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1answer
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Should I delete my question or answer my question?
I am pretty new to this forum and I was wondering what the proper custom would be in my situation. I posted a question a few days ago and last night, after some fiddling with the problem some more I ...
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1answer
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Self answered questions as examples
At times, my learning parters at the university have a hard time solving certain problems.
Is it legitimate to post a self answered question, to help them, and at the same time, help others with an ...
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2answers
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When should you add another answer instead of adding to your previous answer?
Suppose I give a solution to a problem in an answer and then later on I think of a different method to solve the same problem.
Should I edit my old answer and include the second method, or should ...
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2answers
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What's the motivation for keeping the deleted answers?
I wonder why this site keeps the deleted answers?
If some user decide to delete his answer I think he wants to do it for some good reasons, and hoping that his answer is gone, but after ...
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4answers
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Do hints belong in answers or comments?
If the OP doesn't indicate whether they'd prefer a hint, a sketch, or a full answer, and you'd like to leave just a hint, should it be an answer or a comment? Should one option be encouraged? If so, ...
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3answers
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How to handle when two answers are more or less the same
Sometimes questions will get two answers that are more or less the same solution to the problem posed, but perhaps worded differently or with equivalent, but superficially different, calculations.
I ...
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1answer
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Giving extra points for a great answer
A similar question was asked but was somewhat colored by the implication that the questioner wanted to "pay" for assistance.
But I was wondering if there is a mechanism to award bonus points for an ...
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0answers
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Bug in timer when trying to post an answer
I clicked on "Post your answer" and got a notice saying I can do this only once every 60 seconds. I had not done it in the preceding 60 seconds. A bug.
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0answers
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Alternative answer notification system (used when composing an answer) doesn't trigger MathJax rendering
When composing an answer, a notification for new answers appears in a blue bar at the top of the screen, rather than the usual one directly below the question.
This notification does not trigger ...
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1answer
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when is that a comment is better than an answer?
This is my first post on meta, so I hope to say something that makes sense.
I often see comments that if they had been posted as answers they could be acceptable ones. The problem I see in this is ...
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2answers
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Community Wiki answers to avoid reputation
Sometimes, one comes across questions on the main site that facilitate very easy answers. For example, "Is this solution correct?" or "Is my understanding of definition X correct?", but also questions ...
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1answer
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Misleading Answers = Poor answers
I have been reading the posts about what defines a poor question, and I am impressed at the level of intensity of feeling in that regard, and rightly so. But there's something on my mind: while we ...
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0answers
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modularizing answers
Sometimes in answering a question I need to derive an intermediate result that might be of interest in its own right. It seems to me that in such a case it's best to post a separate question asking ...
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1answer
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Could editors please ask before deleting answers.?
I gave about an hour ago a one-line answer to this question, stating that a finitely generated algebra over a field is noetherian, and that a previous answer (by me, among others) had shown that the ...
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1answer
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How to add a comment to an answer?
I see in some questions, Other are adding comments to an answer. How to do this?
