This may be a duplicate, but I did a thorough search and couldn't find it.   It would be useful to have the original question visible when composing an answer. I often want to reference the question to use the askers variable names, and check my wording.
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Right now in the iOS app, I have to save my answer as a draft in order to view the question. Since I'm often referring back to the question, this is inconvenient and less friendly than the old app (although many other things are improved!)  I would love to be able to glance back, either by scrolling up, by showing the Q on the right, or any other means.   Thanks for the awesome app and community!
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I came upon a question where I wanted to make an edit, but I wasn't sure if it would change the original meaning of the question - as I did not know enough about the subject material to be sure.   I could wait for another user to come around and make the edit, but perhaps they wouldn't notice the problem that I wanted to edit. I could also suggest the edit in the comments, but it is such a minor nitpick of grammar that I seemed like a waste of a comment.   Of course, I can't just let a minor grammatical mistake go unnoticed.   So my suggestion is to allow an editor to mark an edit to instead be suggested to the author for approval, if the author believes it does not sufficiently alter the meaning of the question. It would pop up under their usual notification area to approve or reject a suggested edit.   This is different than the 5k/mod suggested edits version in that it would be from a user who could have edited the question, but still seeks the approval of the original poster.
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In addition to the highlighting comments made by the question owner (as described ), I think it would be a good idea to highlight comments left by the author of the answer being commented on. This way, the conversation between asker and answerer is more defined/obvious. Edit: This is an edit to bring this to the site owners attention again - It would help people like me with bad eyesight to track down their comments. I originally opposed the questioner highlighting, but experience has shown me that I was wrong, and I think that answerer highlighting of comments would be very useful.
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When asking for more information on a question or answer, it's not uncommon to see something along the lines of "Let me just use my crystal ball" or another such remark, to indicate that the person asking the question (which is the more common instance of this) or providing an answer needs to give more information or code because the question or answer simply does not give the information needed, probably skirting around important chunks of code.  Is there a better way to ask for more information? Perhaps a system could be implemented in which a viewing user can "request" more information, users who request more information are displayed on the question or answer as having done so and the user who asked or answered is notified. When the question or answer is updated, everyone who requested more information is notified as well.
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For the second time (IIRC) since I have joined SO, I have found the answer on my own, immediately (within minutes) after posting the question. I answered my own question the first time, but seeing that there are some "scandals" where people ask and answer, just to get reputation, I am not so sure anymore. Sure I can select my own answer after 2 days, but I am confused.
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I have had to delete a few questions and answers and really wanted to make mods know why I deleted them, as it stands I would have to revive my answer to explain the reason. With questions once its gone its gone.   It would be nice to have a little field that allows you to select why you deleted something:   Eg. "Deleted cause I answered the wrong question", "Deleted cause I made a trivial logic mistake" etc..
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I just would like to know if a question or an answer saved draft is visible to someone else, apart from the OP.  Will a copy of a saved draft remain visible even after it has been deleted? Who has access to it?
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On Software Engineering I've been adding a message along these lines to old(ish) questions that have enough answers to be CW if they start getting new answers.     Please read all of the existing answers before posting yours. The question is relatively old and has a reasonable number of answers already. There is a good chance that your answer has already been posted.   I know most people don't read dialogs and just click "OK" to get through them, but if we can stop a few people adding to such questions then it's got to be good right?  The age of the question and the number of existing answers required that trigger this message can be configurable.
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I might want to answer my own question because:  I arrived at a solution before there were any other correct answers or I like mine better, can I still answer my own question?  I have a folder with lists of code snippets for things I always forget or get wrong, such as regular expressions for processing XML, common WinForms control idioms, etc. Is it considered poor etiquette for Stack Overflow to ask a question I already know the answer to, and then self answer, just so it gets recorded on the website?   Related:          For more information, see &quot;&quot; in the .
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Similar to '', is it also ok to add an example?   I was going to  but I noticed that one answer had most of the things I needed to say, except perhaps that the questioner didn't perhaps understand the answer and  I feel that an example may help.
