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A related issue: the best answer may have a link to the documentation, which may rot. Now people will down-vote the answer because broken link. This could happ
by ant6n 8y ago
A related issue: the best answer may have a link to the documentation, which may rot. Now people will down-vote the answer because broken link.
This could happen if somebody asks how to do something using some library. If the library actually has a builtin facility to solve the problem, but then the answer gets down-voted due to documentation link rot; then another answer explaining how to built that facility from scratch may become the 'best' answer, even though the re-implementation of existing library functionality is a bad idea.
- mark-r 8y agoThe best answers paraphrase what's said at the link, so they don't become worthless when the link goes stale.