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One common mistake people unfamiliar with how SO works make is confusing "accepted answer" with "best answer". They're often different; accepted just means the
by shawn_w 2y ago
One common mistake people unfamiliar with how SO works make is confusing "accepted answer" with "best answer". They're often different; accepted just means the person who posted the question found it useful.
>There should probably be some way to roll these up into a higher level article/topic to cover variants of problems, related cases, etc. This could start to act as pillars or knowledge-hubs within SO to get to a place of more canonical information or a more "tacit/practical wikipedia".
There was an attempt to do something like that with the Collectives project but it doesn't seem to have gotten any real momentum going.
- natdempk 2y agoThis is basically a product failure... I understand the distinction, and yet a negatively voted accepted answer shows up first above a highly-voted non-accepted answer. What is the point of the accepted answer in this scenario? Why rank it first? etc.
- shawn_w 2y agoYou can change the order answers are displayed in to one of a few different sorting methods... The accepted answer hasn't automatically been the first one shown since 2021. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/410859/9952196 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/410859/9952196
- natdempk 2y agoGood to know, for some reason my sort sets to `Date modified (newest first)` which seems bad also and I'm certain I never set it this way intentionally, but I guess that explains the issue and I was wrong that they have entirely let this problem languish. Thanks.