Just had a quick look at some of the responders who collectively say: 1 What is the use of this curated list over just accepting the popularly voted answer? 2

Just had a quick look at some of the responders who collectively say: 1 What is the use of this curated list over just accepting the popularly voted answer? 2 I found some errors in the default answer and here is a detailed explanation of what was wrong with the answer. And I hope they can see that #2 shows the issues with #1. To put it another way if I were looking for the best solution (which I often am), and I had a choice between a one line stack overflow answer and one of these detailed solutions, I would pick the detailed, curated solution every time. edit: And the best stack overflow answers are often detailed curated solutions, so I am not saying they don't wind their way up there.