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A comment in an answer asks for the "worst" accepted answers... so here they are. Presented without comment.

This data is from a query I've copied and modified: https://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/1667582

Link Year Up Down Score
How can I deal with my coworkers using unknown jargon and acronyms? 2019 37 64 -27
Accidentally spent much more than the food allowance on a business trip 2022 11 32 -21
Company threatening to call my current job after I declined their offer 2019 21 38 -17
Commanding respect as the manager after an unfortunate, and embarrassing, incident at work 2017 1 15 -14
As a contractor should I bill my hours even if there's no work? 2019 1 12 -11
Confidentiality around heads up notice 2022 1 7 -6
Did my colleague use a racial slur, or is this use of the word acceptable? 2019 2 7 -5
In a Scrum shop who calls the deployment? 2022 0 4 -4
Excluded from extra work activities 2020 12 15 -3
How to deal with a colleague with poor Slack etiquette? 2022 1 4 -3
Request for increment 2019 1 4 -3
Mistake during internship 2021 1 4 -3
How should I interpret a comment made by a member of management at my new job? 2019 2 5 -3
How can I ask for a quote breakdown - when agency refuses? 2020 1 4 -3
How can I stop my colleagues being disrespectful about my personal life choices? 2015 8 10 -2
How do I deal with HR/recruiter pre-screeners who seem unsatisfied with succinct answers? 2013 2 4 -2
How can a subcontractor or temporary agency comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? 2015 2 4 -2
Wanting to work somewhere with an option to move, should I tell recruiter? 2018 0 1 -1
How to prepare team for layoff? 2020 3 4 -1
Displaying a corporate website on web portfolio 2014 1 2 -1
When is it worth pointing out an error on another person's part? 2018 2 3 -1
Negotiating an Offer: Salary vs. Equity + Signing Bonus. Help! 2020 0 1 -1
how should I list concurrent freelance and staff jobs on LinkedIn experience? 2017 0 1 -1
How to ask a busy volunteer to response to an urgent task? 2020 1 2 -1
My employer is demanding that, as a teacher, I have my webcam on all the day, do I have to comply? 2020 5 6 -1
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    Folks often accept an answer that agrees with their thinking. It's no surprise that on a gamified site like this, others might not agree.
    – Joe Strazzere
    Nov 8, 2022 at 18:12
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    So by "worst", it appears that you mean "lowest score" for an accepted answer. I suppose there could be lots of alternative definitions of "worst". For example, "the largest score difference between the accepted answer and the highest-scoring answer".
    – Joe Strazzere
    Nov 8, 2022 at 18:15
  • "My employer is demanding that, as a teacher, I have my webcam on all the day, do I have to comply?" - is now sitting at -5. and has 8 more total votes than reported in your query. Odd
    – Joe Strazzere
    Nov 8, 2022 at 18:17
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    @JoeStrazzere possibly people read this question, went to look at the original Q&A and further downvoted the bad answers. I'm guessing all of them will end up more-downvoted than before.
    – Esther
    Nov 8, 2022 at 21:30
  • @JoeStrazzere Yeah. It's why I put worst in quotes. I know the word is very subjective. Not sure why some of the numbers are not accurate though... Maybe my query needs a tweak.
    – Gregory Currie
    Nov 8, 2022 at 23:44
  • @JoeStrazzere I just checked the data returned for the last row... The data looks correct, but obviously doesn't match what is displayed. "SELECT * FROM Votes where PostID = 157397" returns 12 rows
    – Gregory Currie
    Nov 9, 2022 at 2:13
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    Why not just call them what they are: "accepted answers with more downvotes than upvotes"? As already mentioned, some of these might be great answers, so "worst" is really misleading as well as subjective.
    – terdon
    Nov 9, 2022 at 10:29
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    @terdon I really couldn't care less.
    – Gregory Currie
    Nov 9, 2022 at 11:17
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    Regarding the word "worst", a lot of these answers are quite bad and deserving of many downvotes.
    – Todd Wilcox
    Nov 16, 2022 at 5:35
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    The fourth "worst" one looks like the person making the question also made a new account and wrote the answer and accepted it (The "Commanding Respect" one). Both have never been seen again since that day for 5 years and 8 months and they only ever interacted with that one question. He even compliments the answer strangely in the comments.
    – Kupo
    Nov 17, 2022 at 20:53

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I am going to go out on a limb here and speculate that they all are answers that give the user validation....

Now I will go look and test my theory

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    The amiright bias is powerful.
    – Joe Strazzere
    Nov 8, 2022 at 23:44

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