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Providing tutorials in the comments instead of in the answers

I find myself often wanting to give a user a tutorial rather than explaining an answer to a user. Sometimes, a tutorial can explain the answer to a user's question much better than I'm able to, ...
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Is a question about how to find a tutorial allowed?

I want to ask a question related to finding good Windows 8 tutorials. For example, web sites I could go to for Windows 8 tricks. Would that be an appropriate question for Stack Overflow? Is that too ...
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Can we flag tutorial questions?

I was wondering if it's OK for me to flag questions regarding tutorials? IMHO, there is no need to ask questions about a tutorial on SO, they should be directed towards the provider of the tutorial, ...
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Is there any place to put my own how to? [duplicate]

I have found a way to do something (safely remove of OAuth of .NET MVC4 application) on my own. I've searched a lot on the internet about this and can't find how to. There's any place here that I can ...
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Will it be fine if I post 'for beginner' style tutorials/articles on SO?

I would just like to ask if it will be within the established guidelines here for me to post tutorials/articles on basic topics like parsing XML with Java, traversing the drive and so on which are ...
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Is it inappropriate to post long answers with sample illustrations?

I usually post long answers to questions with some illustrations of how to simulate the problem, where applicable, and possible option to fix it. My understanding of posting an answer is to make it ...
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Should I encourage questions asking for a tutorial link or code snippet?

I have seen many questions on SO which ask for a tutorial on some specific topic or some functionality. Some users say "this is not a good place to ask for a tutorial" or "hit Google". But maybe some ...
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We should encourage high quality organizational and "guide" style questions, rather than closing them

I just noticed that Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide was closed and locked just over a month ago with the note that such questions are no longer accepted by the community. Is this ...
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Should Stack Overflow become the place to come to find good "getting started" tutorials? [closed]

There have been a few questions on here in the past about whether there is a place for tutorials/"how to" articles on Stack Overflow (for example, here and here). But I didn't see anyone make a ...
Mark Heath's user avatar
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RFC - Stack Exchange 2-minute intro

EDIT NEW! - taking into account the feedback from Robert and Jeff, here is a new, simpler, shorter 2-minute intro to Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange 2-minute intro (choose full-screen option for ...
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What's the best way to post a tutorial?

I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for. Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned. What's the best way to do this, if ...
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Stack Overflow training guide - a video maybe?

Whilst trawling through the new review feature a common theme I see in posts are: broken code formatting (PHP GET problem - no form $_GET data is present) wall of code I know this was suggested some ...
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Why do they specify "makefile" tag instead of "make"? [closed]

I see many questions on Stackoverflow with strange tag pickups. They have [makefile] tag but they don't have such tags as [make], [qmake], [gnumake] etc. It happens that there are about 200 of such ...
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