Timeline for "This is commentary on another post, not an answer" used for low quality answers
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| May 17, 2015 at 16:06 | comment | added | Elder Geek | The word "try" is implied in virtually every answer I've seen. If an answer isn't tested in the users environment (which is impossible except for self-answered questions in most cases) all we can have at best is a reasonable expectation that it will work. Is polluting the comment section worse than polluting the answer section? I've been guilty in numerous cases of leaving "try" comments rather than posting a possibly useless answer. Based on the help page on comments, I should re-think that strategy. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 14:53 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @Fabby Bad answers are still answers, however ;) | |
| May 16, 2015 at 12:16 | history | edited | Fabby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2015 at 12:16 | comment | added | Fabby | @Seth: I'm very sorry to say that I've seen many more bad answers then good answers that start with "Try this" and it annoyed me so much I used to quote Yoda's "Do, or no not! There is no try!" which I've stopped doing now as that annoys Eliah. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 14:27 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Just the word try does not make it a comment.. I've seen lots of answers that are not comments that use the word try. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:50 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @Galgalesh yes it is. The word "try" is making a suggestion to see if something works. That in itself should be a comment (as in "try this and if it works Ill make it an answer). Answers need to be based on facts. Basing them on guess work should attract downvotes as muru suggested. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:24 | comment | added | muru | @Galgalesh nope. Only duplicates and custom close reasons have autocomments. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:17 | comment | added | Merlijn Sebrechts | @muru Is there an "autocomment" for a "VLQ" close vote? (I'm talking about the options you see when voting "close" in the close queue) | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | Merlijn Sebrechts | @Rinzwind please note that I am not defending the answers I linked to. They are both very bad answers. I'm just saying that having "try" in a question isn't a reason to say it is a comment. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:11 | comment | added | muru | @Galgalesh well, the VLQ flag is not be used for "just plain wrong" answers. Downvote them, instead. (But we still use the flag for wrong answers.) | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:10 | comment | added | Merlijn Sebrechts | And I use the word "try" in a lot of my answers. A lot of errors can have multiple sources, so one solution might not work for every occurrence of the problem. I think it's better to put something that might be an answer as an answer than pollute the comment section with "try this, try that". Related: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2281/… | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | Merlijn Sebrechts | So do you agree we need a "low quality or just plain wrong" option? Also, please note that "plain wrong" is not immediately obvious to everyone and for every answer. A lot of times I commented something like "This seems wrong, can you explain how this can work?, but still vote to close" | |
| May 12, 2015 at 11:44 | history | answered | Rinzwind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |