Questions tagged [answer-quality]
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What to do if the good answer is in another question?
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More often than not I run into a question that had already been answered here. But the asker could not know it, because he lacks info on what to look for. Recent example: User asks if it is ...
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What do we do with (very) long answers, filled with off-topic story-telling?
Every single person has his or her own style of writing, however, every now and then you run into an (mostly) answer with issues beyond styling. The poster seems to have a completely wrong concept in ...
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Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install (insert distro here) be flagged / downvoted?
The question Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install Slackware be flagged? arose myself while answering Let's not do “I don't know how to fix your problem, so just reinstall", so I decided to ...
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Is it wrong to copy and paste your own answer with reference to the original answer? [duplicate]
Basically what I am asking is, can I copy and paste an answer I have submitted on another post even when I reference it? Or is it frowned upon? Would you rather a link to the original answer?
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How to deal with higher quality duplicate questions?
Occasionally on a stack exchange, one will have a very precise question cited as a duplicate to a very broad question, or one will have a very clear and straight to the point question cited as a ...
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