Why a library of quality answers is supposed to look like an old graveyard with crumbling monuments covered with rubble?
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Once upon a time there was a downright incorrect question, where the title asked for one thing and question body for another. Expectedly, answers mostly favored question from the title. Pitifully, most of them being incorrect.
When I stumbled upon this question, I decided to improve the most upvoted answer, keeping in mind two cornerstone founding principles of Stack Overflow:
In my understanding, adding a new answer to fix an issue in another post essentially creates a forum page. Addressing another answer will inevitably make a chit-chat. But a person coming to the library is not interested in reading this argument! And even without that, long rows of answers (intertwined with numerous comments) strikingly resemble a forum page, forcing a visitor to shuffle through several dozen opinions, making it very hard to find a detailed, high-quality answer, promised on the tour page. Provided, there is any.
Obviously, by no means it was my intention to interfere with the author's intent: I reasonably assumed that the intent was to provide a detailed, high quality answer, best to their knowledge. Sadly, there was issues in this answer, so I decided to fix them, along with adding some clarifications. And so I did.
