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Anything related to posting answers, e.g. about improving their content, voting on answers, editing others' answers, etc.

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Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?

Such answers shouldn't receive points for upvotes or accepting, as they aren't helpful. Getting rep for not being helpful is bad. … Alternative solutions: Adding a Unsolvable close reason would both indicate that the question is kinda answered and prevent getting rep for unhelpful answers. …
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User tries to do something forbidden by license. Is explaining why it's illegal an answer?

Specifically, I'm speaking about this question: Windows 10 License in UEFI. Long story short, OP currently uses Windows with a license provided by his university through DreamSpark. He's going to move …
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Are link-only answers fine if they link to Super User questions?

There are many possible answers, each one correct and the question isn't too broad. (And defrobulator in this case is a piece of software, so it's on topic.) … (related: Should older questions be flagged as duplicates of more recent ones if those have better answers?) Comment on the question, leaving a link to the older question? … something else? …
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