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When is an answer eligible to be flagged as "not an answer"? What to do?

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. … Hence, my three questions to the Super User moderators: So, to get this cleared up, in which cases should we flag "not an answer" answers? How should we flag eligible answers? …
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