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Should I respond to a question where I have worthwhile information to contribute, but no concrete answer?
I saw a question where a person describes their context, to which I have a considerable amount of information that I am certain the user (and similar users like him) will find useful, but none that ...
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Answering-in-answer-posts versus answering-in-comments. What is the metric? What are the motives, etiquettes? What is ideal?
I'm noticing that more often than not, across all the communities that I interact with, people will answer a question via a comment rather than by posting an answer.
Is there a tracked metric for the ...
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Question already answered by a comment [duplicate]
I was wondering if someone else has the problem that a question might be already answered by a comment. I mainly focus on questions that don't have any answer already in order to help.
It costs me a ...
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Is it okay to upvote answers posted in comments?
I recently received an answer to one of my questions posted as a comment. I upvoted the comment and suggested that the commenter post it as an answer. Was it appropriate to upvote the comment? The ...
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Reduce whitespace between short posts and their comment section [duplicate]
For ♦ moderators, the vote section contains some additional links (to the flag history, and to show deleted comments). For short answers like this one, this causes unnecessary whitespace between the ...
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Some questions about search [closed]
I want to search questions answered by me and some another user. How can I do this? I don't see an "and" operator.
Is there a way to search through comments (answers under which there is ...
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Make it easier to refer to an answer with the poster's name
If, in a question, answer or comment, I want to refer to someone's answer, I usually also want to mention their username, e.g. @SomePerson's [answer](https://link.goes.here). That means I have to:
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How should I reply to a comment which is a request for code?
In a comments discussion I was asked in a comment to share my code. Unfortunately the code exceeds the number of characters allowed in the comment. I'm not a question owner nor the answer.
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Add an option to leave a "This is a duplicate answer" comment when voting to delete an answer from review
When voting to delete an answer from review, the following reasons/comments are provided:
I often come across answers in the review queue that simply reiterate information that is already present in ...
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Visually Differentiate/Highlight comments and answers provided by me for quick reference
Whenever I find an interesting answer or comment in a long list of answers, I Upvote the answer/comment so that if I land on the same question again in the future, I will know that I have already been ...
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What is a good way to respond or comment to a boomerang answer? [duplicate]
What is a good way to respond to a boomerang answer, an answer that basically responds with "You don't want to do that, do this other thing"? Maybe I do want to use my cat as a mop for my ...
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Can clicking on a negatively-received post remove the graying-out on both the content *and* the comments?
This post was marked status-completed – and it is, to a degree. But clicking on a post with a score of −3 (or −7) or lower doesn't remove the grayness on the comments underneath the post, only the ...
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Can I answer my own question by citing a comment? [duplicate]
The best answer on one of my questions is in the comment section.
I don't want to bother the commenter by asking for a formal answer so that I can give it the love (upvote and accept) that it deserves....
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Is it possible to be notified about new answers to and comments on bookmarked questions? [duplicate]
I get notified by email about new answers to and comments on questions posted by me, as well as about comments on my answers.
Is it possible for me to be notified by email about new answers to and ...
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Is it a good practice to write an answer to respond to another answer, rather than actually answer the question?
Let's say there is a question:
What can a rainbow unicorn do?
And there's an answer:
It can live in the 5th dimension
Is it a problem if I post an answer starting with "I don't know the ...
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