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Q&A Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous"

There is another aspect that I don't see discussed; accepting answers has the side-effect of helping to optimize/minimize database access. For example―pretending SE is the industry definer―a potent...

posted 3y ago by __shiva_c‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar __shiva_c‭ · 2021-03-02T07:32:25Z (about 3 years ago)
There is another aspect that I don't see discussed; accepting answers has the side-effect of helping to optimize/minimize database access. For example―pretending SE is the industry definer―a potential answerer would typically be subjected to questions that have no accepted answers yet.

Besides, the hard sciences typically have but one objective answer that is true and absolute. And in the case they *do* need editing, there's that; editing...