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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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Are answers duplicate if they use different aliases of the same command?
What should I do with such answers? …
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Show your Excel results
Therefore, I really like answers that explain how the solution works. An Excel formula with a bunch of nested functions would optimally be accompanied by at least a note of which functions do what. … Voting behavior conveniently incentivizes the things you vote up - you're marking answers with demonstrations useful while not boosting answers you find lacking. …
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How to improve this answer?
I wasn't the downvoter, but it seems like the key combination you suggest might not produce the correct character. When I tried it in the Windows 10 password prompt (which has a button to show the pas …
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Let's do something about all the old link-only answers
We do a pretty good job removing or repairing link-only answers nowadays, but there are boatloads of old link-only answers sitting ignored or at a slight negative score, written largely by users that haven't … (Your answer was discovered in an effort to repair or remove old link-only answers.) …
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Old questions - system discourages answering them?
Sometimes owners of already-solved questions will only upvote new answers that significantly help them in their situations. … Note that all new answers push the question to the site's home page, no matter how old the question is. A really awesome answer will almost certainly get some votes. …
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Can someone write another answer for our canonical malware question?
The new ransomware answer
I just hammered out the above answer, which overviews how ransomware works, what to do, and how to avoid it in the future. Most importantly, I linked to this Google Doc (f …
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What can be done about false answers that suggest the asker to run malicious code?
Downvote and comment. Starting the comment with the word Danger! in bold ought to be fairly obvious, especially if the answer is sitting at a score of -1.
That said, I've never seen an answer be inte …
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed
I'm fairly confident that the ability to delete and undelete answers is independent of the question's closure status, so the strategy you describe could work. …
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Randomise order of 'Answered questions' responses for Election events
The questionnaire answers are by default ordered by votes, which could conceivably influence choices. … As mentioned in Monica Cellio's answer to the MSE question linked by M.A.R. in the comments, it is encouraged that candidates link their questionnaire answers in their nominations. …
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Two long answers disagreeing with each other - how to canonicalize?
In practice, though, sometimes people vote up answers that are long just because they look thorough.
I notice that, in this case, neither answer has even a single link. …
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