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How do I decide whether to post an answer I'm unsure of?
There is no clear-cut "do this or that" anwer to your question. It depends on the specific question, your idea to answer it, your degree of uncertainty about the idea, if the idea can be scetched in ...
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Should I answer a question which belongs on Stack Overflow?
Ultimately, the goal is to get off-topic questions off the front page as quickly as possible, so that they don't provide encouragement for other people to ask their off-topic questions. Migration is ...
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Unclear question is clarified in comment, later comment is deleted and contradictory clarification added to question
Before editing the question, I would probably edit the answer, and explain why it answers a slightly different question than the one which was asked (refering to the deleted comment and the edit). It ...
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Unclear question is clarified in comment, later comment is deleted and contradictory clarification added to question
This is a tough one.
One option would be to edit the question after getting the clarification in a comment. You can even use the edit description to note that the clarification edits were derived from ...
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Why did this answer get down- and delete-voted?
Stack Exchange is not a traditional forum. We expect that questions contain a question and answers contain answers to that question. If you need to add more information to a question, the post should ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Are incomplete answers okay?
It's not incomplete. How does it answer the question?
The question is: "How does one keep argument counts low and still keep third party dependencies separate?" The bulk of your answer is talking ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Why didn't auto-protection kick in in this question?
What happened is that two of the people answering got fairly quick upvotes on their answers. Enough to go over the 10 rep requirements.
At that point, when a new answer comes in, those are excluded.
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Why didn't auto-protection kick in in this question?
I think it may have to do with the protection/unprotection by a diamond the first day; see the revision history. This may have blocked the auto protection from kicking in.
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