The OP was trying to put his answer in a question, but this was rejected as radical change. Should I copy this answer from the question and place it as a new answer?   Without copying this information it is simply rejected and lost.  Sample copied answer:
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Reference question:   Sometimes users solve their own questions, which is great. Sometimes they say they've solved it and move on, which is not so great. The above question is middle-ground: the user posted an answer to his own question, but as an edit to the question instead of as a real answer.  Should any action be taken in such a case? The obvious solution is to copy the edit into a real answer. But is this the right solution? In this case, the answer is a little hidden and there are no other answers, so it appears on the unanswered list.     Related:
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While my code is compiling, I usually like to go through some reviewing and especially the late answers.  What I do see a lot in answers to old questions is the self-defense mechanism     ""   As if there is something fundamentally wrong with answering old questions. This leads me to two questions/thoughts:   Should we edit phrases like that out of the answer? (Given it's a good/valid answer to begin with, without any of the likely "old answer" problems. I realize the example linked to has its flaws.) Should we perhaps explicitly encourage answering old unanswered questions somewhere in the FAQ? (I'm unaware of any such recommendation, but might have read over it. Let me know if I did)
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I  to the question "" which was specific to the question asked.  Another user engaged positively with my answer, as there was a small conversation thread.  That person then  and made what I would say are minor modifications (the comments I left in my original code that pertained to the specific case are still in the places where he made edits to be more specific).  The answer does acknowledge that it is a general case of my specific code.  Ignoring the fact that I'm involved in it, what should one do when seeing this situation?  The only thing I can think of, and I'm not sure that it's necessarily the right solution, is to flag the answer for moderator attention.  Other possible actions, which I believe are wrong, are:   Editing the answer; that would change its intent Voting the answer down; it's a technically correct answer   One could leave a comment, but that can lead to confrontation and escalation (depending on the parties involved) which would be counterproductive.  The only thing I've done, which is not really related, is edit the answer to hyperlink the already existing attribution (but I do this as a regular edit for any answer which explicitly references another).  What's the best approach here, if any?
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Look at this . The title and question body are the same. I think this is not a good practice. Is it possible to create a mechanism to force a user to give a brief description which is different from the title?
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I saw the same problem as in this () post  on Math.SE. I want to pay attention on it, because it linked post is written that this bug has been yet fixed.     Quote comes from  :      I noticed this anomaly after clicking the "load new answers" link :      As far as I can tell, this was caused by the following sequence of   events:         I loaded the question with one accepted answer and left the tab open for a while.   Meanwhile, a new answer was posted and the OP changed this to be the accepted answer.   I returned to the tab, noticed the "load new answers" banner, and clicked it.   The new answer got loaded, but now both were shown as accepted.         Of course, refreshing the page fixes the issue.
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I made a mistake today.  I . (A C# question, no less. My head is truly hanging in shame.) Unfortunately, by the time this was pointed out, the answer had already been accepted.  Another answer has been posted which is correct. It has more votes than mine, and mine has some downvotes (still a balance of upvotes, but...) Unfortunately because the answer has been accepted, I can't delete my answer. I've edited it so that it's correct - it won't mislead anyone any more - but I'd far rather delete it to let the original correct one float to the top.  In this case I suspect it won't be a real problem - the question author is reasonably regular, so hopefully he'll transfer acceptance to another answer reasonably soon. However, I can easily foresee situations where this wouldn't happen.  Could I suggest that the author of the accepted answer should be able to delete it, if the answer has received some threshold of downvotes (e.g. 3)? Deleting the answer straight away would have been preferable to editing it to be correct, effectively duplicating the effort already put in by Luis Filipe in this case.  I understand the "we don't want to lose value" argument for not letting a question author delete their own question after it's had good answers, but if an answer has received downvotes (so at least some of the community think it's harmful) and the answer's author thinks it should be removed, I think that should override the questioner's choice.
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Using the following assumption:   If two questions are both equal to the same question, then they are equal to each other.  Therefore, the answer to one of them is also the answer to another.   And the following question are considered duplicate:       However, I think that to answer two duplicate questions with duplicate answers would just be seen as spam, so I currently leave only one.   But I'm not sure for Where it is preferred to place the answer to duplicate questions?.
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I answered a question and my answer was: (pick one)   Deleted Converted to a comment Added to my question as an edit   Why was this?  Why was my answer not acceptable?  What is the definition of an acceptable answer on Stack Exchange?
