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Explain reasons for accepting an answer in Help Center
A new user on an SE site indicated in the comments that one of the answers to their posted question was best. I left a comment encouraging them to accept that answer, and gave a link to this help ...
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Is there a general recommendation regarding the extent of quoted text in an answer?
Is there a help article, FAQ or previous posts having a general recommendation regarding the proportional length of quoted content in an answer?
This is not about tags wikis having copy/pasted content ...
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Is paraphrasing someone else's ideas and not crediting them considered plagiarism? [closed]
A certain SE site has a new policy to blindly delete all answers that cite scholars, papers and journals without looking at the merits of the arguments and if the citation addresses the question or ...
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The "How do I write a good answer?" help page needs a tidy-up
If you go to the page "How do I write a good answer?" in the Help Centre, the first two points are:
Pay it forward
Saying “thanks” is appreciated, but it doesn’t answer the question. ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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Bad advice on "How to not be a spammer" page
The standard /help/promotion page includes the following:
Avoid poorly-written questions. Posting a well-written answer under a poorly-written question just makes your answer look worse.
IMHO this ...
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Update the "How to Answer" page to explicitly state that linked resources, not just sites, can be taken down
The How to Answer help page has the following section, which mentions that links to resources can be unreachable or be taken offline permanently:
Provide context for links
Links to external resources ...
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Can we flesh out /help/someone-answers a bit more?
I recently encountered a case where someone - a new user who didn't know any better - serially upvoted the answers of a user who'd answered their question. After they mentioned this in chat, they were ...
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The /help/how-to-answer on all sites should include information about reading existing answers and suggesting that new answers add information
I'm not aware of any site that would permit many people to post the same or very similar answers to a question. I thought that this was rather obvious, but there's no place in the Help Center to point ...
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Add detailed help for Stack Snippets to the editor's "Code" section and the advanced help
Stack Snippets are markedly under-documented. Please update the "Code" section of the help you get when you click the (?) icon in the editor, as well as the advanced help, to provide detailed ...
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The meaning of "it" and other small gripes about "What should I do when someone answers my question?"
First sentence of Help Center page What should I do when someone answers my question?:
The first thing you should do when someone answers your question is vote on it, like any other user does.
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Answer bans from post as a guest [duplicate]
My friend was trying to post an answer as a guest, but he was shown the following message:
"We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See the Help Center to learn more."
I don't ...
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