Timeline for 2014 SO Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | Again, the comments here are not the place to debate this. These questions are for the moderator candidates to formulate their own responses, not for how we would react if asked. There are other questions about this on Meta, if you want to move the arguments there. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | gnat | @Qantas94Heavy agree, it's confusing. Link-only answers are slippery matters - that is, at SO, where neither moderators, nor SE team have made up their mind on them. In comparison, at Programmers this is a solved problem, not an issue anymore | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 11:32 | comment | added | Qantas 94 Heavy | @gnat: but then it's confusing having the "link only answer and not spam" canned comment available when selecting "recommend deletion" -- I can understand how someone can be confused. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 9:32 | comment | added | gnat | @DonalFellows VLQ description says "answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing" which makes it a very (very) bad fit for link-only answers... (this has been discussed before) | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 20:57 | comment | added | Donal Fellows | It's an excellent question, given that those answers really ought to be being flagged for being very low quality, not for not being answers at all. Link-only answers can answer the question for now, but have no keeping quality. | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 1:10 | comment | added | kukido | @ChaZu: If the relevant content is copied, then it will not be a "link-only answer" anymore. The links are not disallowed, the discussion is about "link-only answers", meaning - no text :-) | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 22:47 | comment | added | ChaZu | @kukido Issue of expired link valid. While original (germane) content ideal for answers, would content from an outside link that gets copy/pasted into SO with appropriate citation (url, date accessed, etc.) be acceptable? Seems that would retain quality of site content as well as give proper credit where due. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | ChaZu | Any link should be accompanied by some explanation as to what the resource is and why it is applicable. If for no other reason to clarify that the posted answer is in earnest. If the standard for a question asked is effort and thought , shouldn't a posed answer be doubly so? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 5:44 | comment | added | gnat | @InderKumarRathore at Programmers, we've got like 48 such answers left - all time, any score. All the rest has been mostly deleted. And guess what? site is going and growing just fine without this sort of garbage | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | Inder Kumar Rathore | It should not be deleted as this might contain the useful information. Also those link answer should neither be allowed to be accepted as answer nor should get upvote. Though downvote should be allowed :D | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 20:20 | comment | added | kukido | @Shog9: I see your point. There might be something like "Your answer can be found here<link>." with the destination being a blog post. Or for the question "Does anybody have a link to <some obscure thing>" it might be a valid answer, but isn't it what we have search engines for and then the question should be downvoted for the lack of research and eventually be removed? | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 20:09 | comment | added | Shog9 | Might be worth elaborating slightly on what sort of answers you're talking about, since true "link only" answers are quite rare. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 20:08 | comment | added | kukido | As "meta" says, answer with a link is not an answer :) Keeping those will just encourage people to post more answers like that to promote their blogs or whatever. Besides, if the link is no longer valid, who will check that? (shrug) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 5:33 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Zword | ||
| Feb 11, 2014 at 4:48 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
link-only answers += http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/link-only-answers/info
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 21:12 | history | edited | Brad LarsonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 21:07 | history | answered | Brad LarsonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |