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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 Sometimes having too much information about a subject can be bad, removing out of date content from AU is just as im …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …

I fix people's answers all the time, and people fix my answers all the time; that's what this site is about! …

Sure, why not, if you think it's useful then do it! (Though if it's just slight changes you might just want to submit an edit to the accepted answer).

I find that most answers with just links are pretty much the terms the person asked in the question put into google and then the link is regurgitated as an answer, which is usually incorrect and/or out …