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6:36 AM

Q: What is the point of answering questions here if some self appointed expert just deletes whatever they do not understand?

What is your problem ? Why do you post questions and then just delete answers you do not agree with or understand. What a huge waste of time

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5 hours later…

Davïd

11:15 AM

A: What is the point of answering questions here if some self appointed expert just deletes whatever they do not understand?

To expand on Caleb's comments, it is important to note that no moderators on this site are "self-appointed". Moderators are elected by the community to moderatorship by providing exemplary work. The community then votes (up or down) on said answers to receive a reputation score. Only after achiev...

@JamesShewey Hi - I think the gist of this post ^^^^ is fair, but it's worth noting that on "beta" sites like BH.SE, moderators are appointed "Pro Tem", and thus appointed, not elected. Perhaps a subtle difference, but worth noting in the effort for accuracy. What you say about the expertise of, and our confidence in our ♦s is, OTOH, exactly right! :)

And if I've got this wrong, I'm confident that someone will correct me!

Caleb

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A: Verse level search capability?

I started an open source project on Github as a place to house a community driven implementation of this. Anyone with ideas is invited to submit them as issues or discuss existing ones. Anyone with the chops to code any of this up is invited to fork and hack away.

Anybody interested in helping out please ping me. It might take years for me to get motivated to do by myself but with some help it should go pretty quickly.

8 hours later…

Librarian

7:14 PM

Q: What is the Anatomy of a Good BH.SE Answer?

This question has a different focus than What are we looking for in answers?, but is related. There is an explicit one for questions (What makes a good/bad question?), which itself links to the more robust answer: A helpful flowchart for asking questions on BH.SE The question was initiated becau...