Linked Questions
206 questions linked to/from Fastest Gun in the West Problem
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Is it okay to not revoke a down-vote on an incorrect answer after it's been edited, after other correct answers have been posted?
Here's the situation: I visited a ~1 minute old question which no answers posted on it. I then submitted my (correct) answer to see that whilst I was answering an incorrect answer had been posted. (I ...
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Limit number of edits on a newly posted answer
Scenario:
A new question is posted. Within 30 seconds of posting, there is a answer with a bare minimal/incomplete solution. Over the next two minutes, 5-6 edits are made to the answer, with each ...
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What to do when a user edits an answer and makes mine look like it was copied? [duplicate]
I once answered a question two minutes after another user answered it. The answer the user posted was quite different from mine, but soon after my answer was posted the user edited his answer by ...
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Why are high-rep users allowed to delete their own questions without approval? [duplicate]
I just spent half an hour writing up a detailed response to a question, only to have the author delete it seconds later. I posted a followup and a moderator re-opened the original, only to have the ...
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Non-voting-based reputation from edits
This question gave us this beautiful page where low quality posts are shown.
Usually those "low quality posts" are:
Answers that really are comments (score 46 example, score 46 example), ...
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Explosion of new questions after a network interruption
Situation
Between 15 September 2012 and 16 September 2012, there was a service interruption all across Stack Exchange. The newest questions and the top questions stopped updating, even though it was ...
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Sorting options for new answers aren't rendered
I opened the page of a question with no answers. Some time later there were answers to the question and the page prompted with 2 new answers.
I clicked it and the answers appeared on the page. ...
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Remove user restrictions privilege "earned" at 101 rep with association bonus only? [duplicate]
I know that as a new user(or one with only the association bonus like me), one cannot post answers to protected questions, like this one:
However, I noticed something very strange. When I click on ...
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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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Appropriate Answer [Before Edit] [duplicate]
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21225891/774078
This answer. Please notice the edit! I was about to downvote this answer because it did not actually solve it, it just explained why it didn't work. (Kind ...
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Answers without upvotes are still in random order when one of the answers is deleted [duplicate]
Answers with zero votes posted shortly after each other have a randomized order to give them an equal exposure, and to prevent the fastest gun in the west effect.
However, when one of the answers is ...
