Yes and no. The focus on tangible questions with definitive answers is certainly intentional, however they've missed the mark on some of their original goals. H

Yes and no. The focus on tangible questions with definitive answers is certainly intentional, however they've missed the mark on some of their original goals. Here's a description of those goals: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/09/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/09/stack-overflow-none... They've achieved a lot, but if you look at that diagram of what stackoverflow is supposed to be you'll see it's still not that. It's very much not wiki-like, and it's very much not blog-like. And part of the reason to support those aspects was to provide precisely the experiences that I've found lacking, such as being able to use the site as a general education resource (like wikipedia).