Timeline for What to do with answers that repeat other answers?
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 14:36 | comment | added | Artemix | Downvotes may be not effective in terms of reputation, because if the answer is relevant, someone can upvote it. To balance upvote you need to downvote the answer 5 times, otherwise the user will have positive reputation. I myself saw a bad answer to a highly voted question that had positive reputation effect even after 7 downvotes. Without such answer removal the user would see this as a good strategy to earn reputation points without much effort. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 22:27 | comment | added | Olga Mod | Actually, I think that downvoting will not work and it is not exactly the correct use of down votes. Why does one answer get a high score and another one a low score, and both answers are the same? I'd do the following thing: add a post notice or a comment, and then if the user didn't correct the answer suring a day or two, delete it. If the answer is very poorly formatted, is hard to understand or is offensive, I'd delete it right away. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 8:42 | comment | added | shabunc Mod | interesting answers should be up voted, the rule is common) it's just that personally me found about 80% of new answers very raw. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 8:37 | comment | added | Olga Mod | Actually, there are interesting answers, too. As for the irrelevant jokes, just flag them as spam, off-topic or offensive, whatever you feel is the most appropriate. Such "answers" will be deleted. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 8:33 | history | answered | shabuncMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |