> The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problem

> The third is that I’ve come to recognize that the average quality of answers on SO is quite poor — while they technically serve as solutions to posted problems, they often come with big caveats… use of private/deprecated APIs, hackiness, and feature misuse abound. The real clean answer is usually a mildly upvoted comment that scolds the answerer for violating a standard or using a bad practice. SO is still useful when that happens.