Recently, a new answer popped up for a ["resolved" question](https://askubuntu.com/questions/78410/how-can-i-get-the-buttons-back-on-the-left-side-in-gnome):

> I can't get this to work! I've tried to do it manually and in terminal but nothing works. [...]
>
> (why cant i post comments!?)

Like a good worker bee, I immediately reported it as `not an answer`, but — as it turns out — the existing answers did not actually work anymore. So I updated the accepted answer.

The problem is: that wayward commenter had no correct way express the inadequacy of existing solutions. They had only 1 reputation point. What should low-rep users do in this situation?