Timeline for Are joke answers valid answers?
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| Jan 17, 2016 at 7:52 | comment | added | MAnd | @JoshPetrie I brought it up in reply to you saying "This one joke answer is the only one I can recall seeing recently". | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 1:38 | comment | added | user1430 | @MAnd Yes, I've seen it, but I'm not sure what your point is as far as bringing it up? | |
| Jan 16, 2016 at 1:28 | comment | added | MAnd | @JoshPetrie Take a look at this hilarious answer: gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/112293/72423 Even if it was indeed great fun to read, it does not address the OP question at all. | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 2:13 | comment | added | Vaillancourt Mod | @JoshPetrie About that last comment, the accepted answer is the opinion of the OP (and 18 users), but it does not seems to be the community's opinion: the highest voted answer has 35 votes and the answerer felt that joke answers are not welcome. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:49 | comment | added | user1430 | As to your third bullet point, on MSE, the consensus seems to be that "if your answer was helpful, it was helpful." So that's something to think about as well I guess. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:44 | history | edited | VaillancourtMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Put water in my wine (eeewww), raised another concern. |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | user1430 | Also "what makes a joke" is still relevant; if we're going to say we don't accept jokes, that means somebody has to decide if a thing is a joke and delete it, or edit out just the joke. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | user1430 | This one joke answer is the only one I can recall seeing recently. I don't think we have a "drive by joke" answer problem. I'm more interested in how strict and fussy we want to be about this. We're already pretty exceedingly strict about things. | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:33 | history | answered | VaillancourtMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |