Timeline for answer to Is a self-answer of "looks like I had a typo" really not NAA? by BoltClock
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| Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 | comment | added | Bhargav Rao | Thanks @BoltClock I will flag as VLQ. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 | comment | added | BoltClock Mod | @Bhargav Rao: In that case, the question can still survive without the answer, so the answer should still be flagged, not the question. But since "I went with a different approach" can be seen as an attempt to close the question with an answer, it's unwise to flag it as NAA. If you really want to flag it for review, use VLQ instead - there's a very good chance the Low Quality Posts queue will recommend its deletion. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 8:02 | comment | added | Bhargav Rao | I kinda understand your answer @BoltClock. But I need some guidance. So is this an answer, but only a poor one? I am confused to flag and don't want declined flags. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 7:08 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @TylerH: OK, so a UI tweak to improve reviewer behavior to match desired and commonly-seen flagging behavior is coming. Sounds good enough. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | TylerH | @NathanTuggy sorry, "feature" is the wrong word for how I wrote my comment. He is planning to update the NAA verbiage to something along the lines of "this answer does not address the problem posed by the question" | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 7:01 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @TylerH: Sorry, I'm a little confused. Which feature? | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 6:59 | comment | added | TylerH | @NathanTuggy The feature is already on the docket per one of Shog's MSE posts I found a while ago; it's waiting on a UI overhaul for the moderator flags page. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 6:45 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @TylerH: I'm not sure it's any more feasible to change the behavior of all flaggers. If you can change one large, poorly-educated crowd with UI tweaks, surely you can do the same for a smaller, better-educated one, no? | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 3:55 | comment | added | BoltClock Mod | @TigerhawkT3: Funny you mention that. We've had a few flags along the lines of "I was drunk" from people on their own questions after the fact - but no NAA self-answers to that effect. Not yet. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | TylerH | This answer raises another point. The NAA flag is mistakenly declined a lot for one reason in particular: often, actual answers are posted that don't attempt to answer THE question that was asked. The dialogue for the NAA flag says "this does not attempt to answer the question" (emphasis mine). Answers that don't address the question above are, by this description, NAA, yet they often get declined because the flag is titled "Not An Answer". Since it's not feasible to change the behavior of all flag reviewers, please change "the" in the above sentence to "a" to rectify this problem. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | user4639281 | What was the children's story about the guy who lived in a rickety old house that kept him up at night? The doctor prescribed a chicken, then a goat, then a horse, etc. After a week the doctor tells the man to get rid of all the farm animals, and the man has a great sleep from then on. I vote to remove the NaA and VLQ flags from the flag dialog for a week, then when they come back everyone would be much more appreciative. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 20:34 | comment | added | Drew | Tiger let it go, bro. Remember that R programming language you were going to master? Put that energy into R. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 20:27 | comment | added | TigerhawkT3 | "The question wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the typo" - if someone gets drunk and posts a question about the broken code they wrote, should they post an answer consisting solely of "lol i was drunk when i posted this q sry" the next morning? After all, the question wouldn't exist if the poster was sober. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:44 | comment | added | josliber Mod | @TigerhawkT3 Reviewers in the low-quality posts queue tend to be a little too trigger happy in deleting content. meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563 is a good read on this topic. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:30 | comment | added | TigerhawkT3 | Might be worthwhile to investigate why all the reviewers made the same mistake. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:20 | comment | added | TigerhawkT3 | Flagging is like a box of chocolates, I guess. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:17 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | @TigerhawkT3 yes they did. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | TigerhawkT3 | So, the other reviewers came to an incorrect conclusion (the same one I did)? | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:11 | comment | added | BoltClock Mod | The "it isn't NAA" reason is why it was declined. The "who cares" reason is why flagging it was unnecessary to start with. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 12:07 | comment | added | TigerhawkT3 | I was just wondering why the only person involved who didn't think it was NAA was the mod who declined my flag - with an "it isn't NAA" reason, not a "who cares" reason. Does the flag need to be accurate and catch a mod while they're feeling flaggy? Because I don't know how to arrange the latter. | |
| Jan 11, 2016 at 11:59 | history | answered | BoltClockMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |