Q:

Need guidance on how to deal with review of flagged posts

I have recently gone over 2,000 rep, which means I can review flagged posts.
I can barely understand some posts, and editing them to relevance is beyond me, but possibly not beyond some of the site's gurus.  I have been hitting "Skip" too often.  Guidance?
Some answers would be OK, even useful, as comments, but should not be answers.  Sometimes they are answers because the user does not have enough rep to comment. Sometimes they are just lazy answers.  However, converting such answers to comments is not within my power.  Can I recommend conversion to a comment, and if so, how?     

A:

Only mods can convert answers to comments and, though they do so at times, it is rare. If you genuinely feel that this answer would be a useful comment and that the benefit to the site would outweigh the encouragement to this and other low-rep users to post comments in the answer box, you should flag it yourself, "in need of moderator intervention", and recommend conversion. But most 'not an answer' flags result in deletion; if the user perseveres for a few days, he will presumably gain enough rep to re-post as a comment.

