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Is there a way to link to a section header in an answer?
Is there a way to link to part of an answer, e.g. a section header within the answer? For example, I wanted to add a link in my profile to a section header in one of my answers that prefaces general ...
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Rep Awarded for Referrals from a Different Question
Hi All I am rather new here, wondering about this
Scenario:
Jim asks Q1.
Kyle posts accepted answer A1.
Mary posts answer B1 that was not accepted.
later...
A new question Q2 is asked, seemingly ...
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Google Plus unable to read short links to Stack Exchange answers
Here's an interesting question on WebApps.SE:
Google Plus links to Stack Exchange questions and answers
It's described as a Google Plus problem, but it may be a server config issue on the SE side. ...
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This user seems primarily to be promoting their own blog; What should I do?
I'm speaking of this user.
Many of their posts are merely links to a couple blogs, and I have flagged them as "not an answer" and left hopefully helpful comments for the user.
But while looking at ...
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How do I link to an Answer, rather than the Question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I link to a specific answer?
I was trying to include in one of my responses a link to a prior SO answer to give the right credit. However I couldn't find any ...
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Shorter answer links [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show a short link for Answers too… not just Questions.
On a question, the link button gives me this URL:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/6490844/39321
On the same question,...
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"Shared a link" to an answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any ways to share links to answers, the homepage, or tags page that is tracked?
On [judaism.se], post 8472 is a question, and 8473 is one of its answers.
I ...
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Should we flag answers that only contain a link to another Stack Overflow answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do we do with answers that are just links to other Stack Overflow answers?
There are many, many answers that simply contain a link to another Stack Overflow answer, ...
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How do I get the hyperlink of an answer?
Is there an easy way to get the hyperlink of an answer? The only ways I know are:
Click an edited link, if the question has more than one revision, and copy the hyperlink of Return to ...
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How can I get the URL of an answer among the long list of answers of a question?
I need to refer to a specific answer but I don't know how to or whether it is available. Please help!
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"Proxy" Answers, good or bad?
Sometimes on SO, some people ask questions that could be simply answered by doing a quick google search and finding a blog entry for example. What your opinion on answering such questions by posting ...
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Permalink to answer not working (possibly because the answer is not on the first page)
This URL (obtained by right-clicking "link" below the answer and selecting "copy link location"):
Designing function f(f(n)) == -n
leads to a blank page.
I assume it is designed to go to whatever ...
Perpetual Motion Goat
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Statistics: Current Ratio of "Link-And-Run" on the Stack Exchange Network
I am personally starting to be a bit fed up with the prevalence of what I call "linking hit-and-runs" answers (Example).
The major problems with these types of answer are that:
They require the ...
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Reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers
For a background of the problem, see this other question.
Feature Proposal
This feature proposal is reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers.
An answer is a "linking hit-and-run" if links ...
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Small but annoying problem: References to other answers are lost after name changes
There are answers or comments which refer to answers by another user's username without providing a link to them, if the user's name has changed there is no way to know which answer is being referred.
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