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According to here (and other discussions on meta), we are trying to cut down on repetitive answers. I don't have enough reputation to cast delete votes. Today I flagged this one with the following note: "Once you remove the rant from the answer it boils down to "hire interns", which was already covered in an answer posted 8 hours prior". This flag was declined with the following reason: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".

I don't understand this response. Since only high-rep users and mods can delete answers, and per my comment there was no point in editing it, what should I have done differently? Do we not really want these kinds of flags after all?

According to here (and other discussions on meta), we are trying to cut down on repetitive answers. I don't have enough reputation to cast delete votes. Today I flagged this one with the following note: "Once you remove the rant from the answer it boils down to "hire interns", which was already covered in an answer posted 8 hours prior". This flag was declined with the following reason: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".

I don't understand this response. Since only high-rep users and mods can delete answers, and per my comment there was no point in editing it, what should I have done differently? Do we not really want these kinds of flags after all?

According to here (and other discussions on meta), we are trying to cut down on repetitive answers. I don't have enough reputation to cast delete votes. Today I flagged this one with the following note: "Once you remove the rant from the answer it boils down to "hire interns", which was already covered in an answer posted 8 hours prior". This flag was declined with the following reason: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".

I don't understand this response. Since only high-rep users and mods can delete answers, and per my comment there was no point in editing it, what should I have done differently? Do we not really want these kinds of flags after all?

According to here (and other discussions on meta), we are trying to cut down on repetitive answers. I don't have enough reputation to cast delete votes. Today I flagged this one with the following note: "Once you remove the rant from the answer it boils down to "hire interns", which was already covered in an answer posted 8 hours prior". This flag was declined with the following reason: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".

I don't understand this response. Since only high-rep users and mods can delete answers, and per my comment there was no point in editing it, what should I have done differently? Do we not really want these kinds of flags after all?