Questions tagged [specific-answer]
Use this tag for questions on Meta that relate to a specific answer on Stack Overflow.
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Top voted answer is just pointing to another answer
The top voted answer on this post is just pointing to this post and not contributing anything new.
Should we close this? Mark it as duplicate? or keep it as it is?
Update:
The answer is now deleted. ...
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Correct answer deleted with no reason
My answer to this question was deleted by a moderator without any comment or reason.
The answer is the correct documented way of achieving what the user was asking and it was deleted by someone that, ...
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Why was my NAA flag declined if OP has edited the answer? [duplicate]
I have flagged an answer as NAA at 21:46:05Z but the author has turned it into a proper answer at 22:01:24Z. My flag was declined 5 minutes ago.
If you edit a post in LQP thus salvaging it, then the ...
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My custom flag to delete an answer that only provides redundant insights was declined
I flagged for a moderator to delete this post with the following custom message:
This is the correct answer to a different question. This question is
pertaining to php not js. This answer should be ...
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Why was this valid answer diamond-moderator-deleted?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/63313318/430766
The question asks for a problem involving numbers and this answer gives a valid solution, suggesting modulo instead of a loop. What's more, this is a new ...
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I've been told to edit my answer, but I'm not sure what to edit. What is wrong with this answer?
Someone commented on one of my answers that the code no longer works. They said “I think a major point is how to retrieve those values (0:2 and 3: in this case). What you replace the elements 4 and 3? ...
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What is considered a repost? [duplicate]
I answered a question.
Recently the answer has been deleted. Reason given is repost.
It claimed that my answer
The easiest solution I found so far is -
for stuff in largestring:
if stuff.strip():
...
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How can I comment on an erroneous comment?
My answer to a Visual Studio/MFC question has been criticised as "not providing an answer to the question", and recommended for deletion - see https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-...
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Detailed and accepted answer deleted by a moderator - why?
I am referring to this question for which I produced a detailed self-contained answer (no link), which was accepted by the person who raised the question. So far so good.
But now I notice that my ...
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Why was my answer (“it's a bug in Node 13.x; update to 14”) deleted?
I've had several recent answers on Stack Overflow deleted and I can't figure out why. If I'm doing something wrong when answering I'd like some feedback on what so I can correct it in the future.
As ...
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Post is marked as spam and hidden [duplicate]
My answer to this question was deleted by a moderator.
The answer was once upvoted, is specific to the question and even contains a link to a fiddle that demonstrates a working solution. Even more ...
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I would like my answer on Stack Overflow to no longer be deleted [duplicate]
I post an answer, then it got deleted. I would like it undeleted. It's not spam; it answers the question.
The contents of the answer are as follows:
I have made a PHP script which is designed to ...
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Why was the accepted answer to my question deleted and why wasn't I notified?
I've just found out that the answer I accepted to a question I posted no longer appears. Two questions:
Why has this happened?
I get an e-mail when someone posts an answer or a comment to a question ...
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Why was "Needs more emoji" deleted by an employee?
This question concerns the following answer deleted an hour ago by one of the SE employees.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/398452
<10k screenshot
I understand that the post was written in a ...
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Very low quality vs not an answer
I flagged an answer as very low quality because I think the answer is very low quality and just like a comment, but it was declined with this reason:
flags should not be used to indicate technical ...
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Why was an answer that attributed original authors deleted?
This answer (image for <10k users) was deleted even though the writer of the answer copied and pasted original content to avoid the answer being marked as link only.
I thought we are to flag (...
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Find specific answer
I'm almost positive that yesterday I was looking for a way to answer interactive questions inside a Dockerfile. I found how to do it using echo. While browsing through SO main site I saw a related ...
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NAA flag got declined [duplicate]
Recently I flagged this answer as NAA.
The answer was
I have solved this issue by regenerate Key
While flagging as NAA it's mentions
This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to ...
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No attempt to answer, code-only answer with own library. Isn't that self-promotion in disguise?
I flagged this answer as spam.
The author doesn't even try to find the root cause of the bug. They could have suggested a solution with both technologies (OP's and theirs) and that would have been ...
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Is an answer calling for downvotes against the question Rude?
I was alerted to this answer in a chatroom:
Please note that this is a take home-exam question for the Algorithm Analysis and Design Course at IIIT-Delhi which is still going on. I am the instructor ...
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How can I make this question/answer more relevant it order to make it pop in the close as a duplicate dialog?
There is a question that would be very good duplicate target but I can't make it to show up in "suggested duplicates" dialog often enough to be used as duplicate target. I'm looking for edit ...
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NAA flag declined on an answer that a mod later removed
I recently flagged this post as NAA (Sentinel record for those under 10k), because it should have been a comment. It had previously made it through a removal review (3x Recommend Deletion), so I ...
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Should I delete this old answer that keeps getting random votes/comments? [closed]
I have an answer from 8+ years ago:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10028086/1310604
Its not the best answer, and I feel its votes clearly reflect that. Regardless, I dont believe editing the answer will ...
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Time to unlock this, perhaps?
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/261593/70345
Locked since August 2019, by a moderator who is no longer a moderator, to resolve disputes with a CM team which probably no longer has the employees it ...
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I didn't pass the First Post review queue test [duplicate]
As this is about the specific question I faced, I'm not sure any of the previous answers help me.
