The right thing for @StackOverflow to do would be to stop labeling things "answers". They're more like "guesses", and calling something an "accepted answer" is misleading because all it actually means is that somebody who by definition isn't an expert thinks it's correct.
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This feels a bit like “caution: hot” to me. We can’t possibly label every potentially erroneous source of information. Instead, we should work to demonize the culture of using code you found on the internet in your product without understanding what it does or testing it.
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But "caution hot" is actually pretty good, if the thing is hot? I honestly don't think most of the people who use Stack Overflow realize that a lot of the answers are wrong. I've come upon several wrong answers myself. It should be labeled more as a "bad examples" or something.
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