I can understand your frustration; I too came here from other more forum like support sites. The goal here is a bit different and thus so too is the process. Superuser is not as much about helping one person with their personal problem, but instead to be a place where a single instance of every question exists with an answer. granted, its an impossible task (having a quality version of every on-topic question imaginable), but thats the goal state.

Fair enough. Thank you all for your comments.

It is possible but I've noticed it on multiple machines from multiple ISP connections, on at least 8 different posts. First noticed issue last night, and it has continued into the day. If theres no problem for anyone else, then theres no problem, but that would defy any rational explanation I can come up with.

I've generally found that the only people with a problem with Common Core math, already know math and are mad that its different. Most of the people I've encountered that are actually involved in the teaching of math to children are generally supportive, other than that they must first come to terms with it before they can teach it.

I must say, I can't support the idea of appending a new answer to a question that is not specific to it, both in topic and point-in-time. When I search for answers and hit SE sites results, I quickly disregard questions that do not appear to describe a situation related to the problem I am trying to solve, and for version specific stuff, I exclude results from years prior to the version in question. Combined with not being able to trust the accepted answer, and the fact that newer answers will have fewer votes, such an approach just seems to bury pertinent info, bounty or no.

@op, Without weighing in on your abstract question, I would probably have left your answer as a Comment instead. Comments are generally lower risk, and people are less picky about them. If the answer is short, and I have not put much (or any) work into crafting a solution for the user (citing documentation, providing indepth explaination, cropping images, etc), I will usually just use a comment. it gets the job done. Thats just my personal take though, and probably not entirely what the mods would want, but thread-drama stresses me out, and I don't come here so authorities can stress me out.

@Excellll, I don't disagree with your general assertion, that sometimes the "Too Broad" is used for situations that really should have their own catagory (one of my fav's would be "Homework"), but I can't agree about not showing code. Look at StackOverflow, where code lives. many of the best answers are a single line correction, which can help uses that are having trouble with the syntax of that line, but have a differant goal for the overall script. in general there are more people interested in help with a single function than there are folks that want to do exactly one thing with 3 columns.