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Fine line between spamming and coincidentally owning or developing a resource that happens to also answer the question

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Is it OK to ask a question and immediately answer it with promotion of my own commercial product?
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I came across this answer (10k+ only) when curating new answers to old questions. I initially flagged it as library-only (VLQ). Besides of the problem,i want to say I have found a plugin for cloud ...
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For example in my related answers I'd like to link to my Vite or Vue answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A14098260+vite The problem is that Vite/Vue community support is bad and I ...
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How do I handle a question that refers to social media options when contacting the person about this question, namely Discord and Telegram? Is this behavior allowed on this site? Do we have any ...
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I had a problem that I failed to find possible solutions for on the Internet that satisfies all my requirements, so I decided to write a new package. I see this is a problem which has considerable ...
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For specifics: I am asking about this answer. I recently saw an answer that did indeed answer the question, but then also linked to a youtube channel and asked for others to like and subscribe. I can ...
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A couple of weeks ago, @dbc asked, In "Low Quality Posts" is it required to cross-check external links with profile pages to identify Improper Self Promotion?, to which I responded with my ...
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Preamble: I don't think it's a duplicate of the suggested "what is the policy regarding self-promotion?" as that deals more with one's self keeping within affiliation rules, whereas this is ...
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I just came upon this answer. It's certainly a good one, and solves the OP's problem (which is obvious by the comment they added under the answer, although they didn't accept it). The question is ...
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I came across this post which contains an image of a diagram — drawn on paper — with "alhua technology" prominently displayed. It kind of looked like a watermark. I'm not sure if OP works ...
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I've made a userscript for enabling moderation features and I've found many MSO posts where it would be relevant to post an answer or a comment. So far, I've only posted one answer and one comment. ...
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I browse and read questions on Stack Overflow quite a bit in my spare time. I have started to notice this user who has been doing large 'drops' of self-answered questions. Answers typically come ...
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First some quick background: A few weeks ago I was working with VS Code and noticed they had created an issue template such that any Questions that would otherwise have been asked in their GitHub repo ...
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I am the author of a scientific software package, about which people occasionally ask questions on Stack Overflow. I would like to create a tag for this, so I have an easy way to get directly informed ...
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I found an answer with this at the end: We all agree that such content should not belong in an answer but is it worth flagging or can I simply edit out that content? I found it in 2 answers by the ...
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