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I see two scenarios - people will upvote the hell out of it (though there will be comments to the satirical nature of the answers) or downvote the heck out of it. …

Asking for screenshots (and using them in answers reduces ambiguity - as you noticed yourself, the instructions are different between versions. …

Its much like 'backup before you do any disk resizing' or 'backup before you update' Many of the fixes people suggest involve just enough knowledge to be dangerous to yourself. And well, we'd end up …

I guess this is the most relevant meta post. In this case, there's nothing too terrible with your answer, there's a few points. Firstly, that he's using office 2016/365 probably should be explicit i …

The FAQ says "questions about" - and nothing about answers. I think letting the metamoderation system handle how answers should be treated in this specific case should work. … I think questions absolutely need to be technical in nature, but if one of many answers happens to be primarily social, and works in that specific situation, it should stand. …

While its for linux, this is a good example of a question where the answer involves original code. Its a small program but the source code is available on a reliable host. The use of the software is c …

Unfortunately this is pretty difficult to do, without seriously extensive edits for link only answers. …

In general, it really depends on the nature of the edit that would have been needed. If it was a substancial edit that changes the nature of the answer, its probably polite to comment rather than edit …

We arn't here to punish users who don't toe the line - the downvote/upvote and even the closure system is designed to encourage better questions and answers. …

I tend to disagree - its often useful to talk a little bit more about why the command works, than what the command is. Decomposing and explaining the command adds a lot.

I try to post excellent answer to these, covering stuff the LQ answers missed out. …

I've closed it - I've explained in the comments why, but EULAs seem out of scope for the site - its not really a hardware or software problem in a traditional sense. In addition, its kind of broad, s …

Immediately. Waiting makes no sense, especially when the quality of the answer isn't that great as is Mods can always comment, delete, and undelete once the post is edited to completion.

eh. I'd rather people not answer them, but there's no real need to delete it at this point. The question and answer will be deleted at some point in the future anyway. Now, if you're worried about d …

I'd suggest simply upvoting the answers that worked for you. I'd note the alt input method's pretty standard so... if it it doesn't work, its as much the app's problem as anything else …