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This tag is aimed for discussions about etiquette: how to behave on the site and the chat.
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Should we offer comments to questions which are "beyond saving"?
While it's certainly commendable to look for a good comment to leave, especially with regards to the experience of new users, it is not the case that such a comment always exists - and it is better to …
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Questions with "accidental" trivial answers
You should post a new question, providing a link to the old question (but making the new question stand alone as well). You could also post a link to the new question as a comment to the old one.
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Engage with people from the fringes - or not?
Inherently, I don't think that "fringe" is a useful category to judge questions - as always, a good test to apply to a question is to consider if it does all it can to support a good answer. Some spec …
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Editing Other's Answers Etiquette
I use edits on answers almost exclusively to fix typos - that is, to fix things which the poster probably didn't intend originally. Obviously, misspelled words and obvious grammatical errors should be …
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Is there a 'polite amount' to put up as a bounty for someone else's question?
It is fine to place a small bounty on someone else's question. The principal way* that doing so affects the author is that they might suddenly get a bunch of notifications about their question, which …
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