Q:

What am I missing about when a link only answer is not an answer?

So I found an answer here that I made me think "Link only answer.  Kill it with fire."  So I went to flag it as Not an Answer and the flag box told me my last flag was declined.  So I went to check out why.  I had raised a Not an Answer flag on this answer because I believed it to be a link only answer again.  
For reference, the question is thus (I know the question kinda sucks and maybe should be closed, but that's a different topic for another time):

How can I load a CSV file into a System.Data.DataTable, creating the
  datatable based on the CSV file?
Is there a class library for this or can I use ADO.net to connect to
  the file?

According to Your Answer is in Another Castle I read the answer without the markup to see what I got.  The answer sans-markup is thus

Here's an excellent class that will copy CSV data into a datatable
  using the structure of the data to create the DataTable:
A portable and efficient generic parser for flat files
It's easy to configure and easy to use. I urge you to take a look.

So without the link, I get an answer to "How can I do the thing? Use a thing library?" as "Yes, use a library that does the thing."  Since the library isn't named and the answer mostly just restates the question, the answer fails the link only answer test.  But apparently a mod disagrees.  Is there something I'm missing?  I want to keep flagging the garbage as such, but I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.
Note: I've already seen this meta post along with countless others while trying to figure this out, but as far as I can tell, the answer in question along with the one that prompted all this should be burninated.

A:

Your first link is indeed a link-only answer. If I pretend the link isn't there, all I see is a statement "Here is explained how to do that" which by itself is utterly meaningless.
Your second link, which you had flagged previously, is also a link-only answer, but it is an answer to the question because the question itself asks for link-only answers. Therefore, flagging the answer as not an answer is not only inappropriate, but also unfair to the user who was genuinely answering the question. If you come across a question that asks for links to external resources, you should be voting to close the question rather than flagging the answers, as that is where the real problem lies.

