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Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer

What you don't see is the six other poor quality and sometimes actually spammy answers there. Granted its a video conversion question, and they attract spammers. You're not one. Awesome. We've ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
9 votes

Is suggesting python libraries/solution a proper software recommendations?

Almost never ideal, but perhaps preferable to no answer at all? As someone who does enjoy writing code I would be sad to see such answers go because I find them empowering, but that is not the ...
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5 votes

Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer

While I see your point of "no warning before" – I also see the point of the mod deleting the post. I'm not a mod; if I had "pushed that button" you'd have gotten a warning in advance (and a chance to ...
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How to handle "it's impossible" answers?

I think that we should we allow "It's impossible" answers for the following reasons: Such answers are useful to inform the OP and other readers of the difficulty or impossibility to provide ...
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4 votes

Why was this answer deleted?

You need to have personal experience with software that you recommend, as per the answer quality guidelines. Your answer essentially falls in the 'I Googled your query and found this' section as of ...
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4 votes

Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer

Everyone else has already covered the pertinent points here, so I'm going to try to give a little context for this (not in strict chronological order, though): Way back in the beginning of the site, ...
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4 votes

Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer

This deletion was entirely appropriate. Before accusing others of being “rogue”, please take a minute to inform yourself about our site. The fact that the answer had been around for a while changes ...
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4 votes

Edit otherwise valid answer to remove "Also, look at that long list of maybe solutions"?

Good observation, Nicolas. When I see that type of answer, I often wonder "What is wrong with the answer that they decided to also include a link to a list of apps?". I then reread the answer at ...
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How to handle one line answers vs comments

The second category ("Try software XYZ, it will work well.") lacks the info whether it meets the requirements at all (if I ask for a boat and get told a car "works well", it doesn't help me at all) – ...
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2 votes

How to handle "it's impossible" answers?

I don't want such answers. They don't help me. And thus I downvote, because that's exactly what the downvote means: "it is not useful". When I ask a question, I have a problem and I want to ...
Thomas Weller's user avatar
2 votes

Answers with broken links to software that is no longer available

This is one of the reasons that we discourage product recommendations on super user. In many cases the author is gone so pinging the author might not be a good solution on its own. To me If its a ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
2 votes

Edit otherwise valid answer to remove "Also, look at that long list of maybe solutions"?

I find RockPaperLizard's paragraph about "lacking answers" very true. Answers that have such links are often lacking something else. Often the answer would otherwise be a one-line answer (which ...
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1 vote

Should I flag answers that contain multiple, independent solutions?

As we want software recommendations (instead of merely software mentions), an answerer that has multiple solutions in mind would ideally compare these solutions, and recommend when to use which. I ...
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1 vote

Quality guidelines for software identification questions/answers?

I think we should just close software identifications questions. Here's why: They don't have requirements There can only be 1 correct answer Answers which suggest similar software will just be ...
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1 vote

You're doing it all wrong!

Four points: When a question gets no answers, most askers would prefer link-dropping to something they were not aware of to having no answer at all. Requiring personal experience decreases the ...
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