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Displaying top / accepted answer score How can awesome answers to assist answer discoveryaverage or duplicate questions be promoted?

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It would be interesting to see the top or accepted answer score as well as the question score for related / linked questions.

I typically browse the highest voted questions first when searching for answers (simply because there appears to be activity there). However in some cases - poorly asked, niche, basic, broad or questions which have been asked many many times (generally by new users) there can be some awesome answers which have can have(with high vote counts - because they are awesome) but you wouldn't know about them unless you ventured in.

You wouldn't generally browse to thisa post (at least first off) if it had +2 votes (+20 answer hidden away) if there was also a +20 question (a whole bunch of low voted answers).

What's the advantage to publicizing the question score when in most cases users are trying to find answers? Questions shouldn't be voted up simply because an answer within helped. They should be voted up when it's a good question! There really should be a better way to promote the top answer the thread holds, rather than how well or early on the question was asked.

An accepted answer doesn't necessarily mean it was a good answer, or that it helped anyone but the OP.

It would be interesting to see the top or accepted answer score as well as the question score for related / linked questions.

I typically browse the highest voted questions first when searching for answers. However in some cases - poorly asked, niche, basic, broad or questions which have been asked many many times (generally by new users) there can be some awesome answers which have can have high vote counts.

You wouldn't generally browse to this post if it had +2 votes (+20 answer hidden away) if there was also a +20 question (a whole bunch of low voted answers).

What's the advantage to publicizing the question score when in most cases users are trying to find answers? Questions shouldn't be voted up simply because an answer within helped. They should be voted up when it's a good question! There really should be a better way to promote the top answer the thread holds, rather than how well or early on the question was asked.

An accepted answer doesn't necessarily mean it was a good answer, or that it helped anyone but the OP.

It would be interesting to see the top or accepted answer score as well as the question score for related / linked questions.

I typically browse the highest voted questions first when searching for answers (simply because there appears to be activity there). However in some cases - poorly asked, niche, basic, broad or questions which have been asked many many times (generally by new users) there can be some awesome answers (with high vote counts - because they are awesome) but you wouldn't know about them unless you ventured in.

You wouldn't generally browse to a post (at least first off) if it had +2 votes (+20 answer hidden away) if there was also a +20 question (a whole bunch of low voted answers).

What's the advantage to publicizing the question score when in most cases users are trying to find answers? Questions shouldn't be voted up simply because an answer within helped. They should be voted up when it's a good question! There really should be a better way to promote the top answer the thread holds, rather than how well or early on the question was asked.

An accepted answer doesn't necessarily mean it was a good answer, or that it helped anyone but the OP.

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