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If I bounty a question, but then I write a good answer, can I award myself the bounty and ge...

No. Bounty means "get more attention" not "get a sure answer". You throw your money to the guild to see if they can solve your problem, the guild can try but isn't secure. You only paid so you could g …
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Why am I unable to answer a protected question with 101 rep?

You need more than 10 rep on this (Ask Ubuntu) specific site. The association bonus sadly don't count towards this hence you need to get 10 hard earned rep here to do so.
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Can you just point someone in the right direction and how vague are you allowed to be with t...

You should substantially answer the question, always. It's even on the Answering page of the help center: Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure you …
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Is there a way to deal with people who repost other people's comments as answers?

If it happens enough either the misguided commentators will be annoyed enough at the "lost" rep to give outright answers next time, or no one will notice / care and you'll help the community and... oh … site is defeated if half of the pertinent information is in comments, and the accepted answer is only truly acceptable after reading two dozen comments strung out over the question and three different answers
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Is there any waiting time for getting answer?

If you mean that if there's data about how much time people have to wait for an answer, yes, you can get it. Now if you ask for an estimation of how much time you have to spend to get an answer, you a …
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Another "why was my answer deleted" looking for advice to be better

Purely to give me some direction for future answers what specifically was the reason to delete my answer to this question: Why is network-manager still so bad? … Try to answer better questions instead and you wouldn't worry about getting your answers deleted. …
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3 votes

From when it is possible to answer to a closed question?

People that started to write answers before the questions are closed have a leeway of 4 hours so they can submit their answers. This is by design. …
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1 vote

When is a possible answer a comment?

That way we can identify the questions that can possibly have answers. Summary: you ask in comments for clarifications, and answer when the question is clear enough to allow you a correct answer. …
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Revealing bug report considered answer?

That question is one of the reasons why we have the OT>bug close reason. The reporter "fixed" his issue, and everyone else is kept having the same bug! If you read Joseph comment he asks for some ste …
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Are we making overly extensive answers, that could somehow make afraid the users?

Obviously, there is a canonical question but it feels that somehow is too complicated/long answers could make afraid users since it's either needlessly detailed or overly complicated (Foss answer is ok …
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Is boot-repair becoming our jQuery?

boot-repair do wonders in modern days helping users fixing their boot, but I've seen that several people for several questions just say "try boot-repair" and repeat and repeat and repeat the very similar answers
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I'm not experienced enough to know if an answer is correct or not. Should I accept it?

Anyways, whenever you feel that the answer answers your question, mark it as accepted. tl;dr finally! This answer is meant to be canonical. …