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When I said "calling them low quality answers would be far too generous" in http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/383/pseudo-answers-are-the-enemy, I was communicating the fact that those posts are not actual answers.

A low quality answer answers the post, but could be improved upon (citing references, quoting relevant quote, elaborating, etc.). By your own admittance, your post does not answer the question. Is it an helpful contribution? Likely. But is an answer? No. It's a comment posted as an answer.

In fact, the whole post could be distilled down to the following comment:

Luke Meuhlhauser of Common Sense Atheism has read 340 self-help books and makes the following statement: "95% of self-help books are complete bullshit ... I sometimes suspected the book was being written to get people motivated without actually giving them good advice so that when they failed ... they would assume it was their fault but look back positively on their initial motivation, and then buy the next heavily-marketed self-help book."

When I said "calling them low quality answers would be far too generous" in Pseudo-answers are the enemy, I was communicating the fact that those posts are not actual answers.

A low quality answer answers the post, but could be improved upon (citing references, quoting relevant quote, elaborating, etc.). By your own admittance, your post does not answer the question. Is it an helpful contribution? Likely. But is an answer? No. It's a comment posted as an answer.

In fact, the whole post could be distilled down to the following comment:

Luke Meuhlhauser of Common Sense Atheism has read 340 self-help books and makes the following statement: "95% of self-help books are complete bullshit ... I sometimes suspected the book was being written to get people motivated without actually giving them good advice so that when they failed ... they would assume it was their fault but look back positively on their initial motivation, and then buy the next heavily-marketed self-help book."

When I said "calling them low quality answers would be far too generous" in http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/383/pseudo-answers-are-the-enemy, I was communicating the fact that those posts are not actual answers.

A low quality answer answers the post, but could be improved upon (citing references, quoting relevant quote, elaborating, etc.). By your own admittance, your post does not answer the question. Is it an helpful contribution? Likely. But is an answer? No. It's a comment posted as an answer.

In fact, the whole post could be distilled down the following comment:

Luke Meuhlhauser of Common Sense Atheism has read 340 self-help books and makes the following statement: "95% of self-help books are complete bullshit ... I sometimes suspected the book was being written to get people motivated without actually giving them good advice so that when they failed ... they would assume it was their fault but look back positively on their initial motivation, and then buy the next heavily-marketed self-help book."

When I said "calling them low quality answers would be far too generous" in http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/383/pseudo-answers-are-the-enemy, I was communicating the fact that those posts are not actual answers.

A low quality answer answers the post, but could be improved upon (citing references, quoting relevant quote, elaborating, etc.). By your own admittance, your post does not answer the question. Is it an helpful contribution? Likely. But is an answer? No. It's a comment posted as an answer.

In fact, the whole post could be distilled down to the following comment:

Luke Meuhlhauser of Common Sense Atheism has read 340 self-help books and makes the following statement: "95% of self-help books are complete bullshit ... I sometimes suspected the book was being written to get people motivated without actually giving them good advice so that when they failed ... they would assume it was their fault but look back positively on their initial motivation, and then buy the next heavily-marketed self-help book."