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I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to a question that actually deals with what I'm looking for just to find that it's locked and marked dupli

• cdolan 9y ago
  This is the worst and I see it often enough to want to respond to your gripe with support!
• chopin 9y ago
  Although I've encountered this as well, in most cases I got a useful answer for my problem. I often ddg problems related to Ubuntu. I had many encounters where someone had the same problem than me on askubuntu, but the answers where unhelpful, sometimes only the question was posted with no answer at all. Or the original poster stated he solved his problem, without posting the solution. In most cases, on SO I found relief.
• Slansitartop 9y ago
  Yeah, the moderation there needs improvement. When ever I use it I almost have to spend as much time preempting invalid attempts to close my question as I do actually asking it. Then there's also the conceit that SO has hit upon a definition of what a good technical question is (or, more specifically, what isn't a valuable technical question), and they stick to it despite any evidence to the contrary. I've seen questions that fail their over-restrictive criteria that have far better answers than many that do.