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I thought StackOverflow was pretty great. This is an unpopular opinion but I think a lot of the questions that were closed really deserved to be closed. Other
by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I thought StackOverflow was pretty great. This is an unpopular opinion but I think a lot of the questions that were closed really deserved to be closed. Otherwise it would have been a firehose of the same basic questions over and over again. For every person who posted a question and got mad that it was closed, there were probably 100 people who googled something and found a useful StackOverflow answer that was relevant and useful to them although they never posted their own question or even made an account on the site.
- Scoundreller 5mo ago> Otherwise it would have been a firehose of the same basic questions over and over again. You’ve just described a large chunk of Reddit. Their poor internal search doesn’t help.
- BrenBarn 5mo agoYeah, to the extent that Reddit is filling the role of StackOverflow it's clearly worse.
- mixmastamyk 5mo agoYes. People forget it was a response to abominations such as Yahoo Answers, which quickly devolved into a cesspool of mouthbreathers, haha. Also expert-sexchange/quora which tried-to/often-did hide the answers. Without its "tough love" Stack would have had a similar trajectory. Maybe a few policies here and there were problematic but overall it was and continues to be a huge benefit to the developer/IT community.
- hellojesus 5mo agoYahoo answers gave us MBMBAM. For that I will always be thankful.
- BrenBarn 5mo agoAlso "how is babby formed".