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I love how every post on Stack Overflow that gets popular on Hacker News always gets closed by SO admins as "not constructive". It's like they really are annoy
by etfb 15y ago
I love how every post on Stack Overflow that gets popular on Hacker News always gets closed by SO admins as "not constructive". It's like they really are annoyed when their stuff gets noticed by the world outside their walled garden. What are they - hipsters? "I was a fan of internet startups before they got popular, dude." It's bad enough on Wikipedia, which appears to operate on the principle that a megabyte of hard disk still costs $100, but on Stack Overflow it's just plain foolish.
- thristian 15y agoLess cynically, Stack Overflow is about specific answers to specific questions. Any question broad enough to be interesting to a site like Hacker News is too broad for Stack Overflow, apparently.
- etfb 15y agoMakes sense, but it's insane. More general answers are more generally useful than specific ones, by definition.
- thristian 15y agoNot always. The only question that the linked StackOverflow page can answer is "What Emacs features did a self-selecting set of StackOverflow users find particularly useful as of early December 2011". While it's quite possible that somebody might someday want that very specific piece of information, I can't blame Joel and Jeff for preferring that particular database-space had been used to record a workaround or explanation for some uncommon error message.