"Best Answer" Posts at Top of Thread

[Wavelength]

Even though people are encouraged to be descriptive with their thread titles, it's often not enough to know exactly what problem the thread is discussing, and I find it very jarring to my thought process when the first thing I see in a thread is one possible answer instead of the original issue.

Might there be any wisdom in moving the Best Answer directly below the original post in the topic, and still highlighting it in green?

 

[DoubleX]

Or just add something like a spoiler tag to the best answer and topic readers can use that tag to reveal that answer

 

[amerk]

It's a bit jarring for me as well, but it's just a matter of retraining my mind to look past it towards the original issue. Moving it into a spoiler or at the end of the original issue does seem viable, though.

 

[Nathanial]

I guess I'm not seeing enough of an issue with just... scrolling past the answer and reading the OP pixels away from the solved post section. It's not like the best answer sticks out so much it's hard to ignore it, either. That whole section is smaller than a normal post.....

I'm not touching the code for now, sorry.

 

[amerk]

I think it's just a matter of people getting used to it is all. It'll become second nature before too long.

 

[Wavelength]

I guess I'm not seeing enough of an issue with just... scrolling past the answer and reading the OP pixels away from the solved post section. It's not like the best answer sticks out so much it's hard to ignore it, either. That whole section is smaller than a normal post.....

It's not that it's difficult to find the first post or to scroll to it; I have just found it very jarring in the way I interpret things to see an answer, out of context, before I see the question (or sometimes before I even know what the question is about).  It's a cognitive thing.

If other people are having the same kind of reaction as I am, I thought it would be more helpful to show the question and then the best answer, rather than the other way around.  For most topics, it would make more sense and be easier to interpret.

Of course, I don't know how risky or difficult this would be to implement, and I certainly understand if you don't think it would be worth making the change.

 

[RaXioN]

Searching through pages of a thread does get time consuming and distracting from your goal for answers. And threads with great answers are sometimes closed and after time is pushed to the back. I believe that’s one reason the same questions are ask time and time again, other being they never searched for the answer. At the same time reading through thread allow you to option more information on your topic. If I didn’t have to read Vlues Advanced Time thread (18 pages I believe) through a dozen times I would not know how to use the way I can now. It has taken me days to find an answer but with a little vigilance and patients I did find them.