What should we do when the website concept conflicts with the functionality?  Recently am participating actively on  and as the website is new and in beta, the questions are less, traffic is less, inorder to contribute helpful questions, I tend to use "Answer your own Question" functionality to provide decent recommendations if am using those software on my personal computer, or on my cell phone.  But this conflicts with the website concept. I got a comment on my answer which says        And I've no way to prove that am not, so what to do in these conditions? I already raised a question on respective meta, but I wanted to know what should we do when the SE functionality conflicts with the website concept?   Should users stop answering their own question? If yes than should we revoke the functionality for a particular website? If no than what should I do so that users don't think that am affiliated with the developers?   I have a decent reputation on Stackoverflow and I know what does the community expect. Whenever I contribute some screenshot, or some piece of explanation, I tend to write a Credit note below each answer, so am not that cheap to confess that yes, the developer paid me to post an answer but that's not the case here.  This will lead to grudges amongst users.
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I asked a  recently, looking for examples of an online tool. Per the , I answered my own question with a few examples that I had already found. I did this so that these examples would be included in the answers, along with the rest.  The question has received only down votes and insults saying that this shouldn't be done.   Should I not answer my own questions?
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I regularily encounter questions on StackOverflow which are asked only because of the sole fact that the poster haven't made the effort to google for and the docs of a particular function/class/framework/whatever. My question is, to which category of the five proposed one should I vote when I vote to close the question? Is it: off-topic, not constructive, not a real question, exact dupe or too localized? I tend to be all for 'not a real question' - am I quite right?
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Please have a look at . When the question was asked by the OP, it had a scope related problem in the code snippet posted in it. 2 answers were posted for that question. But after the answers were posted, a friend of mine from Stack Overflow, edited the question(not sure with what intention) in such a way that the bug in the code was gone(it actually self answered the question). Please have a look at the question revision history, where I've rolled back the question to the original state, which has the problem in place.  My question is that, should such a practice be allowed/encouraged that an edit to a question renders all the answers posted for that question, totally irrelevant? As anybody who comes to have a look at the question later, will be highly confused as to why a question was asked without any problem and there were so many answers posted to it(not everybody cares to go through the revision history)? I happened to notice that, but not everybody would notice it.
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The story:   Question posted on Programmers (let's call it ), Same question posted on Code Review (let's call it ), I migrate Q1 to Code Review, Someone notices that Q1 is a duplicate of Q2 and votes to close, I notice the duplicate notice and the auto-generated comment and also try to vote to close, but can't. No error message, nothing, it just doesn't work.   And then I notice that Q2 no longer exists ("voluntarily removed by its author"). My guess is the OP also noticed the duplicate vote, realized how messy cross posts are and decided to be a good citizen and delete one of the two questions. He picked the wrong one though, and now we're left with a duplicate notice pointing to a non existent question and an unresponsive dialog.  It's a mess ;) A weird and rare mess, but still a mess. What can we do about it?
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I often use Stack Exchange sites from my smartphone. It works great, but I always have to switch to full version to see view counts of a question. Can you please add it? There's plenty of space on question page for it to place. I request community to suggest a location.
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Recently, I've seen many questions with this structure:   a wall of code a request for the community to debug it by inspection   You can find a nice selection .  I offer, as a thesis, that these questions are not consistent with the stated goals of SO. They do not, usually, create a resource of use to other people.   As a community, we could politely but firmly tell these askers to do enough of their own work to come up with a concrete, specific, programming question, other than 'can someone tell me what's wrong with this?'  Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic to people with problems. I have not been downvoting or voting to close these, because the community seems to be inclined in general to be helpful. I'm asking, are we really doing the right thing by encouraging the site to populate with these?  If the consensus is 'yes' then I'll just slink back to my cave. I'm not interested in starting a campaign here.
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I've been lurking Stack Overflow whenever I had a problem for at least the last 2+ years. More times than not, I find my solution (or cobble one together) before I get frustrated enough to have the innernets help me with my specific custom problem.  Many times, the only commentary I would be able to add would be "thanks!" which really only wastes bits and bandwidth.  I understand implementing measures to keep the bots and SEO kids out, but sometimes it's a PITA to start participating in a community.  If you couldn't extract my question from the above rant (or title), this might be a little more clear:  Why do I require 15 reps to just up-vote something?  I feel like it's kinda silly.  Additionally, I noticed the quote off to the left:     We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.   yet I have looked around here and haven't been able to find any justifiable explanation.
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About a month ago, we rolled out a new feature: . So far, the reception has been mostly positive, and I've definitely seen    posted in this form. But I've also seen something else, a side-effect you may have seen discussed here on MSO:     Ignore for a moment the specific details of the Q&amp;A pairs discussed in those two posts, and note the following: three poorly-asked questions, questions that ordinarily would have been closed, down-voted, and/or edited... But instead sparked a small outrage among the members who came across them. Now, we've known for years that self-answered questions can be problematic. Asking is hard. Answering is hard. Asking a question when you already know the answer can be even harder to do well. But that is - or rather, that should be - beside the point: plenty of people ask really terrible questions without bothering to answer them, and we've certainly managed to handle them over the years. If normal community-moderation is failing when it comes to self-answered questions, that's a problem. These are edge-cases at the moment. But if we're trying to encourage more use of this form to share knowledge on Stack Exchange (), it's something that needs to be faced. I'm presenting one possible solution below (in true gratuitous self-answer fashion), but what do you think? Would some other option work better? Is this even a real problem?
