Checking the moderator tools this morning I see 60 not-an-answer flags out of which only a several I could agree with. The rest were just bad answers, wrong answers or lazy answers.
The way I understand from experience, is that an answer is not-an-answer if the contents of the post cannot be interpreted as an attempt to answer the question. This usually means that the answer post amounts to asking a question to the poster's own problem, asking for clarification, spam etc.
However, the description for the flag says:
This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.
Does not answer the question. To me (and apparently to many others, even metaers) that says a very different thing that the flag should be used for. Technically incorrect answers do not answer the question but they are still answers, though low quality. Low quality vague suggestions don't really answer the question but they are still answers. Not-an-answer flags for these have typically been declined.
In my opinion, these type of answers should just be downvoted until the poster naturally deletes it themselves (or 3 trusted users vote deletion) and everyone gains their reputation back.
So my question is, should the not-an-answer flag description be clarified seeing as there is so much noise being generated?
Here are some examples:
flagged twice as non-answer - lazy/bad/wrong answer.
flagged twice as non-answer - ditto
flagged twice as non-answer - ditto
My question is different from When should the “Not an Answer” flag be used?. I flat out just want to change the flag description and not require people to read that post in meta or get their flags declined to understand how the flag should be used.