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Questions

How to write a great question and manage answers… questions, specifically questions that are written well and answered accurately… Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front

Frequently Asked Questions

Browse a few of the most frequently asked questions to consider while getting started… Maybe you get asked the same question on a regular basis -- you can ask a question on Teams and answer… your own question creating a knowledge artifact for your team to find instead of pinging you each time

Close and Reopen Questions

All about voting to close (and reopen) unsuitable or duplicate questions… PDF VERSION Tags | Questions | Duplicate | Not all questions asked on Stack Overflow for Teams… Vote to close and reopen questions

Deleted Posts

All about deleted questions… PDF VERSION Tags | Deleted post | Not all questions asked on Stack Overflow for Teams are high-quality… To ensure the best possible content, community members can vote to close questions that need additional

Bounties

How to spend reputation to get exposure and answers for questions… Bountied questions… You can also attach bounties to questions written by other users

Activity Timeline

How to use the activity timeline to see past actions that affect questions and answers… PDF VERSION Tags | Timeline | As users perform such actions as answering questions, editing questions… Deletion Bounty events Comments This article focuses on the activity timeline for questions

Edit a Question or Answer

How (and why) to edit a question or answer… You can use the Stack Overflow for Teams API /questions endpoints to edit questions and answers on your… Edit questions and answers with the API

Ask a Question

Asking a great question is the first step towards getting it answered… PDF VERSION Tags | Questions | Enterprise users can access their documentation here

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… You can use the Stack Overflow for Teams API /questions endpoint to retrieve comments on your site

Question Quality and Duplicate Checks

All about new question quality and duplicate checks, and how to configure them… This is an automated system built into the asking process, unlike the on-site moderation of questions… Specifically, the "edit distance" between the new and existing questions is less than 40 characters