Question: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/16086837/438992> (10k+)

The question is (redux) "Is there an advantage/difference" but it's a simple shortcut method, and the says so explicitly. Few of the other answers offer significantly more information, except for Stefan's.

At least partially I suspect it's some intra-user hostility as I often need to correct the original commenter's answers, but I doubt that's all of it. So I want to know how it isn't an answer.

(And, curiously, *after* the question was deleted, it got another downvote--AFAICT that means someone w/ an ability to undelete a question undeleted it, downvoted it, and re-deleted it?!)

Answer: 
It seems to me that your answer is too terse to qualify. 'The docs'? The docs of what? I know you mean jQuery, but to the google-landing reader, it's potentially opaque. A slightly more verbose formulation ("They do exactly the same thing, one is a notational shortcut for the other, see the jQuery doc") would pass in my book. Not that I'm one of the reviewers here.
Since it was my question, I would say that my only gripe with your answer was that I was interested in the theoretical, not the practical differences, and why people would have a preference. I stated in the question that I knew both methods worked, so while I didn't necessarily agree that yours wasn't a valid answer, it wasn't overly helpful in understanding the observed existence of a preference.

And that was kind of the heart of the question, so telling me they both work, and overlooking the fact that the shortcut sets certain defaults and prevents using certain options, your answer missed the question.

But I'm the newb, so I don't know if that's a fair criteria to say that it's *not* an answer.