Timeline for How to deal with an answer that is popular but wrong?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:44 | comment | added | allquixotic | I guess, to distill it down: if an answerer makes a factual statement or objective claim that a certain thing is true, and you have strong evidence that it's false, edit the answer and provide your correction and the source. If the answerer makes an opinionated claim and justifies it based on personal experience, and the vast majority of their answer is just a bunch of these personal opinions rather than factual claims, then respecting the post author by not editing it is the best choice; downvote and post your own perspective in kind. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:42 | comment | added | allquixotic | I think it's OK to edit a highly-voted answer and change the flavor/meaning of the answer, as long as you provide authoritative citations for your changes (links to articles, studies, experts in the field, etc.). But instead of deleting what's already there, you might leave what's there as a "Some people might think that X", and follow it up with a "...but this evidence suggests Y". This is kind of how Wikipedia works, and it seems to work well for them. However, if the answerer was providing a subjective answer, and it's backed by personal experience, don't change that. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 11:44 | history | answered | Flyk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |