idk, I've often answered old questions with newer/better answers that get far more upvotes than the one OP chose back in the day as new people land on the quest

idk, I've often answered old questions with newer/better answers that get far more upvotes than the one OP chose back in the day as new people land on the question. Trying to canonicalize dupe questions into one makes a lot of sense. Otherwise, good answers would be scattered across duplicate questions which is quite a large trade-off as well.