The best use of SO for me is: - Write an elaborate question about an apparently unsolvable problem - Realise the mistake while trying to explain it to the SO

The best use of SO for me is: - Write an elaborate question about an apparently unsolvable problem - Realise the mistake while trying to explain it to the SO crowd - Close the website At some point I wanted to have a high score to see if it would affect my daily rate (it didn't) or if I could use it somehow (same as having tons of stars on GitHub - another useless errand). I started replying to a bunch of questions and the sheer stupidity of most of them made me realise I wasn't ready for that. Most of the content on SO is not great. There are definitely few gems in there and I certainly enjoyed "the <center> cannot hold", but most of the times the docs are better. On a side note. I never understood people that copy code from Stack Overflow. I can understand people who are not familiar with a programming language - but surely if you're a minimum proficient it would be faster to just write what you need to do or look for a library to do it?