I think that speaking to a larger culture issue and reputation for the site.
I never asked a question on SO, though I used it as a reference often. I had this idea in my head that to ask a proper question that wouldn’t get moderated away or obliterated by the community, I would have to spend significant time and energy researching how to ask appropriate questions, and provide a bunch of supporting details that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did my due diligence before asking.
I guess at the end of the day this means I didn’t actually _need_ to ask a question, but also means some useful discussions and interesting answers to problems I solved, that I’m sure others have, don’t haven’t answers out in the wild.
I tried answering a few questions on SO and it quicly dawned on me that I’d better create a PR to the original docs. SO would have a better appeal for me if it was a Wiki like Arch Wiki. With a comment/question system like Google docs.
yeah I think that's the move that stack overflow should take. at some point the site became adversarial and not cooperative. when someone comes to you and says I have this problem and I want to fix it, please help me, and you respond No, you're wrong for having that problem and I won't help you, it's no small wonder that the site goes bad.
I never asked a question on SO, though I used it as a reference often. I had this idea in my head that to ask a proper question that wouldn’t get moderated away or obliterated by the community, I would have to spend significant time and energy researching how to ask appropriate questions, and provide a bunch of supporting details that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did my due diligence before asking.
I guess at the end of the day this means I didn’t actually _need_ to ask a question, but also means some useful discussions and interesting answers to problems I solved, that I’m sure others have, don’t haven’t answers out in the wild.