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Do people read other reviews for learning?
So as a mod I have access to some statistics on where traffic for our site comes from. A bit of this information can also be accessed by 25k users.
Let's have a bit of a look at some of that data.
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Self-answering questions without other answers
Either action could be acceptable. Keep in mind that there is a possibility of a race condition (another user writing a review while you are enhancing the question). Therefore, I suggest…
Changes ...
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Should I answer my own question with the improved code?
Looking at our iterative review meta post:
Posting a self-answer
If you want to show everyone how you improved your code, but don't
want to ask another question, then post an answer to ...
PeilonrayzMod
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Do people read other reviews for learning?
Yes: In fact, I am doing it right now. It is very useful to learn different viewpoints and ideas from other people.
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Self-accepting own answer when competing answers exist
In recent discussions about Low Quality answers in the Low Quality Queue it was said that
a code dump is not a review, and therefore not an acceptable answer.
By Mat's Mug
Meaning that the ...
MalachiMod
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Moving elements of answer from question to already existing self-answer
I guess as long as the moving of the old elements of answer from the question to the self-answer won't invalidate the already given answer(s) it is ok.
If the old elements are code and already ...
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Add a link as an answer to myself
It is fine to post external links with a description of the contents, but the description is important because sometimes external links become 404s, and the answer becomes useless if it didn't ...
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Add a link as an answer to myself
All answers should contain at least one insightful remark about the code. So if you propose to post an answer which only contains a link, a description/summary and a "this is relevant to understand ...
MastMod
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Self-answering on Code Review?
In the specific case you linked, it should be altered to become a comprehensive review. That, or deleted. Sounds mean, but what we create here is reviews, not improved code. That the code improves as ...
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Moving elements of answer from question to already existing self-answer
I think you should at the very least provide a complete set of code. Scrolling between various snippets is hard and can lead to answers pointing at new AND old code unintentionally.
Aside from that, ...
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Self-answering questions without other answers
Leave your question the way it is. You have a solution for it, so add that. If someone else is looking for a solution to a similar problem, they won't be able to get anything out of your question if ...
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