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Questions with 1 answer (not accepted) get ignored by people
Normally if anyone asks a question and there are no answers it usually stays up the top of the page - if its a relatively new question. Many people get to see it and the possibility of getting a good ...
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Where does an answer that is flagged as NAA and converted to a comment go?
It says it was converted to a comment, but if you view the page, it doesn't show up as a comment....
model has_many users(of a specific role type)
But the answer has already been converted, and is ...
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Adding another answer to an old and accepted question
This is a question which was asked on 2012-11-18 and has an accepted answer:
Set "Selected Item" in multiselect RadComboBox
I found another answer which may be correct as accepted answer.
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Accepted answer not listed on top [duplicate]
I was just browsing the question Deserializing empty xml attribute value into nullable int property using XmlSerializer on stackoverflow and I noticed that the accepted answer is listed after the ...
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Why were some answers converted to comments and what caused some unexplained downvotes? [closed]
I'm a longtime lurker, but fairly new to answering questions. I only post if I know the answer.
I invested time to answer several jQuery questions, only to watch a moderator delete or move my answer ...
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Why was my apparently "trivial answer" converted to a comment? [duplicate]
I posted an answer, but it got converted to comment with a note saying
Trivial answer converted to comment.
Why did that happen?
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User posts two answers, what's the best course of action?
Reference question: CSS selector code last element
I don't know how long it will last (update: he edited his older answer) but this user "Nathan Lee" posts two answers.
First he posts a generic ...
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How can I find answers I've downvoted?
I'm aware I can view all of my downvotes by going here:
But there are reams of downvotes matched.
I also tried looking at the advanced search operators, but there's nothing useful there.
How ...
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Why is this accepted answer not listed at the top? [duplicate]
Answer in question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12827086/825789
I have the answers sorted by votes, but strangely the answer marked as accepted is listed last. The top answer is the one with most ...
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Why I got only 2 reputation for upvote [duplicate]
Yesterday I faced one issue, I don't know wether it's an issue or my fault of understanding.
Here is answered one question Can GWT handle Java Swing?
Answer accepted and got 4 up votes. Still ...
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Would like to vote but can't find a way
Sometimes I get a message to be sure to vote, but I can't seem to find a place to do it. Some answers are just great, and I'd like to give them a positive rating. Please tell me how to do this.
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How long do saved drafts exist?
When I type an answer to any question and suddenly decide I have better things to do, the answer gets saved as a draft.
If I return to that question say a week later, will my draft still exist? I ...
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What happens if i answer my own question?
I am thinking about answering my own question but i still would like to be able to mark an answer from someone else as the solution. Currently the FAQ has no information what happens if a user answers ...
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Does deleted answer count towards your tag score?
When answering\asking a question (say a Java question) and got downvotes, I want to delete the answer. You know that downvoting a "Java" answer also downvotes the user's "Java" tag. The question is, ...
user157100
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Answer own question with a link to solution at another SE site?
I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow but didn't receive any answers so I posted the same question in gamedev.stackexchange.com (which I didn't know existed before). Now that I got an answer ...
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An answer of mine switched questions
This answer of mine miraculously appeared in that question after I only wrote that answer to the question (now deleted though). But I recall writing the other answer for another question some time ...
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Does the loss of reputation from unaccept happen on the day of the unaccept or retroactively?
I know that you give back 15 rep if an answer is unaccepted:
Do you lose the 15 pts if someone later unaccepts your answer?
However, does this loss happen on the day the answer is unaccepted, or ...
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What actions/interactions cause a question to move to the top of the list? [duplicate]
What actions or interaction on a question cause it to move up / timestamp refresh? For example, I know that for the following...
Posting an answer (yes)
Voting up a comment (no)
Flagging the question ...
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Bounty question: improve existing answer or be eligible for bounty?
Imagine this situation: I posted an answer to a question. After some time the OP decided he needs a better answer or more attention and decides to put a bounty on his question.
Now I want to add a - ...
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“An error occurred submitting the answer.”
Related: "An error occurred submitting the question."
I’m trying to post an answer to this question and keep getting the error message, “An error occurred submitting the answer.”
Thinking ...
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A few questions about flagging an answer
I just went through a Stack Overflow profile of a person while searching an answer. Basically I got two links; this and this from my search. Both have the same answer. Like one copied another's answer ...
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Am I obligated to answer questions before asking one? [duplicate]
I am new here and I have a question. Can I just ask questions on this community or do I have to answer other peoples questions too? I feel awkward when I just ask but not being able to help anyone.
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"An error occurred submitting the question." [duplicate]
After filling in the title and question fields, then three tags, I clicked on the submit button. Over and over I get the above message in a dark red box right next to the submit button. I can't see ...
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My post is being supplanted by somebody else, but I did the investigation!
I'm an active committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces Project, known as (lu4242) Leonardo Uribe.
A year ago I posted this answer
Difference between Mojarra and MyFaces
But it seems somebody else ...
