Question: [This question about the sun's circumference](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68120/how-is-suns-equatorial-circumference-measured/68125#68125), I answered with what I *thought* was a helpful answer - it seems that a couple of others found it useful (2 upvotes), but I am getting grief about the answer being "while strictly correct, but is enormously unsatisfying".

Why not then, if an answer is "enormously unsatisfying", post n alternative answer?

What have I done wrong this time?

Answer: 
Nobody downvoted your answer. That indicates that nobody thought it was unhelpful; on the other hand, two people thought it *was* helpful. So honestly, your complaint is without merit. If people actually think something is wrong with your answer, they'll downvote it.

Also note that posting an unsatisfying (or unhelpful, wrong, etc.) answer is not technically *wrong*, in the sense that it's not against the rules here. So you haven't *done* anything wrong.

By the way, keep in mind that if e.g. I find another person's answer unsatisfying, inadqeuate, wrong, or so on, that has no bearing on whether I should post my own answer. The argument "don't criticize me if you can't do better" holds no water on this site.
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Initially being too sensitive to fair, constructive criticisim of your answer, that replaced one measurement with another, without explaining how the new measurement was to be carried out.

What did you do right?

Taking on board the criticism in the comments and improving the answer.