Timeline for Why my flag "the answer has nothing to do with the question" was rejected?
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 7:06 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | Mods shouldn't be the Arbiters of Truth IMO. The community decides and mods enforce, not the other way around. If another meta question doesn't achieve consensus then we stick with the "pot luck" methods where the result of your flag depends on which mod saw it, if we get consensus (in either direction) then we can hold us all to it properly. Whichever way it goes the community effectively decided that that is how we handle it. | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 7:06 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @Scott all the information is there in the quote. Mods should be cleaning up the worst offenses. If an answer has a score of -20 then chances are the community wants it gone and I'd probably do that clean up, for the sake of the poster as well as the site. So yes, downvotes do matter and do have an effect. You can, very publicly show your distaste for an answer by commenting, downvoting and so on. Your votes do matter. If it truly is a train wreck of horrifying proportions then it will be made to go away. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (Cont’d) … (2) “Maybe we need a new meta question?” I don’t believe that it would help. We have plenty of questions and plenty of answers. The problem is that we have too many answers, and no consensus. (3) You might want to have a chat with DavidPostill♦, who (in my perception) deletes a lot of answers, some of which are wrong, but some of which are correct but just don’t make a very good sales presentation (i.e., ‘‘elevator pitch’’). | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (Cont’d) … And what are we ≥ 2K users supposed to do when we see ‘‘answers’’ like that in the Low Quality Review Queue? … … … (1b) The phrase “moderators are human exception handlers” might be easier to understand and put into context if there were a clearer statement of what is “normal” and what constitutes an “exception”. For example, if the rule is “Wrong answers have a place on Stack Exchange, the only things you’re supposed to do to them are downvote and comment”, then that should probably be stated explicitly. … (Cont’d) | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | (1a) You say, ‘‘the community has sufficient abilities to remove or police content that is just not completely helpful.’’ (I seem to recall that Shog9♦ once made a similar comment, without explanation, but I can’t find it now.) Can you clarify that? Do you mean that we should just downvote and comment, and be happy? Do you mean that ≥ 20K users are allowed to (vote to) delete wrong answers, or information that could be a right answer to a different question, even though flags from < 20K users are likely to be declined? … (Cont’d) | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:42 | comment | added | CaldeiraG | @AndrewT. Yeah, you're probably right. My custom-flag was kinda not appropriate for what I meant. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 6:32 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @AndrewT. That is possibly the "best" reason to delete it but I cannot find a definitive decision on this as a way we should be handling things. We have when is an answer eligible to be flagged as not an answer and should not an answer include off topic answers but neither have consensus on this particular type of answer, at least not that I can see before my morning coffee. Indeed Tom's answer on the 1st question states that they are just "bad" rather than deletable. Maybe we need a new meta question? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 3:20 | comment | added | Andrew T. | From my personal experience on other sites (e.g. Android.SE), that answer should be considered as NAA since it's outside of the site's scope. The tour itself mentions "Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users.". It's not focused on programmers, making it NAA. It's like providing a working Java code snippet for "How to prevent an accidental closing app from pressing back button on Android?" (hypothetical question for example purpose) when the user doesn't have access to the source code (development-related question is off-topic anyway on there) | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 21:12 | vote | accept | CaldeiraG | ||
| Apr 21, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | CaldeiraG | It's reasonable. I joined over a month and this was my very first answer which I saw this and it kinda look somewhat off-topic. I agree with you, thanks for the clarification and sorry for the inconvenience. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 21:09 | comment | added | CaldeiraG | "I felt that deleting something that was helpful to someone in the future that might be handling a similar problem was counterproductive." - but it is really useful on Superuser? If I'm looking to some tips for HTML I would probably look in Stack Overflow. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 15:21 | history | edited | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2018 at 15:10 | history | answered | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |