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This might be the deepest issue with Stack Overflow.

People post some bizarre objective/problem (because the bizarre stuff is what you need to ask about), and half the comments are people asserting that their goal is wrong.

There's no clear solution, though, because half the time the goal really is misguided, and the other half the "right" way is for some reason unavailable. The best answer I've seen is for commenters to offer "you really shouldn't do that normally, but you could try this to make it happen".




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