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Not able to find a question I posted
I posted a question 1 week back, and it had a few upvotes and answers. But I'm not able to find the question in my profile now (and I've lost the reputation points I've gained from that question). How ...
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Awarding a bounty
I got excellent answer to my question and I want to award a bounty for this answer. How should I do this?
Just to make sure that I am clear. I created several bounties before. However, I created all ...
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Can't answer questions, not even my own: Please note, I can still post questions, but not answers [duplicate]
Since I joined Stack Overflow I have never been able to post answers to any questions, not even my own questions. Is there something I should do in order to be allowed to do this?
Every time I try, I ...
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Can't choose an answer
I can't choose an answer to this question of mine.
I'm getting the same issue on the full version:
I am shown that error for more than eight minutes now. How do I fix this?
Edit: I still need an ...
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Should I remove correct but down voted answers?
I got down voted some times without reason, and I also know the user who did this but the support told me that there is no evidence about this.
However this is not the point of my question. I have ...
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How to post a Comment on a Question or Answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comments work?
How do you post a comment to a question or answer. The FAQs suggests 'comments' as a possibility, https://stackoverflow.com/faq#howtoask but there isn't ...
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How to answer specific questions
After years of consuming awesome solutions on stackoverflow I decided to start answering questions in my spare time. It's a lot of fun and I learn a lot by just digging into the different questions.
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Should I delete an answer if it's almost identical to another [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I post my answer when it’s very similar to another answer?
I posted an answer 1 min later another answer, which is different in the form but basically says the same ...
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How should I accept a half answer?
I posted a question on StackOverflow about a problem to solve. One answer is pointed out a mistake that I made, but itself didn't solved the problem, hovever after this I was able to solve the rest of ...
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How to link to a particular answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I link to a specific answer?
A couple of times would have wanted to link to a particular answer, but it seems answers can't be pointed directly using links.
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"Don't just link to jsfiddle.net" hint sometimes hinders answering the questions
Recently I found a new hint when answering the questions in SO, saying:
Please make your answer complete by including relevant, formatted code
inline (don't just link to jsfiddle.net).
In one ...
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Configuring Answer To Recently Edited Post
There was an answer on this post: Applying different CSS class on click using jQuery that related to the old question before I edited the question.
It has a couple of up-votes and it seems I know ...
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Is adding a note in the user profile notes enough disclosure? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I mention my own products in answers?
Suppose I am the developer of a free software project, and I write a note in my profile about being the maintainer, or co-...
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Why are certain answers faded? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is up with lighter/washed out text?
While searching Stack Overflow, I found a faded answer, as seen below. What does it mean?
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Set Some conditions to answer my question
Suppose I wish to allow only users who have scored at least 15 in the particular tag to answer my question, Is it possible to set a condition like this while asking a question? So that I can avoid ...
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Recommended method to answer StackOverflow questions [closed]
I am new to StackOverflow and I feel that, even if I can answer some questions, I don't think I can answer it in the most constructive possible way.
My main concern is that it doesn't take more than ...
user200514
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Can a user revert Community Wiki on a post?
Suppose that a Stack Overflow user answered a question and he marked it as Community Wiki. If no other user modifies the post, then the current version is exactly the same as it was originally written....
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Flagged answer as spam; it was deleted; flag was declined
There was an answer posted on this question that was a link to a guy's personal blog, not to a specific post or anything. The only other thing he really said in the answer is that you might find ...
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How did this answer without a single letter get past the Low-quality post filter?
I see an answer (sorry, 10K only if it is deleted) that is full of only question marks:
How did that make it past the post filter? Is it a bug in that undisclosed algorithm?
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Advice for reviewing answers to closed questions
Situation:
A question that invites opinion is asked.
A few people give answers, one of them is a new user
The question is closed before any voting
The new user's answer appears in review.
Options
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Why are "Late Answers" reviewed?
Why are late answers from new users reviewed?
This simple question might appear somewhere in the meta FAQ or questions, but after searching for several minutes I can't find the logic clearly ...
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How can an answer without down-votes be voted to be deleted?
On Drupal Answers, I found a post that got an automatic low-quality flag, and (as consequence of this), two "not an answer" flags. The post has also a vote to delete it, despite its score is not ...
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Why is downvoting a question free but downvoting an answer not? [duplicate]
The title basically says it all: "Why is downvoting a question free but downvoting an answer not?"
I ask this because I think bad answers are a lot more damaging than bad questions. If it is a a bad ...
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Should I delete my answers?
If no one has upvoted my answer for a long period of time, say a month, and the OP didn't accept it, should I delete it if I am sure my solution is working (usually I test the posted code) and I put ...
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Can I publish a copy of my answers in other websites?
I want to publish only and only my own answers (not others') in other websites and in my own website.
Is there any site rule preventing this?
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How does a user flag a question for review by more experienced users?
I have an answer to a question here that seems to be getting only (IMHO, of course) unconstructive comments.
For example, more and more of the comments seem to come from people who haven't read the ...
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