Canned flag decline text?

Question

I recently flagged this answer (since deleted) to https://stackoverflow.com/q/22181012/1281433 as not an answer, since it appeared to be the question's poster attempting to add some context to the post, and to describe some attempts at a workaroud. I added a comment as well:

This isn't an answer to your question. This should be posted as an edit to the question, or as a new question entirely.

This seemed like an appropriate NAA flag, since

This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.

If this were posted by someone other than the OP, I could see that it might be an attempt to answer the question, but since the OP knows that it doesn't answer the question, it seems more like "It should possibly be an edit" on the question that describes existing attempts.

The flag was declined. I'm not too concerned about that, since it's just one out of many, although the new "some of your recent flags have been declined; please review them first" is a little scary. What I'm asking about here is the decline reason text:

flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

This doesn't seem to recognize the context that it was the OP adding more information about the problem (and so should be an edit). I wasn't claiming that it was technically inaccurate or altogether wrong, but just that it would make more sense as an edit to the question or a new question entirely (since it's about a different approach).

All that said, I'm not so concerned about the declined flag; it's just one of many. What I'm curious about is whether the decline reason was manually entered, suggesting a miscommunication of intent, in which case I should write better comments in the future, or whether the decline reason is "canned text", in which case this was simply the closest, most appropriate text, even if it's not an exact fit.

Note that if it had been a user other than the owner of the post, this would seem like a genuine, if not quite complete, answer, but since it was the owner of the post, it seems that it's not

Answer 1

That's a form comment, not something a mod actually typed out. It seems pretty clear that they didn't realize that it was the OP trying to add clarifying details to the question. In cases like this where it's not immediately obvious why the post is NAA you should use a custom flag. Say something along the lines of "this is the OP trying to add additional information; it should be an edit to the question" so that the mod understands why you think that the post is NAA.

Answer 2

I declined that flag. I don't think that answer was intended to be an update/edit to the question - he appears to be describing the change he had to make to get his query working:

I have noticed that I have to put all PREFIXes. In my query the related ones:

I'll allow I might be entirely wrong here - the author's English is a bit weird and I'm not familiar with SPARQL. But when I read the answer, it looked like an attempt at an answer, so I left it alone. That's generally how "Not an answer" flags are processed: if the answer appears to address the question, the flag will be declined; incorrect answers should be down-voted.