Yesterday, I asked a question about  in which @Sha Wiz Dow Ard mentioned .  First I thought it needs lot of work but here I found an easy way.   Wait till the question gets closed. An alert appears, "no more answers accepted" and now the post an answer button is disabled. Via developer tools, I remove the disabled attribute and now I tried it worked.   This approach can be easily prevented I guess so, by hiding the button.  Not sure about other methods but this seems to be an easy way to answer to closed question.  I have screenshots,     Since , I guess they won't agree to hide the button.  Anyway just to notify you.
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Question:   Answer:   The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was closed but I swear I've started to answer a question then I got a banner along the top saying "this question has been closed" and the answer was no longer post-able.
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Do not allow people to post the minute they created an account.  Let them ask the question but not allow them to post.  Let them stew for 30 minutes and force them through a nice animated tutorial on what they should do before they post and enforcing the fact that bad questions will not get an answer.  If they had a Need to know! basic rules introduction forced on them asking them at the end to check a box I understand! some might ask better questions and help the community instead of flooding the site with bad questions.  The presentation should be on a timer without the ability to skip and highlight the similar questions asked before that might give them the answer.  Also for the first next 9 posts they should have to check a box next to the first 5 of each similar questions before posting.  I do not mean to be harsh, but the truth is I see more negative votes on questions then positive. It's like 90% of the time people give -1 to first questions.
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I have a situation where different users have asked questions and I answered them. The problem is not that they haven't accepted the answer which can tell me that it is correct or not. But they are actually not responsive and it seems to me that answer is being ignored. Or they asked the question just for the sake of asking.  See -the user was last seen yesterday, the same day it was answered.  -the user was last seen today.   which is also upvoted by a fellow user, but the OP is seen till days after it was answered and is not even commenting.  I went through a lot of question on meta on similar situation such as  where Anna says that it is completely voluntary for users to accept it.   But then again, I believe it is becoming a fashion, to ask a question read the answer as a suggestion and leave it.  It is discouraging me. I am not saying that my answers or suggestions are 100 percent working but I atleast need be told so I can improve it. And more importantly I am not the only one facing this.  Please advise.  EDIT : Well, I got a lot of suggestions from the answers and comments combined below and I have to say that I agree with what Cody Gray has to say and just keep on answering the questions, the returns(good or bad) may be now,later or never and just move on. However, in my own defence I would also say that I did not raised this question to pin point any user but a bad practice that I find worthy of discussing. Thanks.
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I just had a random thought; what if you append "[closed]" to the end of a question title. Is it filtered out, or in some way disallowed?  If you are seeing this, it isn't. It could potentially be used for some trickery, right? Or maybe not. I don't know, that's why you're here: discuss!  EDIT: Just a recap: Juan Manuel edited and removed "[closed]" from the end of the title and then answered (see below) - but it is technically possible.  Edit 2: Looks like it's still possible, if you play silly tricks with Unicode. (There's a  character in the new title.)
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is locked  with the following notice:     This question and answer are a collaborative effort: if you see something that can be improved, edit it!    Except that while the answer can be edited because it's a Community Wiki question, the question itself  can't be, because it's locked. I don't know the reason why it was locked, but maybe the notice's text should be changed or omitted? (I have no opinion on whether the question should stay locked or not.)
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Recently I just deleted one of my answer in stackoverflow where there was one comment. After deleting the answer it also show for sometime that we all know but in the comment it still allow us to up to make it useful but as I clicked it it just showed me the message:  If we are not allowed to do then what was the meaning? Why don't it just be removed or make it disable if the answer is deleted. Just don't show UI for actions that can't be actioned
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Checking the moderator tools this morning I see 60 not-an-answer flags out of which only a several I could agree with. The rest were just bad answers, wrong answers or lazy answers.  The way I understand from experience, is that an answer is not-an-answer if the contents of the post cannot be interpreted as an attempt to answer the question. This usually means that the answer post amounts to asking a question to the poster's own problem, asking for clarification, spam etc.   However, the description for the flag says:     This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.   Does not answer the question. To me (and apparently to many others, even ) that says a very different thing that the flag should be used for. Technically incorrect answers do not answer the question but they are still answers, though low quality. Low quality vague suggestions don't really answer the question but they are still answers. Not-an-answer flags for these have typically been declined.  In my opinion, these type of answers should just be downvoted until the poster naturally deletes it themselves (or 3 trusted users vote deletion) and everyone gains their reputation back.  So my question is, should the not-an-answer flag description be clarified seeing as there is so much noise being generated?  Here are some examples:   - lazy/bad/wrong answer.  - ditto  - ditto    My question is different from . I flat out just want to change the flag description and not require people to read that post in meta or get their flags declined to understand how the flag should be used.
