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Why does it require reputation to upvote comments and answers?
I guess it could help with stopping bots from bombing comments with upvotes and such, but it's the only platform I've ever seen that behaves like this.
I created an account a while ago to show ...
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What should I do if I find an answer that is completely wrong?
In several different cases, I've encountered answers that were just... wrong. However, I don't know how to respond to this. Recently, I flagged a wrong answer, and it was declined and I was told not ...
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Do we want a banner/help page about AI policy?
Per a previous discussion, “generative AI” is banned on this site.
Per a recent site-wide announcement, we can request a banner in the answer box stating this policy, and linking to a new Help page ...
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Should an answer be rewritten completely if new external info becomes available?
My question was prompted by this answer where the rules were unclear at the time of answering. The complete answer was now replaced with recent info from errata. The question wasn't ever changed in a ...
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Should I provide an answer even if I voted to close a question?
Sometimes I feel that a question has some value, but it is formulated in a unclear way, or it seems to ask two questions in one post, which is not recommended. Despite its value, the question is not ...
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How do I build a proper answer without sounding condescending?
A small note before the question itself : I'm unsure if this kind of question fits Meta, since it could easily be interpreted as nothing more than "How do I not offend other human beings?". ...
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Should I accept an answer to a homebrew-review question if I think I might be biased?
Suppose I ask a homebrew-review question, and I receive at least one answer that, though acceptable with respect to the site rules, I don't particularly like. (Maybe I feel they didn't read my post ...
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Is it okay to heavily correct a question/answer that contains a lot of typos/grammar errors?
Sometimes one can find a question or an answer containing a lot of typos and/or grammar errors: is it ok to proceed in correcting them (at the best of one's knowledge) or is it better to leave a ...
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Is it okay to post a non-answer and then delete it if I intend to come back later and write an actual answer?
I've observed a few cases of users posting a non-answer on a question and then deleting the answer, usually leaving a note in the answer text about how they will come back later and write an actual ...
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Is it better to use or not use personal pronouns? Specifically, "I" in questions and "you" in answers?
I noticed GcL put comments under answers to the this question and edited its title with this edit description: "Removed personal tone from title."
Old Title:
Can I make a Wall of Stone with ...
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Version labels for answers: is this a tool we could use?
Stack Exchange recently announced version labeling for answers, something they will initially work on implementing at Stack Overflow. The details are laid out in this Meta Stack Exchange post: Version ...
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Does this answer about towns protecting themselves against dragons really need to be deleted?
A new user recently left this answer to How did towns mundanely protect themselves against Dragons or bring them to the ground?. The answer is currently deleted so is only visible to 10k users. ...
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Answering off-topic questions
Recently, the question What are some easy all-in-one options to play TTRPGs online with only phones? was closed (correctly, I think) as off-topic. By my understanding, the Roomba will clean it in ~9 ...
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What is the etiquette for adding supplemental information to a good answer?
On this question, a user provided an excellent mathematical derivation of a numerical question that had been asked and provide a plot of the results. I thought that a different form of plot was a ...
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What's wrong with this answer?
Here is a question I asked a couple of months ago — Is "a special melee attack" an actual game term?
Most upvoted answers agreed that there was no game term "special melee attack", ...
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