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For all questions that are primarily about answers - both on mainsite and on Meta. (If a more relevant/appropriate tag exists, it may be used alongside or instead of this one.)

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How to handle late updates to answers for questions?

I don't think there's a hard and fast policy either way. Personally, I think that if you're going to totally (or almost entirely) overwrite your previous answer because it's invalidated by a change, …
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How to deal with a broken link?

There are a few options: Find a working current version of the linked page Find an archived version of the originally linked page (e.g. on the Wayback Machine) If you can't fix the link yourself, or …
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What is expected/customary procedure for crediting info from comments?

There's no formal (or informal) policy, but it's usually nice to do As the header mentions, there's no real policy around this. When someone suggests a change in the comments, the answerer sometimes e …
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Is "No, this is what that would look like" an acceptable answer?

It's not an ideal answer, in my opinion Rather than citing any 5e design guidelines (e.g. the DMG's guidance on "Creating a Spell") in explaining why the sleep spell doesn't work the way OP thinks, yo …
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How should we handle answers that use Jeremy Crawford's now unofficial tweets?

It's fine for answers to use them as support, but generally answers shouldn't rely on Crawford tweets alone Jeremy Crawford explained the change in a tweet on January 30, 2019: It looks like the Invoke … What should we do about any answers that do rely on tweets alone? …
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