Timeline for Should we really delete low quality answers?
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| Aug 22, 2019 at 20:10 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | The fashion of TeX-SX is not never downvote but don't downvote past -1. The consensus established early on was that if a post (question or answer) stands at -1 then there is an issue with it and that is all the information that is needed. So downvoting is fine with the proviso that if it stands already at -1 then further downvotes aren't needed. | |
| Aug 20, 2019 at 15:28 | answer | added | WernerMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 21:47 | comment | added | siracusa | I agree that the system is a bit confusing here. This specific review queue is called "Low Quality Posts", while the available options for deletion suggest that it should actually be called "Non-answer Posts". To me a plain wrong answer is even worse than a link-only answer, so I usually vote for deletion on wrong answers. I've always wondered why there is no deletion reason for wrong answers. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 7:14 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | They should be downvoted, but the fashion of TeX.SE is "never downvote", so I prefer to recommend deletion and leave a comment, if necessary. Usually bad answers are posted by the same users, and if you always downvote the same users, you may be accused to persecute them and you may risk to be suspended. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 3:20 | comment | added | Alan Munn | Something that is almost axiomatic on the Stackexchange is "even a wrong answer is an answer", and I think the list of deletion reasons is stated in such a way that anything else (like your 1, 2, and 4) are answers, and as such should be dealt with by voting not by deletion. The Low Quality Post list has no real content knowledge, so it's just a starting point for human interaction from us as reviewers. I agree, however, that 3 seems to be the odd one out, but I think that's because the other axiom is "link only answers are not answers". | |
| Aug 17, 2019 at 8:46 | history | asked | schtandard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |