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Should a list of “example bad/good questions/answers” exist as references for new users?

I am aware that there are blog posts (eg. Jon Skeet's post on how to write good/perfect questions or some user blogs referencing questions which are poorly specified) which provide guides or examples ...
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Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?

A lot of bad answers are slipping through the cracks on Stack Overflow. You can see some examples at Thanks a lot for this post ... and other first time user curiosities I've been paging through ...
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/answer-quality+new-users
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