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SO could be the internet's technical manual if good answers were properly organised and maintained - if the point of providing answers was to document 'how to d
by flashman 10y ago
SO could be the internet's technical manual if good answers were properly organised and maintained - if the point of providing answers was to document 'how to do programming' and you could only close a duplicate by explaining how to documented answer applies. But the incentive is get in fast, answer and move on to the next question.
- shagie 10y agoThat was the idea behind tag-wikis at one point ( see http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info ) and was the utopian ideal of what Documentation would become. Organizational and writing skill don't necessarily correlate well to programming skill. And when one adds gamification to that allowing for material curated by the masses without the corresponding community investment by those who _do_ have that skill set... well.