Timeline for Why did a moderator decline a bunch of flags on link only answers?
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| Nov 20 at 16:44 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 20 at 14:16 | vote | accept | Starship | ||
| Nov 20 at 13:47 | answer | added | ZannaMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 20 at 13:18 | comment | added | BeastOfCaerbannog | In addition to what the people above said, the specific answer you link in this question might seem as a link-only, but in reality it's not link-only in the "flag this post" sense: the OP asked exactly for the link to the Countdown Timer Image for Ubuntu 11.04 and the answerer provided just that! So, there are cases like this one where link-only answers are acceptable and shouldn't be flagged and removed. | |
| Nov 20 at 5:37 | comment | added | andrew.46 Mod | I dealt with some of your flags and indeed most of these answers, link only, would have been corrected in modern times. Most of the flags that I saw from you were flags on posts from 2011 and thereabouts and in some cases they were accepted answers or highly voted. Difficult in these cases to remove the answer and impossible to get the authors to improve their posts from more than a decade ago. | |
| Nov 20 at 4:18 | comment | added | Seth | At least for the example you linked, it is the accepted (and only) answer to that question. Deleting the answer would leave the question unanswered, and instead of fixing a problem, create a new one. You could argue that perhaps the entire question should be deleted instead, but there's also not much benefit to that either. Moderators are volunteers with limited time and, at least in this specific example, the flag amounts to creating busywork for them. I have no idea if your other flags were on similar posts or not, just weighing in on this specific example. | |
| Nov 19 at 20:46 | history | asked | Starship | CC BY-SA 4.0 |