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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by rtghnyhjm on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:23PM (#2166321)
I think thats a big problem with the "accepted answer"

Firstly it's accepted by the questioner - who by definition knows the least about the subject, otherwise they wouldn't be asking!

Even if it is correct and well written - then it stays accepted years later when it's no longer the best way to do something.

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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by evilduck on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:50PM (#2166417)
The temporal nature of best practices is my biggest complaint with how SO works. It works great for relatively static subjects, but its useless for fast moving technology targets due to the community resistance of duplicate questions.
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