Timeline for Why did a moderator decline a bunch of flags on link only answers?
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| Nov 24 at 0:01 | comment | added | Starship | @Oli Given that the current visible policy disagrees with you (if your opinion is indeed standard policy here), then could it be updated? | |
| Nov 22 at 21:01 | history | edited | BeastOfCaerbannog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21 at 20:17 | comment | added | Oli Mod | The flagging process has changed so significantly since I last discussed LOAs that I'm not sure it'd still apply anyway. We used to have some resolution between the VLQ flags and now it's just NAA. Perfect is the enemy of good; and I'm pragmatic enough to prefer okay, I guess to unanswered. | |
| Nov 21 at 20:07 | comment | added | Starship | @Oli Is there some policy stating that this is the case (if not could this be written somewhere) because there is a policy on main meta which says link only answers are always nonanswers | |
| Nov 21 at 20:06 | comment | added | Starship | @Oli Only a dozen were declined total. And zanna claims it was their fault… | |
| Nov 21 at 19:58 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Starship I don't see where I've said it was someone else. I declined about a dozen of these flags. Somebody else may have caught some but I can't speak to that. I maintain that bulldozing old answers —whatever their issue, short of spam and abuse— is a far worse action than improving them. For some of the "where" questions, removing the post is just harmful. | |
| Nov 20 at 17:19 | comment | added | muru | "Deleting mediocre answers does not make the internet better unless in the presence of better answers" ... But then you have accepted and/or upvoted link-only answers which both encourage others to do the same and discourage/inhibit proper answers, making it a worse place overall. | |
| Nov 20 at 16:55 | comment | added | Starship | Also, in the future, given that there is indeed a policy stating that LOAs should be flagged, which makes no exception for whether they are the only answer or if they answer the question, could you in the future mark them as disputed. On every other stack I've ever been on this is not how it works. | |
| Nov 20 at 16:54 | comment | added | Starship | How was it both you and someone else? | |
| Nov 20 at 16:44 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |