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Q&A style within answer

I've seen several answers lately that are using an FAQ-style Q&A-format within the answer. The answer ends up as a set of Q&A's within a Q&A. Examples: Thinking of switching to Ubuntu! Why does apt …
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?

After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X …
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Should we begin to make users more aware of differences between LTS versions and interim rel...

I would like to raise for discussion the idea that we start keeping this distinction in mind and explaining it in answers much more often. …
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Is it appropriate to answer by expanding on things implied or mentioned in the question as s...

I hope I'm not over-thinking this, but I have a question about good answering. The question in question is Where have the Keyboard Layout Options gone in Ubuntu 13.10? I think the simple answer is t …
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Under which circumstances is a rollback appropriate?

Version 2 came through in review. The proposed revision was to remove the word export and add the word install. I didn't agree with removing export, so I hit Improve and only added install. So there w …
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