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Discussion on: Poll: Do you read the question or answers first on Stackoverflow?

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Thomas H Jones II

If you don't read the question, you won't be able to evaluate how close the original problem is to yours, and, thus, how specific to your problem the offered answers may be. Many times, if you actually read the question, you find that the answer marked as the best answer for the thread-opening question isn't nearly as good as the ones not so marked ...but those other answers may be more directly-relevant to your specific flavor of the problem. Without reading the question, you might only look at the best answer, find that it doesn't actually solve your problem and assume the whole thread is pointless (and waste time on further Googling).