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It feels wrong and an anti-pattern to copy-paste a 98% subjectively correct answer as your own, just to sprinkle the 2% (again, subjectively) that it was missin
by apaprocki 3y ago
It feels wrong and an anti-pattern to copy-paste a 98% subjectively correct answer as your own, just to sprinkle the 2% (again, subjectively) that it was missing to be the Answer.
Why can’t we highlight specific content and create a discussion thread hinged off the highlighted part?
Creating a properly written, end-to-end answer for a complex question is an heroic task if all you wanted to point out was that there was a demonstrably better way to do Item 15(a)(5)(iii) and the author missed it.
It’s funny that we, collectively as programmers, use git all day long to solve this problem for modifying discrete blocks of programming language text with discussion and more, but can’t seem to ever apply the same tools and fascination to written English.
Even more interesting now that we use the best answers to train models. You’d think there would be more discipline involved in making the best answer even bestier. (Like, say, Wikipedia)
- DANmode 3y agoThe unique offering of their platform, for better and for worse, is not having to "go through" the discussion of why the best answer is the best - you just get right to the best, complete answer.
- lewispollard 3y agoThat would be great if it worked like that, but for the same reasons that the parent comments lamented about, it rarely does. Often the answer marked "correct" isn't as correct as something in a comment or another answer.