Timeline for Inconsistency in handling link-only answers
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:12 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Jul 18, 2014 at 23:20 | vote | accept | Art Gertner | ||
| Jul 18, 2014 at 22:04 | answer | added | Doktoro Reichard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 1:33 | comment | added | Braiam | Highly relevant meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/213575 | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 8:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/487153070347124736 | ||
| Jul 10, 2014 at 7:14 | answer | added | Art Gertner | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 13:22 | comment | added | slhck Mod | @shub For me the most important part is that posts flagged as VLQ should be unsalvageable (mostly because they're pure gibberish). Link-only posts are still helpful, and can often be improved. I am generally very concerned about users flagging too many things as VLQ though. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | Art Gertner | I believe that in the review mode, when selecting "recommend deletion" and prompted for the reason, the option "This is a link-only answer (not spam)" should be removed. The fact that this option is there, justifies and encourages flagging link-only answers. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | Art Gertner | I provided the example to show the actual SuperUser interface that is ambiguous. I do agree that this particular question could have easily been edited. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | gparyani |
Sometimes I type "link-only answer" into the custom flag box. This is the only case in which I don't type a full sentence into that box. And most of the time, my flags get dismissed as helpful and the post is deleted.
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 15:46 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Hmm, the example is a good case of something that can be very easily improved. I know that's irrelevant to the premise of your question, but I thought I should note it. I'm just not sure what the overall solution is. Actually I'd like to see the VLQ flag option removed. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 15:15 | history | edited | Art Gertner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | slhck Mod | To be frank, I can't consistently handle these flags either. Ideally there should be an effort from the flagger to fix the post, or if that's not doable within a reasonable amount of time, then just a "not an answer" flag. I don't like the label VLQ being applied to link-only posts, because they are salvageable in many cases. But that's just me. Clearly there is no guidance for moderators either. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 13:41 | history | edited | Art Gertner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 13:27 | history | edited | Art Gertner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 12:55 | history | asked | Art Gertner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |