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38 questions linked to/from What is required for an answer to be high quality?
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An odd request: can we have another week in private beta?
If the Community Managers team (henceforth CM) so decides, we're scheduled to start public beta in two days (Tuesday). I'm not sure we're ready.
On most new beta sites, announcements from the CM team ...
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What to do when an answer contains several suggestions?
The answer to this question (since deleted) gives 4 suggestions as a single answer: (click for full-sized version)
I think suggestion4 is great and suggestion1 is crap, but I can't express it by ...
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What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
This is the question edition of What is required for an answer to be high quality?
One of the key problems that I see Software Recommendations having, is people asking extremely vague and simple ...
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Is it okay to ask for alternatives? [duplicate]
For the sake of making an example that's easy to understand: If I were a Java w/ Spring developer using Eclipse, would the following question be acceptable?
What's an alternative to Eclipse for ...
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90 days have past, how do our statistics look?
90 days have past, and Software Recommendations is proving very useful (at least to me), but what do our statistics say? Statistics are watched closely by our overlords, so even though it is only ...
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Should we migrate questions from other SE sites?
I have seen some questions on other SE sites which are closed. For example this question (there are more of them):
What's the best CDN for image hosting on a high-volume web site?
This question has ...
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How should we treat answers that don't fit all requirements?
On the question proposed by @juergen d where he asks about XML inspection tool, the only answer (so far) is one answer that doesn't fit 100% of the requirements, but provides good information and may ...
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How are we going to moderate answers?
Everyone has already agreed if this site is going to work we need to have really high quality questions and answers (especially the answers).
This leads to the question, how are we going to ...
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What is required for a "there is no such program" answer to be high quality?
What is required for an answer to be high quality? does a good job to explain what is expected for answer pointing to a program.
What is required for a "there is no such program" answer to be high ...
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It is NOT ok to copy and paste from product website
On this question, user3075942 posts 3 answers.
All of the feature lists are direct copy and pastes from the product websites.
As are the screen-shots.
On SW-REC SE, we add value (over a google search)...
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Design Ideas for this site. Again
My name is Paweł, I'm Senior Product Designer from StackOverflow and I'm going to work on your site's design and I need your help.
Right now I'm in the "research stage" which basically means that I'...
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Are we becoming lax about answer quality?
I'm concerned.
Overall, I think we're doing great. We get more questions per day than all but 8 beta sites, we have awesome users with tons of reputation that help out, and we have a pretty decent ...
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Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer
I posted a quick answer to a question a while ago. I wasn't super detailed and it certainly wasn't a model answer, but I provided a service to the community by being the only one to recommend a ...
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How important is personal experience?
How important is my personal experience when I recommend a product?
In the answers I've posted so far, my experience ranges from “I've never used this application before but I'm familiar enough with ...
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What are our canned comments?
Now we are public, that means a bit more traffic and lots of people asking and answering. Which leads to the boredom of having to write a comment each time something is wrong with a post. So, do we ...
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