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I am certain there was no malice in this action. I know the moderators on this site well and they have always acted in the best interest of the participants here.
It is true that we prevent users with under 50 reputation from commenting, leaving them little choice but to write answers. Fortunately, our moderators have an option to convert an answer into a ...
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The answer wasn't "destroyed". It was converted into a comment on the question, which is appropriate: it was trying to clarify the question, not provide an answer. You're welcome to go one step further and edit that information into the question, so it's even more obvious to readers.
I suspect the author would've posted it as a comment in the first place if ...
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As both a comment here and the corresponding privilege wiki point out, almost anyone can flag, and it only takes 3 spam/offensive flags to automatically knock a post off the front page and 6 to automatically delete it.
If some people prefer to waste their reputation points on downvoting these rather than flagging them, that's their call. Please do note that ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
