Is it OK for me to use ideas from someone else's answer in mine? For example, if I post an answer, and someone else posts an answer or comment with an additional idea, can I incorporate their idea into my answer?
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Possible Duplicate:             This question will probably be closed in a few minutes. It is a duplicate but I couldn't find the question using with meta search.  Anyway, , . In this case, is vote to close the new question as a possible dublicate not the best choice? Looks to me a little bit not ethical.
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I asked a question that has been marked as a duplicate. I read a lot of similar questions and explanations in advance but I couldn't find a solution. In the question that should answer my question the asker used a different (not working) approach. There is even an answer that would work for my case however I'd rather consider it as a workaround than a solution since I have seen examples using my approach.  So I would like your opinion in that case. Would it be ok to repost my question while explaining why other answers didn't help me? I edited my question but I think it's not getting any attention anymore. Naturally I will remove the old question.
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In the following situations, which answers should I accept?   I have ask a question and get two identical answers. Sometimes, none of the answers completely answers my question.  But, I will get a complete answer if I combine two of them together. Suppose someone answers my question but I'm not sure it really helps me so I leave a comment. Then another person explains it to me and helps solve my problem. Should I accept the answer given by the first person?     Example for 3rd case:--  Here  answer was given by Marc but explained in details by Barry. So should I accept the answer given by Marc. I have told Barry that he can post his comment as answer but he did not do that.
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Instead of asking a question I would love to share the one or other code snippet I have created that is too small to make a full article on e.g. CodeProject.com or CodePlex.com.  Question: Would it be a good idea to post it as a Stack Overflow question? Or are there any other suggestions how to share it?  (Of course I could post it on my own weblog and then twitter about it, but I would love to put it in more of a programming context)
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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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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")
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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 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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I was recently in a bit of a quandary over which answer to accept to .  Of the answers I got, two were the clear leaders and, of course, I up-voted both. Choosing a 'winner' was more difficult though as their approaches were quite different.  Answer A addressed my question and provided a clear and well thought out response. I'd anticipate that this answer would be of most use to a user who found my question via a search. Selecting this would probably be the more community-focused way to go.  Answer B took a more lateral approach and made some guesses at the business logic behind my request, suggesting that I might be asking the wrong question. Their solution was based on this assumption - and they were spot on. Answer B formed the basis of my fix for the problem.  So... Best answer to the question or best solution to the problem - they may not always be the same thing.   I took the selfish approach and went with B. I'm not losing sleep over it, but I do wonder if I did the right thing?
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I just posted a question to  and afterward realized that it might not be answered very quickly due to how specific it was. So I also posted it on the   I plan to update both the SU and Ubuntu posts with the final answer I end up using, but I can't help but feel users from both places might not like that I've posted to both.  So my question is: Is it frowned upon to post the same question elsewhere and link to it?
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I placed a bounty on one of my questions, and I'm thinking of accepting one answer but awarding a bounty to another. Is this possible and is it socially acceptable? (Re the former, , but re the latter it seems a bit of a strange thing to do.) Roughly speaking, my reasoning is that one of the answers that came in after I placed the bounty shows a lot of effort and tackled some specific issues that I raised, using skills I didn't have. But another, earlier answer might be a nicer summary answer.
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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 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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I would like to help my fellow Stackizens, using material from my blog or other website.  But external links are sometimes viewed as excessive promotion.  From the FAQ:     Be careful, because the community   frowns on overt self-promotion and   tends to vote it down and flag it as   spam. Post good, relevant answers, and   if they happen to be about your   product or website, so be it. However,   you must disclose your affiliation in   your answers. Also, if a huge   percentage of your posts include a   mention of your product or website,   you're probably here for the wrong   reasons.   I have tried posting answers that reference my blog, and I have followed the above rules, but my answers still get flagged as spam.  How can I craft an answer that references my blog, website or other resource, but is still acceptable to the community?
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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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If a link has gone stale in an answer, what is the correct way to report this in the SO universe?  e.g. Jon's first link in    I have added a comment but not found the correct link yet.
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I am often getting into this situation where I give an answer to a question and by the time I post it, others also provide almost the same answer. Now people who answered along with me are commenting that how my answer is different from them. I am bit embarrassed and I honestly tell that by the time I posted my answer, other answers also posted just in a matter of minutes.  So later I will delete my answer since there are multiple same answers provided.   Instead of deleting my answer what are the other alternatives I can do here? Is there a scope to add some feature for these type of scenarios?