I'm puzzled why sometimes very short answers to story identification questions get upvoted so highly. Sometimes there is only a title - with no justification as to why that is the correct answer. This concerns me because I think we ought to "show our working"; isn't this a fundamental part of a quality answer?

Examples:

• Story ID: Teleporting Castle
• Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's
• What is this Disney scifi movie from the late 80s/early 90s?

For reference / comparison, when I answer one of these questions, I try to answer each of the points in the question:

• Help me to find the title of this movie
• Show about a man who is held prisoner in a secret place where very peculiar things happen
• Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room

So my questions are:

1. Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?
2. Do others recognise this as a problem?
3. How can we solve this? Should we simply be more strategic in our voting?

I'm puzzled why sometimes very short answers to story identification questions get upvoted so highly. Sometimes there is only a title - with no justification as to why that is the correct answer. This concerns me because I think we ought to "show our working"; isn't this a fundamental part of a quality answer?

Examples:

• Story ID: Teleporting Castle
• Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's
• What is this Disney scifi movie from the late 80s/early 90s?

For reference / comparison, when I answer one of these questions, I try to answer each of the points in the question:

• Help me to find the title of this movie
• Show about a man who is held prisoner in a secret place where very peculiar things happen
• Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room

So my questions are:

1. Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?
2. Do others recognise this as a problem?
3. How can we solve this? Should we simply be more strategic in our voting?

I'm puzzled why sometimes very short answers to story identification questions get upvoted so highly. Sometimes there is only a title - with no justification as to why that is the correct answer. This concerns me because I thought we ought at least to "show our working"; isn't this a fundamental part of a quality answer?

Examples:

• Story ID: Teleporting Castle
• Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's
• What is this Disney scifi movie from the late 80s/early 90s?

For reference / comparison, when I answer one of these questions I try to answer each of the points in the question:

• Help me to find the title of this movie
• Show about a man who is held prisoner in a secret place where very peculiar things happen
• Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room

So my questions are:

1. Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?
2. Do others recognise this as a problem?
3. How can we solve this? Should we simply be more strategic in our voting?

I'm puzzled why sometimes very short answers to story identification questions get upvoted so highly. Sometimes there is only a title - with no justification as to why that is the correct answer. This concerns me because I think we ought to "show our working"; isn't this a fundamental part of a quality answer?

Examples:

• Story ID: Teleporting Castle
• Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's
• What is this Disney scifi movie from the late 80s/early 90s?

For reference / comparison, when I answer one of these questions, I try to answer each of the points in the question:

• Help me to find the title of this movie
• Show about a man who is held prisoner in a secret place where very peculiar things happen
• Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room

So my questions are:

1. Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?
2. Do others recognise this as a problem?
3. How can we solve this? Should we simply be more strategic in our voting?