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SO has NEVER been a forum. That's where most people are confused. It has NEVER been a platform for open discussion.
by sureaboutthis 8y ago
SO has NEVER been a forum. That's where most people are confused. It has NEVER been a platform for open discussion.
- nottorp 8y agoPerhaps, but it was more useful when they didn't enforce that. My recent experience with SO is: i reach it via googling a problem or feature, I find a question describing my problem that is closed because of being a duplicate of... ... except the other question isn't a duplicate in subtle ways and has nothing to do with my problem. I've also seen moderators encouraging people to post answers as code ready to copy paste instead of answers helping the recipient to learn something. How is that useful?
- wool_gather 8y ago> moderators encouraging people to post answers as code ready to copy paste instead of answers helping the recipient to learn something. Yeah, this is a slow-motion disaster that's been going on for a while now. I don't know why so many people have gotten it into their heads that a bespoke code snippet is unconditionally the right way to answer a Stack question. Explanations are so much more valuable in the long term.
- sureaboutthis 8y agoI'm not aware of any moderators encouraging that and I specifically target such answers for deletion. I have complained that there are some new users who ask for such things and I will be the first to jump on them for doing so.