Timeline for What to do when an answer is wrong, but a comment box is too small?
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| Jul 19, 2020 at 20:54 | comment | added | Sycorax Mod | What's your desired outcome in that scenario? As you've said, the post already has a negative score, and a number of comments describing why it's wrong. It seems like the SE mechanisms are working correctly, so why would causing an affront be helpful? After all of this negative feedback, it seems unlikely that causing an affront will suddenly compel the Answerer to understand engineering better, and thereby write a better answer. | |
| Jul 19, 2020 at 20:22 | comment | added | alephzero | When an answer that has been accepted is has a negative number of votes and is "not even wrong," but its author starts trying to defend the indefensible when this is pointed out in several comments by different people, there comes a time when "not causing an affront" is rather beside the point. (There was a recent example of that on Engineering SE - but I'm not going to post a link to it. I would guess the answer was accepted because it was what the OP wanted to hear, not because he/she was able to evaluate the truth of it.) | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 0:50 | vote | accept | SycoraxMod | ||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 20:07 | history | answered | SycoraxMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |