Questions tagged [self-answer]
Questions also answered by the user asking, easily marked by the shaded user card attached to the answer.
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If I answer my own question, will it decrease its visibility thus reduce the chance of other people giving a better answer?
I asked a question, and I already have a nonperfect answer.
I want to submit my nonperfect answer. This way, if other people have the same solution as mine, they don't need to bother typing it again.
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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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What is this "answer your own question" jazz?
I showed up here to write a perfectly normal rant about misaligned pixels, and there's a big fat checkbox cluttering up the "Ask" page, labeled:
Answer your own question – share your ...
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Can I post tips instead of questions?
Many topics on Server Fault, Stack Overflow, etc. are framed as a question. People respond with their answers.
I have a topic that I would like to discuss, but it is more of a tip than a question. I ...
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How can you defend your questions from the nontarget audience?
Is there a way to write Q&A so it doesn't bother users whom aren't faced with the problem, and only for users whom really suffer from the problem?
As the Stack Overflow FAQ says, it’s fine to ...
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Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?
I might want to answer my own question because:
I arrived at a solution before there were any other correct answers or I like mine better, can I still answer my own question?
I have a folder with ...
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What are limitations on self-answered questions?
Here I see that "Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to answer their own questions".
But is there any limitations on the self-answered questions?
I guess they are surely ...
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Is there stigma associated with self-answers on certain network sites? Or different etiquette? If so, why?
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I was told in chat that some sites don't / might not see self-answers in a positive light, which I found surprising, having read the (fairly old) "It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own ...
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How can I make this post into a proper Q&A?
I am the owner of a post, which I wrote, because I found not a single wiki or how-to or tutorial on the Internet about that subject.
Here is the post/question: How to build Qt for Visual Studio 2010
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What should I do if an asker makes a self-answer based on a previously-accepted other answer?
I found this situation and think it is not well.
A user creates a question
Another user answers it
the first user accepts the answer.
time passes
the first user un-accepts that answer
the first user ...
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OP answers his/her own question without acknowledging the help
I've just learnt the existence of a certain behavior from this post:
OP asks a question
He gets help from an user
He tell him it doesn't work as-is
With the help of this user only (again), he get it ...
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Dealing with self-answers where the OP admits that the problem was elsewhere
I just came upon this answer by the OP of this question:
Sorry for this, I actually see now that me problem was from something ells in my app and not what I was thinking it is. Sorry for wasting ...
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Don't say "Comment if you're trying to respond to an answer." when there's no answer, after clicking on "answer your question"
Don't say "Comment if you're trying to respond to an answer." when there's no answer, after clicking on "answer your question":
I think if we remove information that doesn't apply ...
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What's wrong with my self-answered question? [closed]
Recently, I posted a question about automatically paraphrasing sentences in JavaScript using regular expressions, and answered the question as soon as I posted it. Soon afterward, my question got two ...
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Should I continue adding a question if I have found the answer myself?
I start typing a question (which may be interesting and useful), but then think and/or google more and find answer myself.
Should I just close the window or add the question with my answer to enrich ...
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Is this self-answer useful to the question?
I'm still in the process to understand what is helpful to Stack Overflow from what isn't. I know that self-answered question is a good thing when it's done the right way. Today, this question https://...
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Is there an etiquette for asking questions originally intended to be self-answered?
According to Oded's answer to What are limitations on self-answered questions? self answered questions have the same quality requirements as "the other" questions. So if we found a question ...
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The "You can accept your own answer in <period>" alert is missing a period․
When trying to accept your own answer too early, you get an alert like
You can accept your own answer in 11 hours
According to the Stacks design guidelines, it is missing a period; it's a full ...
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Support saving self-answered questions as drafts
Drafts of unsubmitted questions and answers on Stack Exchange are automatically saved every 45 seconds. However, saved drafts don't support self-answered questions. This means if you leave the ask ...
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"Answer your own question" toggle stops working after ticking the checkbox consecutively
In some case, the "Answer your own question" is unchecked, but the answer box is present. This happens when clicking a few times on "Answer your own question".
Demo:
I didn't ...
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Intended purpose of Self-Learner badge on SE?
Is it encouraged to post unasked questions we know the answer to if they seem useful?
Or is this only intended to be used when a question goes long enough that the postee eventually learned the answer?...
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How can one see the percentage of one's answers that were posted on one's own questions, network-wide?
Is there a way to see the percentage of one's answers that were posted on one's own questions, network-wide?
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“Answer your own question” checkbox has some weird styling
Text style for "Answer your own question" under the "Post Your Question" button on the asking page is weird:
In particular link text is smaller than the beginning of the sentence, ...
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Remind me to accept my own answer
I quite often find the solution to my problem alone (writing down the question helps, comments also help!), and when it happens, I usually end up writing an answer the same day.
Now, Stack Exchange ...
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Instant self-answers are ordered inconsistently
When the "Answer your own question" checkbox is used to provide an instant self-answer, the self-answer has the same creation timestamp as the question, and its ID number is 1 more than the ...
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If you answer your own question will you be credited once or twice for the "people reached" statistics in your profile?
I found an answer explaining how the "people reached" statistics is populated in the Stats box in the Profile tab. Basically, if your answer qualifies, you will be credited the # of views ...
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Accepted answers don't float "on top" when self-answered?
On this question, the accepted answer doesn't float on top. Apart from that, the display is correct (i.e. the V mark and the green border).
If I sort by "vote", I've got the following answer ...
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Accepted answer does not always appear at the top [duplicate]
I just recognised that an accepted answer does not always appear first, at the top of the other answers (for example here).
Sometimes it does, but if I reload the page the two answers change their ...
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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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Special status for questions with self-answers
I would like others' opinion on removing the up/down vote for the question on a question with a self-answer. We should leave the up/downvote for the answer though, and also automatically mark it as ...
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Is there a bias against using the "answer your own question" feature?
I had a question. As I was researching it while drafting it, I found more and more relevant information that I incorporated into my question. It came to the point where it felt like I was answering ...
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How to ask a question when self-answering?
I've been researching lots of questions in the game World of Warcraft (WoW), and usually the answers to practical questions such as "Where is an item located?" are buried in the comment ...
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Accepted answer appearing below top voted [duplicate]
On Add year to question and answer dates, sorted by votes, the accepted answer is #3 in order of votes. It appears as number 3 in the list as well.
Is this new behavior intended?
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Should I say "You" to myself in self-answers?
I had a question about how to convert geo coordinates. A couple hours later, I found the answer and posted it as answer to my own question.
Initially I wrote:
I just got confused with Lon/Lat. [When ...
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48 hour accept own answer delay wastes other answerers' time
I have read all the discussions around the 48 hour delay on accepting ones own answers. To quote Jeff Atwood:
You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can ...
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Is it typical for self-answered questions to be downvoted? [duplicate]
As a habit, I have always tried to answer my own questions on Stack Overflow and other sites if no one provided an answer, and I later found the answer myself. I consider this to be essential to ...
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Can I answer my own question on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
Should I not answer my own questions?
I have posted a question, and then later I found the mistake and solution by myself. Can ...
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Can I answer my own question by citing a comment? [duplicate]
The best answer on one of my questions is in the comment section.
I don't want to bother the commenter by asking for a formal answer so that I can give it the love (upvote and accept) that it deserves....
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Mark Self Answered postings accordingly
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I think it would be beneficial to mark self answered posts, where people only "ask" the question in order to share their knowledge/findings, in a way so that it is obvious to ...
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Expanding the roomba to auto-delete self-accepted-answered questions with low views, low scores, and only 1 answer
For background info, read about the current roomba that runs automatically to delete questions.
This is a feature-request to add one more rule set on when questions will be auto-deleted by the ...
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Allow authors to self-answer their own protected questions even if they don't have enough reputation
I'm asking this question because of Can't answer protected question despite meeting reputation requirement:
For the purposes of your reputation "on this site", Stack Exchange has ...
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Hide votes for self-answered by community wiki questions for a few hours
Don't start reading this with a pre-conceived idea. I know similar topics have been discussed before.
You want to share some piece of knowledge you've been searching for. You finally took the time to ...
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Is there an etiquette for answering questions originally intended to be self-answered?
This question is inspired by Is there an etiquette for asking questions originally intended to be self-answered?.
A few times, I have encountered a self-answered question with a question that seems to ...
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How do sites moderate self-answered questions?
Historically our beta site has discouraged self-answered questions.
The site has been running for 6 years (3 questions/day, 98% answered, 3 ½ answers/question, and very few questions are closed).
The ...
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"0" in reputation history when accepting a self-answer with an upvote on the same day
When accepting a self-answer, this usually causes a blank entry in your reputation history (see the bottom circle below). However, when that happens on a day when you also get an upvote on that answer,...
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Can self-answered Q&As be broad or even duplicates?
With all the talk over self-answered "blog-like" Q&As, I thought about writing my own. The idea as I understand it is to share knowledge, but my planned approach conflicts with what I think are ...
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Is it all right to answer own question with a summary of a discussion from the comments in case no other answers are posted? [duplicate]
I've asked a question on Linguistics.SE.
My question has received no direct answers (yet), but a very interesting discussion took place in the comments. I believe that reading through it pretty much ...
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Make it clearer that a question is self answered
I have noticed that when people are asking a question just to self answer it right away, they - for very obvious reasons - does not put to much effort into the actual question. Why would they? They ...
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Do you get reputation for self-answered questions?
From time to time I ask a question on Stack Overflow. The community is incredibly fast and correct, but sometimes I beat them to it and answer my own question after some research.
Not that it matters ...
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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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