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What defines an "unhelpful" answer?

Asked by MakeItSo1701 (13646points) 2 days ago

Not trying to start a war with the mods here.

But if I (as the OP) found an answer helpful, why would it get removed if others don’t find it helpful? I am not asking because recent answers on my posts that have been flagged as that made sense, but it has happened in the past. I think something is helpful, I give a GA, then later it is removed.

I have also noticed that if I address two people in one post, if one of the comments I am replying to gets deleted, so does mine. Even though I am addressing more than one person, so now all my writing is gone. Kind of irks me if my response was helpful to the other comment not removed. Is it better I double, triple post? That seems annoying too.

I find subjective modding interesting. I don’t prefer it, but I know it is unavoidable, we all have biases. However, modding a grammar mistake vs. an “unhelpful” answer is different.

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RedDeerGuy1's avatar

This answer.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@Brian1946 Your link logged me out. Good thing that Google remembered the password for me.

smudges's avatar

How did you do that, @Brian1946? Your link logged me out too. Good thing I have my passwords written in a notebook because I don’t trust google or any other of those “password saving” sites.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

The link . . sez ” . . . /logout”.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Subjective moderation has long been a complaint here, and was part of the reason for the last mass exodus of users.
If you question them too much you’ll be threatened with expulsion even if your logic is sound. Several jellies have evidence of such on the Left and Right both.
So take it or leave it but this is not a democracy by mods, its their way or nothing, sadly.

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