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Fast forward a year...

New Answerer: As of v12,5 this is now supported first class like: [....].

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- this should really be the accepted answer

- OP can you make this the accepted answer?

- accepted answer is out of date, this should be used now

Accepted answer never changes, remains top result indefinitely

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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

Almost every question I search these days follows this template.

It may the nature of experience.

The type of questions that cause me a problem are deeper edge cases that had later fixes for early workarounds.

Votes can overcome a green tick. You need twice as many votes as the accepted answer, but it happens often enough.

Are you sure? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1911109/ shows a 1458 point accepted answer with a 7764 point answer just below it.

The only time an accepted answer doesn't pin to the top is when it is when the accepted answer is one from the OP - in which case it doesn't get pinned and sorts by votes only.

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