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I asked a similar question (specifically about answering dupes) a couple of years ago on meta.SO: meta.stackexchange.com/q/96965. Might be worth checking out.
It should really be a hand icon on hover then, not the text selection pointer. Don't know about anyone else but I certainly didn't think to try clicking it.
