Timeline for Can we get some consensus on what flag to use for link only answers?
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| Oct 7, 2014 at 11:09 | history | edited | Wooble | CC BY-SA 3.0 | fix typo |
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| S Nov 30, 2013 at 18:23 | history | suggested | brasofilo | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Fixed strange typo. Added link to Anna's answer. |
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| Oct 8, 2013 at 10:20 | comment | added | Siddharth Rout | + 1 I absolutely echo your opinion on "Link Only Answers" Not the culture I wanna see in SO definitely. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 4:09 | comment | added | user50049 | @AnnaLear I could also have been out of the 'salt mine' a bit too long myself, but the majority of the flags I saw to that effect were on answers like 'Just click this link, the answer you want can be found there' or similar. I haven't seen decent answers that happened to contain a link flagged that way very often. That isn't to say it doesn't happen, but I didn't see it. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 3:58 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @TimPost I don't think anyone says that those are perfect answers and of course if a link is broken, there's no reason to keep the post around. I think we can assume as a baseline that the link works and is at least somewhat relevant to the question; otherwise it's a very clear "not an answer" or "spam". I may be suffering some confirmation bias here, but in my experience folks aren't targeting only broken links. It's getting to the point where even including a link in an otherwise decent answer results in comments/flags and that's not right. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 3:50 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | id forgot how to is |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 3:47 | comment | added | user50049 | @AnnaLear I don't disagree. An answer that is (mostly) just a working link is what I'd consider to be our minimum quality threshold. We should encourage people to strive to contribute at least marginally above that minimum though - I don't want to be in the habit of saying those are perfectly fine answers. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 3:44 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 47 characters in body |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 3:14 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | You're absolutely right. However, not having an answer at all (even one that points to an external site and requires more clicking/reading/guessing) has got to be even more frustrating. :) | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 2:49 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | If the link is broken, I'd prefer a custom flag stating something to that effect. A flag reading "Link-only answer, and the link is broken" is really easy for me to act on, because I simply need to confirm that the link is indeed broken. A not-an-answer flag might take me longer to figure out what's going on, and I might miss the broken link. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 2:18 | history | answered | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |