It should be called something like “Questions answered by more than 3 Top Users” (maybe the original query hard-coded 50k). It has the Q.AnswerCount = 3 in its WHERE filter, which would presumably be the total number of answers, rather than just the answers by top users. To me, this kind of problem really seems to need a GROUP BY / HAVING.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SQL/comments/hag5q7/how_to_avoid_repeating_a_subquery_in_a_query/



