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Perhaps it was a poor example then. There are plenty "use jQuery" questions as well, and more than often enough I'm tempted to use one. (Usually in the form of "use knockout.js and less jQuery)
I'm not so concerned with voting, as the appropriateness of answering people with "don't do that, do this" when that wasn't asked. The voting is merely a heuristic to judge my opinion against the communities