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One of the big problems with this is that many newer answers are not good, and merely rehash the existing answers, just stated in a different (often worse) way. For example in [1] some of the newer answers just seem to repeat the top answer.

Another problem is that newer answers merely provide an alternative, that's neither better or worse. For example [2] is much newer than the existing answers, but not "better" than any of them. It merely provides an additional possible solution that's appropriate in some uses cases, but not in others.

The problem of older/outdated answers is real, but also much harder to solve than people think it is.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/35533803/660921

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55096093/660921