Flag declined - what should I do?

Question

I flagged this post as not an answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/977614/760903 and my flag summary says a moderator declined this because they found no evidence to support it.

Here's the details:

• both Q and A are posted by the same user. I know this is acceptable in this site, so no problems from that alone.
• the question is essentially composed of two parts:
  1. How to convert text to speech
  2. How to do it periodically
• the first part is mostly a duplicate, OP even identified the duplicate question
  1. they identified the command in the title of the question and linked to the dupe in the answer: How to text-to-speech output using command-line? (note that they also posted an answer there describing a command that was already listed in an answer from three years ago)

• for the second part, in the question they say:

  My plan is to have cron jobs speak so I can leave the monitor shut off.

  Beginning with having it do a time announcement each hour. It is OK if it is not perfectly precise to the second.

  And in the answer:

  Set in cron to run at the top of the hour, it does the trick.

  That's all. Nothing about how to set anything in Cron, or how to set it to run "at the top of the hour".

  I wrote a comment describing how nonsensical this is, but it was deleted.

So:

• part of the question is a duplicate
• the other part is just repeated in the question and answer without any concrete information

I flagged the answer as not an answer because it should describe how to do it with Cron, since that it can be done with Cron is already in the question.

The moderator who handled it said there's a "second individual". I think they got confused by "muru" editing the post. Or they had many browser tabs open and got things mixed up. What should I do?

Answer 1

Partial answers that are missing tiny bits are still answers, as their core solution still says they used cron. The only thing missing from this to make it a great answer is how to implement it in cron. However, just because that tiny bit is missing from the OP's post, doesn't mean the entire thing is not an answer.

They do mention they used cron in their answer, but didn't specify how they set Cron up. That's one missing part, but the entire answer at large still remains mostly a valid answer. Yes it's not the best answer but it's still an answer, because it references how they scripted it, and what they did to make espeak do what they need it to, and that they used cron. That's why I declined your flag.

You don't need to do anything else, but you're more than welcome to write a better answer than the OP's answer for that post.