Didn't find a related question here, so here it goes. Lately, reviewing the queues, I'm seeing a lot of answers encouraging the OPs to simply restart the service that isn't working or even their computer/server to see if that solves the issue.

It's quite clear that these are not good answers, so I usually flag them as Not an answer or Very low quality.

The problem comes when some of these answers are upvoted (some of them even with more than 1 positive vote), or even accepted (usually the OP replying themselves arguing that they finally managed to solve it by restarting the mentioned service/server/whatever).

• Should these answers be flagged, it doesn't matter how many upvotes they have?
• In the case where the own question author replies themselves with the restarting worked for me, should we vote to close the question as well?

Lately, reviewing the queues, I'm seeing a lot of answers encouraging the OPs to simply restart the service that isn't working or even their computer/server to see if that solves the issue.

It's quite clear that these are not good answers, so I usually flag them as Not an answer or Very low quality.

The problem comes when some of these answers are upvoted (some of them even with more than one positive vote), or even accepted (usually the OP replying themselves arguing that they finally managed to solve it by restarting the mentioned service/server/whatever).

• Should these answers be flagged, it doesn't matter how many upvotes they have?
• In the case where the own question author replies themselves with the restarting worked for me, should we vote to close the question as well?