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For questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.

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Is posting a very long quote OK for an answer?

What do you think about such answers? …
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Summarising the key points of useful answers

is it worthwhile summarising the key points raised by the answers What you've just described there is an answer. Rather than summarising in the question, add an answer yourself. …
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OP has edited my answer substantially

Firstly, the fact that it was the OP of the question who modified your answer is irrelevant =) If you don't believe that edits to your answer have improved your answer so it provides more value to so …
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Can I see if someone is currently in progress of answering a question?

There's no current way, as far as I'm aware - if you wanted one, you'd probably want to consider re-tagging this question with feature-request. That said - By providing an answer when someone else is …
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Favourite answers

+1 from me - quite often I've made a note of a question, as a favourite, and wished that I could do the same with specific answers rather than having to store a browser based favourite (from the "link" … If there was provided a way to favourite answers, I'd like to see the UI able to aggregate them by not only question (quite often I find parts of more than one answer useful), but also by tag. …
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