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I find there's no point in participating in SO beyond a certain level of ability. If you ask a truly difficult question, the odds of getting an answer from some
by krichman 14y ago
I find there's no point in participating in SO beyond a certain level of ability. If you ask a truly difficult question, the odds of getting an answer from someone who knows what they are talking about is not very good. Meanwhile, any sort of discussion question gets closed.
The remainder is basic to intermediate questions that get answered with "this is a duplicate of X".
- joe_the_user 14y agoYes, It seems like both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are done, at least approximately. It is just that Wikipedia has at least some structures that have adapted to being done while it seem that SO framework never considered the possibility of the "frontier of general questions" being settled.
- makomk 14y agoWikipedia hasn't adapted as well to being "done" as you might think. For instance, there's apparently at least one editor who just goes around Wikipedia deleting random sections from articles that appear to be uncited. He never adds anything, any contributions come from actual subject area experts who have to take time away from editing other articles to deal with the mess he leaves behind. The Wikipedia bureaucracy seems to think he's doing a great job though! And this is just something I stumbled across a couple of days ago by accident without following Wikipedia behind-the-scenes stuff; from what I've heard they have problems with favouring policy wonks over content contributers everywhere.
- krichman 14y agoThose two websites are case studies of the Peter Principle.