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> solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion

They allow answers that do this. Recently flagged one non-answer that was more like extended commentary on whether the asker really needed to do what they asked about. Moderator saw it, marked the flag as helpful but said they generally allow "frame challenges" like that.

They are working on it https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-...

I don't get this hate on SO people keep spewing.

They should close that blog post as duplicate.