Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec...
by coryfklein on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:58AM
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> The solution is to make the closed question not appear in Google search results. If the same question keeps appearing the solution is to let someone answer it.
This is a great idea. Have you considered discussing it on the Meta site?
The solution would definitely have to be more nuanced - sometimes "closed" questions have useful answers on them so you wouldn't want to remove those from Google. But removing "closed" questions that provide no value would probably be an improvement.
Re:I stopped contributing to stackoverflow, but it's not dec...
by corobo on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:46PM
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Well that's the other side of the problematic coin. The majority of my experience with SO is closed questions.
I generally consider myself a dumbass and not smart enough to figure out the rules to avoid getting topics closed, so I stick to reddit and HN (and it took years of lurking here before I started posting too!)
And I do! With lots of swearing! :)
The only time I'm on SO is from a Google search result. They should at least make the danged site noindex itself for that page if it's the question has been closed. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I've been searching for a solution and found a SO link and thought I had the answer coming my way only to see the thing was closed before anyone could answer the question.
In all honesty, I don't give a rats why a question was closed. It was either closed and is now useless or open and has answers.
The solution is to make the closed question not appear in Google search results. If the same question keeps appearing the solution is to let someone answer it.