<p>I'm sorry for your frustration.  The SE system works in a particular way that isn't necessarily obvious to new people.  Your post was not an answer by our standards, and was thus deleted.  The comment that was left below your post is a stock comment that can be automatically applied in situations like this.  </p>

<p>You're right that we don't want your question to just linger, and also that the ideal solution is to have the commenter convert their comment into an answer.  Given that the commenter chose not to, you could copy the comment into an answer, acknowledge the source and make the answer community wiki (cf, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2641/7290">Etiquette for answering old questions addressed in comments?</a>, although in this case the question is new).  You could then mark the answer as the accepted one.</p>
