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The Fall of Stack Overflow
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Of course older answers are going to have more uovotes if they technically work. That doesn't mean it's the best answer. It's possible that someone would like to make a new, better, answer and is unable to because of SA restrictions on posting.
The kinds of people who post on SA regularly aren't going to be the people with the best answers.
On top of that SA gives badges for uovoting and it's possible other benefits I'm unaware of.
As we saw with reddit, uovotes systems can be inherently flawed, we have no way of knowing if that uovote is genuine.