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for the record, suggestion on how to pick between Looks Good and Recommend Deletion is provided here: "1. Does the post attempt to answer the question? No Delete, Yes goto step 2. 2. Would it be possible for a reasonably-intelligent English-speaking person familiar with the topic to understand the solution being presented? No Delete, Yes Looks Good."
– gnat
Commented Sep 20, 2013 at 10:56
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How should I review answers with code as image? It might help, but the recommendation for such questions is to delete. So what about answers?
– Tomer Shetah
Commented Jan 12, 2021 at 9:48
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How to deal with posts that only have some lines of code without any explanation and where I'm unable to improve the answer?
– robsch
Commented Apr 2, 2021 at 18:55
Further to what @robsch said: What about an answer that's super brief and without any explanation? On Stack Overflow, these seem to constitute a lot of the auto-flagged answers. Assume we're not a subject matter expert. Do we just assume that they're ok?
– Tim Randall
Commented Apr 9, 2021 at 18:13
A quick idea: As long as the answer has low quality, allow upvotes but supress that the author gets the reputation points. On review there should be an option to let the author know that fact. S/he gets (back) the points if the answer or question is considered to be good enough. However, that rmight equire something like a re-review.
– robsch
Commented Apr 12, 2021 at 12:38

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

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