My main encounters with SO are top google results that point to questions they closed or complained about as somehow inadequate. I love that the questions are

My main encounters with SO are top google results that point to questions they closed or complained about as somehow inadequate. I love that the questions are not "good enough" for the community, but still good enough to milk for search placement. It's a useful place, but I have to wonder if its main purpose was to suck up all the available SEO oxygen and concentrate it. I think they even still nofollow the highly relevant links to other sites, because not doing so would dilute their position as the relevant result for virtually any programming query. EDIT: After a few seconds of googling, it looks like there has been effort on the nofollow front since I last checked. That's cool. I can see that it's nuanced. Still, my current experience with arriving at a "bad" question with great SEO is super frequent