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Should old, high-rep, link-only, accepted answers be deleted?

1 pointsby ColdHawaiianabout 11 years ago

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ColdHawaiianabout 11 years ago
TL;DR (Summary)<p>There&#x27;s currently a debate going on right now on Meta Stack Overflow (the new one, if you didn&#x27;t hear about the spin-off of Meta Stack Exchange[0]) about whether or not highly upvoted, accepted, link-only answers should be deleted or not. One of the alternatives proposed is to turn them into comments instead.<p>For additional context, see<p>1. How should accepted link-only answers be handled?[1].<p>2. Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?[2].<p><i>Edit: if you want your voice heard, now is the time to speak. Go vote, or comment, or write your own proposed solution.</i><p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626264" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7626264</a><p>[1]: <a href="http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/251514/456814" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;251514&#x2F;456814</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/163250" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;225370&#x2F;163250</a>