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How should we handle incorrect answers?
Recently a flag came to my attention on this post: https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/280372/281943#answer-281943
It is a well-intentioned answer to the challenge, but unfortunately it is wrong, and despite being notified, the user who posted the answer has not fixed it.
What should we do in such cases?
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That can be used.
You can try to contact the person who posted the challenge and have them mark the answer as "React -> Invalid". Or otherwise it seems that anyone can mark an answer as invalid? I think this was the original purpose of that feature for this site. The help text for the reaction also suggests this usage.
The proposed post/solution does not comply with the rules of this site/challenge.
This is otherwise non-disruptive and gives the one who posted the answer a chance to fix it. Doesn't seem that it requires moderator involvement either(?).
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