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Post body is optional field in questions method?

"body": { "description": "body of this post", "values": "string", "optional": true }, Post body is optional field in questions method? Shouldn't all the posts have body field?
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How to sort answers to question?

If I retrieve a question like so: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not. How can I do this?
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Don't allow requests with No Key to use existing session with valid API Key

Once I did a request with a valid API key http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/stats?key=MYKEY Every requests (from that IP) later on without key will use existing session with API key, limit counter ...
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it

See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me"...

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