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It's fine in my opinion just to ask and not answer questions, and conversely I think it's fine just to answer and and not ask questions. In time you will probably acquire enough knowledge to feel ...
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I recommend posting your version $Q$ of the question, linking to $P$, and stating explicitly why the accepted answer is not what you want. I don't like the scenario of editing question $P$ because I ...
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### What to do with a question answered in pieces?

One thing I've seen done in this situation -- and it may be the best option under the circumstances -- is to summarize all the answers in one master answer yourself. I would write it anew (without ...
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What is the benefit to later readers in seeing the vote counts on answers A and B? Questions on ME sites are supposed to be interesting for non-expert readers as well. A layperson benefits from ...
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Below each question and answer, you will see a 'share' button. Click on it and get this: The url you need is right there, already selected to cut and paste.
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### I can't understand the answers

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What is the benefit to have such a system at all? For each question, there are many perspectives on it. Various presentations can reach wider audiences, if they are on topic, well written, and show ...
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I think so. The detail is all there, even if spread into the comments; it's what they are for. If further expansion is needed, why not just ask the person who wrote the answer to expand it? But, as ...
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### Delete wrong answers or leave them for instructional purposes

I think many wrong answers should be kept for the reason you stated. But this only applies to answers that have mistakes that are interesting or easy to do; it is only worthwhile to keep answers if ...
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### What to do with a question answered in pieces?

This is somewhat not-an-answer, as it is just advice/thoughts that cannot be used in this instance, since that horse has already left the barn. But it is something to consider in the future. I think ...
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### The largest number of answers

This is a perfect task for the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, which allows you to make SQL queries to the database of any network site. Here is a query that gives the top 50 questions sorted by answer ...
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My personal opinion is that there are two options, depending on the situation: You could post a separate answer, clearly explaining that this is a more detailed elaboration of the other answer - both ...
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### Does the number of answers really drop over years?

I do not really have an answer, but let me at least provide some further SEDE queries, so that we have more data. (I only know very basics of SQL, but I hope that somebody more knowledgeable might ...
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I did this once, here. I was going to answer the question, but Andy did it first. I still felt there was some value in the remarks I was going to add, but it felt strange to do it in a new answer, and ...
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Here is a comprehensive description of actions which lead to reputation change, and by how much: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/269653/why-did-i-gain-lose-reputation-can-i-audit-my-...
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I'm a little late with this one. I think a tighter question is a fine idea, especially if you put in some effort as far as improving the background. That is what happened with Can a positive binary ...
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oldest does sort by the answer time, however, the accepted answer will still be on top, even if it is not the oldest; the same applies to the other sort options.
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Because this is a publicly viewed forum, in my opinion, there is no moral obligation of the original poster to do anything with the question after it is presented. (Private forums are a different ...
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It is ok but the extra material should be separated from the original material and clearly labelled as written by someone else.
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### Does the number of answers really drop over years?

Just for ease of reference, here is @MartinSleziak's graph of answers/questions:                     Ratio of answers posted to questions posted.

I have noticed that this was discussed in the comments to this question: Privacy of software-generated links to questions and answers. (Which was bumped not too long ago. The linked discussion mostly ...
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### Does the number of answers really drop over years?

If this reflects all questions asked, I am then unsurprised. I think the query should be changed to reflect only answered questions plus those questions which are unanswered but not closed. There ...
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### Feature request: displaying all answers of a given user

This isn't exactly about the feature you asked for, but let me leave here a brief comment. (Hopefully, some of the information here might be useful.) One possibility to get list of all your answers (...
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