I've been on Stack Overflow for 2.5 years, and my current stats are: Questions asked: 4, answers posted: 1,909 (including to one of my own questions). So, I gu

I've been on Stack Overflow for 2.5 years, and my current stats are: Questions asked: 4, answers posted: 1,909 (including to one of my own questions). So, I guess that makes me still a hacker, then? Awesome! :) My point is: not everyone uses Stack Overflow in the same way. I find it much much harder to come up with decent questions, than answering stuff. I'm quite the karma-junkie (the design works) too, and I think I'm not alone in that. I think the projects "killed" by SO in the fashion described here were maybe not very relevant to start with. There's nothing preventing you from learning on your own, and a single answer on SO is rarely wide or deep enough to remove the need to study and learn for yourself.