Questions tagged [answers]
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What to do with repeated wrong answers from unresponsive users?
We sometimes get answers that are just wrong: it might be crackpot theories in etymology, stating that words mean something other than they do, being irrelevant to the question, failing to compose a ...
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Rewarding the best answers of 2020
The voting period has ended. Thanks for everyone taking part, and congratulations to cnread, Sebastian Koppehel, TKR, Cairnarvon and Alex B! (The bounties will be distributed shortly. As the fourth ...
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Rewarding the best answers of 2019
The voting period has ended. Thanks for everyone taking part, and congratulations to Dario, Penelope, and Unbrutal Russian! (The bounties will be distributed shortly.)
What were the best answers of ...
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Do we want annual reward events for best answers?
In the past we have had meta questions for the purpose of celebrating and rewarding some of our best answers:
Rewarding the best answers of 2016
Rewarding the best answers of the first quarter of ...
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What to do with low quality answers?
We occasionally get low quality answers.
By this I mean questions that have a very low score and possibly flags — this is a relatively objective measure.
What should we do with such answers?
The ...
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Rewarding the best answers of 2018
The voting period has ended.
Thanks for everyone taking part, and congratulations to TKR, Charlie, and sumelic!
(The bounties will be distributed shortly.)
What were the best answers of the year 2018?...
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Answering off-topic questions
Recently, this off-topic question regarding Hebrew grammar was posted to our site. Although I think I can give a useful answer to this question, I have not done so, because the question is blatantly ...
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Should nonsensical answers be deleted?
We recently received this answer (now deleted), which expounded a vast and convoluted theory connecting the letter V to Aleister Crowley and claiming that certain quotes attributed to Jesus were ...
DraconisMod
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To which extent is an opinion an answer?
Based on a comment to the question What is analysis in Latin?. In my case, I commented from an opinion I wasn't able to verify at the time. I posted it because at the time I thought it was a lead for ...
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Rewarding the best answers of the second half of 2017
The voting period has ended.
Thanks for everyone taking part, and congratulations to cnread, Draconis, brianpck, and Tom Cotton!
What were the best answers of the second quarter (July–December) ...
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Rewarding the best answers of the second quarter of 2017
The voting has ended and this question has therefore been locked.
Congratulations Ben and Penelope!
What were the best answers of the second quarter (April, May, June) of 2017?
Nominate your ...
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Rewarding the best answers of the first quarter of 2017
Congratulations to Weimer, Artemij, and Penelope! Your answers will be rewarded around the end of April.
The best answers of 2016 have received their rewards. Now we'd like to reward answers of the ...
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Rewarding the best answers of 2016
Latin SE has come a long way since we started nearly a year ago. We've seen lots of great questions and answers, and now, your moderators would like your input in determining what were the best ...
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Should all-Latin answers be permitted?
As a companion to Should all-Latin questions be permitted?, the same policy regarding answers is probably worth considering separately. (brianpck even provides a handy example of an all-Latin answer ...
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How well-sourced should answers be?
I'm thinking specifically about answers to questions like those in language-evolution, or this question, but it applies to just about anything asking for historical information.
How much citation ...
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