Questions tagged [answer-quality]
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Avoid using ChatGPT or other AI-powered solutions to generate answers to questions on Software Engineering
Although the problem is not yet as big as it is on Stack Overflow, there have been some confirmed attempts of accounts using AI-powered solutions, like ChatGPT, to generate and post several answers to ...
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1 answer
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The system supports questions with multiple answers poorly (and is becoming worse at it)
TL;DR Can the system do something to help us more efficiently handle quality of the content in questions with multiple answers? Recently I've seen notes from Stack Exchange staff about how it would be ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Can we please cleanup this popular question?
This question appears to be quite popular: Why are shortcuts like x += y considered good practice? Currently it has over 34K views, making it in top 250 all time (top 150 if we discard closed ...
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1 answer
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What to do when an algorithm question attracts "Here's my implementation in X" answers?
So I was looking through the close review queue today and I saw this question: An algorithm for finding converse duplicates of ordered pairs The OP asked for an algorithm to find certain parts of ...
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Reconciling answers with old mod notices
Search shows several answers with old mod notices, could these be reconciled? At first I thought to flag them but there seems to be too many and some are not quite clear cut so I decided to ask at ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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What's the policy for pure citational answers?
Are pure citational answers considered a Good Answer ™ vis-á-vis general StackOverflow policies? Should the citation be labelled in some way to credit the source of the borrowed wisdom, and if so, ...
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What to do with answers to this question?
Question asked is stated as follows: Is there any hard data (studies, comparisons, not-just-gut-feel analysis) on <particular subject>? Some of the answers given are: I honestly feel there is ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Are readers supposed to vote, edit, comment, flag answers on old one-liner honeypots?
Some old closed questions have many answers that probably were considered OK back then but are not quite up to current quality standards. Are readers supposed to vote, edit, comment, flag answers in ...
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