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NaturalPhallacy on June 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time ...

>This system makes the person arguably _least qualified_ to understand the situation the single arbitrator as to which answer is accepted.

Devil's advocate: If it fixed their problem adequately, it's acceptable.

Maybe separate "acceptable" and "ideal" answers would be a nice feature?

dotancohen on June 17, 2021 [–]

In the vast majority of cases, OP did not check (or even define) edge cases, race conditions, memory usage, network activity, etc etc etc.

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