I like the idea of StackOverflow, hell I even like trying to answer a question from time-to-time... but I really hate StackOverflow. There's this sort of like

I like the idea of StackOverflow, hell I even like trying to answer a question from time-to-time... but I really hate StackOverflow. There's this sort of like weird hierarchy on the site of people who essentially are there, to climb over others, socialize, and enforce their metaphorical "wet-dreams" of fatous pedantry to its absolute maximum. 1.) Lately, as I've been re-upping my frontend skills, I see questions from n00bs are totally shit on by moderators pointing to answers which are totally overkill, or nearly-incomprehensible for them sweet lil' baby n00bs... 2.) Related to #1, linked-to answers are often times incomplete or wrong because of outdated information, but newer versions are marked dupes... I can't imagine how many people new to JavaScript, probably spend the first year reading shit that literally doesn't work or hasn't been needed since 2011 because of an answer on StackOverflow. 3.) Edits for quite literally no reason. People will change the language of things to sometimes be flat-out incorrect ~5-10% of the time, and the other ~90% its purely cosmetic illustrating only the moderator's aforementioned lust for pedantry. 4.) Comments and suggestions which are clearly outside of scope. Personal example from this weekend. I posted an answer to someone who I could tell was quite new due to their very strange looking HTML (which works, but wasn't semantically correct) and JS asking about how to bind an event to an element (a span). I replied with with how to bind their event, and had quite consciously decided against mentioning their usage of HTML could be better because I don't want to overwhelm them. I've taught folks before and too much information isn't useful.. What happens next is all to regular, I get a comment to my answer saying my answer is simply wrong; _because_, I didn't address the author's "mis-use" of HTML even though I actually answered their fucking question. To me, it feels like StackWhatever, has a fucking giant culture problem somewhere and it's not being addressed or fixed on any level. There's no way this isn't a problem from the top-down... to be honest, I honest think their gamification may be part of the problem as it leads social-strata being created by the community, in a way that can only exclude instead of include.