Linked Questions
15 questions linked to/from Commenting vs. Answering
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If you don't want to write an answer, which is better: write an answer in a comment or let someone else write an answer? [duplicate]
I've noticed a plethora of comments by certain folks here (including a person with 30000 reputation), and they amount to answers. Lots of times they are the first comment and the asker engages in some ...
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How to respond to users who answer questions in comments? [duplicate]
RE: Cobwebbed - The fox in the Attic (comment by CowperKettle) and "Get a free notebook WORTH $2." Where is "IS"? (comment by CowperKettle)
Note that I have asked this same ...
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Personal opinion on why some comments may be really frustrating and what can be done about it [duplicate]
The answers to some questions, even when you know them, do take a time to be written down. While you're doing it, someone's doing the same thing and when their answers appear in the thread, you get ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Comments are constantly disappearing
Why are comments constantly being deleted? Sometimes I write a comment and someone has deleted it less than an hour later. I think people are going overboard with the comment deleting. I don't really ...
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Is this site meant for only experts to comment or answer questions?
I seem to be stepping on another member's toes because I made a comment that she felt I should not have made. link to post
I do not have to answer or comment and I did not come here to pick nits or ...
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Lesser of evils on ELL: comment vs. LQ answer
There is endless Q&A here and on SE Meta on comments vs. answers. Some things are clearly comments (e.g., requests for clarification, critique of a post). We have guidance on what constitutes a ...
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Flagging the answers posted as comments
While using ELL (and other sites), I noticed that there is a lot of abuse - answers are posted as comments. And usually, it is not done by people with low reputation, which is even worse.
I already ...
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Questions with no answers but are answered in comments
I'm pretty new to this site. I was wondering what the accepted practice was with questions like this where OP has been answered in comments but there are no answers to 'accept'.
What does the ...
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Guide to formatting ELL answers -- best practices?
Is there a place on ELL or ELL-Meta that conveys best practices on formatting answers, specifically in the context of conveying English language information? For example:
presenting language examples ...
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Attribution: the good and the bad
Recently, there have been a series of posts when a user's comment has been transformed into an answer or long excerpts have been quoted from various English websites.
First of all, just to be clear, ...
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Can we enforce proper site use?
This is a great site. The people are great, and I really have no complaints spare one. If you visit the "unanswered" section, you'll find that most of the questions actually have been answered. They ...
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