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If I edit a question and then click the "close" link, it doesn't work. Nothing appears on the screen and I'm forced to reload the page before the link works.  A  covers similar ground (except my edit wasn't inline), however this was apparently fixed.  (I've tagged as  as this is the only site I have the reputation to reproduce the issue on.)
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The locked and closed question  has an  that contains an anti-pattern, .  I tried to edit and to comment, which both did not work, as this is a . Yet, it would be nice if it could avoid advertising anti-patterns.  Is there any way to amend the answer, or any alternative?
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What happened to the close vote option for posts that describe an error or unexpected result but don't include the relevant code or any code!? This is on of the two most popular I use.. What am I supposed to do about questions like  now!?  I just also noticed "must show minimal understanding" is missing as well. After reading over the new option again, I am supposing that the intention is to use "not likely to be helpful for future viewers" for both of these?
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How should SO handle users who don't "maintain" their questions by selecting answers, or remarking newer/better answers as the chosen one?  Many questions...   Have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there Are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer   I don't mind taking the time to answer questions, but don't see the point when I don't get "reputation" for doing so since no one reads those questions, and reputation seems to be the point of the site.  I think the "remind to accept an answer" feature is there now, since I just saw it when coming back.  I missed it the first time though.
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Is there ever a case where you would want to accept an answer, but not upvote it?  I can't think of a single situation where this would be the case.. So would it not make sense to have the "Accept" button upvote the answer too?
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I understand  that they don't hide the vote buttons, instead they display an error message if the action is not allowed (for example upvoting your own answer). But then why doesn't the vote buttons shown in locked questions? According to his design logic there should be vote buttons in locked questions too and clicking them should give a message like:     You can't vote on locked questions/answers.
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I've noticed this a few times on the Feed activity on the Android app, but never thought anything of it.  Why does this question (How To auto enable checkbox?) appear as "Unanswered" when there is an icon which denotes there are 5 answers, one of which has been marked as the answer?  Dragging down to refresh doesn't seem to clear the unanswered flag either.  Device: Nexus 5
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Locking of questions is currently in place, and is typically used in cases like halting edit wars. However, instead of locking an entire question and its answers, I think that it would also be beneficial to able to lock individual answers, leaving the question and other answers still active.  Some reasons why I think it would be useful:   If an answer falls prey to an edit war: Admittedly, I haven't actually seen this happen for an answer, just questions. But locking only the answer would be a helpful option in such a case. For specific use on MetaSO: There are a number of questions on MetaSO that have the form where the question is simply a container for a general class of feature request, with the answers representing the specific individual feature requests that are accepted or declined. For example, . Some of the retagging suggestions in the answers have been completed, and these are indicated with a "DONE" icon placed at the top (example ). However, the answer can still be edited, voted on, and commented on, which isn't really of any use now that the request has been filled. The answer could be deleted, but then there's no record of previously suggested and accepted requests. It would be nicer if the answer alone could be locked, freezing the editing, voting, and commenting so that it can simply remain there for posterity.   So, what's the community's take? Is this a useful/feasible feature request?    EDIT: As Kyle so adeptly pointed out with his answer, this feature is already enabled. In short, you pretty much can't do anything to a locked answer... unless you're a mod, in which case you can unlock it.  As a summary, here's what you can't do to locked answers:   Edit Up/downvote Flag Mark as accepted (I was kinda surprised by this one) Comment Upvote comments Flag comments
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You normally answer a question and you have the opportunity to answer again. The second time, a message is shown suggesting the use of the edit tool, but I think it's kind of wrong. I mean, if you answer something and then you want to say anything else you know that you must use edit.  Why not disable the answer button if you already have an answer?
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I recently downvoted an answer on SO because I believe it didn't actually answer the question, and before I could add a comment, the answer had been deleted. Two minutes later, I looked at the question again, and the same user had re-posted his answer, without the downvote.  I've seen this guy remove answers with negative feedback/downvotes in the past and repost them exactly as they were. My biggest concern is that by getting round the system this way will hide legitimate feedback that may be very relevant to whoever asked the original question.  I feel there's an argument for requiring a vote to close ANY answer or question with any kind of feedback. Personally, I've only ever deleted one question that had answers, because I realised there wasn't an easy way to explain what I was asking, and realised shortly after I posted it that it wasn't possible anyway.