In this question, the answerer suggest downgrading a specific library to a previous version, without:
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What should be done about this wrong answer? [duplicate]
mickmackusa has raised concerns about correctness of this particular answer:
How to remove part of a string?
The answer mentions regex as a solution to remove a part of a string in PHP. As shown by ...
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Answer that refers to tool deleted (but similar answers weren't)
There's a question asking about how to calculate tree edit distance with 24 upvotes and 19 favs. The question is more than ten years old. These days, though, it might've gotten closed because it is ...
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Please review edited answer and vote to undelete answer if you agree [duplicate]
I answered a question which was accepted and then went to other questions which I thought might be considered a duplicate question on the same topic and pasted a link to my answer.
As a result my ...
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How is this answer not "Not an answer"? [duplicate]
I flagged this answer.
Nothing wrong with the content but in my opinion it doesn't attempt to answer the question at all and only suggests debugging steps which I think the author has tried already (...
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Why does this answer have upvotes even though it doesn't solve the problem asked? [duplicate]
The answer in context. The error (as mentioned in the question) clearly indicates that a push will be rejected (until it's a force push).
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Handling a follow-up question due to an error in the original answer
This question is a follow-up question from the same user to this question. The OP made the follow-up question because the answer to the original (which the OP marked as correct) doesn't quite produce ...
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Less bounties even if more upvote
I want to understand why my question got less bounties even if my answer is the most upvoted.
How to train a model in nodejs (tensorflow.js)?
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Why was my answer spam, even though it included a disclaimer of affiliation? Can it be undeleted?
I answered this question: How to perform Auto crop for document Recognize image using camera?.
However, my answer was deleted by a moderator:
You can also use online API's to do the cropping if that ...
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Deleted answer because no original content [duplicate]
I posted what I thought was an answer for the OP. The answer came from another web site. Rather than link to the site alone, I posted the relevant info on the page as well as the credit tag, as I ...
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What makes this a bad answer?
This morning I answered a question, addressing a user's code error and explained the ramifications of their syntax (backed up with further reading) and code/output examples. This afternoon I found ...
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Why did a moderator remove multiple answers to append them to the question?
Here is the question: Can I ellipse a clipping mask on the bottom only?
It sounds a bit strange when you read it, but if you check the revisions and the deleted answers you can clearly see what is ...
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Correct answer includes a new question
Talking specifically about this answer.
The only thing I've done was to write a comment explaining what was done is not a good thing, but the answer is still having both an answer and question (...
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Is this answer's attribution and quoting OK
I was looking at this answer that seemed excellent, however by following the reference link for more information on the topic, it turns out it's (almost) a copy/paste of part of the MDN article.
I ...
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Can an answer be posted to a question closed as duplicate? [duplicate]
I am looking at this question: Processing lists of list in Python
It was closed as duplicate 7 mins ago.
But after closure there appeared two answers, 3 and 2 mins ago. How is that possible? I don't ...
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Not an answer approved as helpful, yet answer still exists
I flagged this answer as "not an answer" which was approved as helpful, yet the answer remains. The "answer" itself is one sentence which appears to be a question:
It is assessed correctly the ...
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Should this answer be converted to a comment now?
Take the following answer:
As the comment beneath it remarked:
Sadly, all the links are now dead, or point to dead download links.
So I tested each link and then edited out the useless ...
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Possible moderator mistake
Just found this answer, which had been deleted by a moderator, who might have thought it's a "link only" answer - but it actually answers the question, because it is about query-string parameters for ...
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Copy-pasted answer, declined flag
After posting an answer to this question, a few minutes later my answer was copy-pasted by a new account. Sometime after that but before the flag was reviewed, the nature of the question was clarified ...
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Is this answer NAA or VLQ worthy? [duplicate]
Before I flag, I wanted to confirm if this answer is worthy of either of those flags:
The question is tagged with php and json. The OP wanted php code to solve the issue (as seen by the tags and ...
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I flagged this non-English answer as NAA. Why was my flag declined?
I flagged this non-English answer as NAA (not an answer).
Why was my flag declined?
It is not a duplicate from this question (How do I deal with non-English content?), because although the FAQ says ...
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Should I edit this old, incorrect, accepted answer?
I found this accepted answer which, despite being accepted, is wrong. I won't trouble you with the boring JS part, but the ~~ operator acts like a truncate function, not a floor, which may lead to ...
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Why was my flag on a seemingly link-only answer declined by a moderator?
I flagged this answer as NAA a few hours ago. Full text of the answer:
A solution that worked for me :
https://laravel.io/forum/11-15-2016-ho-to-paginate-search-results
But my flag was ...
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What is an appropriate response to answers that correctly identified a question author's XY problem when my problem really is X?
The other day I found How do you write the end of a file opened with FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING?, which is a question I had, too. (Mine was slightly different in that I am not using ...
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Why was my answer with a +1 score deleted by a ♦ moderator?
My answer to Is there a script to bypass 50000 characters for in-cell formula? was deleted by a ♦ moderator without any explanation of the reason. My answer has +2 / -1.
Why it was deleted?
Why there ...
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Is it justified to criticize about an existing answer and at the same time attack the other answerer calling them out by name?
This question is in reference to this answer where the answerer have not only criticized an existing answer but also at the same time attacked the other answerer through name calling.
Snapshot:
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