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Part of the virtue of the Stack format is that no one person can enforce their view of what iswhich answers are correct.

That includes mods. That also includes you (whoever the "you" is that is reading this at the moment.)

Of the methods of dealing with an "incorrect" answer suggested in the answer:

  1. This has already been done.

  2. This has already been done.

  3. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It also invisibly hijacks the votes on a post to falsely endorse the lone editor's idea of what is correct.

  4. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It has a similar hijacking problem, though to a lesser degree because it is visible instead of invisible and therefore less likely to deceive readers.

  5. Moderators aren't allowed to make that decision. We even have a specific, hard-coded flag rejection reason that says so:

    flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

    Don't send us flags about incorrect answers. They'll only be rejected, which would only (with a lot of rejections) result in losing flagging privileges entirely.

  6. Not technically feasible (since flag reasons are network-wide, and hardcoded, they cannot be customised per-site), and would be rejected even if it was possible (for the same reasons as #5).

Basically: chill. Fixing this is not your job. You've already done plenty, and it's on the path to voters correcting this, as is proper on a Stack. If you're so impatient for Truth To Win Out that a mere week is insufficient for the normal site mechanisms to work and you feel the need to immediately make it correct according to your own personal standard, you gotta seriously chill out. A year from now the votes will likely have a wider division.

If that's not good enough: sorry, no one user gets to decide which answers are correct and which aren't, so you just have to deal with being unhappy about the votes.

Part of the virtue of the Stack format is that no one person can enforce their view of what is correct.

That includes mods. That also includes you (whoever the "you" is that is reading this at the moment.)

Of the methods of dealing with an "incorrect" answer suggested in the answer:

  1. This has already been done.

  2. This has already been done.

  3. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It also invisibly hijacks the votes on a post to falsely endorse the lone editor's idea of what is correct.

  4. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It has a similar hijacking problem, though to a lesser degree because it is visible instead of invisible and therefore less likely to deceive readers.

  5. Moderators aren't allowed to make that decision. We even have a specific, hard-coded flag rejection reason that says so:

    flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

    Don't send us flags about incorrect answers. They'll only be rejected, which would only (with a lot of rejections) result in losing flagging privileges entirely.

  6. Not technically feasible (since flag reasons are network-wide, and hardcoded, they cannot be customised per-site), and would be rejected even if it was possible (for the same reasons as #5).

Basically: chill. Fixing this is not your job. You've already done plenty, and it's on the path to voters correcting this, as is proper on a Stack. If you're so impatient for Truth To Win Out that a mere week is insufficient for the normal site mechanisms to work and you feel the need to immediately make it correct according to your own personal standard, you gotta seriously chill out. A year from now the votes will likely have a wider division.

If that's not good enough: sorry, no one user gets to decide which answers are correct and which aren't, so you just have to deal with being unhappy about the votes.

Part of the virtue of the Stack format is that no one person can enforce their view of which answers are correct.

That includes mods. That also includes you (whoever the "you" is that is reading this at the moment.)

Of the methods of dealing with an "incorrect" answer suggested in the answer:

  1. This has already been done.

  2. This has already been done.

  3. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It also invisibly hijacks the votes on a post to falsely endorse the lone editor's idea of what is correct.

  4. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It has a similar hijacking problem, though to a lesser degree because it is visible instead of invisible and therefore less likely to deceive readers.

  5. Moderators aren't allowed to make that decision. We even have a specific, hard-coded flag rejection reason that says so:

    flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

    Don't send us flags about incorrect answers. They'll only be rejected, which would only (with a lot of rejections) result in losing flagging privileges entirely.

  6. Not technically feasible (since flag reasons are network-wide, and hardcoded, they cannot be customised per-site), and would be rejected even if it was possible (for the same reasons as #5).

Basically: chill. Fixing this is not your job. You've already done plenty, and it's on the path to voters correcting this, as is proper on a Stack. If you're so impatient for Truth To Win Out that a mere week is insufficient for the normal site mechanisms to work and you feel the need to immediately make it correct according to your own personal standard, you gotta seriously chill out. A year from now the votes will likely have a wider division.

If that's not good enough: sorry, no one user gets to decide which answers are correct and which aren't, so you just have to deal with being unhappy about the votes.

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SevenSidedDie Mod
  • 244.5k
  • 4
  • 144
  • 371

Part of the virtue of the Stack format is that no one person can enforce their view of what is correct.

That includes mods. That also includes you (whoever the "you" is that is reading this at the moment.)

Of the methods of dealing with an "incorrect" answer suggested in the answer:

  1. This has already been done.

  2. This has already been done.

  3. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It also invisibly hijacks the votes on a post to falsely endorse the lone editor's idea of what is correct.

  4. This is not permitted because it alters the intent of the author of the post. It has a similar hijacking problem, though to a lesser degree because it is visible instead of invisible and therefore less likely to deceive readers.

  5. Moderators aren't allowed to make that decision. We even have a specific, hard-coded flag rejection reason that says so:

    flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

    Don't send us flags about incorrect answers. They'll only be rejected, which would only (with a lot of rejections) result in losing flagging privileges entirely.

  6. Not technically feasible (since flag reasons are network-wide, and hardcoded, they cannot be customised per-site), and would be rejected even if it was possible (for the same reasons as #5).

Basically: chill. Fixing this is not your job. You've already done plenty, and it's on the path to voters correcting this, as is proper on a Stack. If you're so impatient for Truth To Win Out that a mere week is insufficient for the normal site mechanisms to work and you feel the need to immediately make it correct according to your own personal standard, you gotta seriously chill out. A year from now the votes will likely have a wider division.

If that's not good enough: sorry, no one user gets to decide which answers are correct and which aren't, so you just have to deal with being unhappy about the votes.