I'd like to request that community members not intentionally abuse the Top Answers system, during what is essentially a public alpha / beta. 

I'm sure there are many seemingly valid reasons to do this, but I have so far found the practice to be both disruptive and de-motivating.

- If there are bugs in the system, I'd recommend that we report those bugs with as much detail as necessary
- If there are opportunities for abuse of the systems features, I'd recommend we explain how those features can be exploited and discuss solutions here on Meta
- If there are security vulnerabilites, I'd recommend that we report those as well (either on Meta or privately to the development team, depending on the severity)

I can see how demonstrating these issues, by exploiting them, may seem like it is more impactful.  But it is harmful to the communities we are trying to foster.

There is at least one post in the Databases community that has been used as a punching bag by posting an answer with harmful code and then artificially voting it up.  This really bummed me out personally.  I even tried to aid the situation by providing my two stars to the valid answer, only to see even more fake votes piled on to the harmful answer.

Causing issues like this also creates an artificial sense of urgency to address certain changes or feature requests (because there are active problems related to them), rather than allowing development to be prioritized by what brings value to the community.

The development team here are fully volunteers, and this site is still in the very early stages of being developed.  I hope we can try to respect that by engaging in positive, constructive ways.