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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by xp84 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:14PM (#46483726)
The idea of one “accepted answer” there always bugged me. The correct/best answer of many things changes radically over time. For instance The only sane way to do a lot of things in “JavaScript” in 2009 was to install jquery and use it. Most of those same things can (and should) be done just as succinctly with native code today, but the accepted answers in practice were rarely updated or changed. I don’t even know if you could retroactively years later re-award it to a newer answer. Since the gamification angle was so prominent, that might rob the decade-old author of their points for their then-correctness, so idk if they even allowed it.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by Cordiali on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:34AM (#46485825)
I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by palata on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:53PM (#46502140)
My feeling is that many times the moderators are not competent to decide correctly.

They could go with "when in doubt, keep the duplicate", but they chose the opposite. Meaning that instead of happy users and duplicates, they have no duplicates, and no more users.