On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 01:25:17PM -0600, Pete Travis wrote:
I didn't like this at first, either. There's always room
for
improvement, elaboration, follow up questions, etc. Howver, it *really*
bothers me to see a good answer followed up by a not-so-good or
blatantly incorrect answer, or sometimes people will even simply
paraphrase an existing answer for the sake of participation.
The good answer should be sorted first, hopefully.
And, while I agree with what you're saying, there's also the possibility
that an even better answer legitimately comes along later.
So, I don't think this should be categorically applied to all
questions
with a correct answer, but it does have some merit. There are many
questions - like Ankur's one about rpmfusion codecs - where it is best
to maintain one comprehensive, correct answer and discourage drive-by
solutions that are incorrect or just not as good.
Yeah.... with Stack Exchange, there is the option to "protect" a question,
so that it can only be answered by people with a certain (low, but still)
reputation threshold. That prevents the drive-bys without locking out real
improvements.
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