I flagged this deleted answer (unilaterally deleted by a moderator) for reopening, and gave the explanation "This answer is no worse than any others that have been left intact. It should be reinstated as an answer." The flag was declined, with the text, "Why not let's improve or get rid of the worse answers instead."

Here's the thing: I've been trying to get rid of worse answers, by flagging them to be burninated. And yet, those flags get declined because "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".

I'm having trouble reconciling both sets of declined flags. Should moderators be deleting poor-quality answers, or not?