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If I have taken an idea or quote from somewhere I will of course reference it properly. However my question is every time I mention someone e.g  'Joe Bloggs said..."  do I need to reference every time I mention that person if I have referenced him at least once?  Or if I say 'this proof is given by xyz book'  if I have ready referenced xyz book do I need to reference it every-time I mention the name of the book?
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I recently posted a question that quite promptly got a number of decent answers. One of those answers led me to a closely related but slightly different question. What's the best way to bring up that additional question? I could..   ask the new question in an "answer" to my original question (this is what I did, but it's kind of colder and, I suspect, less likely to be seen by people), edit my original question to include the second one, or post a new question.   Any thoughts?
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Having recently reviewed a few suggested edits, I've found that not being able to see the comments on the post is hindering my understanding of the context of some edits.  In particular, there have been a few posts where someone has made a substantial edit to a question or answer which significantly alters its meaning. Typically I'd reject that as "too radical", since it can't be known that the new meaning of the post was what the original author intended.  However, in some cases it is clear from the comments that the original author is aware of the intended change, and as such the editor is not in fact misrepresenting the author's intentions. In these cases, it would have been useful to see the comments when making the review decision.  As an example, a common cause of this is when an inexperienced user is asked to clarify their question, and ends up writing a comment that would be better off as an edit to the question (due to length, excess code content, etc), presumably due to lack of awareness that the question can be edited. Often, other users will helpfully edit the question to include the information the OP put in the comment (see ,  and  for examples). In this situation, it is clear that the edit reflects the OP's intentions, but this information is only present in the comments which are not visible in the review interface.  Following is the suggested edit screen showing the suggested edit. It seems indentation is increased and one line is moved a few lines upwards and some empty lines added to increase readability. But it look like an invalid edit since changing the related line may cause alteration on the runtime. So not looks lie a valid edit. Better open the answer and examine it        Checking the Q&amp;A itself reveals that a talk had taken place between the OP and the answerer and revision done by the OP with the permission of the answerer. So it was indeed a valid edit.        In short: is there any particular reason comments are not displayed in the suggested edit review interface? I think it would add useful contextual information when making review decisions, and presumably this would be trivial to implement.  Note: this is not a dupe of , as it does not concern comments posted after the suggested edit.
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This has happened to me at least 3 times in the past few weeks. Basically, a user asks a question. I put some time and thought in an answer and reply to their question. I come back a bit later to see if they have commented on my answer and I don't have any notifications. Fine then, I check my list of recent answers but I can't find it in there. Perplexed, I check my browser history and retrace the question   I'm not sure what the purpose of this is, but perhaps someone could clear it up for me? Why do people do that? Is it because they realized what the answer was themselves? In this case, they should probably post an answer and accept it, to help other people who will encounter the same problem? Maybe from the answers they were given, they realized that the question's answer was obvious, and are ashamed of having asked it? Even in this case, I still don't think they should delete the question, but instead accept an answer and thus reward those who gave time answering their question, and maybe help others with the same problem in the future.  Am I the only one seeing this or is this a common problem? I wish I could retrace all the times this has happened to me. Is there something that can be done against this?
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Are the questions submitted on SO and other SE sites initialized with 1 view, or does the first view belong to the user who posted it?  Why is a question given a free first view? It just appears, as soon as the question is published.
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There are times when I'd like to communicate something to the Stack Overflow community but it doesn't fit a question.  Right now, I have the product of many answers (a bunch of code) I'd like to share back but can't.  If each user had a blog or wiki (or something) they could create articles / blogs on and then link the related SO questions to it. You could then add an icon to those questions to show there is also more expansive information available.  By linking to the questions, this means anyone could author articles addressing a question outside of the scope of the more simple Q/A scenario.  Of course, many people have blogs but they must link that in a not so immersive fashion and not everyone has a blog (and also many blogs are inadequate in displaying text from a coding viewpoint (e.g. formatting code). Folding such a mechanism into SO would open up all sorts of creative opportunities and make the site even more sticky for users.  I think it's a winner and I'd use it for sure.
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I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for.  Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned.  What's the best way to do this, if nobody else has asked the exact question I did?  Should I ask the question myself, and immediately post my own answer?  Or should I mark the question as a tutorial in the title?  ("Tutorial: How to ABC when using XYZ")