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The message is there to be read, understood, its links followed, read and understood as well. And then, we hope you follow the advice and start asking better questions - at this point, this is up to …

The limitations on self-answered questions are the same limitations we put on questions and answers that are not self-answered. The question needs to be on-topic, of high quality (well, certainly not …

No. No. No. Resource questions are entirely off-topic, not just on Stack Overflow, but essentially all of the network. We call them shopping questions, see the Q&A is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping! blog pos …

What is the exact role of voting The upvote and downvote buttons have tooltips! Upvote: This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear Downvote: This question does not sho …

A question that details the symptoms, explains the troubleshooting that has occurred in order to narrow down the possible issues and that has the pertinent code, asking for what the issue may be sound …

Would it be a good idea to work out the new question and put a link to there in the comment of the answer which raised the question? Absolutely - this is a very good thing to do, but if you do, m …

On the other hand, I think a Q&A site probably should incentivate answering more than asking Yes, that's what we think too. It used to be that upvotes for either questions or answers gave you 10 …

In short - you can't. This kind of question is certainly a Gorilla vs Shark question and is completely unsuitable as a question on any SE site. The only exception I can think of is the objective compa …

Yes, this is the appropriate place. You can also ask in comments on your questions why they have been downvoted and if you do get comments that a question is not good, you can, in comments ask the co …

Deleted posts still count towards the ban. Simply deleting them means you cannot improve them and never get out of the ban. Undelete and improve those posts. Get them upvoted and you will eventually …

No, it is not possible to get into a question ban with only one downvoted question. The ban is there for people showing consistently bad questions (where "bad" stands for - low quality/off-topic). O …

The ban was lifted. We have expired all the remaining unread "terms of services changed" inbox items, which was what caused a lot of people from Stack Overflow to drop here (and then ask their off-to …

The only thing you can do is comment to the asker on the post. You can explain that you have seen that they have taken your answer and used it and that the accepted thing to do on SO is to upvote and …

Questions 2 & 3 are asking for off-site resources. As such, they are off-topic on pretty much all Stack Exchange sites. Question 1 is missing your efforts - we expect you to try something before aski …

You can, technically. You should not, however. Ask the question where it is most appropriate in your eyes. If needed, it can get migrated. Asking on two (or more) sites on the network makes migrati …