I've found contributing questions or answers to SE/SO to be a lot of like hanging out in IRC channels dedicated to C -- a lot of blowhards tend to hang around t

I've found contributing questions or answers to SE/SO to be a lot of like hanging out in IRC channels dedicated to C -- a lot of blowhards tend to hang around the watering hole, berating people for lack of knowledge for some reason or another, expressing it in a variety of in-group approved ways. It becomes tiresome to wade through the self-important moderation to get to actual content. That said, spam and unmoderated channels are clearly worse too. I'm not sure how to get to something in the middle of that Laffer curve.