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My experience with SO is this: Google for something, see a relevant SO link, click it. Page loads, question covers exactly what I'm looking for. First 3 comment
by nanidin 14y ago
My experience with SO is this: Google for something, see a relevant SO link, click it. Page loads, question covers exactly what I'm looking for. First 3 comments on the question are about how the question doesn't belong on SO, or is too broad, or wrong, or whatever. The first answer contains the information I need.
I don't really contribute to SO for the same reason I don't really contribute to Wikipedia - the editors seem so hellbent on enforcing standards and rules that they throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- icebraining 14y agoDoesn't the fact that you actually found an answer that covers exactly what you're looking for indicate that SO didn't throw the baby out?
- nanidin 14y agoTrue enough, but I'm afraid that if the editors had the power, they would have nuked the question before the answers even got there.