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Questions should be answered in enough detail to be useful, but not so much as to overwhelm the reader with irrelevancies. Yes, that's vague. But one of the reasons why the Stack Overflow model ...

I think the principal character in your answers is clarity. That said, I think there are a few things to keep in mind: 1. Nature of the question Some questions are by nature much longer to answer than ...

As far as regional spellings are concerned this has already been answered on Meta:SE. In short, It is not generally considered acceptable to change American to British spellings or vice versa. The "...

Split the answer into a tl;dr part and a detailed part (if you've got the expertise to write the latter). And put the tl;dr part first. I'm prone to writing walls of text in response to questions, as ...