Is it improper etiquette to, as long as you're certain, add a comment merely suggesting that they accept the answer? Do I sound like a reputation whore?
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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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I just ran into this while writing .  [I originally wrote:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment on questions that are not your own, and on answers that are not to your own questions   But had to shorten it to:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment]   First, it didn't tell me that I'd gone over the character limit for the title until after I had already tabbed out of the title field.  Second, it didn't tell me how much I'd gone over or anything. I had to copy-paste the text I'd written into my text editor in order to get some real-time feedback on the exact character count, to help figure out how to best shorten it.
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Whenever I submit an answer (a real answer, not some @someone comment) I upvote the question.  I generally do this because if the question is good enough to take time to answer it, it's good enough to be brought to someone else's attention.  Do you do this?  What are your guidelines for upvoting a question that you answer?
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I have come across this scenario on several occasions where a user posts a comment that answers the question. When they receive positive feedback, they post it as an answer. Is this bad practice? In my own case, if I am not 100% sure I will comment first and see if that worked for the OP. Sometimes there are more than one problem and that is why I don't post an answer immediately. Here is an example  that illustrates the issue. Should the first commenter get the credit, or the first answerer?
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I have been reading Stack Exchange for years - mostly not logged in, and have never posted (this is my first). I'm simply not very talkative, and very good at googling.  Recently a few occasions have come up when I've wanted to comment on a question.  I wanted either to ask for, or provide, clarification which did not warrant a new answer.  How do I gain enough reputation to comment without:   asking questions which have already been answered or that I can figure out on my own, or posting my comment like as an answer (i.e. being  rude)?
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Sometimes I post a "good" answer to a question, but then it turns out I missed something.  Someone else comes along and points out my error/omission in a comment, and I change my answer.  My answer is now better, freshly active, and I get more upvotes.    However, I kind of feel that I owe that commenter a little bit of the credit (and therefore rep) for having helped support my answer.  I can upvote the comment, but there's no rep gain for that.  Is there any way I can give the commenter a portion of the rep I gain from further upvotes to what is now our answer?  I don't mind some approved existing solution, or some new totally manual solution, but it seems like it could be automated as well.  A similar question was asked in a comment to an answer here:    and one suggestion (which was not popular) was to find some other questions/answers by the helpful commenter and upvote them.  I'm kind of in agreement that each post should gain upvotes of its own accord, and besides, there may not be enough other posts by that user to fully compensate them for their assistance.
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New users already have a reminder to accept an answer on their question. So I don't see the need in general for this post-answer badgering, even if it is intended to be genuine constructive help (which it almost always isn't). To me it seems like little more than rep greed, especially on a site like StackOverflow where such a reminder comes within 10-20 minutes of posting the answer, and when the comment is clearly intended for the OP to accept the commenter's answer. To me it feels like pressuring the OP to accept their answer before a better answer has a chance to come along (or, as others have put it, rep-whoring).  I know we've talked in the past about , but that deals with the behavior itself. I'm asking about how we should treat the comments after they've come - I'm not sure whether I should send the commenter to the meta question I just linked, flag the comment, or ignore it. Ignoring it doesn't feel right, but saying something in the open might not seem genuine in cases where I have a competing answer.  EDIT I'd like to add something to consider here: the case where a user makes it seem like further discussion or clarification of an answer hinges on an up-vote/accept first. A couple of examples I culled recently, but I don't want to call out the user here (they're both from the same user, on different posts, in response to questions trying to clarify their answer):     consider up-voting my answer if you found it useful first.      up-vote my answer if you found it helpful first.
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Often, I will go to answer a question, and I will notice that someone commented on the question, which basically the answer. Why not just answer instead of commenting? If the answer to the question is in the comments but provided as an answer, should I still provide an answer just for the sake of clarity?
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If I see an answer that involves some illegal activity, such as breaking license agreements, should I then mark this as Offensive or should I simply down-vote it?
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I came across  answer earlier today, which I deemed trivial (all it gave was the solution, not an explanation of why it worked or how to prevent this from happening in the future, and was practically copied from the comments above, which were posted about two minutes before).   I left a comment explaining why I downvoted, and a few people took offense to it:     @RichardJ.RossIII You're downvoting an answer that answers the OPs question? – modifiable lvalue        @RichardJ.RossIII habitually violates the rules. Since this answer is not wrong or dangerous and is in fact useful, it should not be downvoted. +1 to compensate. – Jim Balter   My question is, is there a policy against doing this? Should we, as a community, accept and encourage such answers? Personally, I think the whole question should be deleted, as it is far from useful, but that's not the point here.  Generally speaking, I save my upvotes for answers which either helped me personally, or do an exceptional amount towards answering a question. I downvote a lot, as I have high standards (that's not to say that I'm perfect, however).  The bottom line is this: should I be more conservative with my downvoting patterns?
