Linked Questions
9 questions linked to/from Is it in the Moderator's Job Description to patrol for correctness?
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Don't flag wrong answers?
I recently flagged an answer as "not an answer", and what came back was "declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer." I found that surprising,...
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3answers
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Should there be a policy about “hints”?
First, let me say that I completely understand the idea of not posting full solutions, but instead "hints" (or outlines) to let the OP figure out the details by themselves. I tend to do that myself.
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3answers
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People giving incorrect answers in the comments
This is extremely annoying that people give incorrect answers in the comments. I can't downvote comments, so I can't easily signal that the comment is wrong. If there are already several comments on ...
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4answers
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Deleting meaningless answers?
I saw recent thread on whether incorrect answers should be deleted. What about answers that are "not even wrong", because they use notation in ways that simply make no sense? I'm thinking about two of ...
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2answers
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Useless crankpot answers
Recently I raised a flag on an answer:
Clearly this user is a crankpot; just see the deleted answers by him and the currently accepted answer also by him, and the comments he made saying that this ...
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1answer
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What to do with blatantly false answers?
Recently, I came across this answer to an old question, which attempts to prove Fermat's Last Theorem (edit: the answer has now been deleted). It takes almost no effort to see why the argument there ...
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1answer
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Flagging comments as useless and for wrong guidance
Sometimes people are posting comments which are completely wrong as happened, for instance, here, comment #2, or offering a wrong guidance as happened here, also comment #2.
If I flag these comments ...
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1answer
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No response obtained on a flag
Several days ago, I flagged (a question - [#647717] or could be a response to that question) for the in-correctness of interpreting the definition of 'slant height'.
According to my experience, even ...
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1answer
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About strange behavior when giving bounties
Searching around the unanswered questions I saw this question which hadn't had any answers before and now I found that it recently has three answers, and I suppose that this happen because some user ...