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I've always thought this described it best: SO is a great place to find answers to your questions, but SO is a terrible place to ask questions.

• Latty 10y ago
  It's more that it turns out that asking questions is hard. Anyone who has had to work with others in tech knows the kind of crap you get. They don't give you the stack trace, they say 'I get an error' without giving the error message, they just say 'it doesn't work', it's not clear what they want, they post a screenshot of half a stack trace, etc... Again, it's a constant trade off where you are balancing the asker's needs with the thousand people who find this via Google, and the people answering the question.