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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
In addition to other answers: if you delete or amend your answer because you found out it is incorrect, yet you are still unable to give a correct answer and the question remains unanswered, you could ...
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Feedback on question: E-commerce - Does higher delivery time lead to lower sales?
I was one of the reviewers who vtc your question. But AFAIR, I thought the post was unclear and didn't provide enough information and material that could garner a quality based informative and concise ...
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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
Option: don't delete but add a disclaimer
If I feel that an answer is not great but still useful, (and sometimes even a wrong approach can be useful as we can learn from errors), then I leave the ...
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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
I'd divide up the territory, without claiming a complete analysis.
An answer you now see as wrong should be deleted.
An answer you now think is irrelevant possibly should be deleted. Irrelevance ...
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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
You can edit the answer at the top, saying you are no longer satisfied with it, explaining why, and then say you leave the old answer at the bottom for context (marking it well out). This or something ...
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Do we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for voting?
-1 The voting system doesn't need fixing by changing rep standards, the principle of voting by popularity is the problem.
The system doesn't measure quality directly and only superficially relates to ...
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Do we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for voting?
After reading the long post, let me regurgitate what I could comprehend: previous criteria of upvoting and downvoting would be reduced to encourage an otherwise a passive section of the community. To ...
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Do we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for voting?
My vote against is on various grounds.
I don't sense that the present low thresholds are too high, so that serious members who are able and willing to contribute are disenfranchised. They just need ...
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What's the difference between needs more details or clarity vs. needs more focus?
Assuming you have left a helpful comment which your question suggests you have then sweating about which reason to give is not necessary. I would go for lack of detail/clarity myself whenever I am in ...
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What's the difference between needs more details or clarity vs. needs more focus?
There are actually 3 types of problems here:
Needs more details example:
Who is right?
T͟h͟i͟s͟ paper contradicts what T͟h͟i͟s͟ paper says.
Both are from reputable authors.
Which one is right?
To ...
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What's the difference between needs more details or clarity vs. needs more focus?
"Lack of focus" is intended to refer to posts that pose multiple different questions. Just take some care, perhaps in a friendly comment, that you don't suggest that the OP break a badly ...
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