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I just asked my first question on stackoverflow and I'm really impressed that my question seems to be answered sufficiently already! See:    The issue I have is that the last two answers combined would provide the most complete answer. What's the proper way to go about combining them, marking the question answered, and giving credit where credit is due?  Thanks big time guys for saving us all from experts exchange hell!  Edit: Wow, 5 responses in 5 minutes. I think what makes the most sense is that I create my own answer out of the two. I don't think the second part of my question was answered though.  What is the proper way to give credit to the 2 answers that I'm combining? Is an upvote for each sufficient?
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Following sequence of events occurred on :   First answer was posted, but was wrong. I posted my answer, which was correct :-) First answer was then modified to match my answer (with attribution)   Meanwhile, the first answer got a total of four up-votes, some from when it was still wrong. My answer has one. There is no accepted answer yet.  I guess this falls into the "grin-and-bear-it-and-move-on" category? What are the ethics of essentially posting a different answer which is still timestamped with the time of an earlier, incorrect answer? Is this flaggable?
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A couple of days ago  for a problem I had.  I got no answers, but almost by chance I solved my problem.  I am not quite sure if the question and answer are really relevant given that the solution was so simple.  So I have a question on the question:   Should I answer it (moving current Update 2 as an answer) and in a couple of days accept my own answer, so that question and answer are part of the archive? Should I ask for an administrative closing of the question, so the question reminds in the archive but not as an answered question? Should I ask for deletion of the question, so the question is removed for the archive?
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I have a question about editing practices:  Does it look good to edit a question you have just answered?  For example: say I had just answered a question, then saw that the question had some minor formatting issues. Should I edit it? Does it turn up voters off when they see that I am answering a question I changed, possibly to better suit my answer?
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I had a problem earlier this day and started .  To get stuff done, I eventually decided to circumvent the problem by doing it completely different. This means that I won't be able to try out and accept new answers, as my code has changed so much. There are already answers but they don't solve the problem.  Should I   delete the question? add a comment or edit it stating that the question is abandoned? just do nothing and waste other people's time thinking about it?
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One of the odd patterns I've noticed on SO goes something like this:   Person A asks a question. Person B very quickly delivers the minimum viable answer, with minimal explanation. B's answer starts to receive votes for being 'correct' even though it may not actually help the poster due to its sparseness. Person C started composing their answer at the same time as B, but instead delivers a detailed, well thought out reply with examples and explanations. They receive fewer points due to the time difference since they took longer to compose their answer. Person B then later edits their answer to include more detail to a similar quality as C's. People tend to be more generous with points to the earlier answer so the effect continues.   This strikes me as a cheap way of gaming the system for points by just making sure you have a 'correct' answer as soon as humanly possible to be available for votes.  My question is whether or not this is a behavior that should be discouraged or not, and if so - what could be done about it.  If there is a consensus that this is to be discouraged, I'd like to suggest that for very new question, for the first 15 minutes or so - answers given appear in a random order, and the number of points for each are not shown (except to moderators) and only the voting arrows appear - this would eliminate this kind of pattern I've identified and encourage higher quality answers out of the gate by eliminating order effects and the first poster advantage.
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I just got a review audit where the "late answer" was a duplicate of the accepted answer, but flagging it on that basis failed the review. That seems like a bug to me.  Question here:   I found that by clicking the question to view the entire Q&amp;A, and noticed that the copy was from a generic "user12345" account (probably with 1 rep as well) and the original from a real-looking account. Viewing the whole Q&amp;A is often useful when reviewing, especially late answers (which are often repeats of earlier points, disagreements with those, or random addendums better submitted as edits). I looked at the duplicate and thought "weird, rep harvesting maybe?" so I clicked "needs moderator attention" and wrote "copy and paste of accepted answer". FAIL!  I think that this review type can't ever work, because to avoid the problem I found you'd need to make up whole new "late answers" which by definition the review bot can't know anything useful about. Either that or to pass you'd just need to take any action at all, including upvoting the original of the duplicated answer. Which I didn't do, BTW, because I had no idea or opinion about the question or answer.  (this is not a duplicate of "What are review tests", it predates that and focuses on a particular defect within the process. See the comments below).
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I saw this question:   I don't know what the best option is for dealing with such a question, because I've seen questions like this several times already.  So, what should we do with questions that are:   poorly asked finally answered by the OP as an update to the question itself, not as an answer.
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My question concerns . I asked the question, and at the time selected the correct answer. However, time passes and libraries get updated, and now a different answer is actually correct.   I should probably select this new answer as the correct answer, but I feel bad for the person that will lose 15 reputation points even though is answer was the a good answer at that given point in time.  Any suggestions?