Timeline for Should we unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list?
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @Braiam I'm confused - it looks like that answer agrees with my point. The top answer (now pinned, but also accepted) has 1395 votes (currently). Yours has 76. Even if the OP were to accept your answer as correct, it would still be buried beneath 4 other answers (and about 15 page scrolls) for the years it would likely take it to achieve another 1000+ votes. | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 14:38 | comment | added | Braiam | "is that they are momentum that is hard to overcome in the event that things change" this answer of mine would like to disagree | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 19:42 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @Zanna Absolutely agree that an Obsolete Flag would be better, but in lieu of that, all we have is the current "Accepted Answer" pin. So I'd personally prefer to see it kept in place. I say that as a relatively new poster who has provided updated answers to older questions, and then had it changed to the Accepted answer. I'm not one who (like some I've seen) resort to putting something obnoxious like a Heading1 at the beginning saying "2021 Answer", so I tend to rely on the good sense of the OP (when they are still around) to pick the new answer. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 5:02 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | Very good point, and I have seen a few accepts change, but I feel it rarely happens. Also, just pinning the accepted answer doesn't seem like the best way to address the problem of accumulating obsolete answers at the top - I'd prefer a new feature like C.S.Cameron proposes here to deal more effectively with that. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 21:37 | history | answered | NotTheDr01ds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |