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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

Find 493 more on the data explorer.

Popularity by view count

Find 936 more on the data explorer.

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

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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.

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