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Anything related to posting answers, e.g. about improving their content, voting on answers, editing others' answers, etc.
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How do I deal with "not an answer" type .. answers ?
Don't bother flagging multiple non-answers on the one question. The moderators will do a scan of the answer list to obliterate any other stragglers. …
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Should I delete answers with no votes?
If the answer is right or useful but has no votes, leave it be.
If the answer is wrong or not helpful and you don't want it to be there, click delete.
If another answer on the question has the same …
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What do we think of "Alternative to" answers?
This is the same as sending people to a search engine with the keywords already plugged in for them.
Those keywords being along the lines of:
{product name} alternative
{product name} "better than" …
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Is downvoting link only answers acceptable?
If you down vote, which would be a reasonable action, they'll just whine all the way in their wah-wah-wah-bulance about how the link has the information or that it's a valid solution. Even if this is …
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Are welcome messages in answers acceptable?
Doesn't matter when it was posted. That cruft is ripe for editing out.
Feel free to edit (or suggest an edit) that removes such flower arrangements. But don't forget to also fix up anything else in …
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Should you answer a question that you know will get closed?
Depends on what the close reason is.
If it's borderline and/or you think it belongs on the site despite the claims, answer. But do know that it's in everyone's best interest if you spend a little tim …
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Is it okay to use headers to summarize content?
Headers aren't used to summarise content. Headers are used to create section breaks. Topic sentences are more suitable as the summary slug.
Your first sentence in a post should not be bold, or a head …
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What should we do when new users post questions as an answer?
When any user posts a question as an answer, flag it for a moderator, marking it as "not an answer". Downvote if you so wish.
But this, this is just a question:
Thanks Nelson for the code I have almo …
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Recommending own products
Answering and recommending a product you're affiliated with is one thing.
Posting again and again with similar/same boilerplate wording on anything that might be related to your product is stepping o …
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Sorting is showing lower scored answer above higher one, neither accepted
In this case, you are viewing answers sorted based on last active date.
This will override the default answer scores sorting and show the answer with the last activity (posting or editing) topmost. …