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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What should I do with my question which doesn't really have an answer but has a moral

I have asked a question which has been received relatively well and the comments section was full of useful tips. When it came to solving my problem however it turned out that I had read the stack ...
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Is an admittedly copied answer which does not add any useful detail (that just adds noise) an answer?

I remained speechless when I read this self-answer, and I'm tempted to mark it as not an answer, because of the following reasons: It does not provide anything more than the original answer; It is ...
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I found an answer but the question was very different from mine. How can I make the answer easier to find for other people?

I almost always find an answer to a question I have on the internet. Often though the context where the answer is presented is very different from the question I initially had. Many questions also ...
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Tag Wiki vs Community Wiki vs Self-Answered Questions

I've just recently posted this: How do I use annotations to define different types of relationships in Hibernate 4 and Spring? to basically give myself a SO resource that I can use when answering ...
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Post part of the answer in your own question

SO encourages to answer your own question and asks you to show the effort made before asking a question. Let's assume I have a problem and find a solution, which I dislike because of some reasons (...
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Is this a good self-answered question or is there a better approach? [duplicate]

I intended to write a question regarding the installation of Anaconda on CentOS 8 and eventually found the answer. In order to support the community, as the procedure may help, took the time to write ...
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What to do when an asker answers in his own question?

I was just poking around SO and I found this question. After reading through it so I could come up with a good answer for the asker, I came across the last thing he says: "Final solution thanks to ...
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How to deal with OP providing an answer in the question? [duplicate]

I came across this question, and felt that I should remove ' - resolved' from the title; this isn't a forum. However, the resolution is provided by the OP, and in the OP. If I remove it, obviously ...
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Should I delete my question and answer?

I've posted this question earlier today: After installing Xcode 7, Xcode 6.3 shows errors about converting to Swift 2 Then a comment helped me find the solution, so I made a little answer myself to ...
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How Much Detail Should “Answer your own question” Questions Contain? [duplicate]

I just posted a wiki-style "Answer your own question" question here. It was almost immediately down-voted, and the first commenter told me what I already suspected - that the down-vote was probably ...

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