered my question within just a few minutes. However, the answer is most definitely AI generated. I know this is against the community ...
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Can people still answer my questions if I delete my account?
I know if I delete my account, my question still remains.
Can people still answer my questions if I delete my account?
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Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
February 22, 2024 Update
The help center articles have been rolled out network-wide. See revision 15 of the February 7th post for more details.
If you're interested in enabling one of these banners on ...
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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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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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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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Is it OK to create a new question asking about code in an old answer instead of waiting until my reputation is 50?
I have a question about code that's in an old Stack Overflow answer. Is it OK to post a new question asking about that code instead if waiting until my reputation is over 50? If my reputation was over ...
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Is there a general recommendation regarding the extent of quoted text in an answer?
Is there a help article, FAQ or previous posts having a general recommendation regarding the proportional length of quoted content in an answer?
This is not about tags wikis having copy/pasted content ...
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Some questions about search [closed]
I want to search questions answered by me and some another user. How can I do this? I don't see an "and" operator.
Is there a way to search through comments (answers under which there is ...
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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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Question Clusters - what is the META guideline for consolidating similar questions? [closed]
I would like to help others by consolidating Solved questions that are related to the same Component. Does the Stack Exchange platform have a policy for chaining together Solved questions?
I am most ...
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How can I determine the validity of answers on this site, meta.stackexchange.com?
I'm having some trouble judging the validity of some answers on Meta Stack Exchange; that is, gauging whether an answer should be interpreted as official policy or not.
For example, let's say somebody ...
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Is paraphrasing someone else's ideas and not crediting them considered plagiarism? [closed]
A certain SE site has a new policy to blindly delete all answers that cite scholars, papers and journals without looking at the merits of the arguments and if the citation addresses the question or ...
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How to choose the best answer for bounties [duplicate]
I am in a problem. I made a bounty and I got 2 good answers, but they are "different". I know the bounty system is to award the effort and help others to find the best answer, and that is ...
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Is there a way to differentiate between transparent and white parts of images?
I saw an answer that displays a transparent image with a white circle in the center. Is there a way to differentiate between the two parts?
I know that I can right click on the image and open the ...
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How many answers did I facilitate and (roughly) how much answer rep was generated?
Answers to Who asked the most number of questions on Stack Exchange? include SEDE scripts for site-specific and network-wide methods to rank users who've asked the most questions. Someone pointed me ...
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How should I reply to a comment which is a request for code?
In a comments discussion I was asked in a comment to share my code. Unfortunately the code exceeds the number of characters allowed in the comment. I'm not a question owner nor the answer.
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Listing of the recent answers
In Stack Exchange websites, the home page shows recent active posts (new question, new answer, new edit, reopened, closed etc.). In Questions page, the recent/active/bountied/.../(also unanswered) ...
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Answer text doesn't correspond with notification text in followed question. Expected behaviour?
In a followed question, I noticed the notification and checked the answer - both after the fact by 7 minutes I noticed a discrepancy:
Is this expected behaviour if a question's been edited within the ...
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How can I search my own answers with different search filters?
I know that I can search for my own answers/question by using:
user:me.
I also want to filter these questions/answers by the number of views.
Something like this:
user:me views:100
But the above query ...
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How can I self-answer my closed question? [duplicate]
I posted a question, however it was closed with a reason I don't understand.
I've found the answer myself and I would like to share the answer with the community, is there any way I can leave the ...
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How are spammers rate limited?
Question: Are there some additional limits for users who had some of their posts marked as spam (or rude/offensive)?
Typically, an account posting spam is a new user, with reputation 1. (Meaning that ...
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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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What happens with "Does this answer your question?" - Yes [duplicate]
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When one/more users suggest another post answers your question (and there is a banner at the top of the page asking if question title answers your question? Yes/No), what physically happens ...
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How can I quickly jump to a specific answer when I've posted multiple answers to the same question?
It's easy to find a question of mine in my user profile by reading the titles of the questions in the Questions tab. It's similar for answers when I've only posted one answer to a question. I can find ...
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No check mark – How do I mark an answer as accepted? [duplicate]
I recently asked a question and would like to mark one of the answers as accepted. The problem is that I do not see a way to do so. On the left-hand side of the answer I can either vote up/down or ...
