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Flagging a post for moderator review
Suppose I want to have someone with moderator abilities review a post. What would be the best way to flag this?
Is there already some standard way to do this that I don't know about?
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Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on Stack Overflow?
I was wondering about the copyright of code snippets from answers. Let's say you ask a question and the solution consists of ten lines of code, which are given in an answer. Are there any restrictions ...
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What is a "locked" post?
On Stack Exchange, a post can sometimes be "locked":
What does it mean to lock a post?
Who can lock a post?
When should a post be locked?
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What are "Community Wiki" posts?
Some questions and answers are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a community wiki user:
(In fact, this very question is one of them)
Why have Community Wiki posts?
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What is a "closed" or "duplicate" question, and how does question closing work?
Questions can be closed or marked as duplicates.
What does it mean for a question to be "closed"?
What does it mean for a question to be marked as a "duplicate"?
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How can we ask something specific to a region on Stackoverflow? [closed]
There are some topics that are specific to certain regions. For instance; in Brazil there is a specific technology called "Nota Fiscal Eletrônica NFe" (something like electronic invoice), which is ...
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How do I request further information on an answer?
I have asked a question and received a good response. But I want more information about it. How am I supposed to go about asking it? Just a create a new question?
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What do I do when my joke non-answer is accepted?
It appears my joke non-answer was accepted by the questioner for some reason. Obviously, this does a disservice to anyone who might run across the question later on. Obviously, I voted up the other, ...
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How should we deal with Google questions?
There have been a lot of questions that can be answered with a simple Google search.
For these questions, an answer can be found by just copying and pasting the question directly into the Google ...
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Should I remove tags which don't seem appropriate?
For example, I was just reading a question on "What's the best WTF you've seen?" and it was tagged as "assembler c c++ c#". Similarly you often see questions about a particular algorithm where the ...
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Is it useful to post questions I already know the answer to on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I ask a question I know the answer to?
I have a log of problems I've encountered over the years with the solution at the particular time. What's the etiquette for ...
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What answer to accept?
There are so many good answers to my questions that it's sometimes hard to decide what answer to designate as accepted. I really feel that more than one is "accepted."
What should one do in this ...
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What is the best way to find questions to old answers? [duplicate]
I just want to know what the best way is to find previous questions that may answer mine (on Stack Overflow).
I try to search, but I tend to get too many irrelevant results. What's your best method ...
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Can I answer a question multiple times? [duplicate]
If I have two separate answers to a question, should I put both in the same post or should I post first one and then the other?
For instance:
Q: Can I eat honey and locusts?
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Aren't questions about "best" going to end up having answers reflecting only popularity?
Which is not the same thing at all.
E.g. "what's the best book?" - people will vote up the books they've read. This might be useful but won't answer the (possibly unanswerable) question "what's the ...
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