Am I allowed to say something like &quot;If you like my answer, please accept it and give it an upvote&quot; in my answers or comments (specifically on MathSE)? I have read the rules of comments and answers and I found no rules against it. But I have never seen a person saying similar things, so I am pretty confused. I know it sounds like I answer questions and help people only for reputations, but it will be really frustrating if my (correct) answers are ignored. Therefore I have to interact with the OP and find out if she/he is satisfied with my answer. Thanks in advance. Any help will be appreciated.
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I happened upon  question, where the questioner commented on every answer with "I'd love an up vote!"    Is it correct to flag such clutter, perhaps as not constructive / off-topic, or is there a better way to correct users that beg for up votes (and similar behavior) via comments.
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Consider the following scenario please:   I see a question and think I have a good answer or comment. I post my answer or comment and move on happily. After couple of hours I see comments that my answer is bad because this and that and it's really bad - I didn't think enough before posting.   The question is: should I delete my post, or leave it be so that people won't repeat my own mistake?
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This one leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, but I defer to others as to whether it is appropriate or not. In , I wrote an answer to a question based on my experiences; it was upvoted and accepted, woo.  Now, today, in response to a different &#8212; but related &#8212; , someone has pasted my answer nearly verbatim (awkward English intact, I may add) as an answer.  Is that really okay? Is it a behavior that should be encouraged? Discouraged?
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I've had a couple of answers today where the OP indicated via a comment that I solved their problem, but the question wasn't upvoted or accepted.  In both cases the person probably wasn't able to upvote since they were new, but they could have accepted my answer. I felt a little guilty asking them to accept the answer, but since it solved their problem I felt that it would help others who stumbled on the question trying to solve their own problem to know that my solution really was the answer. Is asking the OP to accept your answer when they've said that it solved their problem a reasonable thing to do or does that feel like nagging for reputation?
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in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going on Stack Overflow?  I think it’d be appropriate as I at least pretty often want to write something like n^2 and would benefit greatly from prettier markup.
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When reviewing possibly low quality posts you sometimes see OK answers, except that they're wrong. From the review interface you can't downvote so you can only comment or edit, and editing isn't really an option when the intended answer is wrong.  Once you've commented or upped an existing comment, should we then click Looks Good because there's nothing wrong with the answer, except that it's wrong, or Not Sure so that the answer is reviewed again (and again)?
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I came across  question, which is fairly old, has 2 very good answers (with a good amount of up-votes), and the OP has stated in his question that both of the answers are acceptable. Yet they have not accepted either and simply left a note in their original question about the "correct" answer.  Is there anything that needs to be looked at here? Should I comment that the OP should accept an answer if they have one? Should I flag it?
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How do you know if something you want to say should be an answer or just a comment?  I assumed that anything that answers the question should be in an "answer" field, and clarifications should be under "comment". But I found this question () in the English Stackexchange site.  The original question asks for words related to the word "chain" and all the answers so far were provided via comment to the original question, instead of in a separate answer field.  Is this the recommended way to answer a question that requires only one-word answers? Or should the comments to the original question be converted to answers instead?
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I posted a question somewhere that said...     Can anyone tell me how I can solve this?   ...but someone edited it to...      Can anyone tell me how can I solve this?    ...and it was accepted.  That's wrong isn't it? Can someone explain how that's wrong?
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It happened to me that I found a solution to an older question. This question was commented by many people with comments like "very interesting, important, ..." such that I thought that my answer has also some value. My answer was the only one. It was upvoted and accepted by the asker. However, I assume, that very few of the "commentators" saw my answer, because the system does not inform automatically about new answers.   I think it would have been helpful for me and the commentators when they would get informed. I could achieve this by adding my own comment to their comments, because this triggers a system message. My question is: would this action be considered admissible or not? Are there some other possibilities?
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I asked a  on stackoverflow at the end of last year for a beta or pre-release product and got the answer I wanted.  3 months later someone else answered the question with the correct answer for a newer release.  This answer got way more upvotes than the one I accepted.  I only noticed this today so changed the accepted answer.  Can I get a notification email when an answer gets say 10 more votes than the one I accepted.  Just to let me know something might be up.
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I was answering this  and noticed that there was an element of extortion involved which put an extra burden on the OP's question.   Is this allowed?   The deleted comment was in the context of "If you mark this solution as accepted then I will help you", which resulted in the OP having to deal with extra issues as a result - such as changing the database columns and getting null pointer exceptions.   I know it sounds trivial but was dismayed to see that being played out.  I did comment the person who answered, in their retaliation, the downvote of my answer ensued. The person's answer was subsequently marked as accepted (but: meanwhile deleted), and despite that, the OP was new to the arena of Android/Java programming.  What can be done about this?
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I've been finding "answers" that are slapped together and submitted, with the sometimes explicit intention of "I'm going to edit this".  e.g.   This seems silly, and I think ought to be discouraged.  Is the proper response "oh, how annoying", commenting, down-voting, flagging?  I'm heistant on the last two becuase sometimes they are edited (sometimes within the 5min grace) and become good answers, and then there's an unnecessary dv or flag.
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I saw  that the user had self-answered by editing the question. I pointed out that they should really answer the question. I know they wouldn't be able to straight away, but I assumed they'd tried and got the &quot;you need to wait a bit&quot; prompt. However, what I didn't realise was that the message says:  Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because: Users with less than 100 reputation can't answer their own question for 8 hours after asking. You may self-answer in 7 hours. Until then please use comments, or edit your question instead  (my bold). Should we really be suggesting that people put the answer in the question even as a temporary measure? What's the next step for this? Is there any agreement that this phrase should be removed? If there is how do I turn it into a feature request without asking a new question? Should I just ask a new question which is a feature request?
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I have answered . My answer had links to valuable information in context of the problem, but the conclusion was useless (striked through in my answer). Another user gave correct solution to the problem in question, in the comment to the answer.  I decided to quote his comment, so my answer would be more likely upvoted. (I could say also: to make my answer complete and more informational; but to be honest, in the end it is because of the reputation :) )  Although I quoted it, because of the reputation issue, I'm not sure how ethical it is. On the other hand, reputation is just a mechanism for getting quality answers to clearly stated practical questions, in short for the site to have the qualitiy and valuable practical information.   So, my questions are:   is this action ethical? is this action acceptable? does this action indeed add to the quality of solution of the problem in question (e.g for some unknown (probably, but not neccessary, non SO user) surfer who stumbles upon it searching for the solution)?
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You require a reputation of 50 to leave comments on others' questions/answers; the FAQ simply states this as a fact but does not explain it. I'm a new user and I have identified this as an issue very quickly through my own experiences so far. Looking at other questions seems to also provide justification against this 50 reputation requirement for comments on others' questions/answers.      In my own experience, I've seen a few questions like "how do I do x?" then the same poster has answered with "in the end I did it like this: ..." where their solution was perfectly sensible, but there may be some gotchas to watch for - in this case I want to vote up their answer and/or comment on it to point out the potential gotchas, but I can do neither!  To me all of the above seems justification against this rep requirement to comment, so what is the counter-argument and justification for it?
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I posted a comment on the . My comment was:  You will have to work on your [accept rate](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work). Currently it's catastrophic. Zero as in a singularity inside a black hole.  This comment was deleted by someone. I would like to know if showing users that don't know how to accept answers is considered as a bad thing so that I stop doing it or if not why would my comment have been deleted and do only moderators are InRole to delete comments.