Voting for forum posts

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 14:59:44 UTC, matheus wrote:
> Well I don't agree with this, SO voting system isn't that good 
> at all. It was already debatable on HN and in different medias 
> too.
>
> For example, it's common to see that in different cases the 
> most up voted answer is "not" the "best answer".

Yep. Often the most recent answer is the best one on Stack 
Overflow... What SO does reasonably well is classifying topics, 
but frequently the same topic is covered in multiple places, hard 
to fix.

For languages that are used by people without formal education in 
programming (e.g. javascript) the most voted answer on SO tend to 
be not very good, and cute hacks would be promoted.

You sometimes see this in the D forums too. Cute language hacks 
that makes code unreadable are popular in the D forums!

For languages that are evolving (like C++) the most voted answer 
tend to be counter productive and convoluted... meaning you get 
an answer to solve something in a complicated way that there is a 
better to do in the most recent version of the language.