When I am flagging answers I read

> `This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.`

This is very broad and does not say when an answer is eligible to (or should) be flagged.

Usually, this leads to rejection reasons that do not match the description *or* flag reason:

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(^ wrong rejection reason, complete opposite of what I said)

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(^ wrong rejection reason, OP has explicitly excluded the answer)

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(^ wrong rejection reason, OP has already tried)

And so on...

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There seems quite a mismatch in what high reputation users and moderators believe is wrong.

Hence, my three questions:

1. **So, to get this cleared up, in which cases should we flag "not an answer" answers?**

2. **How should we flag eligible answers? What do we put as the close reason to be clear?**

3. **What do we do when the answer is ineligbile for flagging, but isn't a good answer?**


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