> What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose

> What if, there was a StackOverflow like forum which, for a given question ONLY the person who asked could see all the answers, and only the answer they chose as correct/relevant/good would be the one published. Stack Overflow has recognized that it has significant enough of a problem with accepted answers becoming outdated or just being plain wrong. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-ans... As an example, I point to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-use-try-finally-without-a-catch-clause/131400#131400 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1313... which for a long time had https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/131401 as the accepted answer. > ... That might decrease the noise in different conversations. While it may, I fear (and having seen this in other places) that this would lead to some entitlement by the person asking the question seeing it as a personal help service instead of trying to build a repository of information. As someone who might answer, the related part would be "I don't want to be waisting my time duplicating work that someone else is doing."