Questions tagged [answers]
Anything related to posting answers, e.g. about improving their content, voting on answers, editing others' answers, etc.
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Understanding the flawed audit review system
I came across a post, analyzed its content, and subsequently answered, drawing from my own experience of encountering a similar issue in the past.
In an effort to provide a comprehensive answer rooted ...
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Is this refusal to accept an answer aligned with community standards?
I added an answer to the following question, thinking I fulfilled what the OP expected:
Is there an equivalent of a downloads list for attachments saved from MS Outlook?
The OP says the answer is not ...
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date information?
Background: For the last year or so, new features for Windows Subsystem for Linux (currently my primary area of expertise here) have been limited to Windows 11. With a recent release of WSL last week,...
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Please review the deletion of my answer of the post mentioned here
Several days ago, I posted an answer to the following question:
rsync: identical files (contents, size, timestamp) between source and destination are not being seen as identical
A moderator deleted my ...
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retaliatory down votes
At various times, my questions have received answers not properly addressing the original question, but instead targeted at a different question. Often, the user posting the answer will decline ...
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How to look at deleted answers on my question?
I would like to know how to view the deleted answers on my question. How do I do that?
I don't need to view deleted answers on other peoples' questions—just my own.
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Review queue "Late answers" - flag when choice was "recommend deletion"?
When reviewing "Late answers", many of them are not actually answers but comments, other questions and so on (as you can select when saying "recommend deletion").
If I choose to ...
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How do I recommend software in my answers?
I have a piece of software that I would like to recommend as a solution to problems. I'm trying to avoid answering with "link only" answers, and so I need help on how I can answer valid ...
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How to deal with answers that are "Essentially a spam" [duplicate]
So I came across an answer while reviewing late answers that was essentially a spam and was focused on promoting the poster's own program and website. His own profile and his answer ("our" ...
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Answer box cursor broke
I just went to answer a question and my cursor is moved one space over to the left for some reason. Here's an image of it (I just pressed space before taking the screenshot, I didn't move the cursor):
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How can I post an answer to this question on SuperUser?
I viewed a topic on this site which hasn't really been answered for 4 years:
“How to go to the next/previous picture using the Windows 10 default photo viewer?”
On reading the responses, it gave me ...
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What sort of content does SuperUser want? What is a "useful" contribution?
I tried to contribute on Super User, by:
Answering "yes" (with an explanation as to why) to a yes/no question
Commenting on an UNSOLVED issue, that has been idle and open for about 2 years ...
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Answer copied and filled up with spam
The content of one of my answers was copied and a new answer was created (with some spam added). This was then "corrected" by a user with a score over 2000. Since he was only shown the "...
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Downvote for a working answer, only because it means too much effort compared to available answers?
Is there a kind of rule to post only those answers which offer a solution with a needed time investment that is in good proportion with already available answers? So that a working answer may get ...
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Should I delete my answer after finding a similar answer on a SuperUser sister site?
I apology if this question has already been answered in any form.
Today, I answered this question. I knew the answer will be found in archive.org website, so went there, copied the relevant ...
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Cross-posting an answer between AskUbuntu and SuperUser
While looking for a way to activate an X window from the command line, I found two particularly relevant results. One on AskUbuntu and the other on SuperUser.
The answers given in both questions didn'...
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I am not seeing where to mark a response as the answer - it's not visible on my page
I have a question about my Super User post: Is there a secure way to provide outside access to a computer inside a cablemodem LAN?
One of the comments says
"As the problem seems to be solved, you ...
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Who can technically view saved drafts for questions and answers
As the post When I go to "Ask Question" here at superuser, how do I get an empty form? My previous question keeps showing up. states. . .
Stack Exchange sites will save a question or ...
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Question closed on Server Fault, then make here again - should I repeat the answer?
I answered a question on ServerFault yesterday. It appeared off topic there (probably that's true), but it was just asked again on SuperUser, where it is probably on-topic. Should I copy that answer ...
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Relocating an Answer to a More Specific Question
I wrote an answer to a question, which was only tangentially related to the general concept of the question. Later I discovered that there already exists another question that my answer would ...
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
I edited this question yesterday as part of a cleanup spree. It had already gotten a fair bit of activity, but someone tweeted a link to it after I edited it, and things really took off.
The topic of ...
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Should answers suggesting a tool that is no longer available be flagged?
While reviewing a different answer to the same question, I noticed this answer:
The answerer is providing a solution using a software they wrote themselves, but the link to that software has gone ...
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Do Mods get Rep for Deleting Downvoted Answers? [closed]
Second time I've seen the same moderator call an answer a "comment" (and delete it), when the real issue is (let's be generous to the moderator here) the quality or correctness of the answer. Why ...
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How should I handle this review task / answer?
While reviewing I came across this post: https://superuser.com/a/1359300/926024 and I'm very unsure on what to do about it.
Technically, it is an answer to the question, even though it is basically ...
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When is an answer eligible to be flagged as "not an answer"? What to do?
