> SO is not a support forum, it's not your teacher This, to me, is the mistake that SO made. Developers helping developers is the engine that runs the site, th

> SO is not a support forum, it's not your teacher This, to me, is the mistake that SO made. Developers helping developers is the engine that runs the site, that's why people come. The body of interesting knowledge is an emergent property of the support forum/peer-to-peer teacher. Eventually they tried to put the cart before the horse and traffic has dropped. It's OK that you're done answering "how do I change font color with jQuery" for the thousandth time and are only interested in the occasional very interesting question, because there are people behind you who do want to answer that question. That will help them grow to get where you are. If we don't allow new generations of users to go through that process we went through, then StackOverflow has an expiration date.