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I submit that what SO is doing is working; it's just that SO is not what some people want it to be. SO is not a pure Q&A site. It is essentially a wiki where

I submit that what SO is doing is working; it's just that SO is not what some people want it to be. SO is not a pure Q&A site. It is essentially a wiki where the contents are formatted as Q&As, and asking questions is merely a method to contribute toward this wiki. This is why, e.g., duplicates are aggressively culled.

zahlman 2y ago
>is not a pure Q&A site. It is essentially a wiki where the contents are formatted as Q&As The thing is, the meta community of Stack Overflow - and of other similar sites like Codidact - generally understand "Q&A site" to mean the exact thing you describe. The thing where you "ask a question"[0] and start of a chain of responses which ideally leads to you sorting out your problem, is what we call a discussion forum. The Q&A format is about so much more than labelling one post as a "question" and everything else as an "answer" or a "comment" and then organizing the "answers" in a certain way on the page. [0]: which doesn't necessarily have a question mark or a question word in it, apparently, and which rambles without a clear point of focus, and which might be more of a generic request for help - see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284236 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284236.