Like everyone else said, SO is great for answering questions like yours. But if you have a more complicated question around code style or something more subject

Like everyone else said, SO is great for answering questions like yours. But if you have a more complicated question around code style or something more subjective it doesn't work as well. It really helps to update a question to clarify if answers seem inadequate. Because of the volume of answers, there's a tendency to post the shortest quickest answer. Otherwise you end up on the third page, unread and forgotten. Since it's not really a discussion forum, you have to learn to work with the question-answer format to be able to hash answers out and get real insight out of them. SO still feels a little off for me, partly because it's large and impersonal. The answers don't speak to each other (for good reason) so the whole thread feels disconnected, and doesn't seem to move forward too much.