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0 answers
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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 ...
Quack E. Duck's user avatar
70 votes
3 answers
1k views

Should this self answer by a new poster have been deleted in review?

Yesterday a new poster asked this question: How do I track down this exception in netbeans? The question related to a problem when using the NetBeans installer to install NetBeans, and there were ...
skomisa's user avatar
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-10 votes
1 answer
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Why did I fail this audit? (yet another title) [duplicate]

https://stackoverflow.com/review/late-answers/22549650 I don't understand. The answer maybe incorrect and I didn't check it. Because when I recently flagged one incorrect answer as "very low quality" ...
sanyassh's user avatar
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3 votes
2 answers
482 views

Answer that doesn't answer the question [duplicate]

In this answer, the user specifically states that the answer doesn't answer what was asked. Since it is an answer but not to the question asked, should it be flagged and which flag should be used? ...
Rich's user avatar
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6 votes
0 answers
295 views

Should an answer that fixes an irrelevant typo be removed? [duplicate]

Someone posted a question with a small typo in the code.The typo was unrelated to the question being asked and was edited out almost immediately. Before the typo was fixed, someone posted an answer ...
Increasingly Idiotic's user avatar
8 votes
2 answers
252 views

Answer deleted for not answering question, but it did

Yesterday, I made an answer on a post stating that what OP was asking was not possible using current APIs (specific to Chrome). A couple hours later, another user commented on my answer stating that I ...
jhpratt's user avatar
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12 votes
1 answer
504 views

What to do with answer that is up for review because it uses a different technology

I have a review task for Answer up for review because it uses a different technology. OP was looking for JS and this is a CSS solution. The answer is viable and highly scored, but there are others ...
Shawn Mehan's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
91 views

What is wrong with this 'Upload media to Dropbox' answer?

So, I failed a review audit (for this post), and I'm not exactly sure why. Before I click I understand, I'd like to actually understand. ;-) I assume the post must have been flagged as spam, but ...
jpaugh's user avatar
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13 votes
1 answer
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Poor answer to poor question [duplicate]

I failed an audit for this question (now deleted). The question was (in my opinion) a low-quality question to begin with since it asked for a "free tool," which falls into an off-topic category. ...
ryanyuyu's user avatar
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