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If I understand correctly, you'd like to have some sort of "summary table" covering all the answers for a question that has a lot of them. While this can't be manually curated (but wait, see below...
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#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2023-06-28T15:39:31Z (over 1 year ago)
If I understand correctly, you'd like to have some sort of "summary table" covering all the answers for a question that has a lot of them. While this can't be manually curated (but wait, see below), we do have a table of contents that automatically appears when a post has more than a certain number of answers. You can see an example on [this question with more than a dozen answers](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282342). Click on the "table of contents" button under the post. I said this can't be manually curated, but it kind of can. That post is a new feature announcement and answers reported bugs or requested changes. Developers added status tags to the *beginning* of those answers, and the TOC quotes the first couple hundred characters of the answer, so you can see it there. The community should discuss this, but if a question has a lot of answers, then if a short summary were added at the top (either by the author or by someone trying to curate a recap), then those summaries would show up in the table of contents automatically -- no manual table construction or maintenance required. Would that help? (The number of answers to trigger the TOC is settable; default is 3. We can lower it on Meta if that helps.)