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This wouldn't, fundamentally, be any different to a link only answer so pretty much all the reasons that they're a bad idea would also apply to closing a question on a Stack Exchange site as a duplica …

It's worth remembering that Question & Answer pairs on here aren't just for the benefit of the person asking the question; the hope is that they'll benefit others in the future - which is why one of t …

If I flag an answer as "not an answer" and Moderator X (whomever that may be) deems that flag invalid, the flag shows in my flagging summary as "Invalid". If I later look at my flagging summary and …

A perfect case of really low-level snark that can be seen on the network is the following comment: What has this got to do with c#? C# files are just text files with a .cs extension. On the foll …

Stack Exchange doesn't: Require you to create an account to participate (purely on the basis that the Quora home page doesn't show anything other than a Login / Sign Up prompt). Profess "to be the e …

Both the change and the description of the change can only be described as gibberish and can in no way be construed as an attempt to add value to the post. Add that to the fact that the edit takes a c …

The closure reason was: closed as too localized You've got a discrete list of functions that you want to order and you've asked if the order you've come up with is correct, so unless someone else co …

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.

Now that https://stackoverflow.com/tools/flagged makes it very easy to see what others deem worthy of moderator attention, I find it very easy to go through my available daily dose of inform moderator …

As Adam has pointed out, the difference in syntax between C# and VB.NET can be confusing to someone who's familiar with one rather than the other. That said, sometimes the issue is not that a question …

I think that removing salutations is probably enough. If the site tries to get too clever, the rate of false positives is likely to go up. On an entirely lighter (and only semi-serious) note, I'd lik …

I always find a question that's structured thusly is quite a good way to go: Preamble: What is the questioner trying to achieve, what environment are they trying to achieve it in and what isn't work …

My feeling is that this situation is a difficult one with no easy "rule of thumb". If it seems quite obvious that: The person adding the text is in actual fact the author The added text clarifies th …

Yes, your question is about programming AND about Ubuntu, but having just skimmed the first page of questions on askubuntu, there don't appear to be any questions that are programming orientated. That …

The tooltip on the flag icon for comments says, at least on stackoverflow, "flag this comment as unconstructive, offensive or spam". I'd consider a comment of: Fix your keyboard first! To fall q …