Questions tagged [answers]
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Many questions without accepted answer - what to do?
I just noted something I find a bit curious: someone posts a question, gets a few answers, and some nice and informative answers get upvoted and show up at the top. However, it seems most OPs do not ...
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should we be accepting answers sooner than later?
I'm seeing questions with >=2 answers on the SE. The answers seem to be detailed and target the question (a subjective call of course).
Considering we still need many 'well-reputed' members on the ...
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One line answers
What does the community think of one-line answers with references to potentially relevant literature?
I understand all users are donating their precious time to the community with their activity on ...
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What to do when a answer should actually be an edit to an existing answer?
To keep the discussion about how to deal with specific question/answer/comment issues that arise, here is one I noticed:
In this question How, if at all, are you compressing your recordings? there is ...
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How to respond to a comment that should be posted as an answer
There is an ongoing debate on partial answers posted in comments here, and it would be helpful to the community to have example responses when a user posts an answer that should be a comment or a ...
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Question vs Comment for questions seeking Advice or Opinions
For a recent question seeking advice on nomenclature (see here), I gave my thoughts in a comment, but upon reflection perhaps I should have made this an answer so that people can vote it up or down (...
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