When I am flagging answers I read
This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.
This is very ...
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Misleading wrong answer in a popular question
There is a popular question about inputting Unicode characters:
How do you type Unicode characters using hexadecimal codes?
And an accepted answer:
https://superuser.com/a/90669/456981
The problem ...
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How to improve this answer?
I was wondering how to improve this (my) answer:
https://superuser.com/a/1342178/201818
Unfortunately the down voter did not leave any comments. Thanks!
PS. Note sure I'm should ask this question ...
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Why are some Super User answers not sorted by up-votes?
I was just looking at this question on SuperUser: How do I change the user I am logged in with on a Network Share?
Unlike other questions, the answers do not seem to be sorted in any particular order ...
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed
My Question
If you delete an answer on a question that is opened and then that question is closed, can you undelete that answer after the question is closed?
The Story
I noticed in some comments on ...
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My answer keeps getting suggested edits from spambots
I have been noticing a trend that my this answer, always gets edited by some spammer (may be a bot). It's only that answer and no other answer in any of the other SE network.
Finding subdirectories ...
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Can someone write another answer for our canonical malware question?
Our canonical malware question is a gem. At the time it was written, though, the various malware that encrypts your files weren't even a thing. We periodically get questions on how to recover from ...
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How to deal with answers I cannot check anymore?
Since I asked https://superuser.com/a/1282119 I reinstalled my computer from scratch, therefore I cannot test the answer(s) provided.
How should I handle them? never accept any, since it's not tested?...
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Can an answer be backed up only by personal experience?
https://superuser.com/a/1275976/456385
This answer is only backed up by the answerer personal experience, with no explanation provided.
if it was my customer i would dismantle the screen on the ...
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Is a valid answer to a problem a valid answer to a different question?
I'm not exactly sure how to formulate my problem, so I'll present it with the help of an example (which is the actual reason I ask this question). I asked a question (Delay audio for specific device) ...
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Answer question with using WSL
Is this fine to answer WSL solution for a Windows10 related question which can be resolve using WSL in Windows 10?
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How should I deal with link-only answers where the information in the link can't be copied?
Usually link-only answers are considered low quality and their author is encouraged to edit them to include the relevant part of the linked page in the answer itself and if they don't do so, their ...
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If a question is put "on hold" but I have answered, should I remove the answer?
Context:
You will notice on the topic What is Facebook's privacy policy regarding photos? that it has been put [on hold]. However it was done after I had posted an answer.
Question:
At the time,...
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Promotional text in answer
On this answer, there is a text and link that seems like promoting a service from the user. The answer itself seems good. It does not disclose its affiliation, though, although can be inferred from ...
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Why was my comment mod flag declined?
I recently mod-flagged a comment under a question:
You haven't mentioned which version of Windows you are running. Have you got Sticky Keys enabled?
Importantly, the OP commented immediately ...
MokubaiMod
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Removing ALL similar answers instead of removing duplicates?
I was looking for an answer to the question How do I copy/paste into VirtualBox? I found two such questions here but none contained the answer that I need. After I figured out the answer myself I ...
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Link-only answer - but already self-explanatory
links to a zip containing drivers for Windows running in Bootcamp. I think the answer is pretty self-explanatory, but somehow I don't feel right to just leave them at is. I don't know what to comment ...
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What is the etiquette of linking files in SuperUser? [duplicate]
This is inspired by this answer
Personally, I'm always be on guard when someone on internet share files on private file sharing sites, like mediafire, google drive, and such. This one, particularly, ...
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How long should we wait to flag Low-Quality on barely acceptable answer?
Inspired by this answer
This answer does seem attempt to answer the question, but is unfinished when posted (although it did got edited after I reminded the author).
Left as is, the question will ...
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!
Recently I was looking through the close votes review queue when I came across this question, and it was flagged as a duplicate of this question. These two questions really are exact duplicates of ...
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Link only answer with many steps
This is my answer.
I've searched a bit in meta and I think I've got a feel of what should be done with link-only answers.
However, in that question, there are some options for real-time ...
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Randomise order of 'Answered questions' responses for Election events
I'm not sure if the actual candidates in the election are randomly ordered, but I've noticed that as the default (is rightly imo) set to show the highest voted answer - currently David Postill appears ...
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What should I do about a low quality answer that's helpful?
I got an answer on one of my questions that helped me a lot. However, the answer is incomplete and would fit better as a comment. Although it was very helpful to figure out where the problem was ...
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Show your Excel results
I see a lot of Excel questions, but also ones involving command lines, batch files, and other similar scripts, that entail some mental challenge. I'm not referring to ones where a novice needs some ...
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Old questions - system discourages answering them?
I've been a member on other SE sites for a while now, but only recently joined SU. I found a few things a bit different here, and there are a couple of things I think could use some discussion.
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What to do when tried multiple solutions and not sure which solved it
I have this question with an open bounty. In summary, I couldn't get my phone to connect to the computer with a USB cable.I tried multiple things to solve the problem: including advice taken from ...
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