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12:19 AM

I hate hats. I got a hat today (00.01 hours). I haven't done anything wrong! Nothing at all, at least here on the not-so-dark-side on ELL (as opposed to EL&U). Why am I being given hats!? Hats is bad. I'm an santaethist and celebrating Santashness is not what I want. And I hate headgear. An for t...

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19 hours later…

Damkerng T.

7:13 PM

I'm sorry that I'm afraid I have to retract my upvote. I think you have good information in your answer, but I don't think that writing a long answer elsewhere and link to it in your answer on Stack Exchange should be encouraged. I'm more than willing to re-upvote your answer if you bring the long answer or at least the essence of the long answer back here. — Damkerng T. 11 secs ago

I decided to speak out.

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@DamkerngT. +1

You thought right.

It's always useful to think of Shog's analogy @Dam. If I'm asking you for an apple, it's not useful to give me the address of an apple garden.

Damkerng T.

nods -- In this case, the answer was reduced to an address to a garden indeed.

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@Dam:

Damkerng T.

Hehe! Thanks! I might need it.

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Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...