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    Welcome to Meta Stack Exchange! I see this is your first feature request, so I wanted to point you to an important piece of policy regarding voting here on this site: on questions requesting new features, voting is used to signify agreement or disagreement with a given proposal, so if your question gets downvoted, it may just mean that people disagree with your proposal, not necessarily that your question is bad for the site. Commented Oct 20, 2019 at 23:00
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    That said, the policies regarding this tend to diverge per site (with, e.g., Puzzling being completely OK with partial answers). Commented Oct 20, 2019 at 23:04
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    I don't recall seeing a backlash on stackoverflow.com when post is prefaced appropriately. (Scope is limited, XYness is addressed, etc.) (Interestingly, you just did that here.) Many a comment on stackoverflow.com is essentially a partial or laconic answer. (Interestingly ....) That is not considered a problem there. However I realize that some sites are stricter re not answering in comments. Note also that many questions should be closed because they are too broad, and helpful answers don't change that. Commented Oct 21, 2019 at 0:25
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    Possible duplicate of Does Stack Exchange allow for answers which question the validity or stance of the original question? - It's simply a "Frame Challenge", and there's no need to mark it as such. Be aware that if you don't answer the question exactly as asked you might get flagged NAA; it depends upon community support for your self-proclaimed better idea. You other choices are downvote or flag. Commented Oct 21, 2019 at 2:25
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    Not a dupe: Good but partial As may be valuable, often more so than some lower quality complete As. Can we mark them as partial/incomplete, to avoid voting them down just because they are incomplete, but also to encourage other answers? E.g.: this A is partial and good re grapes, but not blueberries. What is the evidence on the danger of feeding whole blueberries and grapes to infants and toddlers? parenting.stackexchange.com/a/37660/33055: "This is mostly about grapes, not blueberries, but blueberries are probably similar. ... they are "5–16 millimeters ... in diameter". Commented Oct 21, 2019 at 17:34
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    That is an excellent example @TimurShtatland , I do agree that markings for a partial or incomplete Ans would be a more significantly meaningful & useful feature. It allows multiple users having great partial Ans (each of different portions) to build off each-other to eventually generate an great complete Ans. Or if a question has no decent Ans yet, a user can post a partial Ans giving specific info of a vital (but maybe easily-missed) step needed for getting the correct answer. Another user may make a great near-full Ans but is lacking that key detail, and the partial helps them finish it. Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 10:38
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    We noticed you seem to have two active accounts - and they seem to be interacting with each other - doing suggested edits that way isn't quite fair. Could you request an account merger via the contact link at the bottom? Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 8:46
  • @JourneymanGeek I had tried merger before that activity and it was not working properly. I accidentally made a big post meant for my main account while logged into the account I wanted merged, I didn't want to lose valuable responses from trying to repost on the main and deleting the old one. I also extremely tired and wasn't quite making the best decisions at the time. I tried again just now and the merger worked perfectly this time, but I had to use two separate browsers in order to achieve this result. (Trying in just 1 browser wasn't working before). Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 18:56