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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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How to deal with answers provided as a comment?
I've just browsed this question, that has no "answers", but actually the question is answered in one line as a comment, and the OP acknowledge it answered his question.
Hence, the right thing would ...
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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 do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?
What is the "Not an Answer" flag and what is its purpose?
When should I use this flag?
When should I not use this flag?
But I'm still not sure if I'm using the flag correctly...
An answer is ...
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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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What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"?
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you read the following information to understand what has happened and how to regain ...
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I can not upvote to the answer [duplicate]
I have accepted one answer and I had given one up vote to the answer and again tried to give one more upvote then the vote count was decremented to the answer and now I can not upvote the answer like ...
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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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Is it right to share screenshot from MDN documentation?
While answering it would be better to share browser compatibility details taken from MDN documentation. Is it OK to take a screenshot from MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) and share somewhere else, e.g....
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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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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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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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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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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 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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When should I add another answer? [duplicate]
I have been a member of SO for 4 months. I have a question regarding some functionality. Whenever I give an answer to a question, there is a button available: Add Another Answer.
I can comment on my ...
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Is there any way to favorite/bookmark an answer?
Lots of questions are very generic, "share an experience" kinds of questions.
In these cases, I am quite often interested in specific answers that may not have gotten that many upvotes.
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Is there a way to link to a section header in an answer?
Is there a way to link to part of an answer, e.g. a section header within the answer? For example, I wanted to add a link in my profile to a section header in one of my answers that prefaces general ...
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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 can I get answers fast?
How do I ask a question so that it can get a quick response? I see some of the questions are very old and still not answered, but some others get a very quick response.
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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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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 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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Limits for self-promotion in answers
It's been covered before that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for Ira Baxter's recent posts, presumably because they all ...
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Can I see if someone is currently in progress of answering a question?
An example post that shows this happening
If you read the post above. You see that someone was writing an answer to a question, and
before he finished, someone else already posted his answer.
If you ...
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Cannot answer questions or add comments
Why can't I answer questions or add comments to any of mine or other's Stack Overflow posts?
I am using Chrome web browser and Windows 8. I am seeing the following errors in browser developer tool:
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What the heck is this message I get when I submit a post? [duplicate]
I've just submitted an answer to this question and a stupid message appeared (looks like plain text response from server). I had to go rewrite the answer which caused me to get shot by FGITW. I've ...
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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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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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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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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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Can anyone see edits which occured before the 5 minute mark after posting?
I have noticed some people in Stack Overflow who write answers just for the sake of adding an answer, and maybe answering first. And when warned by others, and additionally flagging them, that's when ...
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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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Are answers posted during the grace period eligible for bounties?
The FAQ on bounties:
The bounty period lasts 7 days. Bounties must have a minimum duration of at least 1 day. After the bounty ends, there is a grace period of 24 hours to manually award the ...
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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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"Duplicate" question's answers merged into wrong question [closed]
Yesterday, someone posted a question asking how to require a specific version of Python so that his script would fail gracefully when executed using an earlier version of Python that did not support a ...
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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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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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Thanking for good answers?
I got a good answer and tried to upvote and a red window popped up that said something like:
must have 15 points
Why is this? Have I done something wrong?
PS: Red pop-up windows...too many!
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What are askers looking for in a Stack Overflow answer?
What are the people on this website looking for?
Straight, working code that they can just copy/paste into their programs?
How they should think, the function and the patterns they should use, links ...
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Answer bans from post as a guest [duplicate]
My friend was trying to post an answer as a guest, but he was shown the following message:
"We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See the Help Center to learn more."
I don't ...
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