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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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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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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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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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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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How do I write a good answer to a question?
Are there guidelines for what constitutes a good answer? Let's discuss. Perhaps, we can come up with some ideas for the FAQ.
Building off Should the official FAQ include information on how to ...
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How do I mention my own products in answers? [duplicate]
Twice now I've seen questions on Stack Overflow where one of my company's products might provide an answer to the question.
One was a slightly vague connection about object-relational mapping, but ...
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How can I link to a specific answer?
Is there a permalink I can use for answers/comments?
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Answer or comment: what's the etiquette?
I very often see comments about a question posted as answers, e.g., "format it this way" or "why don't you post it over here". I think this practice clogs up the answers and the comment feature is ...
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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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Why did the format of full-form URLs to answers change?
As I pointed out in this answer, the URL scheme for full-form links to answers has changed from:
https://site/questions/question-id/question-title/answer-id#answer-id
to:
https://site/questions/...
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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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Questions with lots of "Thank you" answers [closed]
"Thank you" answers are generally not very useful, especially if they appear in masses. Some questions are attracting especially many of them and should probably be cleaned up by a moderator....
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What has happened to the sorting of answers on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Has the sorting of answers on Stack Overflow been changed? Because I've realised that the answers aren't sorted by
Votes -> Time
anymore, and they are sorted in a different way. It appears the ...
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What is the sort order of the answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How are answers sorted?
In a question, I see that each time I refresh the page, the answers were placed in a different order. The question has 3 answers each with zero votes. ...
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Unregistered users should be able to delete their own answers
I used to think that all users can delete their own posts, as long as these posts haven't gained a relevant number of upvotes. After seeing posts like this again and again, I decided to verify my ...
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Comments incorrectly submitted as an answer instead: what should we do?
I frequently come upon comments to answers that are submitted as answers, instead of comments. In other words, someone (typically someone new to Stack Overflow) wants to comment on an answer, but ...
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How to Give Credit for An Answer in the Comments
I asked a question on SO and someone gave me the answer as a comment to the question. Subsequently, someone else gave the same answer as an answer.
I would like to give credit to the poster who made ...
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Long answers are truncated in SO
I wrote a long anwser to Python decorators. I've shorten it a little since, but you can see the original problem rolling back to the fourth revision. It's get truncated at the end. It's not just on ...
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May I summarize all answers
on StackOverflow, I asked a question. There are many good answers but I can not accept just one of it. I would prefer to create my own answer where I summarize all answers. Is that allowed?
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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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will anybody see my new answer to an old question?
Few minutes ago I Needed to do something, googled and found the exact question on SO question, but with an unperfect answer; googling more, I found the solution, and went back to insert my own answer (...
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Is there a way to follow a user on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Is there a way to follow the questions and answers posted by a developer on Stack Overflow?
Arun
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Does the OP of a question get a message in the inbox when I update my answer?
Does the OP of a question get a message in the inbox when I update my answer?
Or do I have to make all the time a comment saying "@OP I updated my answer".
(Its a bit annoying when there are a lot ...
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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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Using affiliate links in answer/question [duplicate]
In answering Learning Design for UI and Website Design I found myself linking to a lot of books at Amazon. Because it felt like an abuse I did not use my Amazon Associate link as a means to link to ...
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Dealing with bundle/omnibus/list-of-questions question that consists of rather distinct questions [duplicate]
I have looked at the various help pages but I couldn't find a clear guideline for the following issue: often enough someone will ask in the same post (i.e. in the same SE-question) a whole bunch of ...
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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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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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RTFM-like answers: Flag them or allow them?
If an answer essentially tells the OP to "Read the ¤cough¤ Fine Manual", should we flag it?
I'm not talking about rude answers (that's a given), but answers like "Look up X in the Y" (and maybe don't ...
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How do I see which of my questions are not accepted?
I want to quickly see all questions I have asked where I have not accepted an answer. How do I do this?
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'Daily vote limit reached' only for comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the daily comment vote limit?
I'm not completely sure but when I want to vote a comment I get the message:
Daily vote limit reached; vote again in 10 hours
but for ...
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Is it OK to copy parts of an answer from one SE site to an answer on another SE site?
I flagged this answer earlier with a custom reason explaining that the code had simply been copied from an answer to a similar question on another SE website. The author of the newer answer has ...
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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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How do you sort the answers to a question by number of votes per answer?
It seems like answers are normally sorted by number of votes, but I just found a question on StackOverflow that doesn't seem to be: What is the single most influential book every programmer should ...
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What should I do with automatic flags about identical posts?
Sometimes I find automatic flags about identical answers (I guess they are automatic, as I am not a moderator, and there isn't a flagging reason for identical answers). For example, the following flag ...
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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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Zero score answers ranked before positive voted ones [duplicate]
I just realized that answers that have 0 scores are ordered before other answers that have one or more votes. Is this a new feature to promote new answers or a bug?
Examples
CSS : Background-color ...
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Problem in Posting answers
I was unable post new answers:
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting answers from this account.
I was posting links to my blog, not knowing that it's ...
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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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Question with wrong answer upvoted
I just asked my first question. It received one answer, which was wrong (i.e. the suggested solution did not work when actually run). The answer has three upvotes. I've made a comment on the answer ...
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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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If I edit my answer, do commenters get notified?
Scenario:
I post an answer to a question.
The original poster comments, giving a reason why my answer doesn't solve their issue.
I edit my answer to reflect the comment.
Question:
Does the commenter ...
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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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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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Duplicate answers (not questions)
What should we do when we find the answer to question A in the answers to question B? For example, this answer is copied directly from another answer on Stack Overflow (exact duplicate), but the ...
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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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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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Is there a way to "Bookmark" answers? [duplicate]
I have to admit I didn't really search in-depth for this feature, but is it possible to "Bookmark" or "Star" answers like in Gmail?
monkeyp
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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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