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Wow! Could you elaborate by chance? I mean this genuinely, this is my first ever dead link for StackExchange content. The others in this comment thread act as i

Wow! Could you elaborate by chance? I mean this genuinely, this is my first ever dead link for StackExchange content. The others in this comment thread act as if this is the norm, which is disheartening. Is this a recent phenomenon or something that I've just been luck/naive enough to miss this whole time?

anonymous 14y ago
There isn't much to elaborate on. Anything that doesn't fit completely within their strict no-fun-allowed guidelines gets removed. This leads to two things: 1. Any result on google from StackOverflow is guaranteed to be of the highest quality. 2. I am never ever posting there.
- aneth4 14y ago
  Sounds like a win win. There are hundreds of places for humor on the Internet. I'm pretty happy SO sticks with business. Humor would be distracting and irritating.
  - stephengillie 14y ago
    Why not Humor Overflow, where people can discuss what is funny and why, or why something isn't funny. Maybe why something is no longer funny -- or is funny in one language or culture, but not another.
- mnicole 14y ago
  Perhaps it is just the front-end issues I use SO for, but generally the top Google results aren't the most helpful for me; they're just the oldest and had, at one time, the most traction. Given the rate at which things change or other methods fare better, I've started sorting my results by date instead of relevancy and hoping Random Dude's Blog has the right answer. Sometimes you'll get lucky and someone will have posted an updated response, but it's still sitting at the bottom of the page with 0 votes, and my account doesn't have the reputation (due in part to not wanting my posts removed) to upvote them. Quite a cycle.
ygra 14y ago
It's not a dead link per se. Users with high enough reputation can still see it. But for the web at large, it is dead, indeed. Many questions from the early days of SO were closed because they were too humourous or didn't fit the “needs an objectively correct answer” – this included a lot of such “poll” questions like “What is your favourite ...?”.

anonymous 14y ago

There isn't much to elaborate on. Anything that doesn't fit completely within their strict no-fun-allowed guidelines gets removed. This leads to two things: 1. Any result on google from StackOverflow is guaranteed to be of the highest quality. 2. I am never ever posting there.

aneth4 14y ago
Sounds like a win win. There are hundreds of places for humor on the Internet. I'm pretty happy SO sticks with business. Humor would be distracting and irritating.
- stephengillie 14y ago
  Why not Humor Overflow, where people can discuss what is funny and why, or why something isn't funny. Maybe why something is no longer funny -- or is funny in one language or culture, but not another.
mnicole 14y ago
Perhaps it is just the front-end issues I use SO for, but generally the top Google results aren't the most helpful for me; they're just the oldest and had, at one time, the most traction. Given the rate at which things change or other methods fare better, I've started sorting my results by date instead of relevancy and hoping Random Dude's Blog has the right answer. Sometimes you'll get lucky and someone will have posted an updated response, but it's still sitting at the bottom of the page with 0 votes, and my account doesn't have the reputation (due in part to not wanting my posts removed) to upvote them. Quite a cycle.

ygra 14y ago

It's not a dead link per se. Users with high enough reputation can still see it. But for the web at large, it is dead, indeed. Many questions from the early days of SO were closed because they were too humourous or didn't fit the “needs an objectively correct answer” – this included a lot of such “poll” questions like “What is your favourite ...?”.