Questions tagged [answers]
Anything related to posting answers, their scope and style. Also about improving their content, voting on answers, editing your own answers or others' answers, etc.
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2 votes
2 answers
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How to request that a deleted answer be undeleted?
My answer to iPhone 6 Battery quickly drains and jumps battery percentage was recently deleted because: This probably should be an edit to the question, as it doesn‘t directly answer the question ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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Suggested Edit was MUCH longer than original answer
So I ran across an answer to a question that was not much more than a couple of short sentences and the suggested edit was six paragraphs plus three images: https://apple.stackexchange.com/review/...
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7 votes
1 answer
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The policy on flagging link-only answers should be made much more obvious
I recently had a NAA flag declined on this answer, which consists entirely of the text: This might help: How to Enable Dashboard Features in macOS Catalina where the second line is a link to an ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Dupe question... but answers are extremely different
I recently asked this question about disabling Siri entirely in the touch bar on the new Macbook Pro models. The question is technically a duplicate (and was marked as such), however the answers on ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Should one remove me too part and hope it helps part from an answer?
Catalina and iOS 13 brought in a lot of new users and they try to be polite and helpful and write answers like: I was having the same problem, my MacBook Pro, model xxxx, macOS xxxx was not doing ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Can an user see their post deleted for reasons of moderation and its comments?
As it often happens, a new user posts a thank you answer or asks a question in answer box, people leave comments under them telling them to ask new questions or leaving other related links and flag ...
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3 votes
2 answers
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False closure as duplicate
How do I block cookies just on Medium.com? Someone decided a post was a duplicate, but cited article didn't answer the poster's question. Poster wanted to block cookies, but cited article would block ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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What to do when the answer is too short for an answer
I have seen quite a few questions where people ask how could they do something by a certain method. Example: Transfer files to iPad via USB from Android As far as I am aware it isn’t possible so I ...
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