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I came across  and at the time there were no suggested answers. After reading Mark Hubbart's comment (at the time with four upvotes), which was the correct answer, and seeing that it had been over 30 minutes since his comment, I figured I would provide that answer in my own words, which I did. My answer is longer, and I think more rounded and more useful, but the core of the answer came from the comment. I have no idea if I'd have thought up the answer on my own--a definite maybe to that.  Now had I tried to be "honorable" or something, such as instead of answering, suggesting to the commenter that he make his comment an answer, I would only have accomplished giving away easy rep to some other user not as into gratuitous self-denial.  The commenter had merely to enter his comment into an answer box instead of a comment box! It was his choice! Whether he was too lazy or didn't think his answer worthwhile or some other reason is not my responsibility. Must I bend over backward to help him earn points that he so carelessly left lying around for another person to take? It just took a tiny bit of non-laziness on my part to get my text typed into the box that would reward me instead of the box that wouldn't.  If my perspective is incorrect and the community would rather see such answers-as-comments rewarded and supported, I will gladly accept that. In the meantime, I just want to shake off the tiny bit of guilt my overly-nice and overly-concerned-with-propriety self is feeling. :)
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In light of , it seems that we ought to be able to accept our own answers within the same time limits as accepting someone else's answer. Of course, this notion has been discussed here before (when times were different, mind you):      The crux of the blog post was that it's not only acceptable but encouraged to accept your own answer when you find your own solution. I can accept someone else's answer to my question in as little as 15 minutes, surely I should be able to accept my own answer. I have no rep to gain from this, and the community is better off knowing that there's a solution to my problem or answer to my question. If there's concern about lots of spam here, perhaps this can be a privileged operation, say with 5k rep you can accept your own answers as if they were someone else's answer. One alternative to rep limits would be if previously self-accepted answers (and/or questions with self-accepted answers) have received upvotes, indicating a user is capable of asking and answering their own questions to the satisfaction of the community.  The rationale for my complaint is that lately I've been asking extremely long-tail questions for low-use frameworks/libraries on the site and receive not only low views but no comments or other answers. This leaves me searching for my own solutions, so when I find them I write up reasonable answers that add value to the site (that make the web a better place) and that ultimately I shouldn't have to manage any differently than any of my other questions. At the time of posting, my last  question had 7 views and hits
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I've recently had one member in particular who wastes hours of my time asking/commenting about my posts without contributing anything productive towards answering them. I don't want to appear rude to other members (who obviously wouldn't be aware of the history), so I feel obligated to respond to each comment.   In addition, I've noticed that once this member starts participating I am significantly less likely to get input from other members (probably because they either assume that he's solving the problem, or because they get as big a headache as I do trying to read through the comments), and I'm therefore not getting questions answered if this member responds to them.  I don't believe that it would be appropriate and/or helpful to flag the comments  because there's nothing grossly wrong with a comment when viewed individually, and as far as I understand flags don't affect an individuals privileges.  Is there anything that I can currently do to limit and/or block this member from commenting/answering my posts, and if not, is this something that would be worthwhile considering in the future?
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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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Regarding subjective questions, if you post an answer and get a lot of downvotes, your reputation take a hit, right?  Well, what if you want to stand by your answer?  It's not offensive because it isn't flagged as such, but for whatever reason it just rubs some people the wrong way, and they downvote it.  If you've got the cojones to stand behind your answer regardless of how it effects your rep, how about a badge for that?  Maybe something like, being downvoted 5 times but leaving your answer up for a certain period of time after the 5th downvote.
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Possible Duplicate:             Would it be against etiquette to politely ask someone (perhaps a newer user)—or at least remind them that it's possible—to select a correct answer for a question?  Particularly when it's quite obvious an answer helped, and they used similar code in another related question?
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Here's the situation- someone asks a question, accepts an answer, and then un-accepts the answer, and edits the question, making that answer and other existing answers incorrect...  I've tried to research the issue on Meta and found a few cases of this happening, the general consensus seems to be that its not appreciated and the OP should have asked a new question, but there doesn't seem to be any real mechanism or suggestion as to what to do about it.   Should these cases be flagged for an edit roll back?  Related Questions-      Note- I'd rather not reference the specific case as it would likely draw a lot of negative attention to the asker, and I think keeping it broad would help in other cases.