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32 questions linked to/from Is it forbidden to use "Other" flag for link-only answers?
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Can we get some consensus on what flag to use for link only answers? [duplicate]
Related: Since moderators are just asking users to flag a custom "Link only answer," can we permanently make this a flag option? (not a dupe, that's a feature request and was closed as a ...
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Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really "good answers"?
I have often wondered at the practice on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says "Look here: https://link ...
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What is a disputed flag?
In my flagging summary under the statistics, there is 1 flag listed as "disputed".
This is the first time I've ever seen a disputed flag in my summary, so I'm just curious, what is a disputed flag? ...
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Should I flag answers which contain only a link as "not an answer"? [duplicate]
More than often I get a lot of itch when I see an answer which contains only a link. For example this one.
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http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/...
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Why are accepted answers immune from Flagging link-only answers as Not an Answer?
Let's assume you agree with the yoda's corrective action to a link-only-answer (#12) of the Faq Post What is an acceptable answer?
[A link only] answer must be improved as described above, else it ...
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Why are the moderators being so strict with quality related flags recently?
I recently flagged a question as "very low quality", just like I've flagged many questions in the past. However, my flag was found to be unhelpful this time. The same thing happened when I recently ...
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Should there be policy about 'One-Link-Only-Answers'? [duplicate]
See also: Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really "good answers"? | Is it okay to answer a Stack Overflow question with a link? | Why is linking bad?
Related: How do I properly ...
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Should the not-an-answer flag description be clarified?
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 ...
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Add a "link-only answer" flag reason
Typically when I see a link-only answer, I have to use a custom flag and explain in the text box that it is, usually simply in the form of typing just "link-only answer."
I think that there should be ...
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Can we have an unambiguous, official ruling on what the "not an answer" flag is for? [duplicate]
What does the not an answer flag mean?
My interpretation is that this flag is intended for things which clearly are not answers. In other words, "this shouldn't exist, because it does not intend ...
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Still having issues with link-only answer flags
Yes, I have seen this question (and all of its derivatives):
Can we get some consensus on what flag to use for link only answers?
I'm having a hard time reconciling consistency. Earlier today, a ...
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Why was this 'not-an-answer' flag declined? [duplicate]
I flagged this answer as Not An Answer (NAA), because while this does point the OP in the direction of the correct answer, the answer as written should be a comment.
In the event the answer gets ...
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Is this really not spam?
Today I flagged this answer as spam. I thought it was really obvious, user linking to a site with same name as the user, the link was also in the profile. Additionally the answer seemed rather content-...
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"flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer" justified?
I flagged this single-link answer as not an answer. However I got "declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer" response from the mod.
I don'...
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Why were these "Very low quality" flags declined?
I flagged both this and that answers for "very low quality". The former because it's just a link without even a minimal summary, and the second because it isn't comprehensible whatsoever. Both were ...
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