This type represents an answer to a question on one of the Stack Exchange sites, such as this famousanswer ofbobince's.
As on the question page, it is possible to fetch the comments on an answer as part of a call; though this is not done by default.
The upvoted, downvoted, and accepted fields can only be queried for with anaccess_token with the private_info scope.
Fields marked with are included in the default filter, those marked with are excluded in the default filter.
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