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On quality, answers, and the task of moderators
We have flags that we see a lot here, most often "Low Quality" and "Not An Answer". These work great and have been really helpful when you actually beat Community user and they're on posts like:
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Can answers be accepted by other users?
The answer to this question is correct and should really be accepted, but I don't know if the user will return to do it.
Is it possible to mark an answer as accepted on their behalf?
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Should answers on questions that ask for spoiler information be put in spoiler markup or not?
Note: I'm asking about spoiler markup on answers, not questions.
I would like to start a discussion on this due to the recent number of spoiler answers on plot-related questions that ask for spoiler ...
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Should we care if an answer is from Googled information, as long as it is right?
Over on the nominations page, one of the nominations has a large comment discussion about this. Some of us have been hoping that the person who originally brought up the concern would bring the ...
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Questions where OP has mentioned he/she is using a specific platform: how to answer, how to tag and when to close as exact duplicate?
In the question, Can I empty a soul gem?, the OP has mentioned that he is using Xbox 360. I take this to also mean that he's not looking for PC-only console commands or mod solutions, so I edited in ...
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Dealing with duplicate answers
Some people are just innately helpful, I suppose. When they arrive at a q&a site they must immediately post their answer to a question, regardless of its answered status. I've been noticing it ...
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Minecraft Java edition commands in Bedrock questions - "Fix my answer for me"
Now, recently Minecraft bedrock and Java edition have grown very similar in most gameplay aspects, so in most gameplay questions I don't think it's a big deal if you are answering from a Java ...
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Not An Answer flag are not intended for low-quality answers
This has always been a problem, due in part to the Not An Answer (NAA) flag previously having some unclear wording, but Not an answer flags are not intended to be used on low-quality or wrong answers. ...
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How to get an up to date answer for old questions with obsolete answers?
Explanation whether duplicate or not --> see end of post.
Imagine you have a question about a game. You first search for it and find it answered a long time ago. Back then the answer was correct, but ...
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Is it wrong to use other users' suggestions in your answer?
Sometimes when I provide an answer that I'm not entirely educated about, for example I might leave out a rather vital piece of information that could change the information in the answer, other users ...
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Answering an unclear question
So I was answering a question yesterday about lost saves, and I came back today to find the answer had been downvoted. There was a comment left saying
-1 For answering a question before it is ...
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How can I work towards removing an answer ban from 1 bad answer?
I was browsing some questions and wanted to answer some. As I couldn't comment, I made an answer on a post which was more like a comment, which got downvoted and deleted.
I am ok with that, my 'answer'...
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Answering a question using someone else's comment
So, I stumbled across this question today (https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/137676/magic-launcher-wont-log-in). I see there is a comment answering the question in full detail. Is it at all ...
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Copy/Pasting Text, is this a problem?
I know a lot of answers (including some of my own) are just copy/pasted from an official website that has the answer (See This Question).
Is this allowed or do copyright issues make this a bad thing ...
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Since when did Arqade require registration to post questions and answers, and why was it required?
While browsing through a Meta Stack Exchange post about unregistered users not being allowed to post questions on some SE sites, at the time of writing, I noticed that Arqade wasn't listed among those ...
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Should I ask question which only I might be able to answer?
Let us say I have been playing a really old and obscure game and I've been looking all over the internet for an answer to a specific question about that game. Eventually, through much trial and error, ...
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What do we do with highly upvoted, accepted, wrong answers?
We've run into somewhat of a sticky situation. There are a couple parts to it, so I'll try to lay it out as best I can.
We got a question that was very, very broad:
Could ALT + F4 to close a game ...
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Medical questions
How do we deal with questions like this, that are in the end medical questions. I'm not thinking about off-topic/on-topic, but about liability. Wrong medical advice on this site could cause legal ...
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Does a solution suggesting answer lose the credibility to be upvoted, if the OP has declared the answer as non functional?
Following case: A solution is being suggested in an answer, the OP disqualifies the answer at some point as useless, after having tried it out be it a nice try or not.
The answer might have already ...
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If I worked for the game I'm answering about, how should I disclose that?
On the one hand, I want to disclose the fact in order to comply with the no overt self-promotion policy.
On the other hand, just about anybody can claim that they're the developer of a game and say ...
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Plethora of non-answer answers
Recently I've noticed a lot of users posting answers that, well, aren't answers. Examples here, here, here, and here. All of these have already been commented on that they're not appropriate.
Two ...
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Why is it considered correct to answer a similar question in addition to the question asked when there is a better alternative?
Problem Definition
I see a ton of specific questions getting answered along with non-essential stuff not actually asked. From a data perspective, this creates false mappings where one question is ...
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The 'don't just link to something' policy is inane
From: https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/79994/11047
The link in all likelihood won't die any more than this site will die, and even in the rare case that it does it can easily be edited and ...
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