Questions tagged [self-answer]
Questions also answered by the user asking, easily marked by the shaded user card attached to the answer.
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How to deal with questions where a solution is posted by the asker in the question body?
I stumbled upon a phenomenon on superuser where quite a few people answered their own question in the question itself and, despite reminders to do so, never put the solution in an answer. This appears ...
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Enable A shortcut to add an answer on one's own question
Feature request: enable A shortcut to add an answer on one's own question.
Current behavior: the A shortcut only works on other people's questions.
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Why do mods on Stack Overflow want to keep people from contributing to Stack Overflow? [closed]
All Stack Exchange sites, including the Meta Stack Exchange allow you to post questions with answers. The checkbox to "Answer your own question - share your knowledge, Q&A-style". The ...
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Should the poster of a question be able to mark their self-answers after 2 days automatically?
After the poster finds an answer and posts it, they have to wait 2 days to mark it as the answer. Should Stack Exchange provide a button or option to automatically mark it as the answer after 2 days, ...
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Enable marking posts as answered on a different site? It seems like a good idea to me [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question on Stack Overflow, but then found an answer on Computer Science Stack Exchange, so I posted a link in a comment (I would have felt bad answering my own question with a link ...
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If I answer my own question, will it decrease its visibility thus reduce the chance of other people giving a better answer?
I asked a question, and I already have a nonperfect answer.
I want to submit my nonperfect answer. This way, if other people have the same solution as mine, they don't need to bother typing it again.
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Is there stigma associated with self-answers on certain network sites? Or different etiquette? If so, why?
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I was told in chat that some sites don't / might not see self-answers in a positive light, which I found surprising, having read the (fairly old) "It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own ...
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The "You can accept your own answer in <period>" alert is missing a period․
When trying to accept your own answer too early, you get an alert like
You can accept your own answer in 11 hours
According to the Stacks design guidelines, it is missing a period; it's a full ...
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Support saving self-answered questions as drafts
Drafts of unsubmitted questions and answers on Stack Exchange are automatically saved every 45 seconds. However, saved drafts don't support self-answered questions. This means if you leave the ask ...
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"Answer your own question" toggle stops working after ticking the checkbox consecutively
In some case, the "Answer your own question" is unchecked, but the answer box is present. This happens when clicking a few times on "Answer your own question".
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I didn't ...
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How can one see the percentage of one's answers that were posted on one's own questions, network-wide?
Is there a way to see the percentage of one's answers that were posted on one's own questions, network-wide?
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Instant self-answers are ordered inconsistently
When the "Answer your own question" checkbox is used to provide an instant self-answer, the self-answer has the same creation timestamp as the question, and its ID number is 1 more than the ...
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If you answer your own question will you be credited once or twice for the "people reached" statistics in your profile?
I found an answer explaining how the "people reached" statistics is populated in the Stats box in the Profile tab. Basically, if your answer qualifies, you will be credited the # of views ...
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How can I self-answer my closed question? [duplicate]
I posted a question, however it was closed with a reason I don't understand.
I've found the answer myself and I would like to share the answer with the community, is there any way I can leave the ...
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Is there a bias against using the "answer your own question" feature?
I had a question. As I was researching it while drafting it, I found more and more relevant information that I incorporated into my question. It came to the point where it felt like I was answering ...
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