Questions tagged [answers]
This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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Is pseudocode allowed in *answers*?
There are several meta questions plus the help center making it clear that questions must provide real code.
However, it is unclear to me whether answers must therefore also be runnable code. ...
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Can I post a question about my own answer to another question that has been criticized?
My situation is a bit peculiar and unusual: I posted an answer to a question around a month ago, and originally got 5 upvotes and accepted. Later OP unaccepted my answer, and recently a person told me ...
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Can I improve my answer based on other answers?
The situation is this: recently, I answered a question here on CodeReview.SE.
I was the first to post, and my answer was pretty well-received (5 upvotes and originally accepted). I mainly redesigned ...
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Disable Anonymous Contributions
Note: Due to my position as a moderator I can't comment or point to specifics, which greatly obfuscates the validity of my question.
The moderator team has been brought aware of certain irregularities ...
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Can a user post code in an answer even if they don't fully understand how it works?
In this answer the OP of the question presented an alternative solution from github. The github repository shows that it uses the MIT license:
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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Is "Hope this was helpful!" too chatty in an answer?
In general, we remove "chatty" phrases like "Thanks in advance" in questions as unnecessary for the site. Should we apply the same standard to answers and remove things like "...
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Is it okay to update code of an off-topic question using code from an answer?
While the consensus is that it is not okay to add someone else's linked code to a question, there is a post that is off-topic where the OP added an answer with code that would make the question on-...
Sᴀᴍ OnᴇᴌᴀMod
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Adding alternative answer comment to low quality posts queue
When I review posts in the low quality posts queue, sometimes I stumble upon answers which provide alternative solutions instead of reviewing the OP's code.
It would be nice to add this entry (...
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Why delete a lone upvoted answer on a CR question?
I see this post has one deleted answer that has some good advice and received three upvotes. Why was it deleted? My presumption is the user was aiming to earn the disciplined badge but perhaps there ...
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I missed that a question was for a subset of the language. Next steps?
I recently answered a Python review question. Unfortunately, I had missed that the question was for MicroPython; a subset of Python with reduced features. As a result, 1/2 to 2/3 of my suggestions are ...
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How do we handle answers that pertain solely to other answers?
Most of us are (or should be) familiar with this section of the Help Center Page How do I write a good answer?:
What goes into an answer
Every answer must make at least one insightful ...
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Reviewing Programming Challenge requirements and givens
As I came across this answer Codility's Permutation Check in C# [answer #200620], I noticed the user reviewed quite a few requirements of the challenge, before reviewing the OP's code. My questions ...
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Is simply telling someone to use an API an appropriate code review?
I recently viewed a question where the only answer was simply telling the OP to use a provided API instead of scraping data themselves.
Is this considered an appropriate answer on Code Review? My ...
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Alternate solution - what counts as an insightful observation?
One of our latest HNQ's has drawn the attention of alternate solutions.
Soon after the question was posted I answered it with an alternate solution, and got quite a few upvotes. My first version ...
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Advice without knowledge of specific language
I'm here for a little more than one year now but still very new to the how-to of the place, and a recent comment in this post made me think that maybe I was ...
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