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If you are talking about the one that says Problem with my Lenovo laptop you need to also consider the following:
Of the 335 views, not all users will have a Lenovo Laptop
Of the 335 views, not all users will have the same Lenovo model
Of the 335 views, not all will know the answer
In forums, other NON StackExchange Q&A sites and any other site that ...
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No, accepting an answer has nothing at all to do with closing (putting on hold). Basically, questions that are off topic should always be closed. Irrespective of whether they have an answer. This is for many reasons:
It confuses people. Users will think that the subject is on topic and use the existence of that question to justify that opinion.
When a ...
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You should make (if you can) a community wiki post:
In it, have this:
Answered by XYZ *link to profile) in comments (link to comment):
Comment content goes here, to explain the answer.
My pronouns are He / Him
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It didn't simply disappear. It wasn't awarded to anyone, that's all. Look at the revision history:
You need answers with score >= 2 for automatic awards.
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The reason there is so much orange on the front page is that's where the incoming questions come in. 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 ...
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You can use:
user:202806 is:a [tag] keywords
or just:
user:202806 is:a keywords
More info in the help center.
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Sometimes it's right to close an answered question. But that particular closure was wrong. The sub-reason of off-topic that was selected was:
This describes a problem that can't be reproduced that seemingly went away on its own or was only relevant to a very specific period of time. It's off-topic as it's unlikely to help future readers.
But this problem ...
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Moderators can remove bounties, but this is only done under very special and rather rare circumstances (mostly if a question needs to be closed).
Bounty history is in the revision history
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Have a look here first.
Disclaimer: I am not a moderator; I do not set policies, so this is just a personal opinion. (And a very obvious one) ;-)
As a new user it's always difficult: The first 50 points of reputation are hardest to get. But there are tons of things you can do to get more rep:
Ask good questions
Edit spelling/grammar/formatting/tags (all ...
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It is almost possible to have what you need, using the search functionality.
Recently Answered Questions
The following query would search for all answers and sort them by the newest answer.
https://askubuntu.com/search?tab=newest&q=is%3aanswer
Recently Accepted Answers
The next query would search for all answers which are accepted and sort them by the ...
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Click the "link" button in the sidebar on the right.
Source: muru's answer here - it also has some related info.
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You can comment that the OP can still award the bounty to any answer he likes. Self-answer does not mean that the bounty is awarded to the OP or to noone.
OP can still convert it to an answer, or you can do it for him. It does not really matter.
But keeping the answer in the question body is not good either way.
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Quite a few questions are resolved based on the comments and no formal answer is posted. Just because there is no answer doesn't mean the question is unresolved. Here is an example: Deactivated wifi drivers, now they won't activate again on a Dell Mini 10v?
Sometimes, gathering the data required to fully diagnose the problem leads the original poster ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
