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What should I do about a low quality answer that's helpful?
If it helped you find a solution, then put the found solution into a proper answer and then accept your own answer. If the answer is low quality, flag it as such.
Alternatively, improve the existing …
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How can I create just an answer without a question (blog)?
When you found out something interesting and you think that it may benefit others then you would usually pose a hypothetical question and then answer it with an answer including the information you ga …
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What's the good way to answer "What is the analog of software X for operating system Y?"
The question itself is not a good fit for Super User, thus, it really isn't possible to write a good answer for it.
The user wants to find a specific product, which is a software recommendation. Some …
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Should a very old question asking for software recomendations be flagged?
Flag it. It should probably be removed.
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would a discussion concerning my emacs fingers growing a bit stiffer be appropriate?
I disagree that a question like that would generally be off-topic for Super User.
We even have rsi for "Questions relating to Repetitive Strain Injury", which is very much on-topic for our site as it …
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What happens if a user does not mark the question as solved?
Marking an answer as accepted is purely optional and the mark is never set automatically.
A question is treated as "answered" once an answer was marked as accepted or when any other receives an upvot …
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Can question author accept a suggested edit that was rejected by reviewer?
Just make the same edit yourself. If it was so minor that it was rejected, I see no reason why it would be important to credit someone with the edit.
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Need insight on down-voted question
Your post is simply too long and actually covers multiple questions.
A good question should be short and to the point. I understand that some questions are complex and require a lot of background to …
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what are the "reasons of moderation" for which my question was deleted?
Regardless of why it was deleted, your question had multiple problems even after it was edited.
First of all, you're asking multiple questions in one post ("What is the most significant item…" and "w …
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How do you thank someone?
If you want to thank someone, upvote their answer.
If you don't have enough reputation to upvote, help someone else with their question to earn the reputation, then upvote. By doing so, you will have …
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Help us clean up tags!
Tags on Super User are meant to categorize posts to help people with specific expertise or interests to quickly discover posts that are relevant to them.
Over time we've collected quite a few tags th …
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Why does the Stack Exchange user profile say that this user has a different number of answer...
The user actually posted 870 answers on Super User.
It's a user profile we used to merge other profiles into to get rid of them. We no longer do that.
I would have assumed that you understand this, …
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What could be the reason for downvote on a question without any clarifications?
It was probably downvoted just because you instantly assumed the names to be encrypted, which makes no sense at all.
We also have a very extensive help center, which, among other topics, covers how t …
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What to do with unanswered old questions?
As was pointed out in the comments, your options are:
earning reputation by helping others and then invest that reputation into bounties on the questions you care about.
discuss the question with ot …
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What can I do about my question when no one views my question?
If you can't further improve your question, and you can't afford to put a bounty on it, then you're really only left with one possible option:
Solve the problem yourself and then share what you've le …