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There has been a "movement" of sorts on Stack Overflow. Users are flagging questions that are just a link or little more than a link, like:

Not only that, they have been flagging answers that have been accepted, SO's ultimate helpfulness indicator:

A moderator deleted many of these, but I have reverted the deletions, at least for the time being. Questions:

  1. How should these answers be dealt with, in general?
  2. Should the accepted status of an answer affect its "deletability"?
  3. What if a link is all that's needed to answer a question, like thisthis?

There has been a "movement" of sorts on Stack Overflow. Users are flagging questions that are just a link or little more than a link, like:

Not only that, they have been flagging answers that have been accepted, SO's ultimate helpfulness indicator:

A moderator deleted many of these, but I have reverted the deletions, at least for the time being. Questions:

  1. How should these answers be dealt with, in general?
  2. Should the accepted status of an answer affect its "deletability"?
  3. What if a link is all that's needed to answer a question, like this?

There has been a "movement" of sorts on Stack Overflow. Users are flagging questions that are just a link or little more than a link, like:

Not only that, they have been flagging answers that have been accepted, SO's ultimate helpfulness indicator:

A moderator deleted many of these, but I have reverted the deletions, at least for the time being. Questions:

  1. How should these answers be dealt with, in general?
  2. Should the accepted status of an answer affect its "deletability"?
  3. What if a link is all that's needed to answer a question, like this?
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How should helpful answers that are just links be handled?

There has been a "movement" of sorts on Stack Overflow. Users are flagging questions that are just a link or little more than a link, like:

Not only that, they have been flagging answers that have been accepted, SO's ultimate helpfulness indicator:

A moderator deleted many of these, but I have reverted the deletions, at least for the time being. Questions:

  1. How should these answers be dealt with, in general?
  2. Should the accepted status of an answer affect its "deletability"?
  3. What if a link is all that's needed to answer a question, like this?