Linked Questions
50 questions linked to/from How do I write a good answer?
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Improving the help/how-to-answer page
I recently wrote my first Answer only to then hear someone suggest it needed personal experience included.
Before writing it, though, I had gone through the help center and it didn't have anything ...
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1answer
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Were My Posts Flagged/Reported?
I'm new to this stack exchange, and so far I've only asked 2 questions (neither being offensive). One got closed for being "off topic," and then I created a new post modifying it. (I've since learned ...
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1answer
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Is Enforcement of Backup Requirement in Answers Consistently Enforced?
First of all, I want to say that this question is not driven by bitterness on my part, but I know it might come across that way.
I had an answer deleted about 5 months ago because it wasn't supported ...
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1answer
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Etiquette question about “common gesture” and quality of answers
I'm talking about this question: Pointing the index fingers to one another as a way to excuse oneself: is this a common gesture?
At first look, I thought this was a mostly valid question, however, ...
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7answers
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Old post, no valid answer, what to do with it?
You may be aware that IPS policy regarding answers - and more specifically, what does make them valid - has changed last year. We now expect answers to provide either literature citations - i.e. proof ...
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1answer
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Why has my answer been deleted?
I answered a question (How to schedule meetups effectively?) on how to schedule a meeting effectively. My answer was later deleted. Why was it removed?
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1answer
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Should the “comments are not for extended discussion” message be upgraded?
When I posted this question some of the members of the community suggested I should extract this particular point into another question so everyone could weigh in.
In this network comments are ...
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5answers
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Could we take measures to alleviate some of the exasperation from deleted comments? Should we?
I was reading the answers and comments in this question and I realised that maybe if in IPS the comment deletion was a tad different people would feel less bad about it.
I have been using SE sites ...
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1answer
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Clarification on Subjective Answer Backup Requirements
We've now been formally enforcing "backup" for almost a year and a half (and discussing it for at least 2yrs). We've had some well written and well thought out answers on what's expected. However, one ...
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2answers
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Is this answer valid?
Upon review of this answer on "How to tell a friend I don't want his help with miniature painting", this answer got flagged for lacking citations of personal experience on similar matters:
https://...
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3answers
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How can this Answer be improved?
No reason was given for the deletion. How can it be improved?
There is a clear skill recommendation that I learned from being in this situation which I do make very clear.
https://interpersonal....
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2answers
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What do we need in a back up by personal experience?
We now require answers to be backed up by personal experience or external sources. I believe that a "TL;DR" of what we expect from a back up by experience would be interesting to have ...
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3answers
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Add history to citation expectations meta post
In the meta post What are the citation expectations of answers on IPS SE I noticed that the post was not as friendly as I would have liked in the perspective of new users, and I wanted to improve the ...
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5answers
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2019 Pro Tempore Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
The purpose of this thread was to collect the candidates' answers to 2019 Community Moderator Election questionnaire. The elections are now over, you may find the outcome here.
In connection with our ...
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3answers
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Writing a featured sum-up post to help new users understand the site quickly
Well, most of you already know this, we're back on HNQ. Yay!
I'm not good in writing SQL queries so I'm unfortunately not able to provide stats to support my claim but since we returned, I observed a ...