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user 145948
For questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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If I answer a clearly dup'd question, am I part of the problem?
solution is to close it as an exact duplicate and then ensure that there is a great answer on the original question
No because the best things you can do on the site are post good questions and good answers …
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Top answers of all, and of the tag
The web UI isn't really built around looking for answers independent of questions, so you can really only order things by questions. … You can, however, use data.stackexchange.com to try and create a query that gets the data you are looking for.
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looks like there's one for Top Answers already …
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How to Format a Reply to a Question's Response?
have that much more to add, it's okay to augment someone else's answer via your own answer, but don't be shy about giving them credit (and linking to their post, remember there can be lots of pages of answers …
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Answers that work and are mostly right vs later always right answers
In general I would say simply update the answer to make it always right. In your example, you didn't even give a "different" answer as much as you gave an updated version of the existing answer that …
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How to measure the quality of a user's answers?
edit: Related - Heuristics for detecting a bad answer
Though it's not just that "not bad" answers are good, there are other qualities that make an answer good that aren't just the inverse of qualities …
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Do you have a sandbox environment specifically for answering Stack Overflow questions?
Yes. A few.
I have an Eclipse workspace for Java questions
I have a Visual Studio scratch solution for C# questions
The other tags I dabble in are python and SQL and such where you don't really ne …
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Why do some people only post answers, and not questions?
So I have all the questions and all the answers.
And answers pay better here. …
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A question about Answer Time
You can hover over the time to see the actual timestamp (to the second) of the answer. It's what I use as a tiebreaker when things are too close to call like that :)
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How do you sort the answers to a question by number of votes per answer?
There is no way to sort by "number of votes" however, there is a way to sort by "net votes" (upvotes minus downvotes) which is the "votes" tab at the top of the answers list. …
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Are soft-deleted answers candidates for flagging?
I say just let the automatic pruning get it, flagging just increases the burden on those who have to look at flags.
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Warn new users posting answers when there are close votes on a question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate
Even though all users can see close vote counts, and close votes automatically post co …
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