Personally, I've been answering very technically detailed questions in terms of micro-blogs on Quora. However, on S.O., sometimes when the question is not too

Personally, I've been answering very technically detailed questions in terms of micro-blogs on Quora. However, on S.O., sometimes when the question is not too obvious or asking an exact thing the Admin tend to mark it as vague and get downvoted. Try out the Subreddits for the exact questions or IRC channels. I've used subbreddits for Rails and it's IRC, there are many nice people whom at least direct you to read something that has the answer. I agree with you that sometimes StackOverflow is just a sausage fest of sad sacks whom never see the sun-light and have 20K upvotes (Which makes me rage quit every time I get downvote from them). But still they might be able to answer your questions.