Questions tagged [specific-answer]
Use this tag for questions on Meta that relate to a specific answer on Stack Overflow.
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How to deal with comment that refer to interesting deleted answer?
I found this comment :
"timestamp has a some limitations, you might want to read this stackoverflow.com/a/7229760/2652018"
The link refer to a question that seems similar. The link doesn't ...
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How can I improve this answer to an HTTP spec question?
I received a downvote to this answer to a question about the HTTP spec that I don't understand. Given that my answer is directly copied from the spec, the only reasons I could think for the downvote ...
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How can I improve this answer to a regex question?
I recently provided this answer (screenshot for <10k users) to a question about a regex, and it received a downvote fairly quickly. I'd rather get ahead of bad posting habits if I can, so I was ...
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Someone voted to delete my answer - what's wrong with it?
After reading this and a few others, I can't fathom what's prompted the deletion vote on this answer I posted yesterday. I took time, went into detail about the two most common reasons why OpenCart ...
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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, ...
Ryan MMod
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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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How should I answer a question about a bug in a programming language or dependencies?
How should I answer questions that are of the form "look at this exception I saw"?
Background: I hit a (recent) bug in Python / Cython, manifesting itself in NumPy and in Pandas. I searched, ...
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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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Why was my answer deleted for using ChatGPT even when I didn't?
I'm a new contributor trying to get more into helping on Stack Overflow, and after spending a while writing up an answer, it was deleted because it seems like I used ChatGPT.
It might have been a ...
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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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An author of an important answer has repeatedly rolled back changes that make clear improvements. What should I do?
The specific answer: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/209854/revisions, is the top answer to a very popular question, How can I make a dictionary (dict) from separate lists of keys and values?.
The ...
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Should I remove an "intrusive" edit?
Today I stumbled upon this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4083233/8620333 and I find out that a person made an edit to include new information. Probably useful but "Clearly conflicts with ...
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Why are my comments explaining why I voted to delete an answer continuously deleted without explanation? [closed]
My question was answered, but the answer is not actually a useful answer to my question. I voted to delete that answer, because I started a bounty and need correct attention. When an answer is NOT ...
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How fair is it for a moderator to decide alone to delete a post without any comment on why the post is deleted?
First off, I want to be clear this post is not against the moderator. Rather, I would like to know on what basis did the moderator delete the post single-handedly and how can you judge that the ...
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Is there a way to recover my answer to another users deleted question?
A few times I have experienced that I spent time writing an answer to a question only to find that the question was deleted. This seems to cause my answer to simply disappear from the universe.
Is ...
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How can I restore an answer deleted by a ♦ moderator?
I answered
Ignore NaN when adding input values in JavaScript
And then realised there was a duplicate when the question was marked as such.
I liked my answer and copied it to the duplicate https://...
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What should we do when the OP's answer is deleted incorrectly for the reason 'does not provide an answer to the question'? [duplicate]
See Chart a line graph using linqpad
A user asks a question and four hours later provides an answer (which is IMHO a perfectly valid answer).
His/her answer was then reviewed and deleted because it ...
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Editing to update outdated solution on question about Xdebug on Mac
The solution on Building/Installing Xdebug on Mac OS X with MAMP is outdated, and would I love to combine my answer reflecting current affairs into the accepted answer.
Yet it apparently is held up in ...
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What's wrong with my answer?
I recently answered an interesting question and thought it was a good answer. Everybody was happy (the question was upvoted two times). Almost a day later I got three downvotes without any comments ...
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Not real sure why this answer was deleted
Not real sure why this answer was deleted. It appears to at least attempt to answer the question. In fact, the answer is of higher quality than the question itself.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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My answer citing another answer was deleted
There is a question I answered on Stack Overflow back in 2018. It has been there for 6 years, protected as a community wiki, and has 166 votes.
How do I remedy "The breakpoint will not currently ...
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Why was my answer deleted for plagiarism, despite mentioning the source?
My answer was deleted by a mod for plagiarism. Why? It mentioned the source clearly ("code from gns-ank").
Answer:
Since Matplotlib isn't able to use the metric system natively, if you want ...
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Is the re-use of the image on these posts appropriate?
Here are the posts:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74637625/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74615350/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74490727/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74450165/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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Why was my flag on a link-only answer declined?
I flagged this answer as Very Low Quality due to it being a link-only answer, since I thought it didn’t have any value if the link went dead.
I am not complaining about the declined flag; I'm just ...
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Why was this answer deleted? For obsolete reason?
This answer was deleted not by its author but by two other users, one of them a moderator. It's an alright answer, the author put good effort into it, and it has five upvotes. I think at least some of ...
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Why does Stack Overflow keep deleting my comments? [duplicate]
I encountered the RandomForestClassifier non-reproducible problem. Someone has posted and solved this problem: (Python sklearn RandomForestClassifier non-reproducible results).
So I left a comment ...
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Why was this JSP answer deleted by a moderator?
I originally found a question I was looking for an answer to, and once I found the solution I added this answer.
I then realised that question was a duplicate of an even older one, so I closed the ...
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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 ...
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Should we discourage the use of <h1>/<h2> at the very start of an answer? [duplicate]
I’ve noticed that some answers start with a a <h1>/<h2> not to structure the answer in different parts --there’s only one-- but to attract eyeballs.
I guess there can be legitimate uses; ...
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Make it mandatory for moderators to give reason for deleting a VALID, NON-spam/abusive/offensive answer
I feel when a moderator deletes an answer that someone worked hard to find the solution to and posts it, it is basic courtesy to let the answerer know why their time and effort have been nullified. ...
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Deletion of answers that venture "outside the box"
In response to C ternary operator, can I omit one part?, my answer has been deleted by a moderator as being "code golf" and unhelpful.
The OP asked if C allowed circumventing (omitting part ...
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Is it valid for an answer to berate the reader for not knowing something simple?
While browsing Reddit, I landed on this thread: shit, they found out!, about this Stack Overflow question: What does \d+ mean in regular expression terms?
The answer there uses a condescending tone to ...
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Is it okay to post an answer questioning the correctness of other answers?
Some time ago I encountered this answer to the question Type of regex used by Sublime Text 3?
I flagged it as NAA and it was disputed. I then raised a mod flag and it was declined. My claim is that ...
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Why was the NAA flag declined on this answer? [duplicate]
I got twice a declined flag for this answer, but I still stubbornly think that the post is a link-only answer and should be deleted.
The mods told me to downvote instead. But I am probably greedy too.
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Should I add code to my answer? [duplicate]
I just answered a question and I keep on asking myself should I have added example code.
The user asked why his code was not doing what he expected.
I added an answer explaining why his concept was ...
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Why was this answer deleted by a mod?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/29169135/7910454
Seems totally fine to me and even has 5 upvotes.
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Why was this answer deleted as spam and used as an audit question? [duplicate]
In the Low Quality Posts queue, this answer was used as an audit question, despite it obviously being a legitimate answer. Even worse, it was deleted by Community Bot as "spam or offensive ...
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Duplicating an answer because the question can't be flagged as a duplicate
I posted an answer on Spigot 1.18.2 not being recognized. Two weeks later, the OP hadn't accepted the answer, and the answer had a score of zero so the question couldn't be used as a duplicate target.
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Should I downvote/flag an answer to an unreproducible question?
This question was asked.
Now, this question is not reproducible. When I paste the code in the playground, it works perfectly fine (the compiler can infer the type). Of course, I need to flag the ...
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