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by bennybear on June 30th, 2009
Well initially, restrict yourself to answering questions about which you have something genuine to offer. Too often, people will do a search on internet and provide links or answers from third party which - whilst sometimes efficient - can never ever replace a true or honest opinion.
Read the question very carefully, some questioners don't understand English too well, and others perhaps learned English in a different area to yourself, you may well understand peoples' meanings as they intended you to.
Use plain English. Abbreviations R NOT 4 me IMHO m8.
Finally, try not to be lazy. Often I start to answer a question, and find that in order to explain properly some extra work may be involved. Including pictures (or links to them) might help explain more - so get a nice Dropbox account. (For example, how to copy a CD or DVD to ISO - http://files.getdropbox.com/u/446031/copy%20to%20iso.jpg is a good start).
Pictures make life interesting.
How often do you ask a question about a specific thing and receive some responses that are perfect(aarrgghh!) examples of it? Useful?
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on October 31st, 2011
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do you want the honor of being asker's pick? Then tell me the most disgusting thing you ever did.
by Simply Pengu on October 3rd, 2011
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Do you usually answer questions on Answerbag or is this answer of yours an exception ?
by iwnit on October 12th, 2011
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Did I stole your answer?
by XT on December 19th, 2011
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Do you answer a question right away or do you read everyone else's answer first?
by SandraSandboxes Has a Loony Cat on January 8th, 2012
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