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An issue with Stack Overflow is that the site incentivizes people with badges to review and disposition large numbers of questions and posts, which spurs Fastest Gun in the West competitions. For a new user unfamiliar with the culture, this can result in a question being downvoted and closed within minutes — not a terribly welcoming feel.

Changing the site’s incentives to reward soft skills such as mentoring and encouraging new users seems like a really hard problem.

Answering your own question is 100% in bounds; no one should criticize you for that. However, an answer should be posted as an answer, not a comment. My imagination fails early in the morning pondering how one might accidentally use a comment for an answer.

In the original question, was the workaround a comment or an answer? Did you stop at “didn’t work” in the failure report?

Got a link?