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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by bhaak on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:38AM (#16612105)
I LOLed at that and then I saw who posted this. That made me almost cry.

If SO is for facts, data, and science why do I so often see accepted answers that are wrong. And I'm not even talking about accepted answers that got wrong because the environment changed.

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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by jodrellblank on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:29PM (#16613777)
"Accepted" is marked by the question asker for what helped them, not chosen by an all-knowing overseer or a community vote.
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Re:Stack Overflow Culture by bhaak on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:18PM (#16615552)
Yes, and that's part of the problem.

The person who asked the question can only tell if it did supposedly solve their problem. They can't tell if the answer is actually sound advice or if it has subtle problems that another answer solves better.

The accepted answer also gains the top spot, even if other answers have gained more upvotes.

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