This question boils down to whether an answer to a question should contain sufficiently free and easily accessible detail about the solution to a question. So IMHO it would be perfectly acceptable, to provide links to online resources that contain a solution. What should however be the netique...

There is a user that goes around all SE sites to flag comments for deletions. Due to the volume of comments generated on the main site, StackOverflow, some comments can be "nuked" by a single user with a "no longer needed" flag. Most, if not all, these comments do not contribute significantly t...