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Answers

All about answers, the life blood of Stack Overflow… Deleted answers… Well-written answers also tend to get upvoted more frequently

Accept answers for deactivated users

Admins can manually accept answers for users who are no longer a part of the team… PDF VERSION Tags | Answers | Admin privileges required Enterprise users can access their documentation… You should always encourage your members to accept answers when they have solved the problem they asked

Questions

How to write a great question and manage answers… PDF VERSION Tags | Questions | Answers | Your Stack Overflow for Teams knowledgebase is built on… If you find related questions and answers online, include links in your question

Bounties

How to spend reputation to get exposure and answers for questions… from a list of bounty reasons to help other users understand why you're dissatisfied with any existing answers… If two eligible answers have the same score, the older answer will receive half the bounty

Activity Timeline

How to use the activity timeline to see past actions that affect questions and answers… Tags | Timeline | As users perform such actions as answering questions, editing questions or answers… Hiding vote summaries can make the activity list more manageable for very popular questions or answers

Edit a Question or Answer

How (and why) to edit a question or answer… Edit a Question or Answer… PDF VERSION Tags | Editing | Questions | Answers | Stack Overflow for Teams promotes a collaborative

Review Queues

Late Answers, First Questions, and First Answers… The Late Answers queue contains answers which were posted much later than the question, which means the… answers are typically not viewed as often

Measure Cross-silo Collaboration with the API

Use API calls to pull data on users, questions and answers… for reporting purposes, you can: Use the Stack API calls to get data on users, questions, and answers… In the Stack Overflow data model, questions and answers are both considered posts

Comments

How to use question and answer comments to improve your site's content… PDF VERSION Tags | Comments | Questions | Answers | Comments allow users to discuss questions and… answers without posting an actual answer

Ask a Question

Asking a great question is the first step towards getting it answered… Accept an answer… The title is the first thing potential answers will see, and if your title isn't interesting, they won't