Questions tagged [specific-answer]
Use this tag for questions on Meta that relate to a specific answer on Stack Overflow.
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Was this answer that links to a free open source software project and non-commercial website that I help maintain, really spam?
I want to ask about my answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/78498819/1718491
It has 4+ down-votes as "spam" and I'd like to ask if this really qualifies as "spam" or not. I ...
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My answer was deleted (by '3 users vote' ) and isn't off topic
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: What is the relationship between iostream and namespace std?
My answer was deleted (by '3 users vote' ) and isn't off-topic nor match criteria, ...
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Appealing a deleted answer on a "git prune" question [closed]
I believe a moderator deleted my answer without reading it thoroughly.
Direct link to the now deleted answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/77964098/1426539
Since 2011, this topic received a lot of ...
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Is it wrong to make a more general answer when a previous answer had already answered the specific question?
I found this question which already has an accepted answer there. While it's true that my answer doesn't directly answer what's asked in the title, it's answering part of the title that could be the ...
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Why is the answer about 'relative import path "$fresh/dev.ts" not prefixed' deleted?
Answer in question: Deno - Relative import path "$fresh/dev.ts" not prefixed
Its first version was:
In my case, I want to change the source directory. If the path contains a space or a non-...
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Useful bountied answer removed
I awarded a bounty on an answer to this question seleniumbase (undetected Chrome driver): how to set request header? but the relevant answer has disappeared, presumably deleted for some unknown reason....
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Why was my Visual Studio Code-related answer deleted?
I don't know who can even see it, but I don't know why my answer was deleted. If there's an issue with it, why can't someone just leave a comment explaining the issue?
In the answer, I give options ...
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Can this information about the change of regex handling in HTML be preserved and how?
A question I posted an answer to was deleted: Why does a regex using an unescaped dash - character not seem to work in a pattern attribute in HTML but it works when testing on regex101? (Screenshot of ...
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Why was my answer deleted without engaging me? [duplicate]
I'm a bit puzzled as to why my answer to a SE questions was deleted without further comment. There is just a laconic "One reason it's not useful is because the majority (if not the whole thing) ...
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Important context removed from answer, why?
I wrote an answer to a poorly written question.
I provided a possible answer but added a disclaimer to state that the symptoms described in the question can have many causes. And the only way to find ...
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Why does this no-op answer have 115 upvotes?
I came across https://stackoverflow.com/a/22523287, which is just:
All the while I was doing .style("fill", "darkOrange")
Then I found out the correct answer is .style('fill', '...
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Why was this helpful and positively-scored answer about a bug deleted by a moderator?
I was wondering, why was this answer deleted by moderation?
Razor code formatting issue with Visual Studio 2022
It did help me understand the issue I was having. Though not perfect, should it have ...
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I don't understand why a flag concerning "spam" was declined
The question is about this answer: Why did this python list get passed by value?
It contains a gibberish text that is in no way related to the question and a link to a crypto exchange website. For me, ...
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A user is rolling back a Moderator edit, what more can be done? [duplicate]
It's about this answer that I flagged because it contains rude/noisy content. The moderators removed the noise but the OP rollback to a previous version.
I tried to do the same but still, the OP ...
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Possible spam that could also be an innocent Q/A - looking for advice
Tonight in the Triage review queue, I came across what looked at first sight like a run-of-the-mill low quality 'write my code for me' question. I was about to flag it as unsalvageable, since the ...
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