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Re:The Stack Overflow Age by kristianc on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:49PM (#16777277)
No. SO absolutely can be opinionated about what constitutes a good and a bad answer. SO's job is to get to the right and most helpful answer fast. You can't always rely on the community to root out bad actors.
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Re:The Stack Overflow Age by shagie on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:14PM (#16777960)
The mechanism that SO uses for sorting answers is community votes. That poor or incorrect answers get up votes is a problem. SO only has its community to do that sorting. The corporate and diamond mods have specifically stepped away from doing this except in the most egregious and disruptive cases.
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