Timeline for Do we want/need a "SE vs CS" reference question?
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| Aug 9, 2013 at 6:47 | comment | added | Raphael Mod | @Patrick87: I think CW could clarify that a) we expect contentious answers and b) eliminate a voting "competition". Aggregation of answers, on the other hand, has not been taken well in the past. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 17:52 | comment | added | vzn | "accept answer" is not so commonly used actually. its a nice feature. but its used by the author and is based on subjective/personal judgement. re "backed by refs & citations". that reminds me of this important se subtlety that imho, is often misapplied even by se regulars, being unnec/unfairly restrictive, eg in this question case, good subjective vs bad subjective | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:45 | comment | added | Patrick87 Mod | @vzn True, although the "accept" mechanism seems to imply that one answer will be basically more helpful, useful, correct, or whatever than the others. Provided that multiple good answers are given, I'd rather not see one of the competing versions chosen arbitrarily, even if it happens to get more votes. Of course, answers could periodically by collected into a CW answer which we select as the accepted answer; that would be fine but would require someone to curate. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:30 | comment | added | vzn | think its not accurate that stackexchange is only for questions with "a single correct answer". it is designed inherently to allow multiple answers. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 14:42 | history | answered | Patrick87Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |