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Should one sentence answers that are merely greetings, or compliments count as Great Answers?

Asked by Dr_Lawrence (20014points) August 3rd, 2011

Looking through some Jellys’ lists of the Responses that receive the greatest amount of Lurve, I noted that the majority were like this one of mine: “WoW! Well deserved! congratulations!”.

OK, I can be long-winded but many of my responses (for better of worse are analytical and detailed). At least, if such an answer is GA’s, I assume it is related in some way to the content. I do not mean to suggest that a thoughtful and distinct one line answer cannot be great!

Should one line responses of praise or appreciation (or the opposite) be counted as “Great Answers”? Does this not excessively skew (distort in one direction) the scoring?

Allowing this would enable a person to accumulate enormous amounts of Lurve in a very short time without offering any substantial contribution at all! Would others be happy to see this happen?

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