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This question was asked and successfully answered on Friday. OP accepted the answer shortly afterwards. Well done LogicDictates, Job done :-)

Except that wasn't the end of it. (shocked Pikachu face)

The following day, another user posted an answer that repeats the accepted answer and adds in some additional meta-commentary about how to search for ID answers.

I was anticipating that it would be deleted in short order ("Low quality"), and was surprised to see that our semi-retired moderator has instead decided to bounty it, giving this redundant answer more oxygen.

We already have a meta answer where users can go for advice in doing their own search, so is this something that we want to see happening on the main site more often? Won't this just encourage users to post redundant 'me too' answers to solved questions?

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  • "something that we want to see happening on the main site more often?" - no, but when it happened once, I thought it was a really nice thing to see, someone thinking beyond the immediate benefit of answering a single ID request and posting a more broadly useful answer (one of the great things about ID, as I'm sure you'd agree, is that these Q&A do help more than just one person to find one thing). "Won't this just encourage users to post redundant 'me too' answers" - why on earth would it? Commented 8 hours ago
  • @Randal'Thor - You don't think that giving someone a medal for fly-tippping will encourage other people to litter? Commented 7 hours ago
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    The answer has now garnered (unanimous) 6 votes of "recommend deletion". It is now up to the moderators whether to delete it. Commented 4 hours ago

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