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Besides suffering from mod hell, I stopped answering SO questions mostly because: 1. it takes time to write a good answer; 2. fast copy-paste answers, often w
by alecco 3y ago
Besides suffering from mod hell, I stopped answering SO questions mostly because:
1. it takes time to write a good answer;
2. fast copy-paste answers, often wrong, get upvoted anyway;
3. picking the accepted answer, out of many, is done by the person who asked it... who usually doesn't have the knowledge to do this!
4. also many times no answer is accepted, like the person who asked it stopped bothering.
And the hard blowback for that old post on how to game the SO point race, instead of SO trying to figure out how to fix their broken system.
Just like SO was a move out of Experts Exchange and others, this is a good time for the community to start a post-SO Q&A site.
- alecco 3y agoAsk a dumb question about a trendy JS framework and you get hundreds of votes. Answer a difficult question on a barely documented part of software (e.g. low-level) and you'll get a couple of votes, at most. And you're lucky if the answer gets accepted. There are a few unsung heroes on certain hard/obscure SO tags. They dedicate a lot of time and get little reward. Whatever follows SO should find a way to fix this.