Questions tagged [answers]
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Should I answer my own question if someone answered in the comments several months ago and still haven't responded to the request to post an answer?
A few months ago, I had written an identification question, to which someone gave a very possible answer in the comments, so I asked them if they could write an actual answer.
To this day, they haven'...
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Should AI-generated posts be allowed?
As you may be aware, the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been getting some negative attention on Stack Exchange as of late, its usage notably being completely banned on Stack Overflow.
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Check in on the accepted answer being unpinned; do we want to leave it as is or re-pin it to the top?
Way back in September of last year we posted a meta asking if the community wanted the accepted answer to be unpinned from the top of posts. The vote was very close but an answer suggesting unpinning ...
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How do I answer a question on Stack Exchange?
I don't see any button that says answer this question. How do I do it?
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Am I misusing the "Not An Answer" flag?
I have had about a dozen Not An Answer flags on this site disputed or declined. In most if not all of those cases I thought that it was pretty straightforward why the post was not an answer, and in ...
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Why was my answer downvoted?
I posted an answer here to a... not-so-great question. Why was it downvoted? The answer I gave was unarguably the best possible answer for that question. Are the people who didn't like the question ...
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Is it acceptable for the community to use an answer as Community wiki when it is not marked as such?
Specifically I am talking about this question, the answer to which is getting a lot of suggested edits from new users along with some from veteran users.
The question's nature is kind of too-broad (...
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Is 'It was never mentioned/explained' a valid answer? [duplicate]
Fans will often be curious or even obsess over tiny details and minutiae that the creators of whatever we are fan of never gave an explanation to, whether it was in-universe or out-of-universe, for ...
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Is there any way to see all my answers quoted by some other users?
Recently I saw an answer from another user where they had quoted one of my answers within theirs. It felt nice.
So that had me wondering, is there any way to see all my answers that are quoted ...
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Community action regarding questions and their answers
This can be regarded as related to other questions that have been posted regarding this topic; to include:
What can I do when a question has an old, accepted, and +25 voted **100% incorrect answer** ...
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Why are so many questions unnecessarily answered with lists? And how to prevent it?
I noticed that this site is a bit fanatical about big lists.
Not that this is a problem per se, but I don't understand why basically every sort of question is considered answerable with an ...
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Are analogies acceptable as answers?
I recently had an NAA flag declined and was given the following reason:
declined - It answers the question using an argument by analogy
Are analogies really acceptable as answers, particularly ...
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Are answers that state "We Don't Know" acceptable?
I know there have been some posts that already state that providing an answer of "We Don't Know" can be acceptable provided that the answer still follows the site guidelines of a good answer (i.e. ...
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Should we undelete this answer about Jedi rank logos?
I saw the question pop up recently, and one answer in particular drew my attention. It was a terrible answer at first, but it turned out that its poster was on the right track, and after a few edits ...
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When should 20kers vote to delete an answer? [duplicate]
After a discussion with @Adamant in chat today, I realized that we're not very clear on exactly when to vote to delete an answer (or at least I'm not clear).
The privilege page for 20k gives these ...
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