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Should "try this" or "x doesn't work, use y" type answers be flagged?

From a discussion in chat, opening to a wider audience: I tend to flag answers with "Try this" or "Use Y because X doesn't work" as "Not an answer" to avoid having to downvote and lose precious point …
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How long will I be flag banned for?

I nearly was in the same situation as you, but when I got the warning, I just didn't flag anything for a couple of days and then it just went away... So, forget about the review queues for a while, r …
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Why am I able to flag my own questions?

Because flagging is better than deleting most of the time¹... A duplicate is a placeholder for the next person googling an answer. An off-topic question points to StackOverflow, Unix & Linux, ... …
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Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes

All >20K users have access to moderation tools and can vote to delete questions (or if really bad I think -3 or -5 we can immediately delete them) In this case, read all the comments as it's being han …
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Why no extra downvote with spam flag any more?

I'm not a developer at Stack Exchange, but if I would be, that's how I would do it: Definitely, positively do not allow Pesky Panda's to downvote and spam. ;-) I'm now going to downvote and then flag …
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If you're having a repeat problem with a user…

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