Questions tagged [best-practices]
Questions about the best way to do something on a Stack Exchange site, not for questions about questions about best practices.
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Best practice about average time to accept an answer and accept answer decision [duplicate]
What is the common sense for the time to accept a user answer? For example, I usually think that I need to wait, for example, 1 week or more, because some questions have more than one answer and I ...
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Best practices for tagging: a search engine optimization view
Should we optimize the tags both for "connecting experts with questions" and for search engines to better index the questions? The above Help page mentions: Because the tags appear below ...
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What is the point of edits that make source citations more visible?
Someone recently edited my question on a SE site and made the source citation more visible. The editor replaced my [Source] with From the Wikipedia article about Entropy (via The Internet Archive) ...
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Good practices for describing progress made on a question?
I have recently started asking some more complex questions on which I have made partial but significant progress toward an answer since originally asking the question. Can someone recommend good ...
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Should Meta questions be duplicated to draw more attention to issues? [duplicate]
An assertion that "several users told you that having more questions about the same topic is actually better" caught my eye as a point for meta discussion. My response was a few comments below but ...
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Should 'click' be used with <kbd>?
When denoting a key combination, for example Ctrl+Shift+click, should click be shown as a button as well for better readability? (as such: Ctrl+Shift+click)
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Should I award a bounty to a potentially correct answer?
This is more of a moral question. I've asked a question here. I ended up solving with my own solution. However, there is 100 bounty points still up in the air and I'm debating whether to give it to ...
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Should off-topic or poor quality posts be deleted immediately?
I often encounter an off-topic or otherwise unsuitable post, and comment so on the post. The OP might immediately reply asking for the best course of action. Should I tell the OP to delete the ...
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