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Are blatantly wrong answers very low quality?

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I haven't been able to find anything about this, but are blatantly wrong answers (i.e. answers that are either demonstrably factually incorrect or obviously won't solve the OP's problem at all) very low quality? Is this a valid reason to flag them as VLQ and/or to delete them in the VLQ queue?

Alternatively, is it valid to flag them as Not An Answer? On the one hand, the poster was legitimately attempting to answer the question, but on the other hand incorrect answers can distract from actually correct answers.

Or should we just downvote and comment explaining why they're incorrect?

Note: I'm not just talking about answers that contain factual inaccuracies or don't fully address the question - I'm talking about answers that are completely and utterly wrong and/or won't help solve the problem in the least - i.e. they quite literally provide no useful or correct information whatsoever.


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