8:04 PM
@MisterPositive my answer will be close to Rain's, in the sense that I won't ignore a bad answer if it comes from a high rep user. However, I wouldn't say high rep users necessarily know (and care about) the rules better. First and foremost, we do have IPS HR users who won most of their rep before we adopted a more strict standard on backing up answers and justifying frame challenges, and I saw some of them in the past not wanting to edit an answer of theirs because,
"We didn't have to provide that much information in the past and my answer is enough as it is". Should i encounter such a situation now, I would (as I do today) politely provide a link to the guidelines updates and clearly point out what could be edited in their answer.
If they do edit their answer accordingly, then everything's perfect. If they still disagree, depending on the frequency of such situation to happen I would either ask the other mods for advice or delete the answer.
@EmC I do comment on most posts I flag (like 98% of the time), unless its something I find fishy but can't really point out what's wrong. In that case, I'd rather flag than asking about it in chat (we used to do that quite often and it would disrupt the conversational flow)
@EmC linking meta posts or the help center definitely helps/seems to beat the best thing to do to help new users. Now, I also remind them that they can ask us for help, and sometimes they do and I help them understand what's missing from their post. Its nice to see what we can build together.
Sorry about the wall of text haha