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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by the_af on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:09AM (#36862479)
> A1 [100+] [+50 bounty] [auto-accepted]

I don't think SO "auto accepts" answers. The only one who can do that is the original asker, manually. See: https://stackoverflow.com/help/accepted-answer

On meta.so this has been asked repeatedly and the consensus is that no, it cannot be done and furthermore, "accepted" doesn't mean "the best", it just means whatever the original asker marked as helpful for their situation, so "auto-accepting" would be meaningless. Also see: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/262915/147346

As for upvotes: if a question is upvoted that means the community upvoted it. The "community" in SO is just regular people, programmers both knowledgeable and newbie. I don't know that any "open access" platform can solve the problem of people upvoting the "wrong" answers; it's not a tech problem. It happens here on HN, too!

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