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What do we do with highly upvoted, accepted, wrong answers?
Setting aside for a second how accurate or otherwise this particular answer is, in a more general case:
If an answer is sorta-right, but only in a certain set of circumstances, and doesn't make that ...
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Should questions that are too specific go unanswered?
No, we should not be intentionally leaving questions open and unanswered. Too localized was removed as a close reason in 2013, so "this question is not likely to help somebody else" is not, by itself, ...
UnionhawkMod
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Did I do anything wrong with this answer?
I believe the main reason for the downvotes would be the fact that you answered a 6 year old question that already had an accepted answer.
Also, possibly, the fact that you're advocating the use of ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
One thing to keep in mind is that in a lot of cases, there is also the possibility that an accepted answer is actually the NEWER answer, which takes into account new information or applies to a more ...
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What do we do with highly upvoted, accepted, wrong answers?
I've seen two complaints about the answer. One is that the answer is wrong. The other is that the answer is harmful. Let's look at those:
Wrongness
We don't even need to look at the specific ...
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Users asking (and self-answering) in blocks
According to the Help Center article, “Can I answer my own question?”, Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to ask and answer their own questions.
Stack Exchange has always ...
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How can I work towards removing an answer ban from 1 bad answer?
Hello, welcome to Arqade and sorry that you are going through this.
First of all, just saying: moderators can't unblock you.
You should post well-received questions to get unblocked. The amount ...
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Should we fix typos when quoting sources?
There really aren't any rules when it comes to quoting, aside from making sure to credit your sources.
Is it preferred to directly quote a source or to paraphrase?
There's no real community ...
WipqoznMod
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What do we do with highly upvoted, accepted, wrong answers?
The answer states that it's absolutely impossible to corrupt a save game by closing a game through Alt+F4.
Instead of absolutes, the answer comes from a practical viewpoint. If the software is really ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
I think accepted answers should be unpinned. While we may not see this issue as much as Stack Overflow, I have certainly seen cases where the accepted answer is no longer the best answer, or even is ...
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Do we allow image answers?
Images are not like videos or links. Videos and links can/do suffer from link-rot. Images, however can, and should, be hosted on SE's imgur host. So images will not suffer from the same sort of rot.
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"Hope this helps!" or something similar. Let's talk about it!
The network stance on this is that it's fluff and distracts from the main content of the post: Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts? But some sites ...
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What do we do with highly upvoted, accepted, wrong answers?
Very highly upvoted, very wrong answers get very deleted. We have one precedent for this and it was a rather uncontroversial call.
It's simple to see why: we're spreading misinformation and that's ...
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Why do people get more reputation from lengthier answers?
I'll be completely frank here: your answer is not of the same high quality as the other poster. It does answer the question, but it does so in a short, rather terse way with not a lot of explanation ...
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When should I flag an answer and what flag should I use?
The first link absolutely qualifies as "an answer". It attempts to answer the question by offering a solution to the stated problem. The fact that it is a relevant attempt to answer the question is ...
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How can I fix these downvoted answers?
I am not one of the downvoters, but in the specific case, the biggest thing for me is that most of your answer is just a fairly long list of links to external resources, and the rest is pretty much ...
UnionhawkMod
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Answering a Broad question with a Broad answer
This meta question kind of delves into what you are saying, if you look at Strix's answer here:
StackExchange, and each of its child sites, is supposed to be a community for experts to provide ...
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Can some of my answers be converted from Community Wiki to regular answers?
Done! - I've removed the Community Wiki status from the two listed answers for you.
For future scenarios, here's some help center guidance for when posts should be considered for Community Wiki ...
RobotnikMod
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Is there a good reference for making good answers?
There are some good pointers here on how to write a good answer. The general points taken from TheTXI's answer should apply to every site on the network.
Be clear.
Provide examples.
Link to more ...
DragonrageMod
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Should I delete my answer?
Fleshing out my above comments:
No, you shouldn't manually delete your answer on a closed question. Why not? Because question closure is not a finite state. The question could be:
In dispute
When ...
RobotnikMod
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
With games-as-a-service being the industry trend I would vote to unpin accepted answers from the top.
Constant changes to games will see to it that even solid answers from the past can be quickly ...
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How to get an up to date answer for old questions with obsolete answers?
I think it's pretty clear from the comment votes that the only thing we all agree on is there is a problem here.
In a perfect world, a new question is asked, marked as a dupe, asker either a) ...
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Imprecise answer accepted, what to do?
I think the actions you have taken so far have been appropriate under these specific circumstances. Note that the user is still active(ish): last seen 18 hours ago and is a high rep user on another ...
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Collapsible Sections/Spoilers
EDIT: Implementation feature-request
I've found an idea that is really easy to implement to make this work:
Add <details>, <summary> and the open attribute to the HTML whitelist.
The <...
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Why do answers turn blurry when downvoted -3+?
According to an answer from the Meta on Stack:
SE doesn't just cater to the folks who ask and answer. SE tries to
cater to those who have a similar problem and find a post via Google.
Not all non-SE ...
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
At the time of making this post:
Summary of votes on the answers on this post (excluding answers that don't distinctly state a side):
Post
Keep Pin/Unpin?
Total Votes
Positive
Negative
Nzall's
Keep ...
Timmy JimMod
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Do we allow image answers?
It's a bad answer. Downvote it, and vote to delete if rep allows.
It's not a non-answer. It ought not be flagged. Particularly not with the generic NAA flag. As Moderators, we can't always be counted ...
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How to get an up to date answer for old questions with obsolete answers?
Our duplicate policy shouldn't apply to outdated questions
Stack Exchange works around votes and accepted answers, allowing good answers to rise to the top. This does not work as intended if answers ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible