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Why was this question deleted instead of closed?
There is evidence that this was posted as a seed for someone to spam their product at us. The format of the question is suspicious and follows a pattern that moderators are familiar with: a leading ...
MokubaiMod
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Why was this question deleted instead of closed?
It looks a lot like a spam seed to me. By deleting it quickly, it is taken out of circulation so the prospective spammer hopefully realises it's a waste of time.
It's fine to assume people have good ...
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Is my answer so improbable or too low quality?
While the whole story and your own solutions to the whole of the problem is (now) answered, the original question had left out the whole of the problem and concentrated on if your product is a clone ...
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Is my answer so improbable or too low quality?
I think the cause of this is that you asked a question about a presumed solution, instead of the actual problem.
You asked "how to tell if it's cloned?", instead of concentrating on the actual ...
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How long should we wait to flag Low-Quality on barely acceptable answer?
Immediately. Waiting makes no sense, especially when the quality of the answer isn't that great as is
Mods can always comment, delete, and undelete once the post is edited to completion.
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Why was I banned for using one of the site features to close my own question?
I suggest that we encourage users to delete their own low quality questions or downvote, if doing so is the best thing for the community.
No, what we really should do is getting users to improve ...
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Review Low Quality Posts - how to manage wrong answers?
According to the Low Quality Posts reviewing guide:
If the above doesn't apply, choose Looks OK. This is the correct choice for answers that are just wrong.
("The above" refers to non-answers and ...
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Why did I fail this review audit?
It could be improved quite a bit. The formatting could be changed to a list. Proper punctuation could be added. Proper capitalization could be added.
That's an example of a low-quality answer.
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Review Low Quality Posts - how to manage wrong answers?
I've run into a few similar challenges these last few days where the review system disagreed with the technically correct choice.
However just as in real life it is not about being right, but about ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible