> The number of questions on SO that can be answered by RTFM is quite remarkable. I think that points to a lot of the documentation being just fine. Actually t

> The number of questions on SO that can be answered by RTFM is quite remarkable. I think that points to a lot of the documentation being just fine. Actually that must point to the opposite: that manuals are not information resources that are easily consumable, and hence a new service (Stackoverflow and co.) needed to be developed to "disrupt" this. The more questions the better IMO, it's just more of a wealth of data to search through and serve to people. I wish there were better ways of asking more general questions that one just has no idea though (e.g. "How can I send SMS messages from a web site?" Random example of which I have no clue). These are more open-ended, but provide a ton of value. At the very least, they make googling for such things that much easier and direct.