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when is that a comment is better than an answer?
This is my first post on meta, so I hope to say something that makes sense.
I often see comments that if they had been posted as answers they could be acceptable ones. The problem I see in this is ...
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Community Wiki answers to avoid reputation
Sometimes, one comes across questions on the main site that facilitate very easy answers. For example, "Is this solution correct?" or "Is my understanding of definition X correct?", but also questions ...
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Misleading Answers = Poor answers
I have been reading the posts about what defines a poor question, and I am impressed at the level of intensity of feeling in that regard, and rightly so. But there's something on my mind: while we ...
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modularizing answers
Sometimes in answering a question I need to derive an intermediate result that might be of interest in its own right. It seems to me that in such a case it's best to post a separate question asking ...
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Could editors please ask before deleting answers.?
I gave about an hour ago a one-line answer to this question, stating that a finitely generated algebra over a field is noetherian, and that a previous answer (by me, among others) had shown that the ...
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How to add a comment to an answer?
I see in some questions, Other are adding comments to an answer. How to do this?
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Statistics on upvoting
Has there recently been statistically less upvoting than usual? I know I should answer questions for the love of it and not care about rep, but I've been sort of discouraged as of late.
Out of my ...
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What's wrong with a user posting different and independent answers to a question?
When I posted different answers to a question, some people seemed to frown upon it.
Is G/pG is a p-group?
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Using automated solutions, such as WolframAlpha?
I recently answered this question copying a solution directly from WolframAlpha. I want to know if this method is considered valid here on MSE because there're similar problems that can be solved ...
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Three answers disappeared
Yesterday I have 287 answers in my profile, today 284. I don't know which answers disappeared, the only thing I can say is that I lost some reputation in functional analysis tag. What has happened? I ...
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Downvoting Complete Solutions
I recently had an answer to this homework question downvoted twice because I provided a complete solution. Has a consensus been reached about how to treat homework problems? If not, is this an ...
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“New answer posted” notification for answerers
I posted an answer to this question on August 19, and 4 days later a great answer has been posted, which I noticed by sheer luck.
I wish I was notified when the answer was posted. Please consider ...
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“Avoid asking for clarification to answers” - What does it mean?
I answered my first question today. A message popped up with guidelines. "Avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers." Really?? Seems draconian to me, unless i miss ...
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Accepted answers are always displayed on top?
I always thought, that the accepted answer is displayed on top of the other answers, even if the others have more votes.
This question seems to be a counterexample. Why is that?
The timeline of the ...
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Posting solutions to textbook exercises
I am fairly new to Stack Exchange, starting with stackoverflow.com. I added a math.stackexchange.com account to ask questions about my current self-study in Categorical Type Theory. Today, I posted a ...
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Is the asker notified when an answer to their question is edited? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Lack of notification
If I edit my answer to a question to add substantially new information, will the user who posted the original question be notified of it ...
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Delete vs. Edit etiquette
If an error is found in my answer, is it appropriate to delete the answer and let someone else more knowledgeable answer?
Or is should I attempt to correct my solution through edits?
What is the ...
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Should there be an option to accept multiple answers?
The OP raises an important point here and I quote " i'd like to reward all of you because all answers are nice and helpful, but this is not possible".
This got me thinking, since for that question in ...
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comments that answer the question
The latest example is My idea about finding the largest prime number where OP asks about a distributed processing approach to find prime numbers. There was a comment: mersenne.org – pedja which OP ...
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When to down vote an answer?
I downvoted an answer (to this question) because I didn't think that the answer addressed the question well enough. There wasn't anything wrong about the answer, but I just didn't think that it ...
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What happened to an answer that disappeared?
I posted an answer today that disappeared into the Memory Hole. Is there no way to tell what happened? When I click on "activity", there's no sign of it.
Later comment: The question is again ...
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On the inclusion of pages-of-text-as-images in answers
This is related to this question: On the inclusion of pages-of-text-as-images in questions and inspired by this answer of mine: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/100984/2614
So, the discussion in the ...
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Posting an answer as a comment
Related (possible duplicates):Dealing with answers in comments and What should one do when one's question has been answered in the comments?
I've seen this more than a couple times now: here is a ...
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Is sometimes keeping wrong answer reasonable?
My memory might be fooling me, but I believe I have seen comments or discussions an meta regarding this matter. I am unable to find it now, so I will ask about your opinion.
If I answer some question ...
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Wrong number of answers displayed in questions list
This question currently has one answer
What is "anti-optimization" about?
but is listed as having 2 answers at
http://math.stackexchange.com/
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1answer
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What's the best way to combine several answers and comments into a single answer?
What's the best way to combine several answers and comments, all of which contribute, but none of which on its own quite answers the question, into a single answer, focused on the question?
Should I ...
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1answer
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How to deal with answers which aren't answers? (Accept Rate)
Cases such as
Proof of no prime-representing polynomial in 2 variables
will cause the Accept Rate of the asker to decline even though there really isn't an acceptable answer to the question. What's ...
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Can I edit someone else's answer to one of my questions and then accept it?
I have a question that has nearly a final answer, but it could use some rephrasing and updating. What is the idiom for handling this situation? Should attempt to edit the answer and then accept that, ...
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Deleting your own answers
When should you delete your own answers? I'm not asking for only the case where your answer is wrong (which is discussed in this topic), but more generally, when it would be good practice to delete ...
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What to do with these posts on the “Batman equation” question?
These three posts (here, here, and here) on the Batman question are certainly not answers to the original question. However, I'm unsure about what exactly to do with them. Here are possibilities I've ...
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Length of time to wait before accepting an answer
Is there any established etiquette as far as accepting answers? In particular, if there is a correct answer posted, are there any guidelines for how long one should wait before accepting? Similarly, ...
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Tag wikis and answers
Suppose there is an answer given by a user which seems like it would fit perfectly as a tag wiki entry (or part of one).
What should be the proper etiquette regarding copy&paste of the answer ...
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Marking an answer as favorite [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Favoriting an answer
Is there a way to mark an answer as "favorite"?
I am aware there is a way to mark questions as favorites by using the star on the left side of the ...
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1answer
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Newbie with problem in best answer classification
Hey all!
I'm a newbie here, just registered yesterday.
I asked a question at Math SE and I received 2 good answers, but I can't get them both up neither choose as best one.
I think it's unfair to ...
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Dealing with answers in comments.
I have noticed, of late, people providing answers/copious hints to the question in comments instead of actually adding an answer on their own.
Other people might choose not to answer, as the ...
