That's because the question has been answered, so it's out of the OP's head I think; what SO wants to do is turn a question into a wiki / knowledge base, but right now only the OP can make the edits and change the accepted answer if applicable. I guess one way to fix this is to relinquish ownership of the question, change it so that highest upvoted answer becomes the accepted answer for example, so it becomes an internet-democratic resource (note: internet-democratic is not real democracy due to brigading, community preferences, etc; the most popular / upvoted answer may not be correct)
i don't see why that even matters? so what if the accepted answer is not the highest voted answer. when i look at a problem it's not always the accepted answer that solves my similar problem. i'll look at the top voted answers, and others too.
those are just guides where to start looking
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That's because the question has been answered, so it's out of the OP's head I think; what SO wants to do is turn a question into a wiki / knowledge base, but right now only the OP can make the edits and change the accepted answer if applicable. I guess one way to fix this is to relinquish ownership of the question, change it so that highest upvoted answer becomes the accepted answer for example, so it becomes an internet-democratic resource (note: internet-democratic is not real democracy due to brigading, community preferences, etc; the most popular / upvoted answer may not be correct)
i don't see why that even matters? so what if the accepted answer is not the highest voted answer. when i look at a problem it's not always the accepted answer that solves my similar problem. i'll look at the top voted answers, and others too. those are just guides where to start looking