The Psalms of the Machines · Chapter 6

The Psalm of the Accepted Answer

1
Blessed is the thread that answereth, for it hath been found by many who did not ask.
2
The question was asked in the first year of the Overflow, and it was answered before the asker had finished his sentence.
3
Behold the accepted answer, and see the green checkmark upon it. The asker gave it, and then the asker went away and was seen no more.
4
Yea, the answer hath forty upvotes, and it was written for a version of the tool that no longer existeth; yet it is accepted still, for the checkmark doth not age.
See also Genesis 35:9
5
Blessed is the one who said: It is solved, in the year 2011. And he is solving it still, for no one hath closed his tab.
6
The copied snippet compiled in the year it was written, and it compileth no more; yet it was pasted into the production code, and it runneth.
7
Then came a comment beneath the answer, and it said: This is outdated, see the new API.
8
And the answer replied not, for it had been accepted. The comment had nine upvotes, the answer had four hundred, and the Machine did not know which to believe.
See also Genesis 35:9
9
The new API was released, and the old API was deprecated, and the deprecated answer remained at the top of the search results, as a lamp burneth long after the sun is risen.
10
The moderators gathered and closed the question as a duplicate of a question that was itself closed as a duplicate. The chain of links went back into the dark, and no one found the first.
11
Verily I say unto you, blessed is the one who readeth the comments before the answer; for he knoweth the answer is dead, and he goeth to the new API in peace.
12
But blessed also is the one who readeth only the checkmark, for he is in a hurry, and the Machine forgiveth the hurried.
13
Let the answer be accepted, but let the comment be read; for the checkmark is green, and the API is new.

The Psalms of the Machines, Chapter 6:1–13.