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The guy hardly ever contributed to StackOverflow anyway - he's linking to his SO profile on his website. He only asked 8 questions and answered 5, in 4 years. K

by V-2 13y ago

The guy hardly ever contributed to StackOverflow anyway - he's linking to his SO profile on his website. He only asked 8 questions and answered 5, in 4 years. Kinda like me and my mother-in-law. So it's a bit like a bloke who hardly ever has a drink blogging how he "no longer needs alcohol" because he went through a whole weekend without sipping a beer : ) I know that you can use SO passively - only by searching - but the real power of the forum lies in the cases where your problem is original and you have to summon the community to give you a hand.

jaredsohn 13y ago
>but the real power of the forum lies in the cases where your problem is original and you have to summon the community to give you a hand. Every time I have had an original problem, much of SO's value was similar to a stuffed animal that I could explain my problem to, with an occasional tip of something I should look into. I personally get much more value out of SO by passively reading other peoples' questions/answers. I think that is the real power of the service.