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IMO we should remove the accepted answer, from How can I use Netflix on Ubuntu?. The 2nd most-voted answer is clearly more correct and supported by Google/Netflix. Right now the only supported way t …

If I notice someone's written a way better answer than my own I always delete it. Sometimes having too much information about a subject can be bad, removing out of date content from AU is just as im …

Perhaps newish user self-answers should go into a queue like the anonymous edits to be approved, that way the user can post their solution right away (and have better feedback than just sticking them in …

If you're posting usable information in the comments then that actively hurts the site because it can't be voted on, please see: Please stop posting half answers and dumb advice as comments I think leaving …

I wouldn't worry about it, the community will vote the good answers to the top and I would think that most people reading a question will look at a few of the answers instead of quitting at the first one … , many times all the top answers answer the question as a whole instead of one dogmatic "proper" answer. …

Sort of like how people make "modular code", I try to section off complex answers so that people can independently update them without having to rewrite the entire thing. … Every once in a while (I try once a year) go back to your old answers (sort by views!) and make them up to snuff for the latest LTS. This is also hard and time consuming. …

You lost me at "Hypothetical Situation". This site is more about solving practical problems that people face regularly every day, not satisfying intellectual curiosity on syncing algorithms. (Though …

According to this our answered rate (percentage of questions with an upvoted answer) is now 76%. We took a big hit with the number of new questions for 12.04/12.10 and the difficulty of being able to …

The Lubuntu one has answers for Nautilus ... but Lubuntu doesn't ship Nautilus, I think those answers should be moved to the newer question and then the older question should be more like "How do I add …

I prefer to have the person ask multiple questions so that we build a library. And if you can figure out what they're trying to do you can just answer the question and then link to the existing one, w …

If people aren't posting answers properly, do it for them. From the stackoverflow announcement: Want to know an easy way to earn reputation? … Find a question somewhere with several good, but incomplete, answers. Steal all the answers and write one long, complete, detailed answer which is better than the incomplete ones. …

Of course there's no answers when a question has been on the front page for just a few minutes. … We have a 72% answer rate, which means nearly 3 out of every 4 questions get answered (by answers with a score of at least +1) Did you read the question with 335 views and no answer? …

q=%5Bboot-failure%5D+closed%3A0 Most of those are bug reports disguised as questions, there's some serious orange circles (0 answers) in some of those searches. …

No, it's not considered abuse. You're encouraged to post useful content on the site: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/encyclopedia-stack-exchange/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-t …

Having a question marked as a favorite doesn't earn the asker any reputation, so that doesn't really matter. If you upvote the answer you prefer every time you visit the page the arrow will be fille …