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I've noticed for some time now that while I've been cleaning up, that there are quite a few active, higher rep users, that are posting what is to be considered low quality answers (or in reality short answers). For example:

And many many more....

My question is this. While technically correct, these answers are very short, and typcially not helpful to the community most times, while the other times, it's an indicator of a terrible question. Should we edit, flag, close the question, comment the answer? I have been mainly ignoring them, but feel that there are plenty enough that we should probably address this issue.

Note: if I directly point you out, please don't take it personal

I've noticed for some time now that while I've been cleaning up, that there are quite a few active, higher rep users, that are posting what is to be considered low quality answers (or in reality short answers). For example:

And many many more....

My question is this. While technically correct, these answers are very short, and typcially not helpful to the community most times, while the other times, it's an indicator of a terrible question. Should we edit, flag, close the question, comment the answer? I have been mainly ignoring them, but feel that there are plenty enough that we should probably address this issue.

Note: if I directly point you out, please don't take it personal

I've noticed for some time now that while I've been cleaning up, that there are quite a few active, higher rep users, that are posting what is to be considered low quality answers (or in reality short answers). For example:

And many many more....

My question is this. While technically correct, these answers are very short, and typcially not helpful to the community most times, while the other times, it's an indicator of a terrible question. Should we edit, flag, close the question, comment the answer? I have been mainly ignoring them, but feel that there are plenty enough that we should probably address this issue.

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What do we do with low quality answers from high rep users?

Note: if I directly point you out, please don't take it personal

I've noticed for some time now that while I've been cleaning up, that there are quite a few active, higher rep users, that are posting what is to be considered low quality answers (or in reality short answers). For example:

And many many more....

My question is this. While technically correct, these answers are very short, and typcially not helpful to the community most times, while the other times, it's an indicator of a terrible question. Should we edit, flag, close the question, comment the answer? I have been mainly ignoring them, but feel that there are plenty enough that we should probably address this issue.