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Well, of course two answers means everybody can upvote you twice, so that is good, right? Yes, but that is not my point. … reason for you to believe the scores of your posts will differ significantly, maybe because one of the solutions is much better, worse or maybe more controversial, then it might make sense to post two answers …

to easily get a direct link to a specific answer or question: This link is of the format https://askubuntu.com/TYPE/POST_ID/USER_ID, where TYPE is the type of the post, i.e. q for questions or a for answers …

I am fine with it if the answer might be the same but the questions are not really duplicates of each other. Like two different problems but only one solution that works for both. If also the questio …

If there are several valuable answers though, and I am polite enough not to highlight and advertise my own answer, but leave a comment directly below the question instead so that the OP is not influenced … in their choice which answer to accept: If any of the answers below solves your problem, please consider accepting the one you like best by clicking the grey round check button on the left of it. …

Lets say I answer a question and a few minutes or hours later I notice that somebody else also answered it after me. That other answer includes all the information given in mine plus additional ways …

I don't think you can do anything except leaving a comment below your answer and ask for explanations on the downvote reasons. But probably you will not get a response as those who just vote down wit …

The following question has an accepted answer and open bounty that will be awarded to it as soon as the delay is over. Bind Alt+Tab to a Logitech mouse button on Kubuntu Now the OP decided to edit h …

I know about similar requests, but after stumbling over this question (just an example; question poster answered himself using edits instead of an answer) I thought you should at least add an option i …

Yes - giving normal LQ-reviewers the power to convert answers to comments is useful! …

Okay - not more power for 2k users, but the reflagging option sounds good! I agree that we should save good but wrongly posted comments of new users and convert more of them instead of delete them. I …

Answers that should have been comments should get deleted. …

As the reputation requirement to comment is pretty high (50), many new users who want to contribute to the site use answers to leave a comment on questions, e.g. to request additional information needed … As lowering the comment requirement (as suggested in other meta posts) is not an option, in my opinion treating those not-answers which get reviewed anyway specially is the best chance to achieve this …