Questions tagged [answers]
This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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7 votes
2 answers
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Is pseudocode allowed in *answers*?
There are several meta questions plus the help center making it clear that questions must provide real code. However, it is unclear to me whether answers must therefore also be runnable code. ...
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-2 votes
3 answers
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Can I improve my answer based on other answers?
The situation is this: recently, I answered a question here on CodeReview.SE. I was the first to post, and my answer was pretty well-received (5 upvotes and originally accepted). I mainly redesigned ...
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1 answer
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Can a user post code in an answer even if they don't fully understand how it works?
In this answer the OP of the question presented an alternative solution from github. The github repository shows that it uses the MIT license: ... Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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4 votes
1 answer
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Is it okay to update code of an off-topic question using code from an answer?
While the consensus is that it is not okay to add someone else's linked code to a question, there is a post that is off-topic where the OP added an answer with code that would make the question on-...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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2 votes
1 answer
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Why delete a lone upvoted answer on a CR question?
I see this post has one deleted answer that has some good advice and received three upvotes. Why was it deleted? My presumption is the user was aiming to earn the disciplined badge but perhaps there ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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7 votes
2 answers
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How do we handle answers that pertain solely to other answers?
Most of us are (or should be) familiar with this section of the Help Center Page How do I write a good answer?: What goes into an answer Every answer must make at least one insightful ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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17 votes
1 answer
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Is simply telling someone to use an API an appropriate code review?
I recently viewed a question where the only answer was simply telling the OP to use a provided API instead of scraping data themselves. Is this considered an appropriate answer on Code Review? My ...
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18 votes
2 answers
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Advice without knowledge of specific language
I'm here for a little more than one year now but still very new to the how-to of the place, and a recent comment in this post made me think that maybe I was ...
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