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Can I answer my own question without accepting it?
I recently posed a question on stack exchange biology about how viruses persist outside the body, and HPV in particular.
The question received some upvotes initially but no answers. After putting a ...
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Is the question asker notified of updates to answers without explicitly "following" that answer?
This certainly never used to be a thing, but I'm wondering if this behaviour has changed with the "increased notifications" - without the OP having to explicitly "follow" that ...
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There is any option to unsubcribe/unfollow already subscribed community [closed]
There is any option to unsubscribe/unfollow already subscribed community in stack overflow (Is this logout is an option for unsubscribing/unfollowing)
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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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Notification for specific user's answers [duplicate]
I know that if I follow a question, I am notified if the question receives an answer. I am also notified for every single comment, edit, close, etc.
I see some users who are actually good contributors....
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Does a low rep user see a question has answers, if the answer is voted -3 or lower?
I can't think of a way to test this for myself.
As I'm high enough rep to be able to see what is actually a spam answer that just hasn't had enough flags yet, I can also see on the main page that this ...
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Cannot see an answer to my own question for which I received a notification
On December 20th I started a bounty (the very first bounty I have ever started) on my own question at this link and then I went on holidays.
During the bounty period I would swear I received a ...
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How can I automatically edit all my answers and questions so that no quotes are broken down?
The CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of many of my posts. Specifically, one common issue is that my quotes are now broken down, e.g.:
instead of
Screenshots taken from https://stats....
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Should deleted answers still be visible?
By pure chance, I was reading this thread at the same time someone was being downvoted heavily and their answer was deleted.
I could still see their answer and even copy/paste the text of their answer....
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Why can't we easily see what answers were deleted when "User was removed" happens? [duplicate]
From time to time single users are “removed” for whatever reason together with their questions and answers, and also the reps of those who answered their questions. While the reasons for users being ...
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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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Did the automated CommonMark migration mess up the formatting of this answer?
I suspect the automated CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of this answer.
Before the migration to CommonMark: https://web.archive.org/web/20200515072655/https://unix.stackexchange.com/...
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If a broad question is split into multiple questions, can answers be "ported"?
I've posted an intentionally broad question on SE Music Fans. The question lends itself to, potentially, a large number of answers, but also to reasonably focused and concise answers, easy to browse ...
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How can I sort answers that comprise at least 1 picture by votes?
I've always loved Math SE's [visualization] tag, and posts like Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain. Some people learn best visually. Other SE's like Math Educators and ...
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Search by answers
Maybe this topic has already been discussed here, but I couldn’t find an answer to it.
I remember having read answers which talked about a specific issue (which was not necessarily closely related to ...
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Is there a way to find out if I've ever both voted to close a question and posted an answer to it?
I just noticed that someone voted to close a question and posted an excellent answer at the same time. I wanted to tell them that I thought it was unfair to do both with an argument involving ...
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Re: tech questions where correct answers change over time - is there a way to show only the votes after a certain date?
Note: In an act of triage, this question was retitled and edited to become a request for technical support instead of a feature request - yet still be a question to match the high quality answer that ...
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What are the different ways to mark the asked question as solved? [duplicate]
I want to know what are the ways to mark an asked question solved?
If someone has answered correctly and solved my doubt, then how do I mark it as my answer to question and also mark the whole ...
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Let new-comers know what they should know
I would like to focus two things here:
Neither the Tour, nor Ask A Question, shows What the question poster should when someone answers their question? which most of the new comers often don't know ...
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How to get only accepted answer in return from the Stack Exchange API?
I found out that I could get only accepted questions from Stack Overflow using this API call.
But now I want only the accepted answer to be part of the returned object; I don't need other answers. I ...
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"An error occurred submitting the answer." when I tried to answer my own question
I had a question on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange site:
Zorin OS boots into emergency mode
I was able to find out the problem after some time and decided to answer my own question. Here is the ...
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Why doesn't the active answer tab include upvotes activity?
For example, if we upvote this answer, it doesn't affect that.
It will be useful in some answers like this that got less attention because it is not shown at the top.
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