I've read a lot of answers in the last few days that predominantly recommend a non-hack answer to the question, but also save themselves with  a paragraph or two containing some kind of hack.

Here are two examples:

1. [How to shred papers/letters without using a shredder machine](http://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/4120/2184)

 In this example, the primary part of the answer (and the associated picture) is not a life-hack, rather a suggestion of a product to use. Then there are two hack suggestions, followed by another standard solution.

2. [How to preserve a soda's fizziness?](https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/4129/how-to-preserve-a-sodas-fizziness)

 Here, the primary solution is to buy a product designed for this purpose.

The answers provide some useful information, so I hardly consider them works of evil. But I see this type of answer more and more often. I don't entirely understand why people are including standard solutions in their answers, yet I feel I shouldn't down-vote them because the answers typically contain *some* hack info.

##Possible Solutions

How should we handle this? I feel these answers present a danger to a beta site that is struggling with its scope. I see a few options:

 - Ignore the answers, provided they contain some kind of hack somewhere within them.
 - Down-vote them and leave a comment, explaining that the standard solution has no place in the answer.
 - Edit the answer to remove the standard solution, leaving a comment explaining the action.

In many cases, the questions are quite legitimate and so we can't place the blame there.