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The FAQ says: It’s also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you’re on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question. Also I tend to ask and answer my own q …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 think you're asking if it's ok to ask a question and provide your own answer. From the FAQ: It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you're on Jeopard …

I'd like to add to Marco's answer by saying that since the wiki is so big and complicated (and finding things can be difficult) that a good answer summarizes what's in the docs to answer the question …

As far as removing your answer, yes, you can always delete your answers to get your reputation back, unless it's an accepted answer, in which case you'd need to flag the answer. …

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

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 …