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Comment by passivate

4 years ago

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

What is the argument for the OP being the least qualified?

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Leherenn  4 years ago

The argument is probably that while they are the best qualified to know whether it solved their issue, they're not qualified about whether it was the best way to solve their issue, since they had to ask in the first place.

dotancohen  4 years ago

Of all the people involved, he was the one who _didn't_ know how to resolve a specific issue.

  • passivate  4 years ago

    Well, they do know the tech stack, the domain, the specific problem. Now they know whether the solution resolved their specific problem, if their code review/testing caught any bugs, etc, etc.

    If anything, they have the most amount of information in this context. I really don't think of them as being the least qualified.

    • jsmeaton  4 years ago

      Yeah there’s an argument for that. I think it’d hold more weight if narrow, specific, and loosely defined duplicate questions were allowed - but they aren’t.

      Questions and answers belong to the community. I think the accepted answer should too - maybe after some period of time.