Oh, that started a while ago, I wanna say 10+ years ago. I always chuckle at when the blindingly obvious answer to a question is buried 18 sub-comments deep whi

Oh, that started a while ago, I wanna say 10+ years ago. I always chuckle at when the blindingly obvious answer to a question is buried 18 sub-comments deep while the most upvoted highlighted comment is providing an answer the question didn't ask for, then closed for being "off topic" or some nonsense. Ironically, this is why I also think LLM's aren't very good at providing coding advice in certain domains, I think they tend to give the "upvoted" answer when often in my career the skill gap between engineers was just knowing when/where to throw the top answer out and look deeper. I understand why strict moderation standards are needed on a site like SO, but IMO that site started huffing too much of its own supply long ago.