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One of the explicit goals of Stack Overflow when it was founded was literally to fight this phenomenon: The preponderance of wrong/outdated information on the Internet. To a large extent, it has succeeded. Even if the chosen correct answer is no longer correct, there usually is a comment/answer further down pointing out what now works.

So while creating noise is necessary, there is value to curation.




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