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The best thing to do about this is to write high-quality questions and answers that will help you gain reputation (and privileges). … In short, if you want to expand an answer, I think that it would usually be best to do so via comments and/or additional answers. …

If your answer can stand alone amidst a group of answers, and add something helpful for the O.P. and interesting to the community, go ahead and leave it as an answer. … Moderators can turn answers into comments. In fact, other users can flag an answer when they believe that's what should be done. …

There is no policy declaring that answers must have a URL attached to be considered valid. … Also, I looked through some of your recent answers and tried to see what exchange might have prompted this meta post. …

Lately I've noticed quite a few answers that provide an answer to the O.P.'s question, but provide no supporting information. … Sometimes, comments are left, asking for more information; other times, these answers have been flagged by users, and the mod team has converted some of these answers into comments. …

So long as answers remain thorough and deliberate, I think such answers are fine. We just need to take the time to fully explain the situation within the answer. …

In general, if you think that something sounds wrong, but you don't want to say much more than that, I'd recommend leaving a comment. If you want to expound on that some more, however, and leave an …

So long as the passer-by can find the answer among the answers, the additional information is icing on the cake. … Very few of our questions get more than two or three answers, so it's not like the answers to the direct questions are getting lost in the weeds. …

A question was just asked on ELL, and it needs a lot of work. Here's a screen shot. There are two problems with this question: first, the way the initial question was asked; second, the way a follow- …

For the best learning of our friends in this place, should we attempt to write all or our answers in up goer five words? …

(b) I'd like to do more research to substantiate my answer, but I don't have the time (I did that here and here; had I wanted to leave full-fledged answers, I probably would have included some findings …

For example, these may not be exemplary questions, but I don't think the answers are any more undeserved than the close votes: Difference in meaning of adjectives ended with -ed and -ing? … I'm not convinced that each of these answers represents "another bomb to the wall of ELL's quality." And as for this site "losing its purpose," I think we need to be careful there, too. …

Back when you wrote the question, it would have been worth mentioning how your written version of what's said in the video was taken verbatim from the transcript. It might have been nice to include mo …