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How do I ask long clarifications on an answer?
Someone has left a thoughtful answer to my question.
I have a bunch of clarifications, and for now I've left these as a set of long comments. Is this the appropriate way to do this, or should I have ...
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Can I ask another question based on the previous question and its comment?
I don't know if it is duplication but I wanted to make another question which is modified based on my previous question and its comments.
For example, I posted a question about a claim and its proof. ...
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Am I or anyone else allowed to comment in a question of mine requesting an answer from a particular person? [duplicate]
I am not talking of a Quora style requesting for an answer, but am I or anyone else allowed to comment in a question of mine requesting an answer from a particular person?
Example,
Persons_name I ...
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Can I suggest questions in the comments?
I have asked a question on Stack Overflow and have not got an answer yet. I know a person on the site who I reckon to be able to answer it (as they are the author of the library at hand). ...
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How to foster proper use of comments, and deter comment-as-answers [duplicate]
Recently I've noticed a pattern of users answering questions by way of comments. Generally this is followed by downvoting the question itself and eventually the question gets closed.
Is that ...
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What is the etiquette for extending my question?
I've recently asked a question, then thought about it more, and now I want to add to my question something like "I've tried A and it didn't work. Might B work?"
What is the etiquette for this kind of ...
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Is there a way to search content I've touched?
I believe I've finally discovered the answer to the question was ... 42 ... or something like that. The only problem is that, many months after the question was asked, I now need to find the question....
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Is it OK to be facetious?
Although I searched for it, I did not find a question that directly address this topic (not for a specific case but) in general.
And I am genuinely asking to know the answer to make my own behavior ...
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Modify the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement for 'RemoveAbandonedQuestions' script
From the help center, auto-delete section (emphasis is mine):
If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...
has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner
has no answers
is not ...
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is it acceptable to update a question with content added in comments?
Sometimes when a new user post a question and the other users ask him to provide more details, explain clearly his use case or provide a specific code, he will provide that in comments with a bad ...
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Should there be an option to ask "sub-questions?"
I have run into multiple situations where I will ask a question and then a comment or answer will raise another related question. However, it seems that simply adding the new question in the comments ...
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Why won't people respond to their own answers? [closed]
I asked multiple questions on Stack Overflow and people comment on the questions, but are very vague about it, When I respond back (making sure to @ them) asking if they can give more detail or tell ...
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Why do people from other places understand the questions better than people in the StackExchange communities? [closed]
Why do people in the Stack Exchange communities have difficulty putting common sense to the questions? and why this does not usually happen in other communities like Reddit or Linuxquestions? just for ...
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How to kindly criticize terrible style?
On a different SE, a new user asked a very poorly constructed question. This individual asked a legitimate question within the scope of this SE but the user doesn't know how to write paragraphs and ...
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When to answer a question and when to comment on a question?
Often, I will go to answer a question, and I will notice that someone commented on the question, which basically the answer. Why not just answer instead of commenting? If the answer to the question is ...
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