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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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