What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

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@RvLeshrac

It used to be impossible to go to SO and post an absolutely incorrect answer without getting some excoriating comments or downvotes. But now every third question I see has a stack of wrong, misleading, and/or outright dangerous answers, because everyone wants to be “nice.”

Why do the comments need to be “excoriating”? If the answer is poorly stated or incorrect, just downvote it.

@Jason_Livesay

So that is a duplicate. The concept of improving the beginner focus, again, has been detailed in many other posts. Another duplicate. I think that really this should have been broken up into multiple posts, but again, unfortunately, they would still be duplicates. So I recommend close as duplicate.

Interesting, so we can close posts as duplicates across completely different websites now? Fascinating. I hope all websites on the internet get the memo on this exciting new policy!