This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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Should timings be included in answers where appropriate?
For many of the questions I've looked at, I see people saying that the algorithms or parts of the implementation will be 'slow', but no one seems to follow this up with performance figures for a ...
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Self-answers that re-write code with little/no explanation
I came across this self-answer today:
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/10844/46800
It had no explanation or evaluation of the code in question, just a code rewrite. This seems to me to not ...
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Code Hunt : Perfect score means not-so-perfect coding
With a recent question I went to Code Hunt and played there a little bit.
At one moment I get this result as question :
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Checklist or General Directions on how to write a good CR-ish answer
This question is intended to be the counterpart of: Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question
Getting started with CodeReview:
New users often seem to have problems to understand, what ...
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What makes for a good answer?
I found myself looking for some place to point a new user on why his answer wasn't a good answer. I couldn't find anything except the fairly unhelpful Help page's "How do I write a good answer".
So, ...
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Do new CR users who are trusted elsewhere on SE go through the First Post Queue?
This question is in regards to users who have 100 rep points. When we come here from another SE site, we are awarded 100 rep points to get us started.
What I'm wondering is, do those users go ...
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What do you do when an answer is upvoted but is broken?
This answer:
File Async writer using Tasks or new features of .Net 4.5?
The code in the answer doesn't log until program termination -> lost items in the log. You cannot execute parallel code ...
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Tips for writing better answers
I was writing an answer to a question the other day and after I had finished it I wished I had some feedback as to what could make the answer better. How could I write it better. What headings could ...
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What are the correct actions to take when there is a 'bad' answer?
When there is an answer you feel is 'bad', what are the correct actions to take?
For example, the question:
Similar methods using loops
has an answer:
If you always use both functions ...
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1answer
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Request to add answer structure close to the answering field
Coming from this post, I'd like to address this as a feature request.
What is it about?
Lowering the threshold that people might experience when wanting to answer new questions. I have the feeling, ...
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Multiple proposed answers to a single question [duplicate]
If a question is asked, whereby you have a number of suggested answers, is it preferred that you post multiple actual answers, or large answer with separated section headers?
Version 1 Solution
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Must answers include a code review?
I'm surprised to ask this but, "Must answers include a Code Review?"
I'm looking at this answer.
The request in the OP says,
Can you please look into my code and suggest me some performance ...
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So votes are good for us. How can I find answers/reviews to vote for?
In fall 2013, we went on a mission, and bumped the site's answered% from 88% to 93%. As new questions flow in, the answered% has been remaining steady at 93% for several weeks, we're doing good ...
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Short answers and code-only answers
What should we do with:
Short answers (for example, "I suggest you use [hyperlink to this standard API] instead.")
Code-only answers (for example, an improved version of the code in the OP)
Such ...
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How much can an answer be subject to opinion?
I am new to this site, but love reviewing code and having my code reviewed.
One thing that is always difficult for me when I'm reviewing code is to determine whether some of the points I'm making ...
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Best of Code Review 2013 — Thousand Words category
Please post your nominations for Best of Code Review 2013 — Thousand Words category: Most effective use of images in a question or answer.
In your nomination post, be sure to include a link to the ...
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Best of Code Review 2013 — Gordian Knot Untied category
Please post your nominations for Best of Code Review 2013 — Gordian Knot Untied category: Most justified advice in an answer for taking a completely different approach from the code in the original ...
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Best of Code Review 2013 — Diplomat category
Please post your nominations for Best of Code Review 2013 — Diplomat category: Tough advice in an answer, delivered in the most tactful manner.
In your nomination post, be sure to include a link to ...
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Best of Code Review 2013 — Night and Day category
Please post your nominations for Best of Code Review 2013 — Night and Day category: The most dramatic improvement.
In your nomination post, be sure to include a link to the answer, as well as a short ...
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Best of Code Review 2013 — Exterminator category
Please post your nominations for Best of Code Review 2013 — Exterminator category: Answer that points out the most interesting obscure bug in the original code.
In your nomination post, be sure to ...
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Should we merge multiple answers from the same person?
Today, I ran across this question which had already been answered by Malachi 3 times before I looked at it.
I decided that since he answered in multiple answers, I might as well do the same thing. I ...
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Answering Guidelines (answer length)
From Grace Note's CR review (emphasis mine):
Time to Answer
Jon Ericson, another Community Manager, ran some numbers on the site and discovered that the average time it takes for a question ...
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When is it appropriate to include a picture in an answer?
In spite of this moderator edit, which removed a picture that didn't add anything to the post besides a remotely on-topic caption about strings (the post was about string concatenation, the example ...
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Is “just reviewing the code” good enough of an answer?
Looking back at some of my last few answers (here and especially here), I started wondering if these answers were good enough.
Allow me to expand: in these answers I went through the code almost line ...
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Some more answer badges to encourage participation
I have posted this as a part of an answer of mine on meta question "Approaching 1000 days on beta", but it's burried in the question and actually deserves its own post. I posted it on ...
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Should code block(s) as answers always require an explanation?
Here is a great example of this. Granted, that was that user's first post, but this is still common.
UPDATE: That example has since been updated, so consult the original version.
This type of ...
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Guidelines for new users + proposal tag
When asking a question on code-review, the goal is clear: To get a second opinion on your code. By peers, or by people with more experience ("experts", some might say). If you post a ton of code, ...
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Should quick fixes to non-working code go into comments only?
I've started thinking about this after seeing the answer for this question.
Of course, non-working code shouldn't be posted here. However, there are times where someone addresses such issues in an ...
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Multiple answers and unanswerable questions
I have a concern regarding the Code Review site: It seems to me that when a question is posted for code review that there really can be multiple correct answers.
In fact, the FAQ states:
You ...
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Defining answers
How does one define an answer in Code Review?
Because we are just giving other people our code to review, how is it possible to define an "answer" to our "question". Is the answer just the comment ...
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Should references always be used in answers?
The best answers I've seen, on this site and on programmers, often include references to experts on refactoring, design patterns, and other computer science fields. I have learned a good bit about ...
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Should “your code seems fine” answers be acceptable?
I want to ask your opinion on how we should handle submitted question with code that is "fine".
I assume that will be the case for very view of the submitted review requests since everyone likes and ...
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Should one person have multiple answers?
This question came up in regards to my comment on this post.
If somebody has two different approaches for reviewing a piece of code, should they combine them into one answer, or have separate ...
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Should answers include unit tests?
If I'm answering someone's question, instead of saying "your code will fail on input x, y or z", should I provide a unit test snippet?
