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Anything related to posting answers, their scope and style. Also about improving their content, voting on answers, editing your own answers or others' answers, etc.

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OP claims to represent company in question

In general I probably would put a "insufficient explanation" notice on the answer and add a comment explaining that "I'm from $COMPANY" doesn't add value to the answer and asking for verifiable source …
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False closure as duplicate

If the intention of the asker are unclear, clarification can be requested through comments. In the mentioned case the OP didn’t come back with more details which would have helped to reopen the questi …
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Suggested Edit was MUCH longer than original answer

The user editing the answer left a comment as well, about them not being able to post an answer on their own because the question is protected and they don‘t have enough reputation. So yes, a separate …
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How should I deal with a misleading answer?

Deleting an answer is always an option. If you don't see see a delete link at the bottom of your answer (next to the edit link), just flag it for moderator attention and add a note.
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How to improve my answers?

Two good places to start are Two Minute Tour Help Center Especially the help center contains a lot of information about how to participate on the site and how the different things work. There is a …
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The accepted answer is wrong

So if you run into such a situation you can downvote wrong answers (even if they are accepted) upvote correct answers (or provide the correct answer if it is missing) add a comment to the question (so …
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What to do about totally absurd answer

The important step in these cases is to flag the post so the moderator team is aware of it. Flagging gives you several options. In cases like the one mentioned in the question "it is not an answer" …
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Should answers promoting a petition be flagged/deleted?

It doesn't answer the question so flagging/deleting definitively is in order. In this case it does have some merits as a comment.
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Is it just me or is there a sudden uptick in Clash of Clans questions with tons of “me too” ...

I've cleaned up most of them now. If you run into more, just flag them as usual. As for the reason, I can only guess. Maybe there was a change of rules on CoC server side which triggered some changes …
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What to do when the answer is too short for an answer

"It's not possible" type of answers are always tricky, even though in this case you are right. … And, of course, not all questions will get answers. …
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Answer from someone's comment

And of course, as always, answers which are more than just copy/paste from the comment are highly appreciated :-) …
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Discussion Topic: Increase In Questions That Are Simply Solved With Google Search

I see several reasons why people come to Ask Different instead of searching via Google/Bing/Duckduckgo> not everybody is very used to doing Google searches, especially for more complex topics. Searc …
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Should one remove me too part and hope it helps part from an answer?

Basically the usual rules regarding low-quality answers apply: edit for clarity remove fluff (like things tried which didn't solve the problem) look out for hidden "thank you" type answers which only … a relation to Catalina or iOS 10.13 though, we get these kind of answers all the time. …
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The policy on flagging link-only answers should be made much more obvious

This seems on the long run much more valuable than flagging answers for mod attention (because all mods can do in such case is either delete them right away or add the same comment the flagger already …
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