Timeline for Are joke answers valid answers?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 16, 2016 at 3:55 | history | edited | MAnd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2016 at 3:33 | comment | added | MAnd | @JoshPetrie Yap, I knew it's a delete-only, I just got caught in the habit of using the word "close". But indeed I hadn't realized that deleting answers could only be voted for when they have a negative score and, as it seems, only by users with at least 20k rep. In that case, considering that funny answers usually get upvoted (so they are frequently going to be non-negative) and considering that the gamedev.stackexchange has only 10 members with such a rep (2 of which are the moderators), I think it changes things. I will edit my answer here accordingly | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | user1430 | FWIW, you can't vote to "close" an answer, only to delete (and only when it's at -1 or lower). | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 2:13 | comment | added | MAnd | @JoshPetrie For the records, as we are discussing precisely how to behave in each case, I would vote to close/delete the linked open-world answer in a second. There is no effort at all there to provide an useful, fine answer. It's more like making a joke to show the OP that his question could have multiple answers - what, if that was the case, should have been a comment to the question and/or a flagging. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 2:10 | comment | added | MAnd | @JoshPetrie Well, that's just a regular case of "is it even an answer" decision - just motivated by a rarer event. As in any other case, if moderators happen to understand that an answer clearly is not an answer, (for whatever reason) it's plain normal and fine that they take action upon it. If they feel the contrary or are not certain, give the answer the benefit of the doubt and let votes decide. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 2:01 | history | edited | MAnd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2016 at 1:59 | comment | added | user1430 | As far as I can tell, you are effectively arguing the position of "do nothing, let votes decide," right? Because if you're arguing for the position of "disallow" based on some criteria, I'd point out that I'd keep that open-world answer around because I do think it answers the question just fine, even if it is over-the-top. Which is why I think more-and-more than putting any kind of policy in place that requires moderators to think about deleting a question isn't worth the effort. | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 1:52 | history | answered | MAnd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |