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A perfect example of why we shouldn't pin the highest voted answer to the top
Hold still folks, because I've got opinions and have been waiting all week to have enough time to unload them!
For this specific instance, we have a querent who is asking a question about what happens in the Forgotten Realms (FR) for a town that gets attacked by a dragon. The ...
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Thoughts quoted from Someone_Evil on a different post
I am going to quote the entirety of the following answer, even if it doesn't all strictly apply here:
https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11159
It is site practice to delete unsupported answers
Admittedly it's never really documented/discussed on it's own, but mostly in the discussions around fun ...
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Deletion is entirely inappropriate
Deleting answers has historically been, and should continue to be, reserved for truly egregious cases. When it says “Not an Answer,” that is very literal—it is for cases where the Answer in question is literally not an answer at all, to anything, but instead is another question, or some kind of commentary, or otherwise ...
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To me, the answer fell into a pit that we usually close the question for: Idea generation.
It might have tried to sail the good subjective bad subjective cliff if it had made proper references, but it did not even back up the basic ideas it prompted, making it pretty much an answer without any substance that proposed something that didn't even match up on a ...
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Yes, it doesn't answer the question - not even as a frame challenge
The answer itself is a good attempt at a theoretical question regarding how a populace could defend itself in an actual battle - but that isn't the question asked.
N.B. I was the editor who worked with OP to update their question.
While the question originally was targeted more towards an ...
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Undelete, add the post notice, and delete later if the post is not improved.
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You left out a reason for deletion that we use on the stack. Unsupported answers may be deleted. But you are right, we were hasty in deletion,...
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