[zahlman]

Please show an example of a question following this pattern. That is radically different from my experience.

[nix0n]

Sure, just look at the famous question about how to parse HTML with Regex[0].

Since this question has received so much attention, even the bottom answer has a positive score. Otherwise the pattern looks typical.

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...