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Now whenever I get to a SE answer from Google, the site yells at me:  Welcome back! If you found this question useful, don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.  Is there a way to disable it? I'm quite aware of how to vote on questions and answers and it's annoying to see it every time I click on questions (sometimes many times in a day). Perhaps this could go along with some rep requirement. At least have an option to only nag me once a week or something like that?
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I have come upon the situation where I see a question that really interests me.  I have nothing to add to this question at the moment, not a comment not answer but I'm particularly interested in what people have to say about this.  This leads me to think that in this situation, the favorite isn't enough.  My argument:  One of the main ideas of this site is that the questions you post may help others too, so that "allows me" to be as interested as the OP in the answers and comments to that question. (Even though it's not mine).  This is why I think that the favorite doesn't "notify enough", in the case where you want to be a very active participant/viewer of the question, even though you didn't ask it yourself.  Just to clarify, you should receive the same notifications as if you had asked the question.  The counter-argument:  I realize that this is particular situation, it is not every question that you would need to do this in every question.  It would probably need another button in the SE interface, and that is a BIG change.  It may mean too much information if over used.  Conclusion:  Despite this I think it would make a pretty good and useful feature that would benefit the site because of a greater user involvement in a question.  Thanks in advance.    EDIT: As ChrisF points out in his comment there is also the RSS feed, I'm not a big fan and I like to keep my inbox very clean, but it true that it is quite similar to what I have "requested". The difference is that this feature keeps everything on-site.       Somehow related:
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Questions like looking for css templates, blog templates, icons ... In general, resources (let's leave the licensing terms aside for now) which you might need when building a project of your own. Where should those questions go?  They're definitely not on-topic on Stack', SuperUser maybe although I doubt it. Webapps? Hmm, probably not.  Is there a place where they would be on-topic on the SE network?
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I have a post that I made to share with others my experience of app submission to the iOS App Store. I don't know what I should do except post a question and answer it myself. I don't know how to move it to any other appropriate spot than Questions, and I keep getting down votes, because technically it is not a question. Instead, it's some experience I considered valuable to share with others.  So what I should do about this?    What happened after I post this question here yesterday:  After I post the question here, I drawn some attentions to my original post on Stack overflow,  and got a lot of down votes. I understand that it was not a real question. I mentioned it is not a Q&amp;A and even vote for closing the question myself, however I still got a lot of down votes. Then what happened is the system banned me from asking questions again...  Now I am in the big trouble.
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I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there.  Or, I had an idea for a new feature, but realized it's already requested, either by searching or posting a request myself only to have it closed as a duplicate of the existing one. It's been a while since the original request was filed, but no official response has been made.   I'm aware that staff members are , but either my post isn't about one of the indicated topic areas for which they're accepting escalation requests for that month, or I already flagged to request escalation but it was declined, so the instructions there don't apply for my post.  What can I do to draw attention to meta questions for the SE team, so they can give an official response, and possibly implement the bug fix or feature?  Note: This is different from other general questions which ask for how to get attention for unanswered questions, since the procedures on meta sites are different, and getting an official response isn't necessarily the same as getting a good answer.
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What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?  There are two flavors:   A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an example right now, but it's bound to happen soon if it hasn't already. The same question is posted in two places at the same time. Take  for example, which is a duplicate of , posted within a half hour of each other by the same user.   Possible actions:   Move it to the proper site and close it once it gets there as a duplicate. Provide a way to close it right away as a cross-site duplicate, without moving it first. Flag it and let a moderator merge them. Close it as "no longer relevant" or something else.   Additionally, flavor 2 is a bit of a special case; perhaps the question really spans both sites in terms of content and intended audience. Should multiple-postings in this case be allowed? If so, should they somehow be linked to each other? If not, how do we avoid a migration war?
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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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I have a question on Super User that was closed as an exact duplicate. In my opinion this is in error, the other question is similar in that they both revolve around the presence or lack of the same feature however the two questions approach the feature from distinct use cases. At present the answer to the two questions IS the same, however in time, because their purposes differ, a third party solution could arrive to one or the other which does not solve both use cases. Having one question closed prevents it being (potentially) answered.  Admittedly, in the initial versions of the question was not worded so the differences were apparent, so it was valid to close it. Now it has been revised so the differences are clear. Adding a comment or editing and old question doesn't get fresh eyes on it, no front page exposure. So what does one do? Ask a question like this here on meta? Ask the question anew with the better phrasing?  There is another meta question asking about this, , but the theme is quite different, being about appealing a closure in the milieu of flame wars and off-topic debates.
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Should we flag tiny "Have you tried this..?" type of answers?  I have been always inconsistent to this type of answers about in flagging part. Based on  example;   If this answer is a question (just for asking if he/she tried it or not), it should be a comment. This answer could be as a comment also and it would be better as a comment. But I don't think writing it as answer is wrong because the suggestion/solution could be the right answer also.   I always feel unstable when I see answers like that.  What is the right act to this type of answers? Should I flag them?