Should we diversify answers on most popular questions?

Question

Most of the questions on our site are usually found using a search engine. It's often good to have multiple answers on one question. 3 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs some work. On a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top.

The current side-wide answer rate is 1.4, which really needs some work. Let's start with the site's most popular questions?

Popularity by vote score

• How do I backup my ether accounts? (11 votes, 714 views, 1 answer)
• How do you delete/remove/hide contracts from Ethereum Wallet (aka mist)? (11 votes, 259 views, 1 answer)
• Struct not being stored in mapping when it contains more than two 'string' properties. Bug? (11 votes, 222 views, 1 answer)
• What were the key assumptions and analyses that went into setting Ethereum's gas price? (11 votes, 174 views, 1 answer)
• What is a sidechain? (11 votes, 95 views, 1 answer)
• How does the solidity optimizer work? (11 votes, 81 views, 1 answer)
• What's the best Hardware for Mining Ether? (9 votes, 623 views, 1 answer)
• Where do contract event logs get stored in the Ethereum architecture? (9 votes, 244 views, 1 answer)
• What is the "difficulty bomb" and what is the goal of it? (9 votes, 168 views, 1 answer)

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Popularity by view count

• What is Geth's "fast" sync, and why is it faster? (2910 views, 15 votes, 1 answer)
• Help with very slow mist sync (2054 views, 4 votes, 1 answer)
• How do I check my mining hashrate? (1918 views, 3 votes, 1 answer)
• How to Mine Ether and use Ethereum on Windows? (1474 views, 6 votes, 1 answer)
• What is the current DAG size? When do we expect to hit GPU limits? (958 views, 3 votes, 1 answer)
• How long does it take for the ethereum blockchain to synchronize? (957 views, 2 votes, 1 answer)
• How to sell ETH for USD or EUR? (749 views, 2 votes, 1 answer)
• How do I backup my ether accounts? (714 views, 11 votes, 1 answer)
• How is the Mining Difficulty calculated on Ethereum? (697 views, 6 votes, 1 answer)
• What's the best Hardware for Mining Ether? (623 views, 9 votes, 1 answer)

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Should we diversify answers on most popular questions? Experts wanted!

Answer 1

I always thought of StackExchange as a unopinionated Q&A site. That means one is encouraged to formulate a rather objective question of general interest, instead of subjective or helpdesk support questions. Not "Do you think PoS is a good thing?" or "Help, I lost my wallet in Mist".

Generalistic, precise and objective questions gravitate towards one answer if the answer is correct. I do not see it as a bug but as a feature.

If you are not convinced, consider Stackoverflow, clearly the ripest Q&A site, has an answer rate of 1.61. So we are not that far away.

Said that, I think that some of the popular questions could be improved ("How to sell ETH for USD or EUR?") both in Q as in A. I certainly volunteer to help in the coming days.