I've added  to consider the possibility of categorizing up to one answer per question as Canonical &#8212; i.e. worthy of being considered the consensus complete and accurate answer. A Canonical answer would have to include a link to an authoritative source, and at least 50% of voters would need to approve of it (as opposed to another answer to the same question or a "no possible canonical answer" option).  It's probable that many, if not most, questions would never have a Canonical answer. However, when one is possible and is provided, it should be a little more golden, and making it easier to find would be valuable for searching the site.
When closing a question as a duplicate, it is becoming harder and harder to search for a good original as the pool of questions and answers grows and grows.  While the new dupe closing dialog is a huge step forward, it doesn't always work - if you've spent some time on the site, you know there are perfect answers to many new questions but you can't always find them. Or can't be bothered to, as your time is limited.  A way to further improve this could be introducing a vote for canonical answers.  It could, for example, work like this:   Answers get a new icon, the "canonical vote" (signified here by a cannon because I can't think of anything that makes sense right now.)     Only users with a certain minimum rep (maybe 1k+ or 2k+) see this icon. The icon would work like the favourite icon: You can toggle it on or off at any time. The hover message for the icon could read e.g.      This is a "canonical answer": It answers the question asked in the most extensive and general way, and is very likely to benefit other users with the same problem.    Questions that contain an answer with three or more canonical votes get special  treatment:      They show up on the top in search results; maybe even under a special heading ("Questions with canonical answers")  They show up prominently in the "close as dupe" dialog (i.e. the canonical votes influence the metric that is used to determine the questions shown there).  There could be some rewards for users whose answers receive "canonical" votes - maybe a badge if ten of your answers get at least three canonical votes, or a counter of canonical answers in your profile. It would be really interesting as it's a badge that you can't game your way to, but this whole rewarding part is entirely optional.  would be a great safeguard against over-use of this feature.    Dupe (but sans cannon):       Related:
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I have figured out how to convert the unicode to an integer for those cases that it is possible to make the conversion.  I am struggling to write the logic to move past the cells that the conversion will not work because the cell has content that must be treated as text.  for example if rowColumn[1][3] can be converted to an integer I can do so by   int(rowColumn[1][3].replace(',','').strip('$'))   but I get an error if rowColumn[1][3] has text content. Newcommand + Stepcounter I'm trying to come up with a command which should increase a counter and return a string including the current value of the counter.  Have a look at the following minimal example:  \documentclass{article}  \newcounter{mycounter} \newcommand{\mystepFAILS}{\stepcounter{mycounter}foo\themycounter} \newcommand{\mystepWORKS}{foo\themycounter}  \begin{document}  \section{\mystepFAILS}  \section{\mystepWORKS}  \end{document}   Why does the command with \mystepFAILS throw an error? 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It seems strange to me, because if the two authors are in alphabetical order, then it could be that the first author contributed more or the two contributed equally, and this can be made clear with asterisks in the paper if it's the latter case. When they're in non-alphabetical order, however, if someone only sees the author list without seeing the paper, he/she will likely assume that the first author contributed most.  So my question is: Are there particular reasons why people do that? (This  is related, but I don't think the answers there get to my question.) I use this command in the terminal to run the minecraft launcher with java 8:  /home/max/Java/jre1.8.0_25/bin/java -jar Minecraft.jar   I included the full java path because I installed it on /home as a normal user and i want to include it.   That command works, it opens the launcher with Java 8 but I want to make a bash file so I don't have to open the terminal. 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