Questions tagged [late-answers]
For questions on the posting/quality/reviews of late answers.
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How to respond to newbie answer.
I came across a late answer by a new user to a question, which I link here; and I have a dilemma how to respond.
The formatting was pretty bad (read: non-existent), so I edited it and commented, ...
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My answer was deleted...
I am puzzled why my answer to "a consistent notation for algebraic numbers" was deleted.
I've moved the answer to the comments, as suggested by the boilerplate. I was tempted to just repost ...
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Find posts that were in a specific review queue
In another Meta question, the OP wrote that posts in the Late Answers queue are "fun to read". Personally, I have never reviewed a post in this queue, partly because they get reviewed before ...
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The late answer review queue for "Late answers from new users"
Recently I've noticed a pattern of comments being left for new users who leave "late answers" which show up in the "late answers from new users" review queue. The general gist of many of the comments ...
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late-downvotes received, no reason
One month ago I answered this question. From my perspective, even if the question was very simple, I think I manage to find why the OP had trouble understanding the problem and provide a succesful ...
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Wrong timing of your answer
Sometimes I think about the best way to answer a question, and while typing my answer somebody else post an answer containing the key idea of the answer that I was writing.
If I consider that the ...
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How to Unhide New Answers to Old Questions?
Seems to me there's a flaw in the system, not that I see what could be done about it.
Someone recently posted a question that was a duplicate of If $z_n \to z$ then $(1+z_n/n)^n \to e^z$. I saw a ...
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Whoa! 1300 items in the "Late answer" review queue
Am I the only one seeing this? What happened? An updated algorithm? Or did we just have an army of zombie answer(er)s that I didn't notice?
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Late answers - a mechanism for getting a fair share of upvotes?
It is a not unheard of phenomenon that answers don't get much upvotes in the following scenario:
First, a user asks a non-trivial question, which turns out to be non-trivial enough not to get an ...
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