Questions tagged [answering-advice]
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Answers in comments
There are quite a large number of Meta.ELU questions about answers in comments, but none which definitively settles community opinion, mainly because they are rather old now, but also because they don'...
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Exception to 30 character minimum for answers
Is there any way to create an exception for the minimum answer length for questions tagged "single-word request?" It seems wasteful and inconvenient and seems feasible from a coding perspective.
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What's the best way to answer when there's a really good answer elsewhere?
In researching the question Which is correct, “buck naked” or “butt naked”?, I found a very thorough examination of this question at Language Log that I linked to in a comment under the OP. I feel ...
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Should we discourage the use of argot such as AmE, BrE, ELU, ...?
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Should we discourage the use of argot such as
AmE and BrE—even ELU—[added:]
in answers to nonspecialists' questions at ELU?
Most visitors who find answers here come from ...
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How to answer questions about acceptability
Relating to this question about what tag to use for questions about acceptability, I thought I would ask what is the best way to answer these kinds of questions, so as to address both prescriptive and ...
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If the answer I was going to submit has already been submitted what should I do?
Here's what occasions my question: I submitted an answer (the first answer) and in the course of the next 24 hours three other users provided essentially the same answer. Until now, my conduct has ...
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In relation to answers in the answer section, what is a "complete answer"?
I made the following partial answer a comment to the question "Word choice: to parent somebody?":
One can certainly parent with tolerance (and love, and kindness, etc). But the verb parent isn't ...
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What to do with yes/no questions?
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate, but I can't find any prior guidance on this. Closest I could get was Asking questions with very short answers.
Someone just posted this question:
Possibility ...
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