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Treatment of comment-answered questions: what is the current policy as of February 2023?
I have noticed that quite a few questions tend to be answered in the comments.
This was apparently observed $12$ years ago to a similar extent. These questions (unsurprisingly) tend to be on the ...
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List of answer templates
I've created this post with the same purpose as the List of comment templates post, although I imagine it'll be far less useful. There are a few questions on the Unanswered Questions Queue only ...
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Can we have a partial answer checkbox?
I recently posted a partial answer to this question. It was too long to post as a comment.
Would it be a good idea to have a 'this is a partial answer' checkbox underneath the 'post your answer' ...
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Proving that $e^\pi-\pi<20$ Without Using a Calculator
No, I did not mistake the meta for the main site. :-) I'm just curious how you would recommend to approach such utterly intractable questions. Apparently, simply answering them in the negative is not ...
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Questions that have been answered in comments [duplicate]
I have noticed an abundance of questions on the main site that have no answers, but have been answered in comments, often "accepted" with a comment such as "Thanks a lot!". Such questions bog down the ...
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What should I do when my question do not have any answer.. [duplicate]
This Question is not intended to grab answers.. http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/3478/how-to-grab-users-attention-on-an-old-question is not a duplicate of this
My Question is..
I have ...
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How should we deal with old questions by users who have left the site?
None of the Meta questions I could find (I did a search and then trawled through the "bumping" tag) seemed to answer this.
What's the etiquette on answering a question with no posted answers that's ...
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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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Can I ask the same question twice?
I asked a question but since it was very long, nobody answered me. I'm wondering if I should ask it again as a new question again (Of course I will make it much simpler than before) or should I just ...
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comments that answer the question
The latest example is My idea about finding the largest prime number where OP asks about a distributed processing approach to find prime numbers. There was a comment: mersenne.org – pedja which OP ...