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Why is there a tick next to the “0 answers” of a question?
I just noticed that there was a tick next to the "0 answers" of a question when I’m searching it in this site.
See the screenshot below for the question:
I’ve never seen that case before, ...
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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 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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Answer links from search pages do not load the page at the linked answer
This appears to have started breaking in the last four hours or so.
To reproduce:
Do a search for answers on a Stack Exchange site. For the sake of a demonstration I'll use is:a on Meta Stack ...
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answers
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Should we search in answers too, to avoid asking a question about that same matter? [duplicate]
Can asking a question that has an answer in another question result in being duplicate?
For example, imagine someone wants to ask if the recipe in this website is really original or not.
He tries to ...
user829542
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answers
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How can I find an answer to a difficult-to-formulate question?
In rare cases I want to search something on the Internet and I am pretty sure that the answer is there, but I am not able to formulate my search to get there (although I am an experienced searcher).
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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 ...
user226001
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answer
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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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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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Search for answers of some user to questions in my favorites
On Physics Stack Exchange I searched for
infavorites:73067 user:dddd
where dddd is the numerical user ID of some user, and got one result. It is the one question by the user that I marked as a ...
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Is there a way to search questions only or answers only?
Is there a way to limit a search to questions only or answers only?
Sometimes I am looking for specific questions, checking for duplicate questions or just simply searching for a problem, not a ...
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Advanced search for closed answers returns all closed questions
Searching for closed answers should returns zero items due to only questions can be closed. But result is not empty and contains closed questions only:
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Possibility to restrict search results by date of the most recent answer (or any answer)?
According to search help there are two possibilities how search results can be restricted to some date range. Namely created: and lastactive:. The latter is based on the last activity of the post, for ...
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Find answers posted by particular user for my questions
Assume I asked 100 questions, and one particular user answered 10 of my questions.
I want a list of those 10 questions answered by that particular user.
I want to know just for interest. For example ...
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Is there any way to search answers by upvotes (not questions)
How can I see what answers have the most upvotes. I know for questions it is possible, but I did not figure out a method for answers. An answer can have lots of upvotes even if the question does not ...
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How to find answers with a keyword not in the question?
Questions that encourage many answers are discouraged on Stack Overflow. For example: "Can you list some practical examples of the Decorator pattern?" would solicit many answers, not one.
Instead of ...
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Answer doesn't answer question but answers title and Google
This answer answers the title of its question, but misses out a key request in the body of the question.
It also answers a basic Google search, and I suspect this is why it is steadily accumulating ...
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Don't elipsify answer bodies in search if it's not required [duplicate]
I use search quite often, and sometimes come across gems like this:
I'd like to know whether that's actually all that's there... and that ... makes me hesitate. On one hand, maybe there's code there ...
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Add the ability to search for questions with less than a given number of answers
Sometimes I try to search for questions that meet certain criteria (rare tags, high score) that haven't been answered well, and try to answer them. However, currently I can only search for questions ...
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How do I find the number of questions I have answered?
The closest match upon searching was How do I find out the total number of accepted answers?
However my query is slightly different. I also tried searching existing queries but couldn't find what I ...
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Unanswered questions with no answers [duplicate]
I have a very simple request here to implement, if it doesn't already exist, a way to filter questions by number of answers. This would allow you to look for questions with no answers at all (not just ...
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How to search answers created by specific users with a specific tags?
Suppose I wanted to find all the answers which are tagged with selenium as an example that have been done by the user - https://stackoverflow.com/users/2462559/babai. How do you search for that?
user233372
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One possible way to decrease the number of duplicates
If my point has already been made in another post then consider that fact an illustration of my point (and the other poster's point).
My point
So search is a problem because of question titles are ...
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Identify answers which might yet get accepted
Sometimes I'd like to see
questions without an accepted answer
for which I wrote an answer
This might be useful to remind users to accept an answer, or to keep track of questions where additional ...
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How to get a list of highest-voted answers? [duplicate]
I can sort the list of questions based on the number of votes and on tags.
Can I do the same thing for answers?
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Finding some text in one of my answers [duplicate]
How can I find my own answers including some words I remember having written ?
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View my answers to questions with no accepted answer
Somewhat related to View my questions with unaccepted answers, but from the other end.
Can we have a filter option for our answers (that we have posted to another user's questions) to only show our ...
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Is there anyway to find if a particular answer has been posted for a question with many answers? [duplicate]
Sometimes questions can have answers leading to pages. Reading them all to judge if a particular answer I've in my mind has been already posted is a bit tedious. For eg, in this link (for example sake)...
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Searching for this great answer on Stack Overflow
A while back I was reading through various question/answers on Stack Overflow. I stumbled upon one question (related to web technologies, maybe REST?) that had a beautiful and humorous response ...
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How to see all my SE unanswered questions [duplicate]
I want to be able to see all questions that I have not yet accepted as answers on all SE sites that I use (20 currently) so that I ensure I keep on top of answers. I don't believe there is any way to ...
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How can I display a list of the top-voted answers?
Occasionally, I like to look at the list of top-voted questions for a website, and read a bunch of them. Since there are often great answers on poor questions, I find myself wishing I could search ...
user157969
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Top answers of all, and of the tag
I've been looking for it, but it can't find how to get top answers(most votes) of all time and top answers of the tag.
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2
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How do I search a specific user's answers?
I have a question, that I know was answered by a specific user, but I can't find it via a general search. Can I narrow my search to that user's responses? If not, please make it so.
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TextBox to search our own questions and answers instead of playing around with the URL?
I was about to ask for a way to search within my own questions and answers when I found these interesting question and answer: How can I search within my own questions?
That said, it seems we have to ...
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Search doesn't return all answers
Hmmm... either I'm stupid or something is wrong. I just tried Koper's idea to find my ratio of accepted and not accepted answers on SO.
user:me isaccepted:0
returns 52 answers,
user:me ...
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Is there a way to search for community wiki 'questions'?
I tried a search, but I get answers also in the results.
I'd like to search only questions.
I tried: wiki:1 question:1 (shot in the dark) but it didn't work, I still get answers in the results.
In ...
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Is there a way to search the answers of a Question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Seaching Questions with n-Pages of Answers
Is there a way?
I first thought about this with those 'best X' questions as I'd rather up-vote an answer that was already given ...
chrismar035
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Is it possible to search responses before responding? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Searching Questions with n-Pages of Answers
When preparing to post a response, especially a question that already has a lot of answers, is there a means of searching the ...
Michael Itzoe
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Filter a user's answers based on tags
On the user profile page, one can sort the answers based on votes, newest, views and recent. Although this is really helpful, it would be even better if users can filter out the answers based on the ...
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Ability to search my answers [duplicate]
I'm looking at a question I know I've answered at least once (maybe twice) before - but I have a slew of answers and I don't know which one it is. I'd love to be able to do a rudimentary search of my ...
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Sort search results by sum of top N answer votes rather than question votes
In a recent podcast, Joel complained about how people weren't upvoting questions often, so even well-answered questions didn't rise to the top of searches sometimes.
Would it help to implement a sort ...
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Add in-page searching? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Seaching Questions with n-Pages of Answers
CTRL F works, but when there's 5+ pages it gets too much work. So add in-page (question) search to that first #sidebar.module or ...
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Filter your questions and answers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ability to search my stuff?
Sometimes I want to go back to an answer I got from a question or check an answer I answered, say, last year but I wouldn't be able to find it......
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It would be nice to search only my answers
Every once in a while when a very similar question is asked, I'll want to post a reference to an answer I gave for another question to help provide some more ideas to the asker.
The problem is that ...
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