Spread the common sense
Try to come up with some very simple and obvious basic ideas (the implementation isn't necessarily easy), where others aren't very sure about it really works, and they aren't sure everybody knows that. And after seeing your answer, they are sure.
Keep the basic idea simple, while it should seems that it need some effort, specific knowledge (even if irrelevant), or enough sanity to complete your answer.
It's better that users will think your idea should become very obvious to everyone later, and it is definitely not very obvious that everyone (the asker for example) can come up with this idea for now.
You make the later repetitions of this idea less surprising, and users (which are mostly new to this site) want them to be less surprising to everyone. In reality they can surprise new users, but users can lie to themselves that they won't. Ideally users won't be distracted by similar things in later posts. And users against the common sense have to explain more for their points. Then you will probably have an upvote.
The example is on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3998030 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3998030
Positively, it may mean to change your perspective, but measured in a slightly different way.
I'm not sure whether it really works well, and how practical it is. And I don't think it is a good idea to do it too often, unless we still want something like code-trolling. But I think my top-voted answers satisfied this criterion well.
Spread the common sense
Try to come up with some very simple and obvious basic ideas (the implementation isn't necessarily easy), where others aren't very sure about it really works, and they aren't sure everybody knows that. And after seeing your answer, they are sure.
Keep the basic idea simple, while it should seems that it need some effort, specific knowledge (even if irrelevant), or enough sanity to complete your answer.
It's better that users will think your idea should become very obvious to everyone later, and it is definitely not very obvious that everyone (the asker for example) can come up with this idea for now.
You make the later repetitions of this idea less surprising, and users (which are mostly new to this site) want them to be less surprising to everyone. In reality they can surprise new users, but users can lie to themselves that they won't. Ideally users won't be distracted by similar things in later posts. And users against the common sense have to explain more for their points. Then you will probably have an upvote.
The example is on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3998030
Positively, it may mean to change your perspective, but measured in a slightly different way.
I'm not sure whether it really works well, and how practical it is. And I don't think it is a good idea to do it too often, unless we still want something like code-trolling. But I think my top-voted answers satisfied this criterion well.
Spread the common sense
Try to come up with some very simple and obvious basic ideas (the implementation isn't necessarily easy), where others aren't very sure about it really works, and they aren't sure everybody knows that. And after seeing your answer, they are sure.
Keep the basic idea simple, while it should seems that it need some effort, specific knowledge (even if irrelevant), or enough sanity to complete your answer.
It's better that users will think your idea should become very obvious to everyone later, and it is definitely not very obvious that everyone (the asker for example) can come up with this idea for now.
You make the later repetitions of this idea less surprising, and users (which are mostly new to this site) want them to be less surprising to everyone. In reality they can surprise new users, but users can lie to themselves that they won't. Ideally users won't be distracted by similar things in later posts. And users against the common sense have to explain more for their points. Then you will probably have an upvote.
The example is on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3998030
Positively, it may mean to change your perspective, but measured in a slightly different way.
I'm not sure whether it really works well, and how practical it is. And I don't think it is a good idea to do it too often, unless we still want something like code-trolling. But I think my top-voted answers satisfied this criterion well.
Spread the common sense
Try to come up with some very simple and obvious basic ideas (the implementation isn't necessarily easy), where others aren't very sure about it really works, and they aren't sure everybody knows that. And after seeing your answer, they are sure.
Keep the basic idea simple, while it should seems that it need some effort, specific knowledge (even if irrelevant), or enough sanity to complete your answer.
It's better that users will think your idea should become very obvious to everyone later, and it is definitely not very obvious that everyone (the asker for example) can come up with this idea for now.
You make the later repetitions of this idea less surprising, and users (which are mostly new to this site) want them to be less surprising to everyone. In reality they can surprise new users, but users can lie to themselves that they won't. Ideally users won't be distracted by similar things in later posts. And users against the common sense have to explain more for their points. Then you will probably have an upvote.
The example is on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3998030
Positively, it may mean to change your perspective, but measured in a slightly different way.
I'm not sure whether it really works well, and how practical it is. And I don't think it is a good idea to do it too often, unless we still want something like code-trolling. But I think my top-voted answers satisfied this criterion well.